Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for modern housing in East Berlin informed by housing strategies in Barcelona, is among the projects from Washington University in St Louis. Also featured is a design for a vocational… Read More »East Berlin housing proposal among projects from Washington University in St Louis
Victoria Wilmotte returns to 38 rue Madame, in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris, bringing with her many textural delights. Colorscape retains the intense hues and rich texture of her last collection, CONCAV, yet with a… Read More »Victoria Wilmotte’s Colorscape Is a Colorful Wonderland of Texture
It was mid-19th century architect and critic Augustus Pugin that first espoused the virtues of “honest design.” For him, material and assembly always had to be the star of the show. Simulacra – “surface level”… Read More »The Nothing Ear (3) Cuts Out the Noise of the Competition
Now on view at Christie’s Los Angeles, Lightness & Tension celebrates the enduring legacy of Brazilian design. Curated by gallerist Ulysses de Santi, the exhibition brings together two voices working nearly a century apart: Joaquim… Read More »Lightness & Tension: Celebrating the Past and Future of Brazilian Design
A pastel colour palette, metal canopies and furniture informed by children’s block games lend a playful feel to Gyöngyszem Kindergarten in Budapest, Hungary, renovated by local studio Archikon. Archikon renovated and modernised the kindergarten, which… Read More »Archikon updates prefabricated 1960s kindergarten to be “playful and liveable”
British architect Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled the 90-metre-long, four-storey-high Humanise Wall as the centrepiece of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Revealed at the opening ceremony of the biennale, which Heatherwick is general director… Read More »Heatherwick reveals twisted Humanise Wall at Seoul Architecture Biennale