Roundups
Roundups
Ten outdoor music festival installations and pavilions
This week sees the start of Glastonbury festival. As summer begins, we have rounded up 10 unique pavilions installed at outdoor music festivals. More
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Interview
Interview
Architecture is "stressful, painful and terrifying" say Grafton Architects founders
Grafton Architects is one of the world's most decorated architecture studios. In this interview, founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara explain how they stay motivated after 46 years in practice. More
Glastonbury
Glastonbury
Glastonbury's Hayes Pavilion "pushes the boundaries" of what bioplastic can do
Biodesign startup Re:Right Design has reprised its demountable Hayes Pavilion for this year's Glastonbury festival, cladding it in a biomaterial made from seaweed to demonstrate how sets can be built without plastic. More
Design
Design
British Standard Type creates "bright and playful" font family for Yinka Ilori
Type foundry British Standard Type has developed a custom typeface for British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori that blends rounded and square shapes to reflect his dual heritage. More
Design
Design
Christopher Kelly explores neurodiversity through textiles in Interwoven
Neurodiversity meets found objects, crochet and weaving in the Interwoven project, created by British artist and designer Christopher Kelly to explore his experiences of living with neurological differences. More
Architecture
Architecture
Renovation of historic station among designs unveiled for California's high-speed rail
Designs by studios Foster + Partners, Arup and Page & Turnbull have been unveiled for the first four train stations of the California High-Speed Rail line, slated to be the first high-speed rail system in the US. More
Interiors
Interiors
"Mad Men meets Apple store" at Ménard Dworkind's revamp of IM Pei tower interior
Local studio Ménard Dworkind has retrofitted a 1960s building designed by IM Pei with an office interior for a tech company in Montreal. More
School Shows
School Shows
New Designers spotlights a variety of student work in four Dezeen School Shows
Dezeen School Shows: to coincide with the start of its annual summer exhibition, we've compiled a roundup of student projects featured in British design graduate showcase New Designers' first four Dezeen School Shows of 2024. More
Talks
Talks
"We need to design for the different futures that can unfold" says panel at NeoCon in Chicago
Designers must be flexible and willing to adapt to the unknown, says ROOM co-founder Morten Meisner-Jensen during a talk at the brand's showroom in Chicago during NeoCon. More
Architecture
Architecture
Marina Tabassum installs bamboo Khudi Bari house at Vitra Campus
A demountable house by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has been installed as "a reminder of the precariousness of our existence" at the Vitra Campus in Germany. More
Architecture
Architecture
Eight compact studios embedded into residential gardens
From converted garages to compact new-builds, we have rounded up eight studios that provide retreat and solitude for their owners in their own back gardens. More
Architecture
Architecture
Modul 28 transforms fortified church in Transylvania into guesthouse
Romanian studio Modul 28 has updated and extended the rectory of a church in Transylvania, transforming it into a guesthouse that "balances preservation with innovation". More
News
News
3XN designs South Korean arts centre to evoke "dancer's pointed toe"
Sweeping roofs that symbolise movement and artistic expression will drape across Chungnam Art Center, which Danish studio 3XN is designing in South Korea. More
Comments
Comments
"Kan-ye not?" asks commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the news that musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has gutted a Tadao Ando-designed home in California. More
Interiors
Interiors
Sabine Marcelis creates colour-blocked scenography for VitraHaus loft
A mint-green lounge pit and custard-yellow home office are among several colourful set pieces installed by designer Sabine Marcelis on the top floor of Vitra's Herzog & de Meuron-designed flagship store in Weil am Rhein, Germany. More
News
News
Design Council launches plan to upskill one million designers by 2030
The UK's Design Council has announced a mass upskilling target to prepare one million designers for the green transition, starting with a call to reverse the "critical decline" in design and technology education. More
Architecture
Architecture
PlayLab designs "scenically sculpted" Sacré-Cœur skatepark to resemble stone
LA studio PlayLab and construction company California Skateparks have created Checkered Future, a temporary skate bowl in front of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris for footwear brand Vans. More
News
News
John Outram's Sphinx Hill house becomes youngest listed building in UK
An Egyptian-style, postmodern home designed by British architecture studio John Outram Associates in Oxfordshire has been Grade II-listed. More
Architecture
Architecture
Ecology centre in coastal Maine is "model of holistic sustainability"
US studio Susan T Rodriguez Architecture & Design has incorporated local materials and energy-saving features into a Maine building that is meant to be "a new benchmark for academic buildings in northern climates". More
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate features forest house with "brutal privacy screens"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a home surrounded by concrete blocks by design studio Nendo. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More