Design
Design
Constantin Boym named head of industrial design at Pratt School of Design
New York-based designer Constantin Boym has been selected to lead the industrial design department at one of America's prominent design schools. More
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Architecture
Architecture
SANAA triumphs in hotly contested Sydney Modern gallery competition
SANAA has been selected to design a new building for Art Gallery NSW in Sydney, ahead of architects including Kengo Kuma, David Chipperfield, Renzo Piano and Herzog & de Meuron. More
Architecture
Architecture
Architects underestimate "potentially sinister" smart-home technologies says Rem Koolhaas
Architect Rem Koolhaas has spoken out against the way technology is infiltrating buildings, saying it is "totally astonishing" that people are willing to sacrifice their privacy for convenience and describing the rise of smart systems as "potentially sinister". More
Competition
Competition
Competition: five Claesson Koivisto Rune in Marfa books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Summit to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book documenting Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune's first architectural project in the US. More
Residential
Residential
Gabled extension by BKK Architects borrows the form of a doll's house
A doll's house provided the inspiration for this extension to a house outside Melbourne, which features a gabled profile, a simple gridded layout and a transparent rear facade (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Zimoun installs motorised wooden seesaws inside Austrian church
The sounds of 150 mechanical seesaws striking the floor of a former church in Austria reverberate around its nave in this installation by Swiss artist Zimoun (+ movie). More
Design
Design
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley to curate Istanbul Design Biennial 2016
Architectural historians Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley have been appointed to curate the third Istanbul Design Biennial, which will be held from 22 October to 4 December 2016. More
Design
Design
All-in-one digital table for IKEA suggests recipes based on leftover ingredients
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: a team of students have created a concept kitchen table for IKEA, which acts as an integrated cooking hob and dining table and can suggest recipes based on ingredients you put on it (+ movie). More
Design
Design
Snap clip-on supports create furniture from found objects
A pair of Spanish designers have developed a method to turn almost any flat surface into a piece of furniture using a removable leg module (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Carmody Groarke's new White Cube gallery is an angular timber and plastic pavilion
London studio Carmody Groarke has used timber and plastic to build a temporary exhibition space for the White Cube art gallery in the grounds of a country house in East Sussex, England (+ slideshow). More
Furniture
Furniture
Nendo turns Alcantara material into timber-patterned furniture
The woodgrain patterns across this furniture by Japanese design studio Nendo are formed by layering, rolling and cutting sheets of artificial suede (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Palaeontology research centre wrapped in computer-controlled shutters
Automated shutters are used to regulate the internal climate of this environmental science and palaeontology research centre for a university near Barcelona (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Naturehumaine includes gym hoops and apparatus inside a home for two athletes
A pair of gymnast's rings dangle from the ceiling of this Montreal home, which has been renovated by local architects Naturehumaine to create a new living space for the client's athletic children (+ slideshow) More
Promotion
Promotion
Final call for entries to the World Architecture Festival and Inside awards 2015
Dezeen promotion: architects and designers have until 12pm on the 28 May to submit their projects for the World Architecture Festival and Inside World Festival of Interiors awards (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
BIG wants to create new styles of vernacular architecture, says Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels has spoken of his desire to replace Modernism's "boring box" legacy with new kinds of localised architecture at a lecture at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ transcript). More
Comments
Comments
"The elegance of the international style reborn"
Comments update: this week readers have been discussing the merits of Herzog & de Meuron's newly completed football stadium in Bordeaux – a key venue for the Euro 2016 football championships. Read on for more on this and other most-commented Dezeen stories this week. More
Interiors
Interiors
Dior Homme occupies extended Haussmann building by Antonio Virga Architecte
Italian studio Antonio Virga Architecte has renovated and extended a Parisian building to create offices and haute-couture workshops for French fashion house Dior Homme (+ slideshow). More
Residential
Residential
Bijl Architecture reinterprets the traditional Dutch gable for a Sydney residence
Sections of brick, zinc, timber and concrete highlight the intentionally irregular form of this Sydney residence – a result of myriad planning restrictions (+ slideshow). More
Future Makers
Future Makers
Future Makers: special call out for designers
Dezeen is launching a new collaboration with Autodesk called Future Makers, which will profile upcoming designers who are harnessing new digital tools to pioneer the future of making things. If you have a compelling story to tell about your work, we want to hear from you! More
Design
Design
Waterscape by Alexander Lotersztain is a modular platform for living on water
Australia-based designer Alexander Lotersztain has created a floating platform system that can be customised with clip-on lighting, furniture, and docking facilities – and can even be used as a helipad (+ slideshow). More