Architecture
Architecture
"Let's move to radical Essex"
The radical buildings in the English county of Essex suggest that avant-garde architecture is better found in the suburbs than the cities, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More
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Graphics
Graphics
David Shrigley releases "thumbs up" teaser for his Really Good Fourth Plinth sculpture
Artist David Shrigley is set to unveil his gigantic "thumbs up" installation on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square tomorrow and has released a gif to accompany it. More
Architecture
Architecture
Apple to set up campus in London's Battersea Power Station
Apple has announced it will create a new London headquarters inside Battersea Power Station, taking over six floors of the former industrial building on the bank of the River Thames. More
Design
Design
Competition: win a book documenting contemporary Scandinavian design and interiors
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with German publishing house Gestalten to give away five copies of its new book Scandinavia Dreaming. More
Residential
Residential
Five of the best houses in New York State on Dezeen
Next in our series of roundups presenting houses from different US states, it's New York's turn. The Empire State's top rural residences include a Hamptons home shaded with strips of canvas and a secluded writer's retreat (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Asif Khan creates "space in between" homes and workplaces with Forests installation for MINI
London Design Festival 2016: in this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen for MINI, the brand's Oke Hauser explains why they worked with architect Asif Khan to install plant-filled pavilions across east London. More
Design
Design
Elon Musk announces plans to start colonising Mars in six years
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to make humankind a "spacefaring civilisation" by starting manned missions to Mars as soon as 2022. More
Furniture
Furniture
Thomas Schnur exhibits furniture pieces based on objects found in the street
Beijing Design Week 2016: German designer Thomas Schnur presents six pieces of furniture adapted from common objects like traffic cones and metal barriers for an exhibition in Beijing (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
10 inflatable buildings designed to blow you away
Inflatable buildings are back in fashion, and being created for all kinds of functions. Here are 10 of the most inventive examples, including a mobile concert hall, a black PVC nightclub and a field of giant mushrooms. More
Furniture
Furniture
Barber and Osgerby base minimal wooden table on Japanese joinery
London Design Festival 2016: design duo Barber and Osgerby have created a limited-edition table constructed from three curved pieces of oak (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Mirrored viewing platform by Natura Futura is disguised against the Ecuadorean landscape
Projecting over a hillside in the Ecuadorean countryside, this small mirrored viewpoint was designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura as a rest stop for hikers (+slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's nature centre in Pittsburgh "blends with the surrounding woods"
The thin columns and wood cladding that front this educational facility in a Pittsburgh park are designed to help the building fit in with its woodland setting (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Macro Sea turns abandoned Brooklyn warehouse into New Lab co-working space
New York developer Macro Sea has turned a warehouse at Brooklyn's Navy Yard into a workspace for tech entrepreneurs, using the building's "cathedral-like" steel trusswork to inform new elements (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Alessandro Zambelli creates furniture inlaid with patterns of oxidised metal
London Design Festival 2016: this furniture collection from designer Alessandro Zambelli features a puzzle of metal pieces that have been oxidised to different degrees (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Zaha Hadid's Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre nears completion
These new photographs reveal a vast cultural complex by Zaha Hadid Architects, which is reaching its final stages of construction in the Chinese city Nanjing (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Beijing Design Week returns for 2016
Dezeen promotion: this year's Beijing Design Week features installations, design exhibitions and pop-ups focused on the redevelopment of China's urban environment. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Giant glass grasshoppermates with building"
Comments update: Zaha Hadid Architects' new headquarters for Antwerp's Port Authority is the controversial talking point this week, with readers both decrying and praising the building's visual impact on its surroundings. More
Residential
Residential
Slender apartment block by Amin Taha Architects features a timber structure and wicker balconies
Wicker balconies project from the brick facade of this apartment block in north London, which was designed by Amin Taha Architects with a cross-laminated timber structure. More
Design
Design
Sharon Baurley to step down as head of Design Products at Royal College of Art
Sharon Baurley, head of the Royal College of Art's Design Products programme, is leaving after just three years to take up a post at a "prestigious European institution". More
Design
Design
Metamaterials make it possible to create mechanisms from a single piece of plastic
A door latch and a pair of pliers are among the mechanisms created without screws, bolts or other fixings by researchers working with a new technology called metamaterials (+ movie). More