Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards 2024 identity "embraces inclusivity"
Graphic designer Micha Weidmann has used vibrant abstract forms to craft this year's Dezeen Awards campaign. Here, he explains how the identity took shape. More
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Design
Design
Fernando Laposse draws attention to impact of "conflict avocados" in Melbourne exhibition
Designer Fernando Laposse has created a 40-metre-long tapestry in avocado dye and a cabinet with avocado skin to raise awareness of the social and ecological impacts global avocado consumption has in Mexico. More
Design
Design
Brian Eno's light-up turntable changes colour in "complex and unpredictable" patterns
Ambient music pioneer Brian Eno is exhibiting an updated version of his illuminated record player composed of two eccentric Perspex circles at London's Paul Stolper Gallery. More
Design
Design
Bijoy Jain creates bamboo hut and stone furniture for Paris exhibition
Bijoy Jain, founder of Indian architecture practice Studio Mumbai, has created a series of structures and furniture made from natural materials for the Breath of an Architect exhibition at Paris's Fondation Cartier gallery. More
Stockholm Design Week
Stockholm Design Week
Fredrik Paulsen creates 33 unique Joy Objects in 33 days
Swedish designer Fredrik Paulsen has teamed up with auction house Bukowskis on Foundation of Joy, a playful furniture series featuring neon colours, tree branches and chains. More
Interiors
Interiors
Crosby Studios looks to the "signature red" of David Lynch for Silencio New York
New York-based Crosby Studios has utilised gold accents and rich-red fabrics and lights informed by director David Lynch for the interiors of Silencio nightclub in Manhattan. More
Design
Design
MSCHF creates handbag to highlight "hidden creative labor" of global factories
New York art collective MSCHF has created a "Frankenstein" handbag by asking a series of global factories to create an object through prompts, including references to well-known products by designer brands. More
Architecture
Architecture
SOM puts Department of Transportation "on display" at Cambridge building
American studio SOM has created a "vertical campus" for the US Department of Transportation in Massachusetts that features aluminium fins on its sides and a landscape installation by designer Maya Lin. More
Architecture
Architecture
Atelier Xi creates angular library within Chinese tea plantation
Five interconnected, angular volumes form this library and tea-tasting room designed by Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi on an ice-chrysanthemum plantation in Xiuwu, China. More
Stone Age 2.0
Stone Age 2.0
"I would caution against claims of stone being a revolutionary sustainable material" says Natalia Petkova
The sustainability of structural stone is dependent on how and where it is quarried and its reputation as an infinite material is misleading, warns Slovak-British architect Natalia Petkova in this Stone Age 2.0 interview. More
News
News
IKEA unveils "powerful" first photos by artist-in-residence Annie Leibovitz
Swedish furniture brand IKEA has released two images from a series of photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz, its first-ever artist-in-residence, showing people in their homes across the world. More
Architecture
Architecture
KPF tops Abu Dhabi airport with undulating roof informed by sand dunes
Architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed a terminal at Zayed International Airport in the UAE with an undulating roof informed by sand dunes and geometric patterns. More
Comments
Comments
"Some of the most interesting work published these days" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a monolithic concrete concert hall in the coastal resort of Aranya in Qinhuangdao, completed by Chinese studio Vector Architects. More
Design
Design
Shona Heath and James Price "spliced up" architecture for Poor Things sets
The Oscar-nominated set design for Poor Things aimed to create a "1930s studio movie with today's technology", the film's production designers have told Dezeen. More
Architecture
Architecture
Concrete ring connects cluster of South Korean homes by AOA Architects
Seoul studio AOA Architects has created Hoji Gangneung, a series of uniquely shaped concrete dwellings linked by a raised, circular path in the South Korean countryside. More
Design
Design
Migaloo aims to disrupt superyacht market with giant luxury submarine
Austrian company Migaloo has unveiled its design for a 165-metre-long submersible superyacht that could allow the ultra-rich to enjoy private underwater adventures. More
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda features Foster + Partners' pair of skyscrapers in Dubai
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features plans for two residential skyscrapers with skybridges in Dubai. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More
Mexico City art week
Mexico City art week
Brian Thoreen creates chairs using thousands of pieces of paper
Local designer Brian Thoreen has created a set of four chairs made of stacks of manila paper as part of an exhibition at Masa gallery during Mexico City art week. More
Dezeen Jobs
Dezeen Jobs
Five China-based roles on Dezeen Jobs
We've listed five roles on Dezeen Jobs this week based in China, including positions at Dezeen, MAD Architects and Snøhetta. More
Residential
Residential
DB Arquitetos stacks house with wooden screens on Brazilian coast
Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo, Brazil. More