Dezeenmail #27

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Scroll down for the most hotly-debated stories on Dezeen recently, as well as details of our Dezeenbooks bookstore.

Current competitons and the latest jobs from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs are in the right column, plus check the site for our pick of designs from Stockholm Design Week.

“Looks more interesting than before”

Andrew Lih’s photos of the burnt-out shell of OMA’s Television Cultural Centre in Beijing is our most-commented story this week. “I was standing there for one hour watching it burn,” says Tell. ”It was a beautiful building, and it will rise again.” Read the story and comments »

“Too big to lock up at bike racks”

Mads is picking holes in Torkel Dohmers’ ThisWay bike. Other readers are more worried that the roof won’t protect them once they start moving. Oh Dezeen readers, is there no pleasing you?! Read the story and comments »

“Please, no more student projects”

Pratt Institute architecture student Elliot White has inadvertently triggered a big debate about whether we should show undergraduate work on Dezeen. Mbird has this to say: “To all of you whiney, unsatisified, disgruntled, bitter architects and wannabe architects I say get over your inflated egos and be more encouraging to the next generation!” Read the story and comments »

“Please, where is the water?”

Lazar is not the only reader wishing to see Zaha Hadid’s new tap for Triflow in action. “Ooooh I hope she designs the drain next, surely we need a drain of the future,” adds Tom Sawyer. “It would be absolute chaos to have a super futuristic tap used with a conventional outdated drainpipe.” Read the story and comments »

“This would be a great faucet”

Modular thinks Michael Young’s new lamp for Wästberg, launched during Stockholm Design Week, could work as a tap. See all our stories about Stockholm Design Week »

Visit our Dezeenbooks store

Did you know we have a bookstore? Dezeenbooks (in association with amazon.co.uk) contains all our favourite architecture and design books, including all the books we’ve given away in our competitions and featured in our books category. Visit the dezeenbooks store »

“Em arquitectura não sei”

Here’s one for our Portuguese readers: House RA by Ana Reis has set off a discussion about whether Portuguese architects are all trying too hard to imitate Alvaro Siza, or whether the nation’s designers are simply stuck in the past. Read the story and comments »

“I thought this was Photoshopped at first”

Sebastian Brajkovic’s Lathe furniture has dazzled some readers, confused others and provoked others to say they’ve seen it all before. “Off the hizzoook!” says Memorexe. Read the story and comments »

“Badass electro eighties feeling”

Yves Béhar’s Mission One is the world’s fastest electric motorbike and it has got our biker readers excited. “The tectonic shape is similar to the KTM RC8,” says Freddy Wolf, and who are we to argue? Read the story and comments »

“Glass takes a million years to biodegrade”

Some readers have slightly misunderstood GH+A Architects’ claim that their olive oil factory in Chile only uses biodegradable materials. They mean in making the olive oil, not in the building itself – but, as Hugh points out, olive oil is made out of olives, isn’t it? Read the story and comments »

“If Apple made houses…”

Swiss architects HHF and Chinese architect Ai Weiwei collaborated on this house in New York state. Mike asks: “Not sure what they needed Weiwei for. To arrange these blocks or to sell it?” Read the story and comments »

Bye for now

Stay warm and cosy. Love from Marcus, Rupinder and Rose (and Rachael the intern).

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Competition: win five copies of Novembre

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Competition winners

Congratulations to the winners of our J. Mayer H. and Building Happiness book competitions.

Sam Hodgkinson in Australia, Luciano Morina in Italy, Ado Urban Valdez in Mexico, and Mengyi Li and Julian Ramirez Rentero in the UK all won copies of monograph J. Mayer H, published by Hatje Cantz.

Amit Kleeman in Israel, Luciano Morina in Italy, Luuc Sonke in the Netherlands, Emily Ehlers in the USA and Adrian Timaru in Romania all won copies of Building Happiness - Architecture to make you smile, edited by Jane Wernick.