This time last year Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and David Chipperfield was announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. (more…)

London Design Festival: industrial designer Jake Dyson presented an LED task light with a heat-pipe cooling system at designjunction last week. (more…)

The USGBC has pledged to build a children’s center for the earthquake-stricken nation.

This week Renzo Piano completed a minimal monastery at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, Daniel Libeskind added an angular extension to Dresden’s Museum of Military History and UNStudio designed a cantilevered concrete observation tower. (more…)

Swirling clouds of drumsticks cover the ceiling of a Los Angeles noodle restaurant by Japanese architects SWeeT. (more…)

London Design Festival 2011: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, London designer Paul Cocksedge explains the ideas behind Change the Record, a project where vinyl records are moulded into amplifiers for smartphones. Watch the movie here and see our earlier story here.

Dezeen Space: Florian Schmid presents his Stitching Concrete Project at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform in Dezeen Space today. (more…)

today's home page image

Which is your favorite 3form home page image of the past week?

Today’s image is above; the past ones are here:
Monday 9/26,
Tuesday 9/27,
Wednesday 9/28, and
Thursday 9/29.

Let us know in the comments section which one you liked best!

P.S. Translucent is pleased to announce that this is our 100th blog post!

London Design Festival 2011: Australian label Matilda presented products and furniture by 30 designers including a timber and aluminium pendant light by Kate Stokes (above) at designjunction last week. (more…)

The circular roof of a metro station near Copenhagen looms over sunken platforms like a spotty UFO. (more…)