Interiors
Interiors
"Get rid of the open-plan office" says Space10 co-founder Simon Caspersen
With hot-desking, working from home and co-working on the rise, Space10 co-founder Simon Caspersen calls for the end of the open-plan office. More
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Design
Design
Dieter Rams "regrets contributing to culture of overconsumption" says documentary director
Dieter Rams admits playing a crucial part in the global problem of overproduction in a new documentary film. In an exclusive interview, director Gary Hustwit says the German designer regrets not promoting his ideas about sustainable design to the masses. More
Design
Design
Fiona Crombie reimagines historic Hatfield House in Oscar-winning film The Favourite
Production designer Fiona Crombie used secret passages and an enormous fake facade to transform a 17th-century English country house into the set for award-winning movie The Favourite. More
Design
Design
Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial to tackle climate change "emergency"
There has never been a more critical time for design exhibitions focused on climate change, says Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann, ahead of the museum's Nature triennial that will show "how designers can save the planet". More
Design
Design
Alessandro Mendini discusses end of ideology in design in exclusive audio interview from 2015
Alessandro Mendini, the Italian designer, theorist and editor who passed away this week, speaks to Dezeen about how design magazines have lost their critical edge in this interview recorded in 2015. More
Design
Design
"We don't have the power to stop our extinction" says Paola Antonelli
Humans will inevitably become extinct due to environmental breakdown, but we have the power to design ourselves a "beautiful ending", says Paola Antonelli, who will next week open a major exhibition in Milan called Broken Nature. More
Architecture
Architecture
"The most destructive thing is to demolish a building" says Nicholas Grimshaw
We should be wary of "handbag architecture", design buildings that are reusable and embrace micro homes, says RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2019 winner Nicholas Grimshaw. More
Architecture
Architecture
Architects should "meet us half way" on Building Better Building Beautiful Commission says UK housing minister
UK minister for housing Kit Malthouse has defended the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, calling on architects to work with him to resist bland, developer-led housing. More
Architecture
Architecture
Architecture can combat fake news, says David Adjaye
David Adjaye says museums, monuments and memorials should be sites of resistance against those "propagating fictions" about climate change, civil rights or the holocaust. More
Architecture
Architecture
Chicago Biennial 2019 will create "common ground" for all, says artistic director
The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will forego a single theme in order to push the architecture profession to "think more meaningfully" about a host of contemporary issues, according to artistic director Yesomi Umolu. More
Architecture
Architecture
Ghana Building Code is "major milestone for the country" says David Adjaye
Ghana's first Building Code marks a pivotal moment for architecture and construction in the country, says Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye. More
2018 review
2018 review
Dezeen's top 10 architecture and design quotes of 2018
China's emerging design scene, the changing role of the bed, and gender and race diversity were among the big topics discussed on Dezeen this year. For our review of 2018, design editor Augusta Pownall picks 10 quotes that sum up the design and architecture scene right now. More
Bauhaus 100
Bauhaus 100
Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy was "not given his due"
Hungarian-born Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy is set to feature in a new movie, highlighting the role he played in bringing the school's ideology to America. For our Bauhaus 100 series, the film's director Alysa Nahmias speaks to Dezeen. More
Design
Design
"Any colour is fair game" at the Haas Brothers' Ferngully exhibition
Los Angeles art duo the Haas Brothers' first retrospective exhibition has opened at The Bass museum in Miami Beach, filled with their "fantasy reality of flora and fauna" in a spectrum of hues. More
Architecture
Architecture
"I'm a matchmaker between art and people" says Kulapat Yantrasast
Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast was recently chosen to oversee a major renovation of galleries at The Met in New York. In this exclusive interview, he explains why he designs art spaces to be more than white boxes, and credits mentor Tadao Ando for providing a "true education". More
Architecture
Architecture
"We treat every project as research" say Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats
Flores & Prats stood out at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, showing a full-scale mockup of its Sala Beckett theatre and a tiny woodland chapel. As the event comes to a close, the studio founders speak to Dezeen about how they treat every project as an experiment. More
Design
Design
"The visuals become the lead singer" say show designers for The Chemical Brothers
Marcus Lyall and Adam Smith have designed live shows for electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers for over 25 years. They tell Dezeen how they turn audio tracks into immersive visual experiences. More
Interiors
Interiors
Luca Guadagnino looked to "forefathers of modernism" for Suspiria sets, says designer
Luca Guadagnino's rendition of horror movie classic Suspiria takes its design cues from the modernist architecture of masters such as Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos, says production designer Inbal Weinberg. More
Design
Design
Halloween movie designer's biggest fear was "keeping all of our pumpkins fresh"
For all the on-screen blood and gore of horror film Halloween, the scariest part behind the scenes was perishing pumpkins, says the set dresser for the franchise's latest offering. More
Architecture
Architecture
Peru offers architects "tremendous freedom" say Barclay and Crousse
After decades "erased from the architectural map", Peru is making a comeback thanks to international recognition of impressive new buildings in the country, according to this year's Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize winners Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse. More