Patterned walls of rammed-earth bricks and carpentry in local hardwoods celebrate “ancestral materials and methods” at the African Flow School, a kindergarten in Cameroon designed by Barcelona-based architecture studio Urbanitree. The 1,600-square-metre school on the… Read More »Urbanitree uses local materials and construction methods for African Flow School in Cameroon
On the heels of the 20th anniversary edition of Helsinki Design Week, Dezeen reporter Jane Englefield rounds up five enduring Finnish design principles she spotted at the city’s biggest industry festival. Helsinki Design Week 2025… Read More »Five ideas that marked 20 years of Helsinki Design Week
The government of Canada has launched Build Canada Homes, a federal agency that will leverage public-private partnership “to build affordable housing at scale and at speed” in order to address the country’s housing. Announcing the… Read More »Canada launches nation-wide home building agency focused on mass timber
Designer Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian is taking over London‘s Institute of Contemporary Arts to host a pop-up design fair that doesn’t charge for participation, in a bid to “redistribute access and opportunities” within the industry. Taking place… Read More »“Squat at the ICA” invites designers to show work for free during London Design Festival
Artist Roo Dhissou and UK studio Intervention Architecture have designed Heal, Home, Hmm, a modular pavilion made using Punjabi mud building techniques, which is on display at the V&A as part of the London Design… Read More »Roo Dhissou builds cob house inside V&A using mud from HS2 excavation sites
Architecture studio All(zone) has curated the Shanghai Picnic installation for the RAM Assembles architecture biennial, which features a series of pavilions made from colourful fabrics. RAM Assembles, the Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai’s biennial festival of… Read More »All(zone) creates fabric pavilions in Shanghai to turn the city into “a shared canvas”