Promotion
Promotion
Sixteen lighting designers spotlighted at Look Book 2024 at ICFF
Promotion: creative networking event Look Book's 2024 edition will feature 16 craftspeople and design studios specialising in creating lights and lamps. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Sonn uses rough plaster finishes for "monolithic and sculptural" London extension
Tropical modernism informed the plaster finishes of this extension in Hackney, London, which has been completed by local architecture studio Sonn. More
Architecture
Architecture
Celoria Architects designs concrete home as "massive primitive object"
Architecture studio Celoria Architects has completed House C, a concrete home in Mendrisio, Switzerland, informed by the region's grotti– cellar-like communal spaces where local cuisine is served. More
News
News
Rebuilding destroyed Gaza homes will take at least 16 years reports the UN
The United Nations has predicted it will take "until 2040 and probably longer" to rebuild the homes in Gaza that have been destroyed in the Israel-Hamas war. More
Comments
Comments
"That roof structure looks delicious" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a rammed-earth public toilet in Japan designed by local studio Tono Mirai Architects. More
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards is a "stamp of approval" says past sustainability winner
With just over three weeks left to enter Dezeen Awards 2024, we spoke to last year's sustainability winners about how their success led to attention and new clients. More
News
News
Venice Architecture Biennale reveals theme for 2025 edition
Curator Carlo Ratti and president of the Venice Architecture Biennale Pietrangelo Buttafuoco have announced Intelligens Natural Artificial Collective as the title and theme of the event's nineteenth edition. More
Opinion
Opinion
"Why do so many architects think they are more privileged than they really are?"
Architects should finally acknowledge that the profession is no longer a guaranteed route to prosperity and unionise, writes Phineas Harper. More
Interiors
Interiors
Masquespacio founders create home and office where "everything revolves around play"
The founders of Spanish studio Masquespacio have transformed a traditional Valencian farmhouse into their self-designed home and studio, with maximalist interiors that nod to the Memphis movement. More
Promotion
Promotion
XL Extralight exhibits sole and foam-making process at Milan design week
Promotion: XL Extralight showcased its manufacturing process in an exhibition designed by Italian architect Andrea Caputo as an "immersive museum itinerary" during Milan design week. More
Design
Design
Schoolchildren merge Uno and I Spy in award-winning card game
Pupils from The Piggott School in Reading, England, have won the Design Museum's Design Ventura competition with a card game that encourages children to learn about colours in their surroundings. More
Architecture
Architecture
Carlo Ratti Associati proposes replacement for collapsed Baltimore bridge
Italian architecture studio Carlo Ratti Associati has proposed a replacement design for the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore following its collapse in early 2024. More
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate features Aston Martin skyscraper in Miami "using a brand name as a shield"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Aston Martin's first residential skyscraper. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils Sleeping Beauties exhibition spanning four centuries of fashion
In this video, Dezeen previews the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's latest blockbuster fashion exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, following last night's Met Gala. More
Architecture
Architecture
Proctor & Shaw expands Dulwich House with concrete extension overlooking garden
A series of "monumental" concrete columns frame views across a large garden at this house in Dulwich, London, extended by local studio Proctor & Shaw. More
Architecture
Architecture
Six former slaughterhouses reimagined for new purposes
The slaughterhouses and abattoirs in this roundup, originally built for slaughtering animals, have been transformed into galleries, breweries and cooking schools. More
Architecture
Architecture
More Architecture perches Floating Hotel among Chinese mountains
Amsterdam studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China. More
News
News
Nike developing AI model as part of design "step change"
Sportswear brand Nike is developing its own generative AI model to design products using its vast bank of athlete data, Dezeen can reveal. More
Design
Design
Gijs Schalkx converts car to run on plastic waste
Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx has retrofitted an old car to run on an unusual fuel source: waste plastic that is turned back into oil. More
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards
Christian Louboutin and Jomo Tariku named judges for Dezeen Awards 2024
Fashion designer Christian Louboutin, architect Keith Griffiths and designers Lisa Jones, Ruby Kean and Jomo Tariku have joined as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. More