interior-design
This week, Stella McCartney unveiled kits for Rio 2016 and a new logo was chosen for Tokyo 2020
This week on Dezeen: fashion designer Stella McCartney revealed her kit designs for British athletes competing at this year’s Olympics, while a new logo for the Tokyo 2020 games was finally selected after the original design was ditched. (more…)
Sabine Marcelis and Brit van Nerven’s Hue mirrors feature gradients of colour
New York 2016: New Zealand and Dutch design duo Sabine Marcelis and Brit van Nerven have created a range of mirrors from layers of coloured glass that create ombré effects across the surfaces (+ slideshow). (more…)
A449 converts Scottish cottage into writer’s home with scorched larch cladding
Architecture could finally break out in San Francisco, where “dreams go to die”
When it comes to contemporary architecture, San Francisco is a stubborn town. But could change be coming at last? Proposals by high-profile architects such as OMA, Studio Gang and Foster + Partners could bring a more dramatic skyline and a transformed waterfront – if San Francisco’s notoriously persnickety planning system and pressure groups let them (+ slideshow). (more…)
BIG designs modular Alphabet of Light for Artemide
Milan 2016: Danish firm BIG has created a modular lighting system that can be rearranged to form different letters of a bespoke typeface. (more…)
US job of the week: designer/architect at Design, Bitches
Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect/designer at Design, Bitches in Los Angeles, whose recent projects include Button Mash – an Asian-fusion restaurant and video arcade (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
“Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds”
Opinion: designers can’t save the world, but even the smallest intervention could help improve the conditions faced by the unprecedented number of refugees flooding Europe, says Richard van der Laken. (more…)
Competition: win a hand-cast Herringbone vase by Phil Cuttance
Competition: London-based designer Phil Cuttance has teamed up with Dezeen to give one reader a handmade vase, featuring a raised herringbone pattern. (more…)
ARM Architecture wins 2016 Gold Medal from the Australian Institute of Architects
The Australian Institute of Architects has this year awarded the country’s most prestigious architecture award to “controversial and contentious” studio ARM Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…)
