MVRDV's gold building | Augmented-reality for furniture | Renault robo-pods

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MVRDV imprints surrounding buildings onto walls of indoor theme park near Seoul

The Imprint by MVRDV

MVRDV has completed a white and gold entertainment complex, The Imprint, next to South Korea's Incheon Airport, with facades that incorporate elements of nearby buildings. More ›

 
 

Opendesk launches augmented-reality shopping for its open-source furniture

Opendesk customers can now use augmented reality to see how the furniture brand's pieces look in their homes before ordering them from local makers. More ›

 
 

Yinka Ilori to transform rundown London bridge with rainbow colours

Yinka Ilori to transform rundown London bridge with rainbow colours

Designer Yinka Ilori has won a competition to overhaul a "gloomy underpass" in south London, with a proposal featuring vibrant colours and bold patterns. More ›

 
 

Competition: win Sony's customisable FES Watch U

FES Watch U by Sony

Dezeen promotion: we have teamed up with electronics brand Sony to give away five watches, with faces and straps that change appearance "at the touch of a button", for our latest competition. More ›

 
 

Gareth Pugh celebrates "outsider society" with Spring Summer 2019 collection

Gareth Pugh's Spring Summer 2019 celebrates "outsider society"

British fashion designer Gareth Pugh takes inspiration from society's outcasts with his latest collection, which he describes as "uncompromising, anarchic and fiercely confrontational". More ›

 
 

Dutch designers create rugs using 3D printing, offcuts and a giant loom

Dutch designers present diverse rug designs in Dutch Stuff show

Four studios are presenting very different floor coverings in a Dutch design showcase at London Design Festival, demonstrating a range of innovative techniques and technologies. More ›

 
 

Coffey Architects creates brick-clad retirement housing on derelict industrial laundry site

London-based architecture studio Coffey Architects has completed 34 retirement flats in Woking, UK, with a warehouse-like silhouette that reflects the site's industrial heritage. More ›

 
 

Competition: win a Siment vase modelled on India's brutalist architecture

The latest Dezeen competition offers five readers the chance to win one of these concrete vases and plant pots, which design studio Tiipoi has modelled on urban infrastructure in India. More ›

 
 

BIG's pixelated complex of "peaks and valleys" for Toronto gains approval

King Street West by BIG

Architecture firm BIG's verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie's experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. More ›

 
 

Latest Dezeen Weekly features Phillip K Smith III's Detroit Skybridge and Uber's second rebrand

Detroit Skybridge by Phillip K Smith III

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes American artist Phillip K Smith III's colourful installation for a skybridge in Detroit and Uber's second rebrand in two years, in collaboration with branding firm Wolff Olins. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

 
 

Retro-inspired fashion and homeware brand Orla Kiely goes into administration

Irish designer Orla Kiely has ceased trading both online and at her company's three physical stores in London and Ireland. More ›

 
 

Explore four installations from the London Design Biennale 2018 in 360-degree video

Take a look inside four of the most visually striking exhibitions from this year's London Design Biennale – Turkey, Latvia, Australia and Dundee – in this 360-degree video produced by Dezeen. More ›

 
 

Renault imagines convoys of driverless pods that deliver parcels and pop-up shops

Renault rethinks how goods and services are delivered in cities with its Ez-Pro concept, which imagines autonomous, electric vehicles that connect up with a fleet of shared, customisable "robo-pods". More ›

 
 

"Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown were our architectural heroes"

Sainsbury Wing at London's National Gallery by Venturi Scott Brown Architects

Sean Griffiths pays tribute to postmodernism pioneer Robert Venturi, who died earlier this week, describing the huge influence he had on the way we view architecture and sharing personal stories about their meetings. More ›

 
 

Vola celebrates 50th birthday with series of short films

Vola celebrates 50th birthday

Dezeen promotion: Danish tap manufacturer Vola has released a series of short films, which explore everything from its relationship with water to its approach to sustainability, to mark the brand's 50th birthday. More ›

 
 

Montreal Tower to become glazed offices for Desjardins Group

Montreal Tower by Provencher Roy

The iconic angled tower of Montreal's Olympic Stadium is being converted into offices by local firm Provencher Roy. More ›