Ailing design education is leaving graduates unprepared for the realities of industry and saddled with debt, established designers have warned as part of our Performance Review series. “Design education is fucked,” said designer Andu Masebo,… Read More »Quality of design education “lower than it was” say designers
A cave-like ground floor accessible on all sides will be the focal point of this opera house, which architecture studio Snøhetta is designing for Düsseldorf, Germany. Designed for the opera company Oper am Rheins, Düsseldorf… Read More »Snøhetta unveils plans for cavernous opera house in Düsseldorf
Loans available to architecture students in the USA will be reduced under the terms of president Donald Trump‘s One Big Beautiful Bill, as architecture will not be considered a professional degree. Under the terms of… Read More »Architecture no longer considered a “professional degree” in US
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans for Symphony Tower, a residential skyscraper in Dubai that will be enclosed by an illuminated lattice structure. Set to rise 160 metres along the Dubai Creek, the… Read More »Zaha Hadid Architects draws on Emirati embroidery for Dubai skyscraper
Architects must get over their aversion to the business side of practice, writes Gareth Stapleton as part of our Performance Review series. Architects are trained to solve spatial problems. Buildings, not businesses. The myth runs… Read More »“Too many architects wear their ignorance of finance as if it were a mark of purity”
Design agency Morrama has partnered with 3D-manufacturing studio Batch.Works to create headphones for kids that were designed to be assembled and repaired by the children themselves. The colourful headphones, named Kibu, are aimed at 5… Read More »Kibu children’s headphones are crafted from agricultural packaging waste