Dezeen turns 10!

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

"I think of Dezeen as my childhood friend" – birthday wishes from Oki Sato and other leading designers

Dezeen Decade

Dezeen is 10 years old today! To kick off a year of celebrations marking the first Dezeen Decade, we asked some of our favourite architects and designers to tell us what Dezeen has meant to them.

 
 

Edouard François creates plant-covered housing block to disperse seeds across Paris

M6B2 Tower of Biodiversity by Maison Edouard François

Plants grow up the exterior of this green apartment tower in Paris, France, which was designed by local firm Maison Edouard François to spread seeds across the city.

 
 

Subversive art is hidden throughout 90s TV soap Melrose Place

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Conceptual artworks that were secretly used as props on primetime television series Melrose Place have gone on show at an exhibition in New York.

 
 

Job of the day: head of architecture at the University of Technology Sydney

Dezeen Jobs architecture and design recruitment

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a head of school of architecture at the University of Technology in Sydney, where Frank Gehry's business school, which resembles a squashed paper bag, is located. Browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

 
 

Alan Balfour's seminar on Berlin opens the second day of World Architecture Festival 2016

Alan Balfour portrait

Architecture writer and academic Alan Balfour reflects on how Berlin became the city it is today in the opening seminar from day two of World Architecture Festival 2016. Watch a live stream of the talk here from 9am UK time.

 
 

Panic attack prevention device Calmingstone launches

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This pebble-shaped hand-held device eases anxiety through the use of light and sound.

 
 

Haptic designs elderly housing for Norway to encourage residents to socialise

Haptic Norwegian Housing

Haptic has been selected to create a housing complex in a picturesque Norwegian town with a growing elderly population.

 
 

Anne Sophie Goneau creates stark office for digital design company in Montreal

Dynamo's office by Anne Sophie Goneau

Canadian designer Anne Sophie Goneau has transformed part of an old building into a minimalist workspace for a tech company, featuring a restrained palette of materials and colours.

 
 

Microsoft targets architects and designers with Surface Studio digital drawing board

Microsoft Surface Studio

Tech company Microsoft has unveiled a hinged computer designed to turn from a desktop into a digital drawing surface.

 
 

BIG and Heatherwick Studios to design Google's London headquarters

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Bjarke Ingels Group and Thomas Heatherwick have been confirmed as the designers of Google's new London headquarters at King's Cross, following rumours of their involvement.

 
 

Best buildings of 2016 revealed at day one of World Architecture Festival 2016

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A Mallorca house made up of four white blocks, a Swedish cultural complex and a renovated Turkish library are among today's category winners at this year's World Architecture Festival  awards.

 
 

Top interior design of 2016 revealed at day one of Inside 2016

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1950s-style burger restaurant and a monochrome fashion boutique are among the first category winners at this year's Inside festival awards.

 
 

UK designers are missing out on innovation tax breaks, says thinktank

UK designers are missing out on innovation tax breaks, says thinktank

Business news: nine out of 10 design businesses in the UK are failing to take advantage of tax relief rules that could benefit them, according to the head of a design policy thinktank.

 
 

Filmmaker Hubertus Siegert discusses the changing architecture of Berlin live from World Architecture Festival 2016

Filmaker Hubertus Siegert

Filmmaker Hubertus Siegert discusses the reconstruction of the German capital since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the second keynote presentation Dezeen is broadcasting live from World Architecture Festival 2016.

 
 

Acne's Madison Avenue store furnished by Max Lamb

Acne store

British designer Max Lamb has created sculptural furniture and colourful rugs for Acne's new store in New York City – the brand's largest opening yet.

 
 

Competition: win a subscription to Scent's home fragrance service

Scent competition

Dezeen has teamed up with home fragrance subscription service Scent to give readers the chance to win one of three year-long memberships.

 
 

Apple releases book documenting 20 years of its design

Apple book

Apple's latest release is a coffee table book chronicling 20 years of its past and present products.