Love Hultén creates tiny music stage for crowd of sperm and eggs
Swedish maker Love Hultén has collaborated with the country's Way Out West music festival to create the Future Fan Stage for an audience of sperm and eggs awaiting IVF. More
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India Mahdavi and Crosby Studios create reflective ping pong parlour in Paris
Designer Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios has transformed India Mahdavi's Paris gallery into a silver-coloured space where visitors can play table tennis in the lead-up to the 2024 Olympic Games. More
Pulp sci-fi and tropical modernism inform Glastonbury's first dedicated South Asian stage
Set designers Shirin Naveed, Shankho Chaudhuri and Esha Sikander created a mini-nightclub for this year's Glastonbury festival that only played music from South Asian artists. More
Five Glastonbury stages made from ex-military helicopters and other reused materials
This year's Glastonbury festival debuted stages constructed using reclaimed materials, from storm-felled trees and helicopters to pieces of Heathrow's defunct Terminal 1. Here are five of the most interesting. More
Goldin+Senneby designs climate-controlled chamber for "oldest spruce in the world"
Stockholm-based studio Goldin+Senneby has created the Spruce Time installation in Sweden, a climate-controlled chamber that houses a clone of one of the world's oldest trees. More
Ten Adam Štěch photographs of "one-of-a-kind" architecture and interior designs
Architecture historian Adam Štěch highlights ten images from his recent exhibition Elements: Unique Details of the 20th Century Architecture and Interior and explains the stories behind them. More
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
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
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
Natural Material Studio turns wood offcuts into biomaterials to "utilise the whole tree"
Danish firm Natural Material Studio has created four biomaterials out of sawdust salvaged from the sawmill of flooring manufacturer Dinesen to explore the potential of using wood waste to make building materials. More
Natural Material Studio crafts entire home interior from bioplastic
As part of 3 Days of Design, Danish practice Natural Material Studio has created a futuristic fossil-free home interior where all the elements, from the curtains to the sofa, are made from the same bioplastic. More
A New Normal exhibition presents designs for a self-sufficient Sydney
The A New Normal exhibition has presented designs that aim to transform Sydney into a self-sufficient city, including a pub making beer from recycled wastewater. More
Maetherea Studio uses rusty metal to create Iron Reef in Norfolk
Landscape architecture practice Maetherea Studio has used rusty iron rebars to create an "amphibious" installation that emerges from reedbeds of the River Yare in Norfolk. More
Faye Toogood fills interior of Frama store with colourful Collage installation
British designer Faye Toogood has used sculptural wood furniture to transform Danish design studio Frama's Copenhagen store during 3 Days of Design. More
Helle Mardahl designs The Grand Suite for woman "who lives in a dream world"
Designer Helle Mardahl has turned her Copenhagen showroom into a messy home for a "shopaholic", displaying her glass designs on an unmade bed and in a lonely dining room during 3 Days of Design. More
Eduardo Souto de Moura and Diller Scofidio + Renfro create cork installations for Lisbon
Eduardo Souto de Moura and Yves Béhar are among six architecture and design studios that have created cork installations for the City Cortex program in Lisbon. More
Omar Gandhi Architects creates illuminated brick for outdoor and indoor use
Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has created a series of lighting designs, including a brick-shaped light designed to be built into masonry walls. More
The Water Clock installation captures the "torturous experience" of waiting at an embassy
Architect Dima Srouji has used glass bricks to construct a miniature waiting room inside the Fenaa Alawwal cultural centre in Riyadh to visualise the bureaucratic limbo faced by displaced Palestinians. More
Jordan Weber creates installation that monitors Detroit's air quality
New York artist Jordan Weber has created a public "regenerative sculpture" in the shape of two crowns worn by African queens to monitor the air pollution of a Detroit neighbourhood as part of a project to combat the "effects of discriminatory urban planning". More
Yinka Ilori designs mirrored pavilion for self-reflection at Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2024
British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori has created the Reflection in Numbers pavilion, which is designed to encourage reflection on racism in sport ahead of the Euro 2024 football tournament. More