"There is no more controversial style of architecture" says The Brutalist director Brady Corbet
Making a film is like designing a building, The Brutalist director Brady Corbet tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview. More
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The Unlimited Dream Company creates modular fins for Jorja Smith tour
Promotion: London design studio The Unlimited Dream Company created "waves" on stage for a Jorja Smith tour using modular fins that could be rearranged to create a variety of curves. More
Unlimited Dream Company uses spatial design to create stories on stage
Promotion: design studio the Unlimited Dream Company used lighting, set design and visuals to delve into themes of "fatherhood and growth" for UK artist Loyle Carner on his most recent tour. More
Theo de Meyer uses "utilitarian aesthetics" for Palm Springs festival design
Belgian architect Theo de Meyer and production firm Public Art Company have created installations at the Desert Air Music Festival in Palm Springs, California, that reference industrial forms and modernist architecture. More
Studio Fuksas creates dramatic all-white stage design for Tosca and Turandot
Promotion: Italian architecture firm Studio Fuksas has made its operatic debut with open-air productions of Tosca and Turandot, for which the company designed an all-white set in front of Rome's ancient Baths of Caracalla. More
Menagerie of animal-shaped beanbags lines Bottega Veneta catwalk
Leather beanbags in the form of various animals, from chickens to ladybirds, provided seats for the attendees of Bottega Veneta's childhood-themed spring 2025 show at Milan Fashion Week. More
Dezeen Debate features "a joyful kind of branding"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an inflatable astronaut designed for this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
Giant inflatable astronaut looms over stage at MTV VMAs 2024
An inflatable 18-metre-tall astronaut towered over the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York last night, designed by production designer Matt Steinbrenner to celebrate the award show's 40th anniversary. More
Production designer Naaman Marshall adopted "utilitarian" approach for Alien: Romulus
Heavy-lift machinery and vehicles informed the set design of the sci-fi horror film Alien: Romulus by production designer Naaman Marshall. More
Cake Architecture "exposes the guts" of Rally festival with demountable fibreglass stage
Panels of translucent fibreglass envelop this multi-level stage designed by Cake Architecture for London arts and music festival Rally, revealing the reusable scaffolding structure at its heart. More
Stufish creates festival stage informed by Barbican Conservatory for Lana Del Rey
Entertainment architecture studio Stufish has designed 12-metre-high columns and ornate window frames for a stage for artist Lana Del Rey, which was shown at the Reading and Leeds festivals over the weekend. More
Natalie Papageorgiadis dresses Bridgerton sets with lashings of silk and gold trim
Nine kilometres of ribbon were used for one ball alone in series three of Netflix's Regency-era drama Bridgerton, which features decadent set designs that "soaked up materials". 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
Bunny Christie's People, Places and Things set symbolises protagonist's "dislocation with reality"
Designer Bunny Christie created an ambiguous, white-tiled structure that could be a swimming pool, the inside of a TV or a jumbo pill as the set for the play People, Places and Things, which tells the story of a recovering addict. 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
AMO designs cabin "reminiscent of architectural models" for Prada menswear show
Dutch studio AMO has created a small cabin and picket-fence-lined path as part of the set for fashion brand Prada's Spring Summer 2025 menswear show. More
Piovenefabi creates repurposed-steel-beam stage at Horst Arts and Music festival
Architecture studio Piovenefabi has created The Ring stage using repurposed steel beams for the 10th edition of Horst Arts and Music festival in Brussels. More
Do Lab creates sprawling fabric "mushrooms" for Coachella stage
LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. More
Production designer Patrice Vermette put himself "in the position of the architect" for Dune
Brutalism, septic tanks and a rejection of the sci-fi status quo informed the set design of the film Dune: Part Two, production designer Patrice Vermette tells Dezeen in this interview featuring exclusive images. More
Bottega Veneta presents custom-made Le Corbusier stools at Milan Fashion Week
The set design for the Bottega Veneta Autumn Winter 2024 womenswear show at Milan Fashion Week featured a special edition of Le Corbusier's LC14 Cabanon stool in burnt wood. More