Building & Construction

Anchorage Museum CEO Julie Decker and designer Noa Haim discuss the importance of design as an interactive experience in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for the museum’s latest exhibition. Titled Frozen Forms, the exhibition explores the influence of Alaska’s winter landscape using snow and ice as a motif. The presentation includes three towering cardboard […]

Dezeen Showroom: offering both noise control and a clean aesthetic, Autex Acoustics’ Grid ceiling tiles are designed to transform standard dropped ceilings in offices and other large buildings. The Grid ceiling tiles can be easily installed over a ceiling grid system, replacing a cold look and echoey acoustics with visual interest and a pleasant auditory

Swiss office Localarchitecture has completed Daillens Sports Facility near Geneva, creating a barn-like timber form insulated with straw bales and clad in green-stained wooden battens. Located alongside a football pitch in the municipality of Daillens, the sports centre replaces an outdated cluster of 1970s buildings with modern changing rooms, showers, a bowls club and a

British studio Foster + Partners has revealed designs for a stadium covered by “a vast umbrella” for English football club Manchester United, which will become the biggest stadium in the UK. Forming part of the regeneration of the Old Trafford area in Machester, the 100,000-seat stadium is set to be built next to the football team’s

Our next Art Deco Centenary profile looks at American architect Raymond Hood, whose knack for skyscrapers led to him being branded the “brilliant bad boy of architecture”. Hood’s buildings include Chicago’s Tribune Tower and New York’s Rockefeller Center. Built during the proliferation of American skyscrapers in the early 20th century, they represent attempts to harness

A video released by British car brand Jaguar shows its Type 00 concept car slowly driving through the city’s streets to a Paris Fashion Week event. Finished in a previously unreleased colour called French Ultramarine, the video shows the opinion-dividing car driving in public for the first time.   View this post on Instagram  

Czech studio Atelier Hajný has transformed a derelict 1970s stone hut into a metal-clad countryside getaway named Skylight Hut with a trapezoidal roof and warm, wood-lined interiors. Designed for a married couple seeking an escape from city life, the 38-square-metre house is set on a sloping site in the Savaza River region near Prague, Czechia.

Bevis Hillier’s 1968 book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s made art deco famous. As part of our Art Deco Centenary series, he reflects on the style’s lasting legacy. In 1968, when I was 28, I wrote the first English book on art deco. In the early 1960s, art nouveau was the rage, with

UK studio Stufish set out to create a unique architectural language informed by Austin Powers and New York lofts for pop star Sabrina Carpenter viral set on her first arena tour. The Short n’ Sweet tour, which came to London this weekend, is entirely centred around a single set – an all-white, two-storey “apartment” with

An exhibition has opened at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo revealing the craft history behind the Japanese ramen bowl. The Art of the Ramen Bowl features over 300 examples of the traditional noodle dish, both historic and contemporary, showcasing highly specialised ceramic techniques. The show includes more than 300 bowls, including a collection amassed by artist