News
News
Canadian architect Jack Diamond dies aged 89
Architect Jack Diamond, who co-founded Diamond Schmitt Architects and whose designs include the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, has died aged 89. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Photos show Studio Gang's Natural History Museum extension nearing completion
Construction has progressed on Studio Gang's Gilder Center in New York City, with images showing the cave-like concrete interiors and panelled exterior nearing completion. More
Dezeen x Dutch Design Week 2022
Dezeen x Dutch Design Week 2022
Shit Show at Dutch Design Week captured in Dezeen video
Dezeen has filmed an Instagram reel showcasing an exhibition by Dutch designer Fides Lapidaire about the benefits of using human waste as compost in the second of our three-part video series for Dutch Design Week. More
Interiors
Interiors
Norman Foster creates angular retreat in Martha's Vineyard for "friends of the Foster family"
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Norman Foster has designed the Foster Retreat in Martha's Vineyard as a holiday home for his friends and those of the Norman Foster Foundation, which features furniture designed by the architect for Karimoku. More
Architecture
Architecture
Paved courtyard hidden by "muted facade" of LR House in Spain
An austere exterior conceals a series of living spaces around a central courtyard at this home in the Spanish town of Citruénigo, designed by local studio Lecumberri & Cidoncha and architect Ińigo Beguiristain. More
Design
Design
James Turrell creates glass perfume bottles informed by ancient stupas
American artist James Turrell has designed two colour-saturated bottles for French glassmaker Lalique's perfumes Range Rider and Purple Sage. More
Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week
Burnt and shorn Dryland rug captures consequences of drought in the Netherlands
Design graduate Liselot Cobelens has presented a rug at Dutch Design Week that visualises real-world data on how climate change-induced droughts are damaging local landscapes. More
Comments
Comments
"Thor's Hammer flattens another 13-storey parking ramp" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing North Carolina architecture studio Duda Paine's 405 Colorado office building in Austin and other top architecture and design stories. More
News
News
RIBA names Valerie Vaughan-Dick as new chief executive
The Royal Institute for British Architects has appointed Valerie Vaughan-Dick as its new chief executive from January 2023. More
Opinion
Opinion
"All those complicit in Neom's design and construction are already destroyers of worlds"
Architects working on the Neom mega-project in Saudi Arabia, including the 170-kilometre city The Line, must decide whether they are content to be complicit in an "ecological and moral atrocity", writes Adam Greenfield. More
Interiors
Interiors
Sik Mul Sung is a Mars-themed cafe with its own vertical farm
South Korean studio Unseenbird has designed a cafe in downtown Seoul, where vegetables are grown in a glass-fronted cultivation room before being harvested, prepared and served to customers on a conveyor belt. More
Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Showroom
Ten noise-regulating acoustic products for communal interiors
Dezeen Showroom: a range of office pods designed for group and individual working and a modular system of noise-dampening lights are the latest acoustic products to be featured on Dezeen Showroom. More
Design
Design
HKU's computer-designed Tidal Stools can be used by humans and sea creatures
Researchers at Hong Kong University's Robotic Fabrication Lab have developed a series of 3D-printed stools featuring complex shapes that provide comfortable seats while also sheltering marine animals. More
Architecture
Architecture
"Hip hop has always had to be sustainable" says Atlanta hip-hop architecture exhibition curator
Architecture uses many of the same creative principles as hip-hop music, the curator of an exhibition tracking the relationship between the musical genre and designing buildings, Sekou Cooke, says in this interview. More
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the completion of Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now! More
Design
Design
Álvaro Siza designs watch that "looks like a watch" for Cauny
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Álvaro Siza has teamed up with Swiss brand Cauny to produce the Cauny X Siza watch collection. More
Architecture
Architecture
New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall reopens after extensive renovation
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects and Diamond Schmitt Architects have carried out a renovation of New York City's David Geffen Hall, modernising the venue's main concert hall and improving the public spaces that surround it. More
Architecture
Architecture
Populous and Hastings unveil largest purpose-built soccer stadium in the US
Architecture studio Populous and local studio Hastings have completed Geodis Park in Nashville for Nashville SC, which the studios say is the largest stadium dedicated to soccer ever built in USA. More
Architecture
Architecture
Atelier Andy Carson finishes coastal home in Sydney with stone and bronze
A curved bronze facade sits atop a sandstone podium at this home renovation in Sydney, Australia, designed by local architecture studio Atelier Andy Carson. More
Architecture
Architecture
Scalloped facade fronts Parisian social housing block by Jean-Christophe Quinton
French architect Jean-Christophe Quinton has decorated a Parisian social housing project built on the site of a demolished police station with a curvy limestone facade. More