The Coliseum Chair by Alvaro Uribe blends contemporary design and ancient principles, playing on our sense of optics to create larger than life proportions, reminiscent of a grander, bygone era. Initially designed to explore the… Read More »The Coliseum Chair Brings Ancient Design to a Modern World
A twisting wood-framed roof doubles as a garden at CMP Inspiration, a museum in Taichung, Taiwan, completed by architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates. Nestled below at the foot of a high-rise building, CMP Inspiration… Read More »Kengo Kuma tops sunken museum with garden in Taiwan
Designer Philippe Starck has unveiled the surreal nine-storey Maison Heler hotel in Metz, France, which is topped with what appears to be a 19th-century mansion. Fully conceived by Starck, the hotel aims to tell the… Read More »Philippe Starck reveals surrealist hotel topped with 19th-century mansion
Our Art Deco Centenary series rounds off where it began, with the 1925 exposition in Paris. We take a look at 10 stand-out structures built for the landmark event, which catapulted art deco onto the… Read More »Ten art deco structures that encapsulate the 1925 Paris Exposition
Mandalay Palace and several Buddhist temples are among the thousands of buildings to have been damaged in Myanmar following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the north of the country on Friday. The death toll… Read More »Heritage sites among landmarks damaged in Myanmar earthquake
The Dezeen team has compiled key highlights from the overwhelming amount of things on show at Milan design week 2025, including a play about modernism, Muji’s “manifesto house” and urns designed by Daniel Libeskind and… Read More »Twenty must-see installations and exhibitions at Milan design week 2025