Promotion: as wellbeing is associated with feeling present in the moment rather than “switching off”, people are looking for a different experience of luxury, said speakers at a panel during Clerkenwell Design Week. The panel… Read More »Luxury now “means a sense of presence” say wellbeing experts at panel
Dezeen School Shows: an installation designed to visualise emotional states through light and colour is among the Zurich University of the Arts student projects. Also featured is a project that explores the decline in global… Read More »“Mirror of emotions” installation among Zurich University of the Arts student projects
Peruvian-Japanese restaurant Papa San was installed at the base of BIG’s The Spiral in New York’s Hudson Yards by INC Architecture & Design, which aimed for a mash-up of the two cultures. New York-based studio… Read More »INC creates “gritty yet inviting” interiors for restaurant in The Spiral skyscraper
Arched openings frame walkways, cloisters and niches for birds at Forest of Peace, an ashram in Nardipur, India designed by local architecture studio Raasa. The 16,000-square-metre ashram was designed by Admedabad-based Raasa to formalise a… Read More »Arched openings create “symbolic thresholds” for ashram in India
From an open house on a corner plot in Tokyo to an otherworldly office building in Bologna, here is an eclectic mix of projects to illustrate the versatility of hazy metal mesh as a contemporary… Read More »Ten ethereal buildings screened by ghostly metal mesh
London’s Design Museum has named designer Lulu Harrison the winner of the fourth annual Ralph Saltzman Prize for her “glass artefact” project made from waste shells, wood and bracken from the River Thames. Harrison was… Read More »Lulu Harrison wins Ralph Saltzman Prize for Thames Glass made from river waste