Danish architecture studio BIG has completed its own concrete headquarters on an industrial harbour in Copenhagen. Situated along a pier in the city’s Nordhavn neighbourhood, the 27-metre-tall BIG HQ is wrapped by a protruding staircase… Read More »BIG wraps Copenhagen headquarters with 140-metre-long concrete staircase
Verner Panton caused a sensation with his pioneering approach to furniture and lighting design. For our mid-century modern series, we profile the Danish designer whose colourful pieces and interiors define an era. With their vibrant… Read More »Verner Panton preferred experimentation to “beautiful platitude”
Dezeen Showroom: Danish company Arturel has worked with textile brand Kvadrat and designer Nital Patel on Dune, an acoustic panel collection with a serene aesthetic. The Dune collection features artwork-like acoustic wall panels all made with… Read More »Dune acoustic panel collection by Arturel
Parametric forms topped with greenery define this preschool in Andhra Pradesh, India, which has been completed by architecture firm Andblack Design Studio. Named Cocoon Pre-primary Extension, the preschool was designed as an extension to the… Read More »Andblack Design Studio designs undulating preschool to “foster creativity and play”
Dutch designer Teun Zwets has created a Dutch Design Week exhibition featuring colourful, cartoonish furniture, a grotto-like bed and a bathroom made out of cardboard. Zwets transformed his Eindhoven studio into a mock home that… Read More »Teun Zwets creates show home with glossy furniture and a cardboard bathroom
A stepped six-tiered pyramid dominated the main Ketelhuisplein square at Dutch Design Week this year, wrapped in colourful flags offering 80 different symbols for peace. Each flag for the Temple of Peace was created by… Read More »Refugees and design graduate unite to make towering Temple of Peace