Mecanoo founding partner Francine Houben has joined Dezeen Awards 2024 as a judge. Here, she selects five projects that best reflect her work. Houben is the founding partner and creative director of Dutch architecture studio… Read More »Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards judge Francine Houben
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, is “the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood”. Situated on a forested university campus in… Read More »Powerhouse Company completes Europe’s first mass-timber academic building
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has launched its Tropical Modernism exhibition, which highlights the architectural movement’s evolution from colonial import to a “tool of nation building”. According to the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), the… Read More »V&A’s Tropical Modernism exhibition explores “the politics behind the concrete”
Promotion: Spanish company Cupa Pizarras has developed Cupaclad, a facade cladding system made from slate that aims to provide a sustainable alternative to conventional exterior finishes. The Cupaclad system was created by Cupa Pizarras to… Read More »Cupa Pizarras creates facade cladding system made from natural slate
Interiors practice Sundholm Studio has refreshed the 30-year-old Nanas restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, with strong colours, bespoke timber joinery and metalwork. Previously named Nana’s, the restaurant was renamed Nanas, in tribute to “not one nana,… Read More »Sundholm Studio revamps Nanas restaurant to capture “spirit of grandmothers”
British designer Max Lamb and South Korean designer Jay Sae Jung Oh have exhibited sculptural furniture made with recycled materials at New York gallery Salon 94 Design. Both designers showed works across two separate exhibitions… Read More »Max Lamb and Jay Sae Jung Oh present reused-waste furniture in New York