Jennifer Hahn
"Every Ukrainian soul is fighting now" say architects and designers as Russia invades
Architects and designers in Ukraine have told Dezeen how they have been forced to shut their studios, pause their projects and seek shelter or flee their country as Russian forces invaded this week. More
Maisie Wilen uses giant otherworldly holograms to model latest collection
Fashion label Maisie Wilen showcased its autumn/winter collection using a cast of seven-foot-tall holograms at its New York Fashion Week show. More
Elon Musk proposes Tesla tunnel in Miami to "solve traffic and be an example to the world"
Elon Musk's infrastructure firm The Boring Company has submitted plans to construct the North Miami Beach Loop tunnel in Miami, which would shuttle people in a dedicated fleet of Tesla cars from the north of the city to the beach. More
Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma designing holiday homes for Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian has hired leading Japanese architects Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma to build a pair of vacation homes in the US – a "zen" mansion in Palm Springs and a lakeside lodge for celebrating the Fourth of July. More
Ten cavernous interiors that swap corners for curves
A nursery by Junya Ishigami and MAD's Cloudscape of Haikou feature in our latest lookbook, which highlights 10 softly contoured interiors from the Dezeen archive that were modelled on the sinuous shapes of clouds and wind-smoothed caves. More
Jonathan Simkhai stages FW22 fashion show in virtual world Second Life
Fashion editors and influencers assumed digital avatars to take up their front-row seats at Jonathan Simkhai's Fall/Winter 2022 runway show, which was presented in the virtual world of Second Life during New York Fashion Week. More
MCQ infuses rice-leather jacket with custom fragrance
Natural latex is combined with rice hulls and a woodsy blend of essential oils to form this scented jacket, created by Alexander McQueen sub-brand MCQ to showcase the unique characteristics of plant-based leather alternatives. More
Souhaïb Ghanmi uses animal bones instead of plastic for minimalist sockets and light switches
Waste bovine bones from the meat industry have been ground into a powder and turned into a collection of light switches and electrical outlets by ÉCAL graduate Souhaïb Ghanmi. More
Takk perches communal bedroom on stilts in Madrid apartment renovation
Spanish architecture studio Takk has pulled back the walls of an apartment in Madrid to create an outdoor terrace alongside an insulated space that contains a bedroom on stilts. More
MP Duncan Baker launches bill to cap embodied carbon in UK buildings
North Norfolk MP Duncan Baker is set to propose a bill to the UK Parliament today that would make it mandatory to calculate and reduce the embodied carbon footprint of new buildings for the first time. More
Mari Koppanen wraps seating collection in traditional Transylvanian mushroom leather
Furniture designer Mari Koppanen has resurrected a suede-like material, historically made in parts of central Romania from hoof fungus, to upholster a rotund stool and matching bench. More
Five architecture and design events in February from Dezeen Events Guide
Madrid Design Festival, a Neri Oxman retrospective and a drag-queen-led tour of celebrity homes during Palm Springs' Modernism Week are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. More
This week Brighton mandated bee bricks for new buildings
This week on Dezeen, perforated bricks that provide nesting space for bees became a planning requirement for new buildings in Brighton, England. More
Study finds cities lack green spaces to support "unsustainable" beekeeping boom
The rapid rise in urban apiaries is exceeding the amount of greenery available to feed both honey bees and other pollinators, according to a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. More
Marjan van Aubel turns solar cells into art with glow-in-the-dark tapestry
Strips of colourful photovoltaic cells are arranged into a geometric pattern to form this artwork, conceived by Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel to bring solar panels from our roofs into our homes. More
Shell carbon-capture facility found to be generating more emissions than it prevents
A prototype carbon capture and storage facility by Shell, which was designed to eliminate emissions from hydrogen production, actually has the same yearly carbon footprint as 1.2 million cars, according to a report by Global Witness. More
Ten interiors that use glass-block walls to play with light and shadow
As glass bricks are experiencing another renaissance, our latest lookbook features ten projects that showcase how glazed masonry can illuminate any interior – even cramped bathrooms and hallways. More
Buro Happold pledges to eliminate embodied carbon in projects as part of SE 2050 commitment
Engineering firm Buro Happold has become the latest signatory to the SE 2050 Commitment Program, which unites structural engineering firms behind the common goal to slash embodied carbon emissions from their projects by 2050. More
Gab Bois uses bread rolls to recreate the classic Camaleonda sofa by Mario Bellini
A brioche-bun version of Mario Bellini's 1970s Camaleonda sofa designed by Canadian artist Gab Bois has gone viral online after being shared by rapper Tommy Cash, who claimed he was in talks with IKEA about putting the high-carb couch into production. More
Blast Studio 3D prints column from mycelium to make "architecture that could feed people"
London practice Blast Studio has developed a method for 3D printing with living mycelium and used it to form a column that could be harvested for mushrooms before serving as a structural building element. More