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Nendo designs roadside mini-markets tackling food waste

The Japanese firm has designed a kit of parts for honesty-box vegetable stands in rural areas

Design
13.07.21

AMO designs Off-White flagship store in Paris

The research arm of OMA has created a space blending Parisian elegance with industrial aesthetics for the Virgil Abloh fashion label

Design
08.07.21

Air-purifying playground designed in Warsaw

Powered by solar energy and play, ecoLogicStudio's specially designed microclimate harnesses algae biotechnology to clean the air of pollutants

Design
06.07.21

Adam Nathaniel Furman completes Proud Little Pyramid in King’s Cross London

The colourful installation kicks off a six-month residency for the designer at King’s Cross

Design
29.06.21

Piet Oudolf designs new garden for Vitra Campus

The Dutch designer's project creates a space of nature to complement the architectural interventions across the Weil am Rhein campus

Design
28.06.21

1970s Beijing warehouse transformed into play landscape 

The Playscape was designed by waa to enable a variety of activity-based learning and adventure

Design
23.06.21

Design installations arrive on Toronto streets

Part of an annual design competition, the three installations respond to the theme of 'refuge'

Design
22.06.21

New gallery space in Accra designed using raw earth 

Amba Gallery is dedicated to ‘taking ownership and control of how African art is represented’

Design
16.06.21

Parley and M.I.A release ocean waste eyewear collection

The Clean Waves eyewear range is created from marine plastic debris and reclaimed fishing nets

Design
08.06.21

Fashion designer Nicholas Daley creates immersive, music-filled exhibition

Return to Slygo at NOW Gallery celebrates the designer’s Jamaican-Scottish roots and love of music

Design
02.06.21

Superflux creates forest installation for Vienna Biennale

Invocation of Hope tackles the urgent crisis of climate change and invites visitors to imagine a post-anthropocentric planet

Design
28.05.21

The Wood Street Altarpiece celebrates community gardening in Walthamstow

The colourful triptych installation by Eleanor Hill animates the underpass of a railway bridge

Design
24.05.21

Sudō Reiko and Japanese textile innovation

Japan House London's exhibition Making NUNO showcases the work of textile designer Sudō Reiko 

Design
17.05.21

19 Chairs charity project features work from Tom Dixon, Es Devlin, Morag Myerscough and more

Made in lockdown, the chairs are being auctioned off in aid of Age UK and Resourcing Racial Justice

Design
13.05.21

Linear park by Migliore+Servetto opens in South Korea

The 5km-long Blue Line Park, created alongside a transformed railway line, animates the city of Busan

Design
12.05.21

Rethinking care: Design Museum hosts online showcase of emerging designers

The Designers in Residence have tackled mental health, empathy, microbes and traditional craft

Design
07.05.21

The Festival of Britain at 70: questioning the myth

The 1951 festival has long been the victim of selective memory – it’s time we got the story straight

Design
07.05.21

Public installation ‘Arena for a Tree’ opens in Basel

The walk-in installation by Klaus Littmann, with integrated seating, is an homage to nature

Design
04.05.21

Yotam Ottolenghi launches colourful tableware collection

Designed in collaboration with with Italian artist Ivo Bisignano and Belgian brand Serax, FEAST promotes the pleasure of sharing food

Design
29.04.21

Virtual exhibition celebrates designers of Montreal

FICTIONS, an initiative from Collectif des Créateurs Canadiens (CCC), showcases the work of eight designers in an 'atypical love letter' to Montreal

Design
23.04.21

London bridges lit up as part of Illuminated River project

Stretching from Blackfriars to Lambeth, five newly illuminated bridges mark the completion of Leo Villareal's project, which will be in place for 10 years

Design
16.04.21

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King Living expands its global presence with a USA launch and the upcoming opening of its third UK showroom

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Blēo launches vibrant new colour palette created in collaboration with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Jaipur Rugs brings the magic of its home city to London with the opening of its first UK showroom