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Here’s our latest round-up of great advertising work from all over the world. We begin here in London, with Wieden + Kennedy’s latest spot for Nike, which features some lovely puppet action from Aardman Animation’s Patrick Boivin…

The spot stars a puppet version of FC Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta, who is sporting the latest Nike football boots, the CTR360 Maestri III.

Over to Buenos Aires now, for the latest from Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi for Andes beer, which offers an amusing take on the movie Edward Scissorhands. Credits: ECDs: Maxi Itzkoff, Mariano Serkin; Creative directors: Ariel Serkin, Juan Pablo Lufrano; Creatives: Diego Gueler Montero, Charlie Lanus; Production company: Primo Bs. As. Directors: Nico & Martin.

Leo Burnett Sydney has created this witty spot for Bunderberg Red rum, which was directed by Psyop. ECD: Tim Green, Creatives: Mike Felix, Matt Swinburne. Production company: Psyop/Revolver. Psyop creative directors: Todd Mueller, Kylie Matulick.

TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles has created a new series of simple but charming spots for Crate & Barrel, which play with the brand’s signature Helvetica logo. One is shown above. ECD: Patrick O’Neill. ACDs: Helena Skonieczny, Holly Hessler.

From Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand is this charming spot for Telecom, which tells the story of a boy and his pat tortoise, Boris. ECD: Antonio Navas; Creative directors: Guy Roberts, Corey Chalmers. Creatives: Matt Campbell, Simon Pound. Production company: Robber’s Dog. Director: Luke Shanahan.

Aardman Animation and London ad agency Isobel have created this mechanical model of the Bullring, Birmingham’s famed shopping centre. The spot is directed by Daniel Cohen.

Wieden + Kennedy Delhi has created a series of posters (two shown above) for Royal Enfield motorcycles, which feature a mix of elegant photography and poetic stories from parts of India that are off the beaten track.

Johannes Leonardo in New York worked with artist and photographer Roe Ethridge to create a series of print ads for luxury cotton maker Supima (two shown above). The ads were inspired by 50s and 60s vintage ads from Supima’s archive. ECDs: Jan Jacobs, Leo Premutico; Creative director: Ferdinando Verderi. Art director: Enrico Pirondi.

Spot the difference 1

Spot the difference 2

White Lodge in London has created the two films above, directed by Ehsan Bhatti, for the launch of the Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kusama collection at Selfridges London. The films are a modern version of the classic game of spot the difference – see if you can spot all five differences to win a special edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Kusama.

We finish with this timely ad from the City of Las Vegas. Following Prince Harry’s recent Vegas indiscretions, the city took out this amusing ad in the US media, chastising those who sold the pictures of Harry for breaking the city’s cardinal rule of ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’. Nicely done.

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Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November.

See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.”

Above image: Vessel by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale

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Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll’s house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow).

A new black-stained timber canopy creates a roof and side walls around rooms and terraces on the ground and first floor, while glass walls slide open to connect the living room and kitchen to the garden.

The discarded timber beams of the house’s original roof have been reused to construct the new family dining table, which overlooks an outdoor swimming pool.

Reclaimed brick walls are exposed in the kitchen, where a cluster of pendant lights are suspended over a central breakfast counter.

Bedrooms occupy the first floor and are shaded by the overhanging roof.

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Photography is by Murray Fredericks.

Here’s some more text from CplusC Architectural Workshop:

Located in the leafy suburb of Castlecrag, Sydney Australia, the natural beauty of timber is fundamental to the project, and embraces the ideals of Walter Burley Griffin’s design legacy for the area – “Building for Nature”.

The home maintains its original presentation to the street, but is transformed internally from a cellular and inward-looking mid-20th century brick house to a contemporary, open and light-filled home.

The kitchen is the pivotal room in the home, with Western Red Cedar doors disappearing seamlessly behind recycled brickwork allowing the internal living space to extend to a double-volume outdoor living space where Spotted Gum decking leads to the garden and swimming pool.

The external use of timber for seating, decking, fencing and screening terminates in a garden pavilion and transforms the yard into an intimate, peaceful oasis within a dense suburban context.

Both the functional and aesthetic qualities of timber have been drawn upon to heighten the experience of the home, and timber has been utilised in all aspects from structure and cladding, to internal finishes and external amenities.

The rough-sawn plywood canopy to the North is stained black and acts a shroud for the first floor, screening the neighbours and focusing the outlook towards the garden.

Plywood provides a neutral backdrop that allows the cedar cladding, doors and windows to be the focus of the home.

The materiality of this canopy is mirrored in the garden pavilion providing a visual balance.

The cabinetry of the home utilises the efficiency of Australian hardwood veneer and corresponds with the laminated Blackbutt Island bench.

Complementing the golden hues of the interior timbers is a custom Oregon dining table formed from the original roof beams, which has become the centrepiece of the home.

Architect and Builder: CplusC Architectural Workshop

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