Design
Design
Star Wars kitchenware range with Le Creuset cookware includes Darth Vader Dutch oven
A Han Solo pan and a Dutch oven with Darth Vader's mask on the lid feature in a kitchenware collaboration between Star Wars and Le Creuset. More
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News
News
BP sponsorship "allows us to present an exhibition that is free" says Chicago Architecture Biennial
The Chicago Architecture Biennial has defended its sponsorship deals with petroleum giant BP and energy company Exelon, amid a growing backlash over arts sponsorship from companies that contribute to climate change. More
High-tech architecture
High-tech architecture
Norman Foster's Sainsbury Centre was the first high-tech art gallery in the UK
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we look at how the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts by Norman Foster marked the style's transition from industrial to cultural buildings. More
Dezeen Day
Dezeen Day
"London needs more days like Dezeen Day" say speakers and attendees
Speakers and attendees have been giving their feedback on the inaugural Dezeen Day conference in London last week, with BBC radio presenter LionHeart describing it as "the best design conference I've been to". More
Interiors
Interiors
Made Thought creates "a website that exists" in the form of a pop-up shop
Design studio Made Thought has imagined the shop of the future, with an experimental pop-up in London that has a lot in common with a digital experience. More
Architecture
Architecture
Max Hattler turns Hong Kong's high-rise housing into repetitive animations
Director Max Hattler has turned a series of photos of housing estates in Hong Kong into repetitive animations to create his film Serial Parallels. More
Design
Design
BIG creates indoor-outdoor furniture collection that mimics the shape of lily pads
The Lily furniture collection created by architecture firm BIG for Danish brand Skagerak has no sharp corners, in an homage to the gently sloping oval shape of lily pads. More
Careers guide: Marco Maria Pedrazzo describes his progression from intern to design lead at Carlo Ratti Associati
Marco Maria Pedrazzo is a strategic designer at international design practice Carlo Ratti Associati. For the Dezeen Jobs careers guide he explains how he progressed from intern to design lead. More
Interiors
Interiors
Oursin restaurant by Simon Porte Jacquemus is designed to "perpetuate summer"
Whitewashed walls, colourful ceramics and rattan furnishings help channel sunny climes inside this Parisian restaurant, designed by the eponymous owner of cult French fashion label Jacquemus. More
Design
Design
Dutch Invertuals exhibition presents designers' interpretations of "the circle"
Design collective Dutch Invertuals celebrates "the mother of all forms: the circle" with an exhibition of objects from fragmented mirrors to sculptural ceramics. More
Design
Design
2020 vision: Call for entries to Ventura Future exhibition at Milan design week
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for the third edition of Ventura Project's Ventura Future showcase at Milan design week, which in 2020 will feature experimental design projects. More
Architecture
Architecture
Yan'an University Campus evokes the city's ancient stone cave dwellings
Stacks of rough stone and concrete form the campus of Yan'an University in China, designed by the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University to recall the city's famous cave dwellings. More
Design
Design
Today's innovations could be "redundant in five years" says curator of Designs for Different Futures
The Designs for Different Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art collates projects to tackle some of today's biggest issues – including an arched pavilion for harvesting crickets, clothes that grow and a font illegible to computers. More
Architecture
Architecture
D'Arcy Jones defines Deep Cove House in Vancouver with slanted wood-clad walls
Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has designed this clifftop house in Vancouver to be "part look-out tower, part courtyard and part landform". More
Dezeen Weekly features our guide to high-tech architecture and a self-repairing pavement
The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes the launch of our high-tech architecture series and a pavement that repairs itself when it rains. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›
Design
Design
Nike React Infinity Run is designed to reduce runners' injuries
Nike's new running shoe could prevent the chance of injury by 52 per cent, helping solve the problem that most often takes runners out of the game. More
Design
Design
Garden of Galaxy personalised flower wins the Samsung Mobile Design Competition wallpaper category
Dezeen promotion: a personalised flower generated by an algorithm has won the wallpaper category in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. More
Architecture
Architecture
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners creates "fortress-like" archive for the Louvre
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has built the Centre de Conservation du Louvre in Liévin, northern France, to securely store 250,000 works of art from the museum's collection. More
Technology
Technology
Hyperstealth Biotechnology's "invisibility cloak" can conceal people and buildings
Canadian camouflage company Hyperstealth Biotechnology has patented the technology behind a material that bends light to make people and objects near invisible to the naked eye. More
High-tech architecture
High-tech architecture
Reliance Controls factory by Team 4 was a "democratic pavilion"
Continuing our high-tech architecture series we look at Reliance Controls, the last building that two of the giants of high-tech architecture – Richard Rogers and Norman Foster – designed together at Team 4. More