In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the news that musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has gutted a Tadao Ando-designed home in California. Ye‘s transformation of the Malibu beach house included ripping… Read More »“Kan-ye not?” asks commenter
A mint-green lounge pit and custard-yellow home office are among several colourful set pieces installed by designer Sabine Marcelis on the top floor of Vitra‘s Herzog & de Meuron-designed flagship store in Weil am Rhein,… Read More »Sabine Marcelis creates colour-blocked scenography for VitraHaus loft
The UK’s Design Council has announced a mass upskilling target to prepare one million designers for the green transition, starting with a call to reverse the “critical decline” in design and technology education. Its plan… Read More »Design Council launches plan to upskill one million designers by 2030
LA studio PlayLab and construction company California Skateparks have created Checkered Future, a temporary skate bowl in front of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris for footwear brand Vans. The two-part installation spans the hill of… Read More »PlayLab designs “scenically sculpted” Sacré Cœur skatepark to resemble stone
An Egyptian-style, postmodern home designed by British architecture studio John Outram Associates in Oxfordshire has been Grade II-listed. Completed by the studio in 1999, Sphinx Hill house has now become the UK’s youngest listed building and… Read More »John Outram’s Sphinx Hill house becomes youngest listed building in UK
US studio Susan T Rodriguez Architecture & Design has incorporated local materials and energy-saving features into a Maine building that is meant to be “a new benchmark for academic buildings in northern climates”. Located in… Read More »Ecology centre in coastal Maine is “model of holistic sustainability”