Landscape architect Kongjian Yu, the founder of Chinese studio Turenscape, and three others have died in a plane crash in Brazil‘s Pantanal wetlands while reportedly making a documentary about his sponge city model. A small aircraft crashed in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state on Tuesday as it attempted to land at a farm near […]
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Plans have been unveiled by London-based architecture studio Jestico + Whiles to revitalise Alison and Peter Smithson‘s 1950s Smithdon High School in Norfolk, UK. Completed by the duo in 1954, the Grade II*-listed secondary school, previously named Hunstanton School, comprises two glass and steel structures that both are in need of updating. According to Jestico […]
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Architect Ethan Akiyama Poh has won Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition with a concept that reimagines architect Kenzo Tange‘s disused post-war gymnasium, currently facing demolition, as a thriving civic destination. Akiyama Poh proposed reprogramming Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tange’s Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, which is currently unoccupied and threatened with demolition due to seismic and […]
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Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Located in the Shibuya Parco shopping centre, Frama Tokyo displays the brand’s Care collection of fragrances and beauty products on stainless-steel shelves that cover three of its four walls. Walls […]
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Dezeen Showroom: from intricate tiles to stone-effect surfaces, 2025 has seen Italian manufacturer Marazzi list another handful of its products on Dezeen Showroom. Marazzi’s Terramater tiles were designed to pay homage to the aesthetic of vintage ceramics. Terramater tiles come in seven colourways and two textural finishes The collection contains seven glazed colourways, each of which […]
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My Butter is Better, the most recent installment of Stefan Sagmeister’s touring art exhibitions, is now on view at Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid through October—and tomorrow, a version takes up residence at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Mexico. The show is a selection of more than 20 paintings made from 2022–2025 that combine […]
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Lab-grown meat is gaining traction. But before we consume it, we need to believe in it – and that’s where design comes in. Jane Englefield asks scientists, designers and a food critic what’s at stake. “What is meat, really?” considered emerging London-based food designer Leyu Li. “Is it defined by its molecular structure, its nutritional […]
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A chaise longue shaped like a pelvic bone and vases made from timber seed pods were among the objects on show in Mirroring Dialogue, a London Design Festival exhibition centred around cultural exchange. The exhibition featured artists, designers and makers “of the African diaspora and beyond”, to highlight the diversity of creative talents that can […]
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Bengaluru studio Multitude of Sins has used rejected samples, broken prototypes and construction waste to transform an apartment into its material lab and research space. The lab, named Requiem for Ruins, is located in a former residential apartment building on the same floor as the Multitude of Sins studio. This was turned into a material […]
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Designer Raymond Lapiejko’s vision to transform the Hoosac Stores warehouse in Boston into a recycling hub has been awarded second place in Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition. Lapiejko‘s proposal focused on the Hoosac Stores building in Boston, Massachusetts, a wool storage facility built in 1895 within the Charlestown Navy Yard – an area historically […]
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