Interiors
Interiors
Shrek and Donkey invite guests to stay in mud-laden Shrek's Swamp
Rental website Airbnb has designed Shrek's Swamp, a grass-and-mud-covered hut underneath a tree in the Scottish Highlands. More
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London Design Festival
London Design Festival
Goldfinger launches ash furniture that lets people "own a piece of Tate Modern"
Social enterprise Goldfinger has launched its bespoke Tate Modern furniture collection made from fallen trees at London Design Festival. More
Comments
Comments
"Enlightened by subtle openings" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a concrete multi-generational home in India and debating news that construction has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. More
Opinion
Opinion
"People living with disabilities are done waiting for accessible designs"
Designers and brands must get thinking now about the simple, immediate changes that can make their products more accessible to people living with disabilities, writes Luc Speisser of Landor & Fitch. More
Interview
Interview
"I'm filled with dread" over climate change says Liam Young
Future-gazing architect and filmmaker Liam Young explains why he believes humans will fail to avert climate catastrophe in this interview with Dezeen. More
Interiors
Interiors
Yama fishmonger in Tel Aviv was designed to display fish "like jewels"
Israeli architecture studio Baranowitz and Goldberg Architects has created Yama, a fishmonger in Tel Aviv with a sculptural interior that was informed by jewellery stores. More
Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit
Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit
"Having outspoken team members has always been very important to dRMM"
As part of our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series, architecture studio dRMM's director Saskia Lencer explains what the practice looks for when it hires new staff and how its recruitment needs have changed over the years. More
Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Għallis exhibition suggests alternative to Malta's "unstoppable trajectory of hyper-development"
Valentino Architects and curator Ann Dingli have presented a proposal to retrofit a historic fortification at the Venice Architecture Biennale to suggest alternative methods of conservation in the face of Malta's rapid development. More
Architecture
Architecture
Superlimão uses mass timber for the "most sustainable McDonald's in Brazil"
Local architecture office Superlimão Studio has created a lifted building with a tree-like structure constructed using mass timber for a McDonald's restaurant in São Paulo. More
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda features Diébédo Francis Kéré saying he is open to designing skyscraper
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an interview with architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, who tells Dezeen he could design a skyscraper when the time is right. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More
Architecture
Architecture
Studio Libeskind creates social housing block for first New York project
A sculptural facade defines the Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences, a housing block with affordable senior apartments in Freeport, New York, designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind. More
Architecture
Architecture
New York City incentivises mass-timber construction with assistance program
Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. More
Architecture
Architecture
Sawtooth roof animates Ferrars & York apartment block in Melbourne
A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. More
Furniture
Furniture
Studio Lentala designs playful children's chairs to "enable active sitting"
Amsterdam-based Studio Lentala has designed the Rom & Lupa chairs to improve children's physical and mental health. More
News
News
Lego ditches plans to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
Danish toymaker Lego has abandoned its pilot programme to make recycled plastic bricks from discarded bottles after projections suggested that, adopted at scale, the material would ultimately have a higher carbon footprint. More
Hotels
Hotels
Cliffside hotel on Italy's Amalfi Coast incorporates medieval stone defences
A 1960s Italian hotel and the historic coastal bulwarks below have been restored by architect Bonaventura Gambardella and interior designer Nikita Bettoni. More
London Design Festival
London Design Festival
Rio Kobayashi's first solo show features tuna table and totem speakers
Designer Rio Kobayashi has created a London Design Festival "living room" filled with objects he created with the help of artist and designer friends. More
London Design Festival
London Design Festival
Chair of Virtue presents experimental seating at London Design Festival
Digitally shrink-wrapped skin, armrests salvaged from parks and "frozen" resin featured in Prototype/In Process, an exhibition of seating presented by virtual magazine Chair of Virtue during London Design Festival. More
Design
Design
"Solarpunk" installations feature at Earth Edition festival in California
Geodesic domes containing projections of AI-rendered images depicting "ideal eco futures" feature at the Earth Edition exhibition held in California. More
Architecture
Architecture
Dellekamp Schleich uses trusses for "Mexico's largest mass-timber building"
Local architecture studio Dellekamp Schleich has created an office building in Mexico City that it says is the country's largest and tallest mass-timber structure to "set an example for innovative construction methods". More