The Dezeen team was on the ground at Houghton Festival. Here are five standout installations from the festival, including a timber-and-thatch pavilion and a laser installation featuring a vintage campervan. More about Five standout art installations from Houghton Festival 2026
Production designers Brandon Tonner-Connolly and Matt Hyland constructed sets including a "flesh palace" and a taxidermy-filled gas station to create a dreamlike world for this horror film starring Gillian Anderson. More about Gothic romance and 1980s slasher films informed sets of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a 37-metre-wide jumbo wave that formed the backdrop of Louis Vuitton's Spring Summer 2027 menswear show in Paris. More about "Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't the world on fire?" says commenter
Louis Vuitton creative director Pharrell Williams designed a 37-metre-wide wave structure as the scenography for the French fashion house's Spring Summer 2027 menswear show, which was powered by water from Paris's aquatic network. More about Jumbo tidal wave cascades through Louis Vuitton show in Paris
Following the surprise success of architectural horror flick Backrooms, Edwin Heathcote considers the basis for our morbid fascination with endless corporate spaces. More about "As so often seems to happen, Koolhaas got there first"
London studio United Visual Artists mocks the surveillance software of controversial spy-tech company Palantir in its graphics created for trip-hop duo Massive Attack's latest run of live shows. More about Massive Attack stage graphic creates "illusion of data being harvested" from audience
The latest episode of Dezeen Weekly is out now. This week, we discuss an architecture-themed horror film, some concerning news about green walls and an architectural term that one of our hosts has audaciously coined. More about Why are we obsessed with liminal space?
Production designer Danny Vermette talks Dezeen through the exacting work of building liminal spaces for Backrooms, a new horror film that follows a frustrated architect-turned-furniture salesman. More about Architects will "cringe a bit" at design horrors in Backrooms says production designer
Set design studio Stufish has created a piano that projects lasers beams over the audience at British rapper Dave's concert in London. More about Stufish illuminates Dave's London show with laser-shooting piano
An office chair, a lighter and a close-up of a PDF on a laptop are among the everyday scenes hand-painted on canvases by design studio Formafantasma for the set of Marni's Autumn Winter 2026 show at Milan Fashion Week. More about Formafantasma creates "intentionally banal" set for Marni's Milan Fashion Week show
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the set design for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Bad Bunny's Super Bowl set design
The celebratory, symbolic set design for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show allowed the artist to "make his comments in a way that felt elegant," according to its creative director Harriet Cuddeford. More about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl stage illustrates "surreal journey" through Puerto Rico
The stage and scenography for the Grammy Awards ceremony in LA this coming weekend is designed by New York-based Yellow Studio and anchored by a giant golden gramophone. More about Grammys 2026 stage by Yellow Studio features "modern sculptural" gramophone
French fashion house Chanel filled Paris's Grand Palais with Alice in Wonderland-style mushrooms and real trees, which created a runway for the brand's Spring Summer 2026 haute couture show. More about Towering mushrooms transform Grand Palais for Chanel couture show
A cottage in Muskoka, Canada, has become the unexpected breakout star of buzzy gay ice hockey romance Heated Rivalry. Here, the show's creators reveal why they struggled to find the pivotal set and what makes it so special. More about How Heated Rivalry's cottage rejects the "sameness" of contemporary architecture
A minimalist prefabricated timber house formed the set for Louis Vuitton's Autumn Winter 2026 menswear show during Paris Fashion Week, designed by the brand's men's creative director Pharrell Williams. More about Pharrell Williams designs prefabricated home as centrepiece for Louis Vuitton menswear show
Production designer Sam Bader describes what it took to bring the Shakers' frugal yet beautiful world to life for the film The Testament of Ann Lee, created by the duo behind last year's The Brutalist. More about The Testament of Ann Lee painstakingly re-creates Shaker craft
Following her set design for London's Together for Palestine concert, Gazan artist Malak Mattar spoke to Dezeen about the urgency for artists, designers and architects to continue to speak out against atrocities. More about "Your action matters" says Together for Palestine set designer
Following its recent Emmy wins, art director Brian Grego explains how they designed and built a convincing Frank Lloyd Wright studio building for Apple TV+ show The Studio. More about How The Studio's production team created a convincing Frank Lloyd Wright building
Designer Marc Newson has made his first foray into runway sets, combining blocks of 101 different colours into an undulating terrain to host Fendi's Spring Summer 2026 presentation at Milan Fashion Week. More about Marc Newson forges landscape of colourful pixels for Fendi