Festivals Design Week Mexico, Dutch Design Week and Archtober are among the key creative events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this October. Other events taking place during the month include Frieze London, Design Miami.Paris, the Stirling Prize ceremony, Designblok and Sydney Craft Week. Archtober takes place from 1 to 31 October 2025. Photo is by […]
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Dezeen Showroom: forms and shapes distilled from pylons, signals and beacons make up this lighting collection created by French duo Marie & Alexandre and produced by design brand Petite Friture. Marie & Alexandre – the studio of Marie Cornil and Alexandre Willaume – first presented the Pyl lighting in their solo exhibition Horizon at Galerie Signé […]
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An approach of “frugality and honesty” informed the minimally-finished plywood and plaster surfaces of Twin Pitches, the renovation and extension to a home in London by local studio Atelier Baulier. Located in the west London borough of Ealing, the original Edwardian home suffered from poor environmental performance and insufficient space for its owners, who tasked […]
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Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has created a trio of mirrored and resin installations at Apple Park in California, all informed by the latest iPhones. Marcelis was invited by Apple to create a series of installations in and around the Observatory building at Apple Park to mark the launch of the latest iPhones. Sabine Marcelis designed a […]
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Architecture studio Henning Larsen has won a competition to design a swimming pool to replace Gothenburg’s historic Valhallabadet with a timber-framed building that will also house other sports facilities. Henning Larsen will deliver the project with Swedish studio Winell & Jern Architects, engineering firm Ramboll and John Dohlsten, a sports science lecturer at the University […]
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Plans to demolish the Museum of London and Bastion House to make way for the London Wall West scheme will be challenged at the High Court, following environmental concerns raised by campaign group Barbican Quarter Organisation. The Barbican Quarter Organisation was granted permission to proceed with its judicial review claim, which questions whether plans to […]
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Environmental organisation A Plastic Planet has removed the paywall around its PlasticFree database, giving designers and brands unfettered access to its directory of expert-verified plastic substitutes. PlasticFree, which originally launched in 2023 with a subscription model, hosts hundreds of in-depth reports on plastic-free materials alongside case studies on how they can be used to make products […]
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Dezeen Showroom: US company MeSpace has created an office pod designed for neurodiverse individuals that gives users a high level of control over internal conditions. The MeSpace worksation is a neuroadaptive pod where the lighting colour and brightness, airflow, visual and acoustic privacy levels, and desk height can all be adjusted as needed. The MeSpace […]
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There’s more to rattan than wicker. Designers are finding new ways of shaping the vine material into furniture with a lower carbon footprint than metal or plastic alternatives. Rattan is most commonly associated with wicker, a classic weaving technique that has been used around the world for centuries, primarily for making baskets, mats and rustic-style […]
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The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed a redesigned logo with a bold, sans-serif font by London studio Johnson Banks as it prepares for its 200th anniversary. Set to roll out later this month, the rebrand aims to reflect the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ (RIBA) ambitions of adapting to the modern world while paying […]
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