Design studio Fyra has fashioned brightly hued interiors for this hassle-free collection point in Helsinki, which includes a recycling area, fitting rooms and product show space. Situated at the heart of Helsinki, Box is a self-service collection point where locals can retrieve packages they’ve ordered online. It’s the brainchild of Posti…
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Jon Emmony designs “Europe’s largest AR experience” for Selfridges
Jon Emmony has installed a five-storey augmented reality experience, called Digital Falls, in the atrium of Selfridges department store in London. The AR artwork saw the five-storey atrium at Selfridges transformed into a column of water inhabited by pulsing, sculptural shapes that were inspired by bioluminescent creatures. It was described by its creators…
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BIG and Toyota reveal city of the future at base of Mount Fuji in Japan
Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a “prototype city of the future” with wooden buildings and autonomous vehicles for Japanese car company Toyota near Mount Fuji in Japan. Named Woven City, the first phase of development on the site of a former car-factory will be home to 2,000 people who will test the…
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NeueHouse to launch Bradbury Building location with LA Futures conversations
Dezeen Promotion: NeueHouse is hosting a series of conversations with prominent members of LA’s creative community, including philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, architect Kulapat Yantrasast, author Josh Kun and futurist Liam Young, to mark the opening of its latest location in Downtown Los Angeles. This month NeueHouse will open a new workspace within the city’s iconic Bradbury Building. It will have…
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Scope unveils luxurious clubhouse inside its Langsuan condominium development
Dezeen promotion: developer Scope has revealed designs for a new 2,500-square-metre clubhouse located inside its Scope Langsuan development in Bangkok, Thailand. Situated in Bangkok’s city centre, the 34-storey Scope Langsuan condominium development is being built on the most expensive piece of freehold land in the city. It is scheduled for completion in early…
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Eight Montreal homes updated with greyscale interiors
US reporter Bridget Cogley has rounded up eight homes in Montreal with interiors that make the most of a monochrome palette – highlighted by Michelle Ogundehin as a key trend for 2020. Maison du Parc by La Shed Architecture A white staircase leads down to a wine cellar, which is concealed…
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Ilse Crawford discusses design and wellbeing in short film by Vola
Dezeen promotion: British designer Ilse Crawford features in the latest short film released by Danish tap manufacturer Vola, exploring the impact of design on human wellbeing. The film, titled Wellness and Wellbeing, sees Crawford discuss how design can be effectively used to enrich our day-to-day interactions and “nudge” us into better…
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Studio Drift exhibits interactive works based on birds and dandelions in San Francisco
San Francisco’s Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by Studio Drift that aim to showcase the “intersection of nature and technology”. DRIFT: About Nature, Technology and Humankind features site-specific installations and video presentations of projects by the Dutch artistic collective. Suspended from the ceiling in Carpenters Workshop Gallery…
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AHEAD Europe hotel awards winners are “understated but rich”
The best new hotels in Europe combine rich experiences with a subtle approaches to design say the judges of this year’s AHEAD Europe awards, in this video Dezeen produced for the awards programme. The AHEAD Europe awards, which had its ceremony in London on November 18, celebrated the best in hotel…
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Architecture project of the year goes back to “core of architecture” says Dezeen Awards judge
A Room for Archaeologists and Kids by Studio Tom Emerson and Taller 5, which won the Dezeen Awards architecture project of the year award, shows that architecture “does not need to be complicated”, says judge Lyndon Neri in this movie. The wooden pavilion designed to provide shelter for archaeologists won the prestigious architecture project of the…
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Studio Ben Allen designs artichoke-shaped garden roomq
Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen. The design of A Room in the Garden was informed by the bizarre and playful 18th-century Dunmore Pineapple pavilion in Scotland, as well as the form and colour of an artichoke….
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Lateral Office lights up New York City Garment District with “immersive urban instrument”
Canadian studio Lateral Office has installed 12 oversized seesaws that light up and make sounds on the streets of New York City’s Garment District. Impulse occupies the pedestrian plazas on Broadway Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets. While on display, the block is closed to vehicle traffic. Visitors are encouraged to…
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Bright yellow Friedman Benda exhibition explores comfort in furniture
A chair made from loaves of bread and a toilet-cum-sink are among the objects on display in an exhibition at Friedman Benda that aims to find a “new form of pleasure” in furniture. Spanish-born creative director Omar Sosa curated the exhibition titled Comfort as part of the New York gallery’s annual…
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Kiki & Joost creates patterned solar panels for MyEnergySkin
Design duo Kiki & Joost has created a collection of solar panels for MyEnergySkin, a Dutch company that wants to make products attractive enough to cover building facades. Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk – a couple who make work both together and separately – produced eight tile designs for MyEnergySkin….
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The biggest architecture and design stories of 2019
Nex up in our review of 2019, editor Tom Ravenscroft takes a look back at the most-read stories for every month this year, including alternative designs for Notre-Dame and an interview with Tatiana Bilbao. January – Drone footage reveals hundreds of abandoned Turkish chateaux A drone video revealing a development of hundreds…
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Superflux shows how future homes might face realities of climate change in 2219
Design studio Superflux has built a vision of a typical Singapore home in 2219, with features including homemade hunting tools, snorkelling equipment and a mini hydroponic farm. Superflux founders Anab Jain and Jon Ardern imagine that climate change will completely change the way people live their lives over the next 100 years,…
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