Cities and architecture across the world are increasingly being influenced by the fundamentally anti-democratic principles of places like Dubai, argues academic Quinn Slobodian in this interview. Slobodian is a Canadian historian based at Boston University.… Read More »Spread of Dubai-style urbanism “quite terrifying” says Quinn Slobodian
At this year’s Design Miami.Paris, Apple and Design Miami introduce Designers of Tomorrow, a new initiative celebrating four emerging creative voices who are subverting expectations – and quelling fears – regarding man’s place at the… Read More »Apple + Design Miami Spotlight the Future of Craft With iPad Pro
Local studio Owain Williams Architects has transformed a disused garage site in London into the Stroud Green Housing Centre, creating a public drop-in space and office fronted by a large timber gate. Tucked between terraced… Read More »Infill housing centre by Owain Williams Architects is “a public building in miniature”
Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a flexible, solar-energy-generating textile called Heliotex, which forms the canopy of her Dutch Design Week pavilion. Umbra Pavilion is currently on display in Eindhoven’s Strijp-S district as part… Read More »Pauline van Dongen tops kite-like Umbra Pavilion with solar-powered textile
Artist Takashi Murakami and fashion brand Louis Vuitton have created a giant inflatable octopus informed by Chinese lanterns, which has been installed at the newly restored Grand Palais museum in Paris in time for Art… Read More »Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton take over Grand Palais with eight-metre-tall octopus
The annual Kasiology design festival has launched to celebrate the undervalued creative economy of South Africa‘s many townships with its inaugural edition taking place in the Soweto suburb of Johannesburg. Organised by local advocacy group… Read More »First design festival launches in South Africa’s historically Black townships