Local practice Jestico + Whiles has completed the Rosalind Franklin Wing at St Paul’s Girls School, using red brickwork, Portland stone and brown zinc in a contemporary take on the Grade II-listed Edwardian campus. Located… Read More »Jestico + Whiles updates historic London school with modern take on Edwardian campus
Senegal‘s government has scrapped plans for Akon City, the multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency city project led by R&B singer Akon. Akon City has been cancelled in favour of a scaled-back tourist resort project that will be overseen… Read More »Akon City plans abandoned in favour of “a realistic project”
Dezeen Showroom: heated towel rails have been radically simplified down to a linear module in I Ching, a new product by designer Elisa Ossino for Italian brand Tubes. The I Ching heated towel rail is composed… Read More »I Ching heated towel rail by Elisa Ossino for Tubes
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named the architecture laureate for this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association. The 72-year-old architect Souto de Moura was awarded the Praemium Imperiale 2025… Read More »Eduardo Souto de Moura wins 2025 Praemium Imperiale for architecture
Fireplace manufacturer Escea has created a flat-pack cooking stove that provides a more efficient and less harmful alternative to the open fires generally used by people in refugee camps and others without access to the… Read More »Escea develops flat-pack cooking stove for displaced people
Design Academy Eindhoven has announced that curator and educator Ramon Amaro will succeed architect Joseph Grima as creative director of the Dutch design school. Formerly a senior researcher in digital culture at Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut… Read More »Ramon Amaro appointed Design Academy Eindhoven creative director