We wrap up our review of this year’s architecture and design news with December, when our top stories were all about wearable technology including 3D-printed shoes that could repair themselves overnight.
Wearable Futures
At the Wearable Futures event in London we picked out inks that change colour in different climatic conditions, and accessories that would deceive neuroimaging devices by diverting thoughts using electric shocks and flashing lights.
Also presented were clothes with built-in solar panels for charging mobile phones and devices that cause unpleasant sensations when the wearer becomes inactive or stops concentrating.
Most popular
Photographs depicting a flat in Lyon after a messy party were most popular in December.
An energy-efficient home in a glazed box raised above the Dutch landscape came in second place.
Number three was a timber-clad seaside house with concrete interior walls formed against wooden boards.
Herzog & de Meuron’s skyscraper proposed for east London was fourth most clicked.
Finally, PearsonLloyd’s signage system for hospitals that was found to “reduce violence by 50 percent” rounded off our top five.
Dezeen’s month
Our final Dezeen and MINI World Tour stop was Miami, where Jacques Herzog spoke to us about his firm’s Pérez Art Museum and the work the studio is doing to deconstruct the city’s “stupid architecture”.
Also on show during the Design Miami exhibition was a series of hand-blown glass vessels that turn data from wind movement into projected patterns of light and a previously unrealised beach house by Modernist architect Charlotte Perriand.
Throughout December we featured an architect or firm every day as part of our A-Zdvent calendar, which started with A for David Adjaye and ended with Z for Zaha Hadid.
Before the year finished we were delighted to announce that we topped 100,000,000 pageviews in 2013!
See all our stories from December 2013 »
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