Stockholm Design Lab creates “timeless” visual identity for Nobel Prize
The medal handed out to Nobel Prize winners at the first awards in 1901 is the inspiration behind Stockholm Design Lab’s rebrand for the prestigious awards. Read more
Movies
Energy-storing concrete bricks could be key to proliferation of renewables
Renewable energy could reliably power the grid at peak times using an eco-friendly and cost-effective storage solution designed by Swiss start-up Energy Vault. Read more
Arching rooftop walkway and garden tops West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong by Aedas
People are invited to climb the curved, plant-covered roof of the new train station in West Kowloon, Hong Kong, designed by international firm Aedas. Read more
Teddy Schuyers’ Guts proposes redesigning the ostomy bag for sex, sport and everyday life
After being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, designer Teddy Schuyers decided to focus on redesigning the ostomy bag that many sufferers have to wear to improve both their performance and appearance. Read more
Soviet publishing house in Tbilisi transformed into Stamba Hotel
Hotelier Valieri Chekheria explains how his team transformed the headquarters of a Soviet printing press in Tbilisi into the Stamba Hotel in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards. Stamba opened in May in Tbilisi’s emerging Vera neighbourhood. The hotel was designed by an in-house team at Adjara Group, the developer behind the
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15 urban homes of the future revealed on shortlist for Dezeen and MINI Living competition
Parasitic structures, 3D-printed homes, floating architecture and even flying houses feature on the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home competition shortlist, which is unveiled today. 15 designs have been shortlisted in the competition, which called on Dezeen readers to design a home for 100 years in the future. The contest asked readers to the consider
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Dezeen Awards judges “entranced” by Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art
The Dezeen Awards jury voted unanimously to name Casson Mann’s designs for the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art as Interior Project of the Year 2018. Jury chair Brittney Hart explains why in this Dezeen movie. London-based exhibition designers Casson Mann created the visitor experience for the museum designed by Snøhetta, which features galleries containing replicas of 20,000-year-old cave
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Mecanoo builds glass house partly submerged in a lake in the English countryside
Window walls surround all sides of Glass Villa in the Lake, a three-storey house built by Dutch studio Mecanoo in the Cotswolds. Mecanoo designed the house to be as transparent as possible to maximise views of its scenic setting, over a lake near the town of Lechlade. The idea was to create the feeling of “living outside on
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Table Top Apartments designed to “alleviate social isolation” in New York
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a modular building system based on the shapes of dining tables, designed to help tackle loneliness in cities. Table Top Apartments, designed by Chicago-based architecture studio Kwong Von Glinow, is a conceptual system for constructing residential buildings on footprints as small as eight by 30 metres – the
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The Storefront Theater was designed “for people to come together” says Dezeen Awards jury chair
In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta’s modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018. American artist Mazzotta designed the retractable 100-seat theatre to fold out of a disused storefront in Lyons – a small town in Nebraska. The project won
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