Promotion
Promotion
Soft pink Sweet Embrace named Dulux Colour of the Year 2024
Promotion: paint brand Dulux has announced its Colour of the Year for 2024 – a delicate, soft pink colour named Sweet Embrace. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Austin Maynard Architects adds five gardens to Melbourne terrace house
An "urban farm" rooftop garden, planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne, designed by Austin Maynard Architects. More
Architecture
Architecture
Kurosawa Kawara-Ten turns disused Japanese house into wood-clad office
Japanese studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has used local and recycled materials to transform a vacant house into a workspace named Ichihara Life and Work Commission Office. More
Neom
Neom
Neom releases renders of Zaha Hadid Architects' crystalline skyscraper
Renders have been revealed of a supertall skyscraper designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects for the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. More
Vienna Design Week
Vienna Design Week
Membran recruits pedestrians to turn waste tarps into public seating for Vienna
A group of students from the University of Applied Arts has won Vienna Design Week's Social Design Award with a project aimed at involving citizens in the design of their urban spaces using the city's own waste materials. More
Architecture
Architecture
Brutalist Italy book showcases "sometimes surprising" concrete architecture
A Star Wars-like cemetery extension and a cheese-shaped temple feature in this roundup, where photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego spotlight the best brutalist buildings from their book Brutalist Italy. More
Architecture
Architecture
Schiller Projects turns former carriage house into mass-timber residence
New York-based studio Schiller Projects has converted a former Brooklyn carriage house into a single-family residence using mass-timber construction and re-purposed materials. More
Design
Design
Esrawe + Cadena installs spinning chairs at FORMAT Festival in Arkansas
Woven spinning chairs by Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena, and a hidden stage with entrances made from portable toilets were some of the highlights of FORMAT Festival in Arkansas. More
Architecture
Architecture
Heryco blends "history and modernity" in renovation of pink apartment block
Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. More
Promotions
Promotions
"My early designs were so ugly, so unfunctional and so dangerous" says Tom Dixon
Promotion: designer Tom Dixon took to the stage at C-Next Designers Europe, one of the continent's largest design conferences, to talk about his latest installation that challenges bathroom conventions. More
Architecture
Architecture
Kennedy Nolan covers L-shaped coastal home in charred timber
Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. More
Architecture
Architecture
MVRDV transforms Shenzhen skyscraper into colourful women and children's centre
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a colourful gridded facade to a skyscraper in Shenzhen, to create a hotel and centre dedicated to the welfare of women and children. More
Design
Design
"Tradition has to evolve or it dies" says Ozwald Boateng
British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng says there is "definitely an opportunity" to disrupt the furniture industry in the same way he shook up the tailoring traditions of London's Savile Row in this interview. More
Comments
Comments
"Icons come, icons go" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers discussed an underground house in the Netherlands and debated conservation groups' calls to save a 1960s stadium in Ahmedabad, India. More
Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit
Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit
"We have probably become a lot more rigorous in our recruitment" says Toogood's creative director
In the latest instalment of our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series Jan Rose, creative director at design studio Toogood in London, talks about its projects and recruitment process. More
Architecture
Architecture
Wright and Wright completes decade-long redevelopment of University of Oxford college
London studio Wright and Wright has completed the final phase of its redevelopment of St John's College at the University of Oxford, restoring two libraries and a 17th-century courtyard. More
Promotion
Promotion
A modular pine stool with multiple uses wins OYOY Living Design's Togetherness Award
Promotion: a stool designed for toddlers that can transform to fit adults by designer Jenna Gillinger is the winner of Danish brand OYOY Living Design's Togetherness Award. More
Design
Design
Reef Design Lab crafts Erosion Mitigation Units from recycled oyster shells
Melbourne studio Reef Design Lab has created a series of organically shaped modules from concrete blended with oyster shells to help reduce coastal erosion in Port Phillip Bay, Australia. More
Design
Design
Jay Sae Jung Oh creates chair with discarded instruments wrapped in leather
Seattle-based designer Jay Sae Jung Oh has created a chair made of discarded instruments hand-wrapped in cords of cowhide leather. More
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda features powerbank that is charged using rental bikes
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features MyPowerbank, a portable phone charger designed for London's homeless community that runs on kinetic energy from rental bikes. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More