Dezeen Showroom: interior architect and designer Kristiina Lassus will present her latest rug collection at Milan design week 2023, showcasing a rug range knotted by hand in Nepal. The collection by Kristiina Lassus Rugs features a number of different styles, all with natural col … | Continue reading
Architecture studio ByOthers has completed its own studio in the garden of a home in Peckham, south London, clad in finned panels of weathered steel. Called Garden Studio, the building sits behind the home of ByOthers founder Richard Keys and was designed to showcase the young pr … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: Canadian design brand Bocci has launched the 118 pendant light, which features a spherical lampshade with a relief pattern resembling petals or feathers. Designed by multidisciplinary designer Omer Arbel, the 118 lamps have a blown glass shade that is suspended f … | Continue reading
Design firm Prowl Studio has proven that bioplastic can be load-bearing with the launch of its mono-material Peel Chair, which is made from corn-derived PLA and hemp fibres, at Milan design week. Designed to reimagine one of the most ubiquitous pieces of fast furniture – the plas … | Continue reading
Pins on our electric cars board are some of the most popular on Dezeen's Pinterest. Here we round up eight of the most innovative electric cars. With the continued transition to electric cars, concept designs and newly-unveiled models are often trending on Pinterest. Along with c … | Continue reading
Microsoft has unveiled a special edition Xbox controller made partly from recycled plastic, including surplus old controller parts that have been reground. One-third of the green-hued Xbox Remix Special Edition controller is made from a mix of post-consumer recycled resins and "r … | Continue reading
Australian studio Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has transformed a Victorian home in Melbourne's suburbs with a faceted extension clad in black metal. Located in the suburb of South Yarra, the house on St Martins Lane has been expanded with a three-storey rear extension to bet … | Continue reading
Our latest lookbook compiles residential living rooms that have been given an air of playfulness through their use of the three primary colours. In design, the primary colours are yellow, blue and red. They usually appear in this context as strong cobalt blues, vivid sunshine yel … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: created by office furniture brand Narbutas, the Combus shelving system offers a way to partition spaces, while providing versatile storage. The Combus system features a range of shelving types and heights, which can be customised with various finishes as well as … | Continue reading
A series of wood-lined communal spaces constructed from modular units form Warm Nest, a cancer care centre in Belgium by architecture studios Archekta and Ark-shelter. Operated by the hospital AZ Zeno near Bruges, Warm Nest is designed to be an inviting and comforting place for p … | Continue reading
Chinese studio Open Architecture has revealed the visuals for Yichang Grand Theatre in China, which will have an amorphous form intended to evoke flowing water. The 70,000 square-meter theatre will be located at the Pinghu Peninsula in Hubei Province, at a site where the Yangtze … | Continue reading
A panel spanning design, architecture and technology stressed that building and living more sustainably requires a universal approach in the first episode of our new Climate Salon podcast series with SketchUp. Listen to the episode below or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify an … | Continue reading
In this week's comments update, readers discussed Niall McLaughlin Architects' red-brick International Rugby Experience museum in Limerick, Ireland. Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland, with vaulted ce … | Continue reading
Milan design week exhibition Alcova takes place in a new location every year. In an exclusive interview, founders Joseph Grima and Valentina Ciuffi say this nomadic approach is key to supporting radical young design talent. According to Grima and Ciuffi, regularly staging an exhi … | Continue reading
Designers Skylar Tibbits and Chris Cooke, editor Katelin Butler, 2LG Studio co-founders Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe and Quirk Studio co-founders Shivani Ajmera and Disha Bhavsar have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2023 judges. Dezeen Awards 2023 in partnership with Bentl … | Continue reading
UK practice Heatherwick Studio and Dutch studio Barcode Architects have revealed visuals of Oopen, a stacked cylindrical tower topped with landscaped terraces designed for Utrecht's city centre. The building will be made up of a series of stacked cylindrical forms with faceted gl … | Continue reading
Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer has worked with US start-up Croft to design a system of products for retrofitting vehicles to run on green hydrogen. The Nanoplant and Nanocartridges are the first prototypes from Croft, which is currently raising funds for the project, and enable u … | Continue reading
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features MVRDV's designs for the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled designs for a 265,000-square-metre technology and innovation hub in Heilbronn, Germa … | Continue reading
A concrete gateway marks the entrance to the Threshold and Treasure art gallery, which architecture studio AMAA has housed in a former print house in Arzignano, Italy. Created for the cultural association Atipografia, the gallery occupies the tactile, unfinished interiors of a 19 … | Continue reading
Dutch studio Wurk has completed an underwater bicycle park next to Amsterdam's central station, with glossy white interiors submerged nine metres beneath the surface of its famous canals. Connected directly to the city's metro and railway system via six escalators, the underwater … | Continue reading
For our latest competition, we've teamed up with architecture and interior design practice Universal Design Studio to offer readers the chance to win a copy of their inaugural monograph, Universal Design Studio: Inside Out. Published in 2021 by design book publisher Phaidon, the … | Continue reading
British artist Tom Atton Moore has created hand-tufted textile installations totalling over 80 square metres for British fashion house Burberry's Paris showroom and Rue Saint Honoré store. The installations, which were commissioned by Burberry for its Paris showroom and Rue Saint … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: an acoustic study pod that can be folded away for storage and portability is among 16 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Mono study pod by Philip Bogaerts and René Vullings for Bogaerts Designers Philip Bogaerts and René Vullings created an acoustic booth … | Continue reading
US architect Morris Adjmi took cues from tenements that once housed Italian immigrants to create a new mixed-use building with a decorative brickwork facade. Rising seven storeys, Grand Mulberry is located on a storied site in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood. To design the … | Continue reading
We've selected five opportunities for interior designers that are available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at CLOU Architects, PDP and Cousins & Cousins. Mid-weight interior designer and FF&E manager at Cousins & Cousins Architecture studio Cousins & Cousins is loo … | Continue reading
London studio SIRS Architects has converted a 19th-century brewery into a public gallery for artist duo Gilbert & George in London. Located on a narrow street in Spitalfields, the Gilbert & George Centre is designed to pay homage to the area's architectural heritage while celebra … | Continue reading
UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design for its first public library, a plant-covered building in Columbia, Maryland. Designed for Howard County Libraries, the plant-covered building would be located alongside Lake Kittamaqundi in the community of Colu … | Continue reading
Dezeen's top five Houses of the month for March 2023 include a snake-like dwelling in India and a converted 19th-century school in southern Italy. A brutalist holiday home in a Mexican forest, a minimalist residence in Massachusetts and a Vietnamese family home with a massive roo … | Continue reading
The penultimate case study in our Timber Revolution series is a 20-storey mass-timber building just below the Arctic Circle – the Sara Kulturhus Centre by Swedish studio White Arkitekter. Standing 72.8 metres tall in the Swedish city of Skellefteå, the landmark structure became o … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: office furniture brand Bogaerts has launched the Mono study pod, which provides a sound-dampened workspace that can be folded away. Designers Philip Bogaerts and René Vullings created the Mono pod to be flexible and mobile with a design that folds down in three s … | Continue reading
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a toilet made from wood composite, which its designers says generates fewer emissions than ceramic toilets. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Finnish design company Woodio has designed a wall-mounted toilet that is … | Continue reading
Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a renovation of a series of brick structures called Sítio Rio Acima near São Paulo, including a primary home with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window. Located on the outskirts of Jundiaí, the residential complex had been … | Continue reading
Sparse and minimalist interiors define this home in Valencia, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, which sits behind the historic frontage of a large 20th-century residential building. Called The Empty House, the four-bedroom dwelling was designed to be a "blank canvas" for its … | Continue reading
Specialist toilet designer Junko Kobayashi has created a public toilet within a series of weathering steel cylinders as her contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project. Set under the Sasazuka Station metro station in central Tokyo, Kobayashi's toilet was designed to be fun and disti … | Continue reading
Mass timber could become a key tool in reducing waste from the construction industry, GXN partner Lasse Lind tells Dezeen in this interview for our Timber Revolution series. GXN was founded in 2007 as the research arm of Copenhagen-based architecture studio 3XN. GXN looks at circ … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: office furniture brand Herman Miller has created the Passport work table, a compact and mobile height-adjustable desk to suit home and hybrid work environments. The Passport work table is a laptop desk with a pneumatic lifting mechanism, allowing the user to rais … | Continue reading
Following the death of Rafael Viñoly, directors and employees of his studio are working hard to continue the Uruguayan architect's work, says his son Román Viñoly in this exclusive interview. Speaking to Dezeen from his New York office, Román Viñoly, who is a director at Rafael V … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: a wall light with a back panel made from angular offcuts of naturally quarried stone is among 13 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Offcut wall sconce by Nightworks New Zealand-based lighting brand Nightworks Studio has created a series of wall lights that … | Continue reading
Architecture studio LBR&A has designed a residence that "breaks the imposed paradigms of construction" in a Mexico City neighbourhood where development has reportedly taken its toll on the landscape. The CH73 House is located in the Bosques de las Lomas neighbourhood and occupies … | Continue reading
Dezeen School Shows: an eco-resort situated on the side of a mountain and a house designed to withstand desert conditions are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at My ArchiSchool. Also featured is the design of an airport that aims to connect passengers to nature … | Continue reading
Royal College of Art graduates Paul Mendieta and Beren Kayalı have designed a water tank called Deploy, which has been donated to people in Turkey who have been devastated by the recent earthquake. Deploy is a 256-kilogram structure that can be assembled and inflated on-site and … | Continue reading
Dezeen Showroom: Casalgrande Padana's White Smoke Stile tile has a surface designed to mimic natural stone and can be used indoors and out. The Stile collection porcelain tiles have surfaces that are mottled and flecked, which are created to mimic the particles of natural stone. … | Continue reading
Separate brightly coloured classroom buildings make up this preschool in Gujarat state, India, which was designed by local practice Shreesh Design Studio. The bold and contrasting steel structures were arranged in a circle around a central amphitheatre, which creates "a whimsical … | Continue reading
Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland's first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss … | Continue reading
British studio Glenn Howells Architects has unveiled its design for the BBC headquarters in Birmingham, which will be located in the historic Typhoo Factory in the Digbeth area. The shell of the nearly-century-old building will be retained, with Glenn Howells Architects adapting … | Continue reading
Clinical, stripped-back show spaces made appearances at Miu Miu and Courrèges, while Off-White and Dior opted for more extravagant sets for their Autumn Winter 2023 collections at Paris Fashion Week. Paris Fashion Week took place from 27 February to 7 March and was the final fash … | Continue reading
Spanish studio Takk took cues from snugly stacked Russian dolls for the interior renovation of this Barcelona apartment, which features rooms nestled inside each other to maximise insulation. Called 10K House, the 50-square-metre apartment was renovated by Takk using a material b … | Continue reading
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features BIG's plans for an office block on the Thames. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio BIG has been granted approval to build an office block on the South Bank in central London. The proposed development will … | Continue reading