News
News
"Stunningly beautiful" Dezeen is highly commended in digital publishing awards
News: Dezeen has been highly commended at the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2014, with judges describing the site as "stunningly beautiful". More
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Architecture
Architecture
World Architecture Festival 2014 awards shortlist announced
World Architecture Festival 2014: the shortlist for this year's World Architecture Festival awards has been announced, including a cyclone-proof house, an Australian plant archive, an underground maritime museum by BIG and OMA's colossal De Rotterdam skyscraper (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Gehry scales back Canadian skyscraper scheme to be "more Toronto"
News: Frank Gehry has unveiled yet another reworked design for the proposed skyscraper complex in his home city of Toronto, reducing the number of towers from three to two. More
Architecture
Architecture
Designs of the Year prize "about architecture rather than politics" says Design Museum director
News: the Design Museum in London has defended its decision to give its Designs of the Year top prize to a Zaha Hadid building in Azerbaijan, following widespread criticisms of the award on human rights grounds. More
Architecture
Architecture
Nieto Sobejano scores Estonian cultural centre for composer Arvo Pärt
News: Spanish office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to design a woodland cultural centre for the organisation run by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, after claiming their proposal won't involve felling a single tree (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Drone installation for London Design Festival cancelled due to safety concerns
London Design Festival 2014: crystal brand Swarovski and organisers of the London Design Festival have cancelled an installation of flying drones planned for this year's event over fears for "safety of members of the public". More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Tower of "grown" bio-bricks by The Living opens at MoMA PS1
News: New York studio The Living has completed this year's MoMA PS1 gallery pavilion – a cluster of circular towers built from bricks that have been grown from corn stalks and mushrooms (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Inside Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Inside Festival 2014: the shortlist of interior design projects for this year's Inside Awards has been revealed, and includes a London apartment with a floating steel staircase, a museum and gallery in Tasmania and a Roberto Cavalli concept store in Bangkok. More
Architecture
Architecture
Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center wins Design of the Year 2014
News: architect Zaha Hadid's undulating Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku has been named Design of the Year by London's Design Museum this evening. More
Design
Design
ScanLAB and Vivienne Westwood collaborate on first laser-scanned photoshoot
News: London studio ScanLAB has worked with fashion brand Vivienne Westwood to produce the first fashion shoot created with 3D laser scanners instead of cameras (+ movie + interview). More
Architecture
Architecture
Duque Motta & AA designs punctured concrete volumes for Chilean university faculty
A team of Chilean architects has completed a new business faculty for Diego Portales University comprising a pair of concrete boxes with balconies and terraces slotted over, under and through them (+ slideshow). More
Residential
Residential
Modular New York homes by Garrison Architects to "create a blueprint for post-disaster housing"
News: Brooklyn firm Garrison Architects has unveiled a full-size prototype for post-disaster housing described as "a step forward in the way that cities respond to natural disasters" like hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. More
Furniture
Furniture
Herman Miller launches office furniture by Industrial Facility and Fuseproject
News: American brand Herman Miller has begun producing the flexible office furniture collections designed by Yves Behar's studio Fuseproject and London company Industrial Facility (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall is a plywood pavilion made by robots
News: a double-domed pavilion is the first building to have its main structure entirely made out of wooden panels created by robots, according to academics from the University of Stuttgart (+ slideshow). More
Retail
Retail
David Chipperfield designs Valentino's New York flagship store
News: the New York flagship store for fashion house Valentino designed by David Chipperfield Architects will open on Fifth Avenue this summer. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2014 by Smiljan Radić opens
News: Chilean architect Smiljan Radić has this morning unveiled his translucent and bulbous Serpentine Gallery Pavilion at Kensington Gardens in London. More
Architecture
Architecture
Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton gets set to open in Paris
News: Frank Gehry's arts centre for a cultural foundation established by fashion brand Louis Vuitton is nearing completion in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris. More
Architecture
Architecture
Tadao Ando reveals concrete and glass apartment block for Lower Manhattan
News: Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled designs for his first building in New York City – a seven-storey concrete apartment block in Nolita. More
Design
Design
IKEA backtracks on legal take down of fan site for furniture hackers
News: IKEA has said it will rethink legal action against fan site IKEA Hackers, which publishes user modifications of furniture bought from the flat-pack giant. More
Architecture
Architecture
RIBA Awards 2014 winners announced
News: the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London has announced 56 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including John McAslan's revamped Kings Cross station, Zaha Hadid's Olympic aquatics centre, and BIG's underground maritime museum (+ slideshow). More