Building with moving walls | London Design Medal winner | Clifftop chapel

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades

Ballet Mecanique by Manuel Herz Architects

Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. More ›

 
 

Hussein Chalayan awarded London Design Medal 2018

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, known for avant-garde designs such as clothes that dissolve, will receive this year's London Design Medal. More ›

 
 

Michael Anastassiades designs Bang & Olufsen speaker you adjust by rolling

Michael Anastassiades designs Bang & Olufsen speaker you adjust by rolling

Minimalist designer Michael Anastassiades is behind Bang & Olufsen's circular Beosound Edge, which is both speaker and volume knob in one. More ›

 
 

One week left to enter Dezeen and MINI Living's £10,000 Future Urban Home Competition

Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition

There is just one week left to enter Dezeen and MINI Living's competition to design an urban home of the future, which closes on Monday 10 September 2018. More ›

 
 

Penzance could become "spa town of Cornwall" with revamp of art-deco sea pool

Jubilee Pool Penzance, a triangular lido built in 1935, is set to be transformed into the UK's largest heated seawater pool, by London-based Scott Whitby Studio More ›

 
 

Top five architecture and design jobs this week include The Met and Squire and Partners

Theater of Disappearance Installation on roof of the Met in New York by Adrian Villar Rojas

Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Squire and Partners in London. More ›

 
 

Kieran Donnellan works with students to build tiny clifftop chapel in Lebanon

Sliding Chapel by Kieran Donnellan and MEDS

Irish architect Kieran Donnellan and a team of students have built a non-denominational chapel on a clifftop near the 12th-century Byblos Castle in Lebanon. More ›

 
 

Dezeen events guide: autumn highlights include design weeks in Dubai, Beijing and Vienna

Fall has arrived, which means many design events are starting soon, particularly across Europe and Asia. Highlights listed in our definitive guide include Dubai Design Week, Istanbul Design Biennial, Vienna Design Week and Beijing Design WeekMore ›

 
 

Estudio Galera uses "common bricks" for Casa Rincón in Argentinian seaside town

Rincón House by Estudio Galera Arquitectura

This brick holiday home by Argentinian architecture firm Estudio Galera, in a seaside town south of Buenos Aires, references the "formal and material austerity" of the surrounding properties. More ›

 
 

Collective Office founder converts Chicago factory into his apartment and studio

South Loop home and studio by Collective Office

Chicago architect Jeff Klymson has designed a home for himself inside an old industrial building in the city, while reserving the ground floor for the studio of his firm Collective Office. More ›