Dezeen promotion: this year’s Beijing Design Week features installations, design exhibitions and pop-ups focused on the redevelopment of China’s urban environment. (more…)
Beijing Design Week returns for 2016
interior-design
“Giant glass grasshoppermates with building”
Comments update: Zaha Hadid Architects’ new headquarters for Antwerp’s Port Authority is the controversial talking point this week, with readers both decrying and praising the building’s visual impact on its surroundings. (more…)
Sharon Baurley to step down as head of Design Products at Royal College of Art
Sharon Baurley, head of the Royal College of Art‘s Design Products programme, is leaving after just three years to take up a post at a “prestigious European institution”. (more…)
Slender apartment block by Amin Taha Architects features a timber structure and wicker balconies
Wicker balconies project from the brick facade of this apartment block in north London, which was designed by Amin Taha Architects with a cross-laminated timber structure. (more…)
Metamaterials make it possible to create mechanisms from a single piece of plastic
A door latch and a pair of pliers are among the mechanisms created without screws, bolts or other fixings by researchers working with a new technology called metamaterials (+ movie). (more…)
Neri&Hu creates “stair of encounters” inside Bloomberg’s Hong Kong office
Nils Holger Moorman launches dog-sized version of its flatpack bed
German furniture maker Nils Holger Moormann has released a flat-pack bed designed for the needs of man’s best friend (+ slideshow). (more…)
Zaha Hadid’s Port House in Antwerp captured in photography by Hélène Binet
Swiss-French photographer Hélène Binet has shot the recently completed port authority building in Antwerp by Zaha Hadid Architects, which features a huge glazed volume mounted on its roof. (more…)
Wesley Walls embeds multi-level home into forested Arkansas hillside
Henri Cleinge adapts grand Montreal bank for Crew Offices and Cafe
A former bank in the historic centre of Montreal has been transformed into an office for a tech start-up and a cafe for freelance workers by local architect Henri Cleinge (+ slideshow). (more…)
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