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issue #25 23/12/08

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Merry Christmas Dezeen mailing list!

Here is our final pick of stories and debate for 2008. More jobs from dezeenjobs on the right, plus scroll down for another competition.

Our last trip of the year was to Design Miami - see all our stories here.

Thanks to all our readers and see you in 2009.

 

Ross Lovegrove’s Alpine Capsule concept is a suitably snowy way to start our Christmas newsletter. Read the story and comments »

The winners of the competition to design a new London bus have been announced. Read the story and comments »

Zaha’s back! And as Claudio says, her design for a library at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna dispenses with curves in favour of a return to sharp lines. Read the story and comments »

Readers are still following up the saucy theme of the last newsletter, seeing all kinds of sexual references in this olive oil packaging by CuldeSac. Read the story and comments »

“…but with much better furniture,” says Chris of Rabih Hage’s Rough Luxe hotel in London. Read the story and comments »

Michael, we have always published student work alongside professional projects. With 66 comments so far, Brittany Bell’s Seed Archive is getting more attention than many of the big names… Read the story and comments »

Citroën’s Hypnos has won Autocar magazine’s Concept Car of the Year award. PaCH wants to know why they named it after the Greek word for sleep and wonders if they got muddled up with the word morpheus (which means ‘dream’). Read the story and comments »

Chris is in the minority – most readers raved about Reinier de Jong’s Rek bookcase, which expands according to the number of books you have. Read the story and comments »

J calls trumps in the on-going debate about originality in architecture, comparing MVRDV’s competition-winning proposal for Gwanggyo in South Korea to a 12th century Cambodian temple complex. Read the story and comments »

Francesco Sommacal’s 360 extreme sports two-wheeler provokes the obvious question: how do you stop? Read the story and comments »

I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha is a cut above the usual standard of Gulf architecture, our readers feel. Read the story and comments »

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