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Instagram and Brooklyn Museum announce #BlackDesignVisionaries grant recipients

The five recipients of the inaugural grant programme span graphic, fashion and spatial design

Design
04.11.21

Cristina Iglesias unveils new sculptural work in Malta

Sea Cave (Entrance) preempts the creation of a major contemporary art museum on the island

Design
28.10.21

Yinka Ilori creates colourful ‘launderette’ in London

The Launderette of Dreams is a temporary play space installation using over 200,000 LEGO bricks

Design
27.10.21

London community workshops turn waste into homeware

Hosted by Blackhorse Workshop and GoodWaste in Chingford, the Plaster Works events invite the public to transform building waste materials

Design
26.10.21

Old Fiat factory rooftop transformed into public garden

Benedetto Camerana has added 40,000 plants to the rooftop test track of Fiat's former HQ in Turin

Design
11.10.21

There is nothing ‘super’ about superyachts

From Bezos' Y721 to Abramovich’s Ecstasea, these are playthings of the uber-rich with designations that call to mind an eau de toilette or knock-off Nokia

Design
29.09.21

Ajlan Gharem announced as winner of the Jameel Prize

Established by the V&A and Art Jameel, the prize awards the best contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition

Design
20.09.21

What to see at the London Design Festival 2021

From installations to exhibitions, we round up the highlights of what to check out at this year's LDF

Design
13.09.21

Winners of 2021 London Design Medals announced

The annual awards from the London Design Festival celebrate innovation, emerging talent and lifetime achievement

Design
08.09.21

Play spheres and brutalist platforms added to 1960s Stockholm park

Local practice AndrénFogelström created the striking structures for suburban park Vårbergstoppen

Design
27.08.21

Are we any closer to equity in design?

Design Can, the UK campaign dedicated to a more inclusive design industry, launches a new initiative

Design
12.08.21

The influential design of the Tokyo Olympics… in 1964

Before Tokyo 2020, there was Tokyo 1964 – and a new exhibition in London reveals the design innovation and significance behind the historic event

Design
09.08.21

PVC perils: why bouncy castles are a design nightmare

The inflatable play-houses are more than just lurid eyesores – their use is bound up with plastic waste and social inequality

Design
06.08.21

New pedestrian bridge opens in King’s Cross

Designed by Moxon Architects, the red bridge improves connections in the rapidly growing area

Design
29.07.21

Studio Ossidiana designs floating garden in Istanbul

Traversing Istanbul's waters and islands, Büyükada Songlines formed a hub of conversation and debate, as well as a biodiverse home for birds and humans alike

Design
27.07.21

Morag Myerscough transforms Coventry shopping street

The designer’s Endless Ribbon Connecting Us forms part of a citywide regeneration programme

Design
23.07.21

Projects Office designs colourful mental health hub in Edinburgh

The youth-focused 'third space' is playful, practical and informed by user engagement

Design
16.07.21

A new exhibition celebrates ‘farmer designers’

Can we design a better system of agriculture? An exhibition at madd-bordeaux believes so

Design
15.07.21

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

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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Panoptikum Collections and Valery Kuznetsov put a quirky spin on storage design with their new launch BUGS

How Finland’s great chair designer Yrjö Kukkapuro modelled his designs on casts of his own body

MAD Architects transform old riverfront warehouse into new Rotterdam Danshuis

New exhibition Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth is now open

With Fieldhouse MoDus Architects rethink architecture to create social value

Marsèll and Carsten Nicolai invite viewers to explore the unknown with new installation Transmitter / Receiver

What the fight for inclusion needs in 2023

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MAD Architects transform old riverfront warehouse into new Rotterdam Danshuis

With Fieldhouse MoDus Architects rethink architecture to create social value

Bell Phillips Architects on public-driven projects and making a difference in architecture

Woodland cabins about an hour from Helsinki set out to provide luxury in a pared-back rural style

The VDL House built by Richard Neutra can now be seen from all over the world

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Photographer Elina Brotherus makes herself at home in the Didrichsen Art Museum

The four-roof pavilion is a pastel-toned urban hideaway in the heart of Shenzhen

Reed Watts unveils 78 affordable homes for Pocket Living in East London


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Marsèll and Carsten Nicolai invite viewers to explore the unknown with new installation Transmitter / Receiver

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From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen

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