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issue #49 05/05/10

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Thanks to everyone who came to our DezeenBarBasso party in Milan - scroll down to check out the movie on Dezeen . If you didn't make it to Milan because of the volcano you can check out all our stories about Milan 2010 here.

Meanwhile, the Shanghai Expo 2010 has opened. Our favourites so far are the UK, Danish and Spanish pavilions - choose your favourites from our special category.

As usual there's all the latest from Dezeenjobs and competitions on the right, plus scroll down for our pick of recent stories and comments from Dezeen.

 

Readers are still heaping praise on Thomas Heatherwick's UK Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010. "The Beijing sky is an architect’s dream," observes Andrew Liebchen. "It helps every photograph to seem as if it were rendered in Vray". Read the story and comments » See all our stories about Shanghai 2010 »

A mixture of awe and hatred for this car park in Miami by Herzog & de Meuron, while some readers just can't accept that people still have cars. Read the story and comments »

Our latest movie was filmed at our DezeenBarBasso party with Wyborowa Exquisite wodka, held at the legendary Bar Basso in Milan last month. Watch the movie »

Readers couldn't decide whether to be more upset by offerings from Fabio Novembre or Marcel Wanders in Milan this year. Here's a chair with a face by Novembre; see Wanders' chair with a face here. Read the story and comments »

This holiday home in spain by Anton García-Abril was cast around hay bales in the earth, then hollowed out by a cow. Read the story and comments »

Vitra presented a chair that's not a chair Alejandro Aravena in Milan this year. "Spare me the long winded narrative... ITS A STRAP!" says brian. Read the story and comments »

Meanwhile Icelandic designer Hafsteinn Juliusson presented food that's not food. In fact it's paper. "Why cant they just eat salad or something?" huffs Lucy, while Tzu-yen Wang declares "the end of food." Read the story and comments »

Readers expected better of Peter Eisenman's Cidade da Cultura de Galicia in Spain. "I’m so over Eisenman," kolohe declares. Read the story and comments »

In our latest podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. Listen to the podcast » Listen to all our podcasts »

These two office buildings by REX where one is built inside the other have got readers drooling. "This is one sexy project," summarises LOW. Read the story and comments »

This month's top ten is a roundup of Dezeen’s ten most popular stories about food and feasting. Read the story and choose your favourite »

Readers take the issues behind Yves Béhar's green shoe packaging for Puma very seriously. Read the story and comments »

Lots of comments about this house with a 60 foot-long internal bridge by Axis Mundy, mostly about livestock. Read the story and comments »

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Paul Turpin in the UK, Manuel Ramos in Spain and Chris Thompson in the UK won limited edition copies of Heligoland by Massive Attack.

Natalia Alexiou in Greece, Matthias Brandmaier in Austria, Claudia Sanna in the UK, Kelly Desipri in Greeceand Tanapat Nootong in Thailand won copies of New Architecture in Japan.

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