Watch Alison Brooks and Jacob Kurek discuss performance spaces at World Architecture Festival 2017
Architects Alison Brooks and Jacob Kurek spoke on the theme of performance spaces in the second talk Dezeen streamed from World Architecture Festival 2017 in Berlin. More
Watch Rafael Viñoly's keynote presentation at World Architecture Festival 2017
Architect Rafael Viñoly discussed the concept of performance in architecture in the opening keynote seminar at World Architecture Festival 2017 in Berlin. More
At Six was designed to be Scandinavia's best luxury hotel, says Universal Design Studio
Universal Design Studio's Hannah Carter Owers explains how her team transformed a brutalist bank headquarters into an art-filled hotel, in this movie filmed ahead of the AHEAD Europe hospitality awards. More
Tour the Seoul overpass that MVRDV converted into a plant-covered walkway
In the latest movie in our Dezeen X MINI Living series, drone footage offers an elevated view of the former 1970s highway that Dutch firm MVRDV transformed into an elevated urban garden. More
Watch our talk on the politics of passport design at the V&A museum
V&A curator Corinna Gardner spoke to designer Julian Payne and Dezeen Studio director Ben Hobson about the politics of passport design at the V&A museum in London. We streamed the talk live via our Facebook page. More
The SHED Project offers micro-homes inside vacant London properties
Self-contained micro homes are being installed inside vacant buildings across London as part of an initiative called The SHED Project, which features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More
Travellers need digital innovations in luggage, claim co-founders of Horizn Studios
The founders of luggage startup Horizn Studios explain how its products incorporate smart technology to serve a new generation of travellers in this exclusive movie Dezeen produced for the Berlin-based brand. More
Freight Farms allows crops to be grown inside shipping containers
Freight Farms, a startup that has found a way to grow crops inside shipping containers, features in the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. More
TeamLab illuminates Japanese forest with digital projections
This captioned movie shows how Japanese art collective TeamLab filled a park in Japan's Saga Prefecture with light-based installations, including a digital waterfall and a school of virtual koi carp swimming in a pond. More one-minute movies ›
Henning Larsen's Etobicoke Civic Centre shelters public square from cold winds
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects has won a competition to design a group of buildings in Toronto, with a proposal that channels wind to create a comfortable microclimate in a central plaza. More
RCA graduate develops synthetic leaf that could aid space exploration
One-minute movie: RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri says his design for a synthetic biological leaf, which creates oxygen via photosynthesis like a real plant, could enable long-distance space travel. More
The Seasteading Institute's floating cities are designed for unregulated innovation
A plan to build self-sufficient floating cities outside of national borders features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More
Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change
What Design Can Do has teamed up with Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation to launch the Climate Action Challenge, a competition inviting designers to come up with proposals responding to climate change. More
Los Angeles River could be revitalised with designs from seven architecture firms
A vision to transform the desolate Los Angeles River into a bustling oasis featuring cycle paths, play areas, public art and kayaking facilities features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More
Baca Architects proposes floating settlements to combat overcrowding in cities
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores the "aquatecture" of Baca Architects, which includes plans for floating houses, villages and even a Grand Prix track. More
Vertical farm designed to produce food amidst Shanghai's skyscrapers
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative series investigates a design for a hydroponic vertical farm nestled among the skyscrapers of Shanghai. More
Pod Vending Machine concept by Haseef Rafiei tackles housing demand by printing modular homes
A skyscraper 3D prints modular homes and dispenses them like a vending machine in the latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative video series. More
Athletes wear custom-engineered Nike trainers in attempt to break two-hour marathon barrier
Nike designers explain how they created a shoe that helped Kenyan runner Eluid Kipchoge come within seconds of breaking the two-hour marathon barrier in this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen. More
Jaime Hayon combines Caesarstone with stained glass to create colourful Stone Age Folk pavilion
Spanish designer Jaime Hayon explains how traditional marquetry techniques informed his Stone Age Folk pavilion in this movie Dezeen filmed for Caesarstone during Milan design week. More
Air-filtering house in Milan "contributes to improving urban life" says SO-IL and MINI
In this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen, MINI Living Initiative creative lead Oke Hauser and SO-IL co-director Ilias Papageorgiou explain why they collaborated to install a translucent prefab home in an unused urban plot in Milan. More