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"We face identical problems to people building a skyscraper," says Christo

Artist Christo has compared the creation of his work to building a skyscraper, or a highway, in an exclusive interview with Dezeen, following the unveiling of his floating London Mastaba installation. More ›

 
 

Three days left to enter Dezeen Awards!

It's not too late to enter Dezeen Awards. You have three days until the entry deadline on Saturday 30 June to enter your studio and projects for our inaugural awards. More ›

 
 

Virgil Abloh makes debut for Louis Vuitton on rainbow runway in Paris

Virgil Abloh makes debut for Louis Vuitton at Paris with rainbow runway

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh unveiled his polychromatic menswear collection for Louis Vuitton during Paris fashion week. More ›

 
 

Hitomi Hosono reinterprets classic Wedgwood ceramics with intricate botanical designs

Hitomi Hosono's ceramics collection for Wedgwood

Hitomi Hosono explains how she combined British and Japanese aesthetics to create a collection of ceramics for Wedgwood in this video Dezeen filmed at their factory in Stoke-On-Trent. More ›

 
 

Lingxiao Luo combines 3D-printing and knitwear to create playful garments

Lingxiao Luo creates playful knitwear using 3d-printing

Royal College of Art graduate Lingxiao Luo has combined 3D-printing with traditional knitwear techniques to create a series of pieces that evoke the playfulness of children's toys. More ›

 
 

Timber-clad painting studio by Open Kaart wraps around an old brick shed

Timber-clad painting studio by Open Kaart wraps around and old brick shed

Dutch architecture studio Open Kaart has transformed an old shed in the city of Woerden into a painting studio by enveloping the existing brick structure in a larger timber shell. More ›

 
 

Phoebe Sayswow Architects creates 33-square-metre guest house in Tapei

XS House by Phoebe Sayswow Architects

Built-in birch wood storage and glazed white tiles with contrasting pink grout feature in this small one-bedroom apartment, in Tapei, Taiwan More ›

 
 

Movie offers virtual tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West

Taliesin West in 3D

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has released a movie online that tours a digital recreation of the architect's Taliesin West in Arizona, allowing architecture enthusiasts to explore the desert complex remotely. More ›

 
 

Pools of metal and glass form Vincenzo De Cotiis' Baroquisme furniture

Baroquisme by Vincenzo De Cotiis

Surfaces found in this furniture series by Italian designer Vincenzo De Cotiis, shown at New York's Carpenters Workshop Gallery, could be mistaken for still being in a liquid state. More ›

 
 

MKCA overhauls Upper East Side townhouse with custom staircase and furniture

New York design firm MKCA has refreshed the interiors of a seven-storey residence in the city with two stairwells, and new glazing to draw light down from a rooftop patio. More ›

 
 

Movie features architects and designers running in HD5K charity run

This captioned movie by Dezeen features footage from the HD5K charity run in London's Hyde Park, which raised £52,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease AssociationMore ›

 
 

"This should be definitely rebuilt, regardless of the cost"

In this week's comments update, readers rallied against the suggestion that the Glasgow School of Art should not be rebuilt following a major fire. More ›

 
 

Smartibot kit turns any household object into an AI-enhanced robot

Toymaker The Crafty Robot has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest design — a DIY robot that can follow you around the house and bring you drinks. More ›

 
 

Geoffrey von Oeyen designs jagged-roof office addition for Malibu home

Case Room house by Geoffrey von Oeyen

American designer Geoffrey von Oeyen has created a home office in southern California that features wooden exterior walls and a highly abstracted sawtooth roof. More ›