Dezeen Showroom: the elegant simplicity of steam-bent solid wood defines the Miko armchair, created by designer Tsuguji Sasaki for Thai brand Bendi Bangkok. The Miko armchair rejects sharp angles in favour of a sweeping ash,… Read More »Miko armchair by Tsuguji Sasaki for Bendi Bangkok
Dutch studio Monadnock has completed Volante, a social housing block in the Netherlands featuring colourful glazed brickwork and window frames. Stepping between five and seven storeys, Volante occupies the site of a former care facility on… Read More »Monadnock designs Dutch social housing as colourful “garden building”
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a superhero movie set in an alternative mid-century modern universe. Production designer Kasra Farahani explains how he used sets informed by the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Eero Saarinen to make… Read More »How Kasra Farahani created a “mid-century modern future world” for The Fantastic Four
As part of architect Thomas Heatherwick‘s campaign Humanise, a group of artists has created sandcastles “mimicking the flat, lifeless buildings all too common in our towns”. The one-day event, which took place yesterday in the… Read More »Artists sculpt Bland Castles out of sand for Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign
A 3,666-metre-long bridge is set to connect Sicily to mainland Italy, which, if built, will be the world’s longest suspension bridge. Estimated to cost €13.5 billion (£11.8 billion), the bridge’s suspension will span 3,300 metres… Read More »Italy to build world’s longest suspension bridge to Sicily
For design to become truly sustainable in the face of rapid climate change we must first acknowledge its ties to colonialism, writes Céline Semaan. We are no longer designing to prevent disaster. We have already… Read More »“We must confront design’s colonial inheritance”