The Front Page · TUE, 21 APR 2026
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A new academic and research facility at George Mason University designed Stantec, is complete in Arlington, Virginia’s Rosslyn–Ballston corridor. The building is dubbed Fuse at Mason Square.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·21 APR 2026
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Buildings, cities, interiors, and the spatial thinking behind them.
Italian company XL Extralight debuts its new tote bag during Milan design week 2026, created in collaboration with design studio Nichetto.
By DEZEEN STAFF·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Dezeen Showroom: molten aluminium is poured into hand-blown glass vessels to form 93, a lighting collection created by Canadian design brand Bocci. Designed by Bocci co-founder Omer Arbel, the 93 lights can be used as suspended pendants, wall or ceiling sconces or table lamps, displayed independently or in clusters. Each of the lights is crafted The post ...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·21 APR 2026
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Issey Miyake's furniture collection. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
By SAUDATU BAH·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
AtkinsRéalis has announced a new partnership with Nvidia that will deliver nuclear-powered data centre designs
By JOSH NILAND·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
A proposed $402 million renovation of Union Station by the Connecticut Department of Transportation would eliminate the pedestrian tunnel designed by Herb Newman and replace its metallic lining and ovoid sectional profile with a new orthogonal tunnel lined in white and green tiles.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·21 APR 2026
An ergonomically-designed wooden chair with a Bauhaus informed-aesthetic is among projects from the Estonian Academy of Arts.
By DEZEEN STAFF·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
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Set on an area of approximately 2,400 m², in a gated community, this residence emerges from a direct relationship with the landscape. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac, the front of the lot opens up to a preservation area with a spring, allowing the house to be practically surrounded by the existing vegetation.
By SUSANNA MOREIRA·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
UK studio Thomas-McBrien Architects took cues from artist Donald Judd when designing this coffee shop in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.
By DAN HOWARTH·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Manufactured in the U.S. using 20 percent post-industrial recycled materials, Bison pedestals are designed for a wide range of raised deck applications including rooftops, plazas, terraces, and other architectural spaces.
By BISON INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS·Luw Curated IV·21 APR 2026
CannonDesign announced its acquisition of Ennead Architects, a practice of 160 employees with its own long lineage to tout.
By KRISTINE KLEIN·Luw Curated IV·21 APR 2026
The Newhouse Replacement Building (Newhouse) redefines the intersection of history and progress on Washington State's historic Capitol Campus, creating a civic workplace where past meets present, state meets citizenry, and place meets policy. Designed by The Miller Hull Partnership as part of the Legislative Campus Modernization (LCM) initiative, the new ...
By HANA ABDEL·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
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An immersive installation in Milan weaves together history, activism and experimentation with precious threads; we speak with Ai Weiwei about his first foray into silk
By CRISTINA KIRAN PIOTTI·Luw Curated III·21 APR 2026
A large picture window draws focus to a church beside this house extension in Cambridgeshire, completed by Neil Dusheiko Architects.
By JON ASTBURY·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Lina Ghotmeh has filled the courtyard of Milan's Palazzo Litta with a pink labyrinth, which is open to visitors during Milan design week.
By CAJSA CARLSON·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Tableau has unveiled its collaboration with Secolo, which includes an undulating sofa, at the Soft Matters installation during Milan design week.
By CAJSA CARLSON·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Nature is the focus of these outdoor seating options, prioritizing minimalist and simple forms to let the outdoors do the talking.
By KELLY PAU·Luw Curated IV·21 APR 2026
Lèvanzo is the renovation project of a single-family villa located in Caprarica, in the province of Lecce. Set within the context of a small Salento village, the house was redesigned for a young professional couple with the goal of updating both the functions and the aesthetics of a villa with typically 1970s lines.
By VALERIA SILVA·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
Dezeen Showroom: Dutch design brand Bert Plantagie has collaborated with architecture studio Mecanoo to design Macaron, a modular sofa system modelled on and named after the famous French confection. Launching at Masterly during Milan design week, Macaron was designed by Bert Plantagie and Mecanoo as a flexible seating system that can be reconfigured to s...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·21 APR 2026
Collectible design taking its biggest ever platform at Milan design week tells us something significant about the current state of design, writes Debika Ray.
By DEBIKA RAY·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Architecture
Author, academic and former AJ technical editor Austin Williams will run to become the RIBA’s next president, standing on a ‘common sense’ platform.
By JOSH BUTLER·Luw Curated II·21 APR 2026
Prostoria has designed furniture based on archival prototypes by Vjenceslav Richter, which will be unveiled at Salone del Mobile.
By JANE ENGLEFIELD·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Allies and Morrison has unveiled images of its latest masterplan for redeveloping a 10.5ha slice of Croydon town centre
By GINO SPOCCHIA·Luw Curated II·21 APR 2026
Alma-nac has put forward plans to expand a nursery in Penzance, Cornwall
By GINO SPOCCHIA·Luw Curated II·21 APR 2026
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Interior designers Britt Moran and Benni Allan have joined the judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2026.
By CHARLIE SMARE·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Using massive s plates, often several centimeters thick and weighing tons, Richard Serra's sculptures convey an almost improbable sense of lightness. This effect does not result from a reduction of mass, but from how that mass is organized: large curved surfaces tilt, narrow passages compress the body, and seemingly unstable elements create a constant sen...
By EDUARDO SOUZA·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
20 projects under £399,000 make this year’s shortlist, showcasing inventive, community-focused design and a growing emphasis on reuse and low-impact materials. The AJ can exclusively reveal the first 10 schemes here
By FRAN WILLIAMS, ROB WILSON·Luw Curated II·21 APR 2026
Dezeen has teamed up with kitchen brand Gaggenau to create a video documenting its immersive installation at this year's Milan design week.
By CALUM LINDSAY·Luw Curated I·21 APR 2026
Nestled between the mountains and vineyards of Valle de Guadalupe, in a region celebrated for its vibrant food and wine culture, El Grove is a family home organized as a collection of small buildings. Organized rows of one hundred olive oil trees create a formal entry into the triangular site, filtering views of the property while paying homage to the are...
By HADIR AL KOSHTA·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
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Inspired by Japanese floor chairs, Federica Biasi’s quietly elegant ‘Edda’ armchair is among our Milan Design Week 2026 highlights
By LÉA TEUSCHER·Luw Curated III·21 APR 2026
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) presents A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis, curated by George Arbid, on view from May 2 to July 12, 2026, at Al Qasimiyah School. Developed as part of SAT's long-term research program, the project continues the institution's commitment to documenting and safeguarding architectural archi...
By REYYAN DOGAN·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
The 'Blaine' table is among Minotti’s new launches at Salone del Mobile 2026
By ROSA BERTOLI·Luw Curated III·21 APR 2026
Anna Bakay's office occupies the first floor of a historic building in the heart of Kyiv, reading more like a private gallery or an intimate workshop than a conventional notary practice. From the outset, the project was guided by a clear set of values – silence, tactility, soft light, a grounded connection to nature, and the complete absence of visual noi...
By HADIR AL KOSHTA·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
The French museum and cultural institution Centre Pompidou is opening a new Korean branch in collaboration with the local Hanwha Foundation of Culture. Well known in the architectural field for its French headquarters, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and recently closed for renovations, the Centre Pompidou is expanding its international presenc...
By ANTONIA PIÑEIRO·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
The ‘Moor’ chaise longue is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale now
By ROSA BERTOLI·Luw Curated III·21 APR 2026
Dezeen Showroom: a leather belt cinches the pillowy form of this armchair created by Argentinian designer Cristián Mohaded for Italian furniture brand Molteni&C. Launched by Molteni&C at Milan design week, the Corsetto chair was designed by Mohaded to envelop its user, "offering comfort and protection". Aptly named after the Italian word for corset, the c...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·21 APR 2026
In 1962, the architect Buckminster Fuller envisioned a floating city that would free humanity from its dependence on the Earth. The speculative project consisted of enormous geodesic spheres that would naturally levitate in air warmed by the sun and be anchored to mountaintops. Designed to house thousands of people, Fuller’s Cloud Nine aimed to ease land ...
By CAMILLA GHISLENI·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
Architecture
Active worldwide for more than 75 years, the Goethe-Institut commissioned a purpose-built space from concept to construction for the first time in its history. As one of its main hubs in West Africa, the choice of Kéré Architecture reflects Goethe-Institut Dakar's ambition to define what cultural exchange looks like in the 21st century.
By MIWA NEGORO·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
In issue Nº24, we discover matter not as substance, but as memory made visible. Each story speaks of what endures, of what is essential.
By OPENHOUSE MAGAZINE·Luw Curated VI·21 APR 2026
The renovation of Villa Serena 204 began as a personal and professional mission to challenge Japan's "scrap-and-build" culture. Located in a historic modernist building designed by Junzo Sakakura, the project seeks to prove that aging architecture can gain value through thoughtful intervention. The core inspiration was the tension between the building's r...
By MIWA NEGORO·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
Once a typical Pearl River Delta industrial town, Dali (Nanhai District) neglected human-centered public life amid rapid development. With the Qiandeng Lake axis extension, it transforms into a livable city, unlocking public space in dense fabric. The Yongping Warehouses project, in Yanbu Old Dragon 1432 Zone along Huadi River, revives obsolete riverside ...
By 韩爽 - HAN SHUANG·ArchDaily·21 APR 2026
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Almost six months after Sotheby’s opened its new headquarters, it has debuted The Marcel, a restaurant named after Marcel Breuer, who designed the building.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·20 APR 2026
An adjustable stool crafted from cord and wood inspired by a traditional Japanese string game is among projects from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts.
By DEZEEN STAFF·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
The Trump Organization has announced plans to built a 70-storey skyscraper in Tbilisi, Georgia, which would be the tallest building the county.
By TOM RAVENSCROFT·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
This project is for a new office and residence for a construction company with a 50-year history in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. The client owned two large warehouses near the site, both overflowing with unused timber—mostly surplus wood ordered in bulk by the previous generation, who had been a carpenter, along with reclaimed lumber collected during demolit...
By MIWA NEGORO·ArchDaily·20 APR 2026
Today, the Santa Fe office of MASS Design Group is working with a group called Midtown Arts and Design Alliance (MADA) to breathe new life back into a Ricardo Legorreta–designed project. The goal is to transform 50,000 square feet of buildings, spread across four acres, into a new nonprofit arts and culture district.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·20 APR 2026
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Developed with experience designer Annabelle Schneider and Snøhetta, the installation invites design week visitors to slow down for a bit
By ADRIAN MADLENER·Luw Curated III·20 APR 2026
Dezeen Showroom: Italian architect Antonio Citterio rejected rigid angles when designing this curvilinear, enveloping sofa for furniture maker Flexform. The Quincy sofa features gently rounded corners and plump, down-filled seat cushions, neatly tucked under a continuous backrest – a distinctive detail that is exposed only at the corners. "Quincy stems fr...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Safdie Architects has been commissioned by the Cherokee Nation to design a new home for the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·20 APR 2026
Safdie Architects has released designs for an interconnected set of pavilions in Oklahoma, to serve as a campus for the Cherokee Nation.
By BEN DREITH·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
‘Metamorphosis in Motion’ for MoscaPartners is a labyrinth designed to slow visitors down during a busy Milan Design Week
By IFEOLUWA ADEDEJI·Luw Curated III·20 APR 2026
With only 5.6 meters in width and 20 meters in length, the lot houses an architecture office and a multi-purpose hall. The spatial constraints imposed not only the compression of functions but also an articulation between constructive and architectural solutions based on the scale of intervention. The building, with its discreet facade and lack of express...
By SUSANNA MOREIRA·ArchDaily·20 APR 2026
Alcova has announced two showcases for Mexico City art week 2027, citing the metropolis's status as an "epicentre in design".
By BEN DREITH·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
A new generation of talent emerges as Fendi celebrates craftsmanship, heritage and the Eternal City through a forward-looking design prize – meet the winner
By CRISTINA KIRAN PIOTTI·Luw Curated III·20 APR 2026
Architecture
Dezeen Showroom: German industrial designer Christian Haas has designed a series of bathroom taps for Villeroy & Boch informed by the clear geometry of classic perfume bottles. The Vea taps, available in matt black or chrome, feature precise facets that help to define the edges of the taps and refract light in a controlled way, The post Vea tapware collec.
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Limberlost Place, on Toronto's waterfront, is perhaps the world's first public tall timber building—a technical landmark that also elevates the art of architecture. Designed by Moriyama Teshima Architects in joint venture with Acton Ostry Architects, the project was selected via an international competition hosted by George Brown College for a building th...
By SUSANNA MOREIRA·ArchDaily·20 APR 2026
In the heart of Berlin, a quiet courtyard sits framed by historic properties that once thrummed with the energy of industry. Here, on the ground...
By ROSIE FLANAGAN·Luw Curated V·20 APR 2026
Kéré Architecture has used compacted earth blocks to create a headquarters for the non-profit Goethe-Institut in Dakar, Senegal.
By TOM RAVENSCROFT·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
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A Triennale Milano exhibition on Charles and Ray Eames will be used to launch a modular construction kit based on the couple's home.
By ALYN GRIFFITHS·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
Orms has reported increases in both fee income and profits in its latest accounts, which also show that its headcount has nearly doubled since the end of 2023
By RICHARD WAITE·Luw Curated II·20 APR 2026
The calendar of events for Milan Design Week is dizzying. To minimize FOMO, we’ve gathered the activations we’re most excited to check out.
By KELLY PAU·Luw Curated IV·20 APR 2026
Lex Pott exclusively reveals the PS 2026 Lamp as part of the IKEA's latest PS Collection, which is being unveiled at Milan design week.
By TOM RAVENSCROFT·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
In 2016, we were invited—along with several international studios—to take part in a closed competition for a single-family house in one of Vilnius's suburban districts, organized by a private client. This is an area characterized by loose, traditional development, with houses and summer cottages nestled among trees and expansive recreational grounds. On t...
By PILAR CABALLERO·ArchDaily·20 APR 2026
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The average gender pay gap has shot up at Zaha Hadid Architects, while other UK architecture studios narrow differences in pay.
By AMY PEACOCK·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
Ahead of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby's retrospective show at the Triennale Milano they speak to Dezeen in an exclusive interview.
By AMY FREARSON·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
Dezeen Showroom: Belgian brand Decospan has developed Shinnoki, a collection of prefinished wood panels that mimic the qualities of real wood veneer while being repeatable on large scales. Shinnoki panels are available in 18 different looks, all of which aim to avoid the repetitive patterns of traditional book-matching. Six layers of varnish help to creat...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
IKEA has unveiled an exhibition where designers and chefs team up to create a series of food-focused domestic spaces at Milan design week.
By AMINA AMBER·Luw Curated I·20 APR 2026
This Milan design week marks a series of firsts for Kelly Wearstler, who is making her Milan debut with an inaugural furniture collection for H&M Home, set to be shown in a baroque palazzo. The Swedish brand hasn't previously exhibited in Milan and neither has Wearstler – though the designer, who is known for her The post "Repetition is a big part of my d...
By CAJSA CARLSON·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Cowen+Partners has won approval for a 1,500-home scheme in east London featuring less affordable housing than first proposed
By JOSH BUTLER·Luw Curated II·20 APR 2026
Skincare brand Aesop has unveiled The Factory of Light installation, where scaffolding printed with iconic Milanese buildings serves as the backdrop for the launch of its first-ever lighting designs. Described as looking like "an imaginative city of Milan" by Aesop's director of global retail design, Marianne Lardilleux, the space features four rooms dedi...
By CAJSA CARLSON·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Dezeen is back in print! Those at Milan design week can pick up Dezeen Dispatch at locations across the city. Everyone else can read a digital version of the newspaper here. Written by the Dezeen editorial team, the 44-page, newspaper-style publication contains features and interviews along with our highlights of this year's event. Among the The post Read...
By TOM RAVENSCROFT·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Architecture
All the news from Salone Del Mobile and Milan Design Week (20-26 April 2026). Follow our team to Milan to discover the latest furniture launches, installations, collaborations, places to visit and more.
By HTTPS://WWW.WALLPAPER.COM/AUTHOR/OLLY-MASON·Luw Curated III·20 APR 2026
A perforated screen is often treated as an afterthought, something applied to soften light, to decorate a façade, or to add texture where a wall might otherwise feel flat. It is photographed as a surface, drawn as a pattern, and discussed as a craft. But in many buildings across the Indian subcontinent and the Islamic world, the screen was never an additi...
By ANANYA NAYAK·ArchDaily·20 APR 2026
'Nocturne' lamp by Konstantin Grcic for Flos is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale now
By ROSA BERTOLI·Luw Curated III·20 APR 2026
Casa Luz is an architectural and interior design intervention in an existing home in the city of Oaxaca that reflects on how to inhabit from a local perspective without resorting to nostalgic or literal gestures. The proposal is built upon a sensitive reading of the context, where materiality, light, and craftsmanship become the primary means of expression.
By VALENTINA DÍAZ·ArchDaily·20 APR 2026
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Designer Gabriella Marcella has transformed an industrial unit in Glasgow into colourful and practical headquarters for her risograph printing business. Marchella is the founder of Risotto Studio, which creates brightly coloured stationery and products using the risograph printing process. Having been based at the Glue Factory creative hub since she gradu...
By ALYN GRIFFITHS·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Promotion: Japanese camera brand Sigma and landscape design studio Green Wise have launched an exhibition at this year's Milan design week that explores the importance of cameras in crafting an image. Named Sigma Aizu Japan – Every Part Tells the Whole, the exhibition takes place from 20 to 26 April at Green Wise Italy's Milan The post Sigma to combine ca...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·20 APR 2026
Walnut millwork, modernist furnishings and a red travertine bar give this Los Angeles restaurant by local design studio 22RE a "distinctly Milanese sensibility". Bar di Bello in Silver Lake offers a Northern Italian menu within a 2,000-square-foot (186-square-metre) space designed to reflect the influence of the cuisine. "The design embraces a familiar wa...
By DAN HOWARTH·Dezeen·19 APR 2026
Nike Chief Design Officer, Martin Lotti, takes Wallpaper* on a tour of the new space at Dropcity – which will endure long after the design crowd leaves town
By CHARLOTTE GUNN·Luw Curated III·19 APR 2026
For Milan Design Week, Visionnaire tapped design studio NM3 for a capsule collection that blends the Italian brand's luxury approach with the practice's material-led minimalism
By LAURA MAY TODD·Luw Curated III·19 APR 2026
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Italian architecture studio STARTT has used a series of "micro-architectures" to open up a previously inaccessible archaeological site behind the Pantheon in Rome to the public. Named Beyond the Pantheon, the project provides a publicly accessible link between the ancient Roman temple and the ruins of the Basilica of Neptune, an ancient public hall locate...
By JON ASTBURY·Dezeen·19 APR 2026
Ahead of Milan design week, Dezeen has asked some of the city's most exciting designers and tastemakers to share their recommendations for the best places to eat, drink and soak up culture across the Italian city. Their favourite haunts range from a slew of traditional restaurants to Milan's main court of justice and a vintage The post Milan designers sha...
By DEZEEN TEAM·Dezeen·19 APR 2026
Contemporary Shoji screens and hanging fabrics have been used to evoke Tokyo izakayas at the Mitsu Japanese restaurant in London. The recently opened restaurant in Shoreditch, east London, was designed by Barcelona-based Astet Studio to reflect Japan's street culture and urban nightlife. In particular, the studio wanted to create the feel of an izakaya – ...
By CLARA FINNIGAN·Dezeen·19 APR 2026
US firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero has mixed glossy red tiles with Queen Anne-style furniture inside a store for perfume brand Nonfiction, in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Nonfiction founder and creative director Haeyoung Cha worked with Charlap Hyman & Herrero to create a space that reflected the neighbourhood, while also evoking the brand’s hometown of The ...
By DAN HOWARTH·Dezeen·18 APR 2026
A cluster of stacked shipping containers has been coated in a layer of poured earth to create this restaurant in Tamil Nadu, India, designed by local studio Wallmakers. Named Petti, meaning box in Tamil, the 439-square-metre restaurant is located on a narrow site in Tuticori, an industrial port city in which discarded shipping containers are The post Mud-...
By JON ASTBURY·Dezeen·18 APR 2026
This week on Dezeen, we previewed Milan design week by highlighting the must-see installations and exhibitions taking place. Looking ahead to the most significant week in the design calendar, we rounded up the 29 key events taking place across the city. These included a mindfulness space by Zaha Hadid Architects, interior designer Kelly Wearstler's first ...
By TOM RAVENSCROFT·Dezeen·18 APR 2026
A new Los Angeles International Airport terminal designed by Woods Bagot is now complete. Midfield Satellite Concourse South was a close collaboration between Woods Bagot, W.E. O’Neil Construction, and Buro Happold.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·17 APR 2026
An exhibition highlighting the 25th anniversary of the Program of Media + Modernity seminar at Princeton University has been installed at the architecture school there, with a silver fabric curtain displaying the seminar posters over the years. Curated by a scholar and long-time director of the programme, Beatriz Colomina, alongside Foivos Geralis and Ant...
By BEN DREITH·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
Architecture
Dezeen Showroom: US brand PoliLam has developed a collection of translucent, clear-edged surfaces that allow light to diffuse through both the planes and edges. Seamless HPL Translucent Surfaces deviate from conventional laminates by replacing usual dark edges with ones that match the surface, and giving it a low opacity that allows light to pass through.
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
Renderings of the forthcoming Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) designed by BIG and William Rawn Associates, with HASTINGS Architecture, were shared this week by the development team.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·17 APR 2026
Last year, two publications—LOG and Flash Art—corralled big ideas about architecture discourse. The publications share some aesthetic sympathies and contributors, but diverge on topics of legibility and approach. Contributors from the issues discuss these topics in a Q+A.
By JACK MURPHY·Luw Curated IV·17 APR 2026
International architecture studio GBBN has renovated a 1960s library at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, USA, adding a stacked-glass extension, to act as a central hub for students. The new 230,000-square-foot (21,365-square-metre) Hillman Library opened in 2025, transforming a 1968 design by local mid-century studio Celli-Flynn & Associates...
By KATE MAZADE·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
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A new tax on second homes and a major commitment to invest pension fund capital on affordable housing were announced this week in New York City. The two efforts are aimed at tackling the affordability crisis.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·17 APR 2026
BM Windows is a Vietnam-based facade manufacturer whose role goes far beyond fabrication in the narrow sense. In complex projects, manufacturing now begins much earlier, influencing how facade systems are refined, coordinated, and prepared for delivery.
By BM WINDOWS·Luw Curated IV·17 APR 2026
This wide-ranging survey of the artist’s work also explores the harmonies between her paintings and those of Edvard Munch
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·17 APR 2026
Gainsborough’s House presents work by three pioneers of British landscape painting – including at least one masterpiece not seen in public since the 18th century
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·17 APR 2026
See how this one-woman institution brought the avant-garde across the Channel and transformed British art in the process
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·17 APR 2026
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Forty paintings from a a series charting the adventures of the Hindu deity Rama are reunited at the Cleveland Museum of Art
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·17 APR 2026
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish brand Marset has reissued one of its early lighting ranges by designers P Aragay and J Pérez Mateo, which recalls the aesthetics of the 1970s. First released in 1973, Lauro lighting is notable for its continuous steel stem and base, made at a time when bending steel was a huge challenge. Marset The post Lauro lighting collection b...
By DEZEEN STAFF·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
A geological palette of rammed earth, local stone and terracotta tiles reflects the rugged, rocky character of the nearby Deccan Plateau at this home in South India, designed by local architecture studio Iki Builds. Named Aurva Illam – a combination of the Sanskrit word Aurva, meaning 'of the earth' and the Tamil word Illam, meaning The post Iki Builds us...
By JON ASTBURY·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
As Capsule magazine prepares to host the fourth edition of its popular Capsule Plaza exhibition at Milan design week, a chorus of previous collaborators has accused the company of a pattern of non-payment. Twelve former contributors, including key associates, designers, photographers and production crew, have told Dezeen they've either not been paid for t...
By JENNIFER HAHN·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
The British Council has announced that the British Pavilion at the next Venice Architecture Biennale will be curated by a team of UK-based curators in collaboration with a trio of Penang-based artisans. Planned to mark "70 years of diplomatic relations" between UK and Malaysia, the curation of the pavilion will be led by Grymsdyke Farm founding director G...
By TOM RAVENSCROFT·Dezeen·17 APR 2026
Stefan Shaw Studio has secured planning consent for the redevelopment of an Irish pub in Lambeth, south London, providing 14 new apartments
By GINO SPOCCHIA·Luw Curated II·17 APR 2026
‘Greene’ bed, by David López Quincoces, for Living Divani, is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale now
By LÉA TEUSCHER·Luw Curated III·17 APR 2026
At Milan Design Week 2026, Delvis (Un)Limited brings together the work of six design studios that tests the limits of glass
By LAURA MAY TODD·Luw Curated III·17 APR 2026
Architecture
Architect Drew Lang and builder Ravi Arps have acquired Booth House in Bedford, New York, Philip Johnson's first residential commission. They plan to restore it and relist on the market.
By MARIANA MARTINEZ-PAZZI·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
Johnston Marklee has been selected to design an expansion to the Bass Museum of Art. The expansion by Johnston Marklee will bring a new pavilion on the southwest corner of Collins Park to the museum grounds.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
From trippy mushroom sculptures to fantastical beasts, this retrospective, now on view at the Museum of Arts and Design, is one you won't want to miss
By TIANNA WILLIAMS·Luw Curated III·16 APR 2026
Flad Architects faced the southern and western faces of AVIA Labs with specially engineered GFRC panels that mitigate the noise of transportation.
By BERNARD POLLARA·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
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OMA designed site-specific installations for the Edo-Tokyo Museum. The moving images depict traditional Japanese patterns, flowers, and scripts—all pulled from objects in the museum’s collection.
By DANIEL JONAS ROCHE·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
London practice Ben Adams Architects has gone under with the loss of all jobs
By RICHARD WAITE·Luw Curated II·16 APR 2026
A book and two exhibitions treat education as a design problem—something that can be redesigned—raising questions about the relationship between design and education as well as designers’ long interest in new models of education.
By JARRETT FULLER·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
The ‘Kumiki’ collection, by HBA, for Giorgetti, is among our Salone del Mobile 2026 highlights, featured in May Wallpaper*, on sale now
By LÉA TEUSCHER·Luw Curated III·16 APR 2026
It seems that World War III is breaking out, so we’re discussing contingency plans for if the Saudi project pipeline dries up and we lose all our giga-projects, writes the Secret Architect
By THE SECRET ARCHITECT·Luw Curated II·16 APR 2026
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HD Expo, formerly known as HD Expo + Conference, unveiled a new brand identity marking the next phase in the event’s evolution.
By HD EXPO·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
Take a first look around as Gubi House Paris opens its doors, the design brand’s second dedicated space outside of Copenhagen
By ALI MORRIS·Luw Curated III·16 APR 2026
EPR has been named as the claimant in a £791,000 legal action against a fit-out contractor after a flood caused severe damage to the architects’ revamped 19th-century studio in south London
By CRISTINA LAGO·Luw Curated II·16 APR 2026
In Beijing Hopson Mall, AIM ARCHITECTURE put a warehouse spin on Harmay's flagship, using art handling as inspiration.
By KELLY PAU·Luw Curated IV·16 APR 2026
Omer Arbel is a cofounder of Bocci and runs the architecture practice Omer Arbel Office (OAO). Arbel talks about his process and oeuvre of work with AN.
By JACK MURPHY·Luw Curated IV·15 APR 2026
A trove of nearly 200 archival drawings and other artwork are on view in Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds at the Bard Graduate Center.
By JOSH NILAND·Luw Curated IV·15 APR 2026
In the Bay Area, San Francisco’s University High School tapped LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects (LMSA) for the private school’s first ground-up project.
By JOSH ILANO·Luw Curated IV·15 APR 2026
David Kohn Architects has lodged plans to convert a former rectory in Brighton into a studio and archive for British artist David Shrigley
By RICHARD WAITE·Luw Curated II·15 APR 2026
Architecture
Níall McLaughlin Architects has been selected to design a new Catholic cathedral in Sydney, Australia.
By RICHARD WAITE·Luw Curated II·14 APR 2026
Sadiq Khan has been urged to use his mayoral powers to call in Network Rail and ACME’s controversial £1.2 billion Liverpool Street scheme
By GINO SPOCCHIA·Luw Curated II·14 APR 2026
Shifting the focus of new towns to the urban extension model is a smart move. Now the government must embed mechanisms that will truly improve quality and placemaking, argues Ben Derbyshire
By BEN DERBYSHIRE·Luw Curated II·14 APR 2026
The National Gallery of Ireland sets the artist’s visionary paintings and prints alongside work by his peers
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·10 APR 2026
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This exhibition at the Louvre suggests the two sculptors had a shared mission despite living centuries apart
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·10 APR 2026
Panelists from Collective Architecture, Barr Gazetas, WRA Architects and CMap will speak about keeping your business profitable at our free webinar on 14 April
By AJ CONTRIBUTOR·Luw Curated II·10 APR 2026
Conversations about housing, regeneration, sustainability and cities are often led by lifestyle influencers with little architectural training. Where are the architects? asks Aga Szedzianis
By AGA SZEDZIANIS·Luw Curated II·08 APR 2026
Picasso’s influence on the American artist is in evidence in these 100 paintings, sculptures and painted objects
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·04 APR 2026
A major travelling survey of the Guyanese-British artist opens in its third and last version in London
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·04 APR 2026
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The painter and engraver who counted Bosch, Dürer and Michelangelo among his admirers is the subject of this exhibition at the Louvre
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·04 APR 2026
The opening of this show in Antwerp, which celebrates the power of colour, is sure to be a red-letter day for lovers of scarlet and vermilion
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·04 APR 2026
AECOM’s David Ross explains how an emerging technical policy could give architects the foundation required to deliver retrofit at scale
By DAVID ROSS·Luw Curated II·02 APR 2026
This mid-career retrospective at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice is an excellent introduction to the painter’s slippery compositions and vivid brushwork
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·27 MAR 2026
This show in Edinburgh sets the painter’s portraits and landscapes alongside work by her predecessors and peers
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·27 MAR 2026
Mid-rise development should be adopted across London to help tackle the capital’s housing crisis, says London Assembly Planning Committee chair James Small-Edwards
By JAMES SMALL-EDWARDS·Luw Curated II·27 MAR 2026
The fittings you specify in bathroom and kitchen designs matter more than you might think, explains Geoff Wilkinson
By GEOFF WILKINSON·Luw Curated II·25 MAR 2026
We should support and celebrate the work of heritage craftspeople wherever we find it, argues Kent Rawlinson, the National Trust’s curatorial and creative director for the Clandon Park restoration
By KENT RAWLINSON·Luw Curated II·24 MAR 2026
Architecture
Quite apart from high-profile collaborations with Cocteau and Dalí, the Italian-born designer had an artistry all of her own.
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·20 MAR 2026
The Menil Collection in Houston presents some 30 works on paper by the American artist, ranging from the 1950s to the ’80s
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·20 MAR 2026
Becoming an architect is difficult and costly but it’s vital the young see it as worth the expense and effort, says Toko Andrews
By TOKO ANDREWS·Luw Curated II·20 MAR 2026
Dowen Farmer Architects has submitted plans for 197 shared living studios on the site of a former Asda store in Peckham, south London.
By IAN WEINFASS·Luw Curated II·20 MAR 2026
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London should make mid-rise housing its ‘preferred development’ choice says a new report by the London Assembly Planning and Regeneration Committee
By JOSH BUTLER·Luw Curated II·20 MAR 2026
It’s the perfect time to stroll through the streets. To celebrate the arrival of Spring, we send you our greetings from Copenhagen.
By CARISSA·Luw Curated VI·16 MAR 2026
Sanghyeok Lee’s work is nothing if not balanced. It is restrained and minimal. Playful and intellectually rigorous.
By ROSIE FLANAGAN·Luw Curated V·16 MAR 2026
The father of English portraiture was a dazzling success on the continent first, and this exhibition of his work in Genoa is the largest of its kind in years
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·13 MAR 2026
Renoir’s critical reputation has fallen behind some of the other Impressionists in recent years. The Musée d’Orsay asks us to look again
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·13 MAR 2026
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These six years set the course for the artist’s career – and for post-war American art, this exhibition at Princeton suggests
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·13 MAR 2026
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston marks the arrival of spring with a display that explores how the natural world has inspired artists
By APOLLO·Luw Curated VII·13 MAR 2026
That spirit is precisely what lies at the heart of Origo, a bakery and workshop in Barcelona designed by local studio Isern Serra.
By CARISSA·Luw Curated VI·10 MAR 2026
Conceived to engage in dialogue with the organic lines of the brand’s tables, it balances functional simplicity with a sculptural presence.
By PATTY CASTELLAR·Luw Curated VI·05 MAR 2026
The Gaia Collection is the collaboration by Catalan artist, Carla Cascales Alimbau, and the Australian-founded rug company, Armadillo.
By CARISSA·Luw Curated VI·20 FEB 2026
A new café has taken over Avinguda Diagonal 335, in the heart of Barcelona: JAÇ HiFi Café, designed by Isern Serra Studio.
By CARISSA·Luw Curated VI·11 FEB 2026
For Villa Besson, Balladur created a connection between the indoors and the outdoors, giving the impression of living in an open space.
By CARISSA·Luw Curated VI·05 FEB 2026
Architecture
Without fanfare, Meridies culminates at the point where design merges with emotion, bringing matter to life through everyday objects.
By PATTY CASTELLAR·Luw Curated VI·03 FEB 2026
Berlin’s vibrant Torstraße in Mitte isn’t exactly a street you’d associate with the words “calm” or “retreat”. Yet, from the moment you step into the...
By VALERIE PRAEKELT·Luw Curated V·28 JAN 2026
The first time Sam Stourdzé set foot in the Villa Medici, he was a young scholarship recipient with a passion for photography and film.
By CARISSA·Luw Curated VI·21 JAN 2026
For over fifty years, ORFÈVRE has been a home for jewelry that values meaning as much as beauty. Among the artists it champions, the German...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·14 JAN 2026
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Guided by her hands on the modeling wax, the brand unites like-minded people and creates a place that is unapologetically LOUISE ROE.
By PATTY CASTELLAR·Luw Curated VI·14 JAN 2026
On Berlin’s monumental Karl-Marx-Allee, one of the former GDR’s emblematic sites of Socialist Classicism has taken on a renewed role as the working home of...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·07 JAN 2026
Hamburg’s growing TRADER constellation stems from founder Vincent von Thien’s wish to offer his city more than another café. TRADER Gallery in the Schanze set...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·12 DEC 2025
At Berlin’s Futurium museum for futures thinking, the exhibition Ocean Futures (on through 31 August 2026) navigates the planet’s vast expanses of water as infrastructure,...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·11 DEC 2025
In Berlin’s diplomatic center, not far from Unter den Linden and the Brandenburg Gate, a new interior offers an unexpected lens onto domestic life in...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·05 DEC 2025
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In stone, time turns tactile—a record of sediment, heat, and movement pressed into matter. At Marbledworks, that long geological story continues in contemporary form.
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·11 NOV 2025
The craft of KARST reveals itself first in a feeling. An ambience of warmth, polish and clarity. A closer look at—and feel of—the Berlin carpentry...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·06 NOV 2025
High on a ridge above Portugal’s Atlantic coast, Casa Plaj appears almost imagined: a red geometry in a green expanse, elemental yet precise. Designed by...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·25 AUG 2025
When Berlin-based design duo Yellow Nose Studio first removed the K from ‘kindergarten’ to name their evolving collection of objects, they opened more than a...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·18 JUL 2025
For architect Seamus Kowarzik, the shift between a building and a bench is hardly a shift at all. The same questions persist – how materials...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·03 JUL 2025
Zuzanna Czebatul is interested in the way monuments shape and perform power. Through her sculpture-based practice, she distorts architectural forms and cultural relics—columns, obelisks, busts—to...
By ROSIE FLANAGAN·Luw Curated V·13 MAY 2025
Over the past three decades, Dutch artist Viviane Sassen has carved a singular path through the intersecting worlds of photography, fashion, and contemporary art. Known...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·10 MAY 2025
A sofa holds the conversations, gatherings, and pauses that shape daily life. With the launch of Torio, Berlin furniture brand Noah reimagines the essential piece...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·05 MAY 2025
Architecture
Stepping onto the grounds of George Nakashima Woodworkers feels like entering another world—a quieter, more refined realm. The soft light, unhurried sense of time, and.
By MONIKA MRÓZ·Luw Curated V·08 APR 2025
For three days in March, the show jumping competition Saut Hermès transformed Paris’s Grand Palais into a theatre of equestrian brilliance. Beneath the newly restored...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·01 APR 2025
The light in Crete doesn’t just fall. It slices, sculpts, and illuminates with a force that is almost architectural. It is elemental intensity, that photographer...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·14 FEB 2025
Known for his serene, harmonious compositions, Colin King has captivated the interior design world, becoming one of today’s most sought-after stylists. The quiet, wholesome elegance...
By MONIKA MRÓZ·Luw Curated V·20 JAN 2025
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We've spent the last six years giving readers a closer look at some of the most extraordinary houses around the globe. In our first book, we open the doors to our highlights, including exclusive photography and rarely seen homes. This book is the outcome of curatorial research into thirty homes with architecture typified by its strong emotional appeal. We...
By OPENHOUSE MAGAZINE·Luw Curated VI·03 DEC 2024
Ignant continues its series Spatial Dialogue with its second editorial “Silhouette” co-curated and produced with Forma Gallery, the shapeshifting Berlin gallery dedicated to collectible design....
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·28 NOV 2024
Camouflaged amidst peaceful surrounds of a southern German village, an opaque facade vertically clad in scorched wood gives way to exposed concrete on the second...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·08 NOV 2024
To open the Berlin chapter of his family’s storied architecture practice, bächlemeid, Julian Bächle moved into a former gallery at Kurfürstenstraße 142, at the core...
By ANNA DOROTHEA KER·Luw Curated V·10 OCT 2024
To decode the warm minimalism of Berlin architecture practice Studio Mara reveals a reverence for the natural, the raw and the nuanced. Yet it’s what...
By IGNANT·Luw Curated V·20 SEPT 2024
