Dezeen Events Guide will launch its annual guide and interactive map for Miami art week, highlighting the key events taking place during the 2025 edition of the festival. The festival will present fairs, exhibitions, installations and pop-up fringe events from 1 to 7 December, located across participating Miami neighbourhoods, including Miami Beach and Miami Design […]
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Beverage company Red Bull and fashion house Prada covered the curved side of a building in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a huge, plywood quarter pipe for a record-breaking descent by local skater Sandro Dias. The mega ramp was built for the Red Bull Building Drop event on 25 September, during which Dias dropped into the […]
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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a trio of identical prefabricated holiday homes created for three sisters in Queensland. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Prefabrication specialist Blok Modular worked with Australian architecture studio Vokes and Peters to create Blok Three Sisters – a row of houses which were craned onto the site […]
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Local studio SHED Architecture & Design has renovated a 1920s building into a compact two-level home with a black exterior and interior references to its history in Seattle. The 1927 building was previously a studio for Seattle impressionist artist Louise Crow, then a church, before the 1,000-square-foot structure (92-square metre) was converted into a house […]
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Treehouses resembling seed pods, bark-imprinted walls and a spine-like spiral staircase pay homage to the landscape surrounding Mandai Rainforest Resort in Singapore, completed by local studio WOW Architects. Overlooking a reservoir in the 126-hectare Mandai Wildlife Reserve, the resort was created for hospitality brand Banyan Tree and is designed to immerse visitors in the surrounding […]
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Jony Ive‘s studio LoveFrom has collaborated with Japanese manufacturer Balmuda to create a nautical lantern, driven by the designer’s own struggles to find a portable LED light for his yacht. According to the studio, the Sailing Lantern combines the contemporary convenience of a rechargeable battery and the heavy-duty construction needed for a ship lamp. Jony […]
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Architect Norman Foster has designed a briefcase, while designer Es Devlin created a concrete lamp for a collection to mark the 50th anniversary of Spanish fashion brand Zara. The brand gave the 50 creatives, all described as “friends of Zara”, free rein to design a piece of clothing, furniture or an accessory that aligned with […]
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Milanese design studio 6AM has created candy-like Murano glass cubes “reminiscent of stone architecture” for the debut collection of Bottega Veneta creative director Louise Trotter. The cubes, which were made using a cast-iron mould by 6AM, were used as the seats at Trotter’s first Bottega Veneta show during Milan Fashion Week. The colourful cubes were […]
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A mass-timber structure designed by a pair of architects as their holiday home and a house that was renovated by a studio principal for her mother feature in our houses of the month list for September. Read on to find out more about the most popular residences featured on Dezeen this month: Photo by Michael Moran […]
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Japanese studio Schemata Architects has converted an old factory on the island of Teshima into a cafe, swapping its metal walls with polycarbonate that allows light into the building. Located by the Ieura Port harbour in Japan, the 360-square-metre former ironworks, now known as Teshima Factory, has been divided into two parts – one containing a […]
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