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issue #53 01/07/10

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Aside from basking in the sun we've been busy visiting graduate shows and working on a new e-commerce site - stay tuned for more details.

Meanwhile Rose has been promoted to editor and Q2 this year was Dezeen's best ever, with 4,659,584 visits and 27,038,397 page views. Thanks to all our readers!

Scroll on for all the latest stories and comments from Dezeen, plus an update from Dezeenjobs and new competitions on the right as usual.

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Readers are worried that Frank Gehry's latest, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, might just send them crazy.  Read the story and comments »

Jerszy Seymour's Workshop Chair is held together with blobs of wax. Commenter oh no! thinks it looks like school furniture "abused with chewing gum". Read the story and comments »

Readers are drooling over the exterior of this house extension in the Spanish Pyrenees by Cadaval & Solà-Morales but have mixed feelings about the interior. Read the story and comments »

Readers are getting all uppity about graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister trying his hand at furniture design for Droog. Read the story and comments »

Lots of conflicting opinions on this health, leisure, culture and education centre for Frederiksberg in Denmark by MVRDV. "This makes me dizzy," says chuck. Read the story and comments »

Readers are worried cars will fall off the edge of this automobile museum for Nanjing, China, by 3GATTI Architecture Studio. Read the story and comments »

Speaking of bicycles, this bridge by WXY Architecture has criss-crossing separate paths for cyclists and pedestrians. See our other story about a similar project for Amsterdam too. Read the story and comments »

In fact lots of you don't like this retrofitted facade by Axis Mundi for a bottled water brand in Barcelona. "All that’s missing is a dirty pelican stuck in the fenestration," continues ken.  Read the story and comments 

Conversation over these stripy and neon crucifixes by German designer Stefan Strumbel turn to whether religion should be off-limits for artists. Read the story and comments »

This school Alejandro Muñoz Miranda has readers worried that kids will find it scary. We think they want the building for themselves. Read the story and comments »

Adults also want to play inside For Use/Numen's installation of sticky tape around scaffolding at DMY Berlin last month. "This makes me wanna hop in and play, lay, roll, claw, sleep," enthuses Anunta Intra-aksorn. See all our stories from DMY Berlin in our event report.  Read the story and comments »

Readers can't wait to see what the sea does to this house in northern Spain by Peña Ganchegui y Asociados. Read the story and comments »

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Love Marcus, Rupinder, Rose and Brad. Thanks to Joe for helping us out this month too. 

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