Новости за 19.04.2024

Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled renderings of its concept for a three-storey cultural centre in south Florida, USA. Located in downtown Boca Raton, The Center for Arts & Innovation will contain public event and education spaces and have a capacity of 6,000 guests. Plans for the center were announced late last year

Dezeen Showroom: a collection of console tables and benches informed by kimonos are included among products on Dezeen Showroom that were presented during Milan design week. Leading designers and brands unveiled products and collections during this year's event, including a series of undulating lighting, an office chair with a deliberately bent metal structure and a

Promotion: a sleek "hood-in-hob" extractor fan, designed as an alternative to an overhead device, is among the minimalist kitchen products created by Swedish brand Asko. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: based on European beech timber, Project Wood tiles by Casalgrande Padana recreate the look of wood by mimicking the texture of the grain. Developed with design studio SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli, the Project Wood collection delivers the warming effect of natural wood along with the durability and performance qualities of porcelain stoneware. The tiles

Architecture studio MD41 has completed a gymnasium for a school in Merate, Italy, housed in a cubic volume clad in textured concrete panels. Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati

A dwelling with a "tin hat" by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year's Don't Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that

Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been named on the list of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine. The architects are included alongside world leaders, artists and sports stars in the annually published list of people the US magazine judges as the world's most influential. Called a "force of nature"

Dutch architecture studio Cloud and designer Sabine Marcelis have created scenography for a lounge promoting the design and culture of AlUla, Saudi Arabia, during Milan design week. Located within a library in Milan's Brera neighbourhood, the lounge's main space has a massive seating area with a table at its centre created by French design studio

Dezeen Showroom: British design studio Novocastrian has released a series of lighting that references equipment and infrastructure associated with railways. The Insulator lighting collection comprises pendant and table lamps as well as sconce lights, which share similar ribbed motifs and distinctive polished hardware. "Our founder Richy took inspiration from endless train journeys along Britain’s East

Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has exhibited a solar-powered installation in collaboration with car brand Lexus at this year's Milan design week. Named 8 minutes and 20 seconds in reference to the amount of time it takes sunlight to reach the earth, the installation features a full-size silhouette of the brand's Future Zero-Emission Catalyst concept

The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan design week in the northern Italian metropolis (15-19 April) with updates throughout the day, including exclusive previews of products, installations and events.   11:15am Photographed by Dezeen's Jane Englefield, who writes: Jennifer Hahn has hit Alcova's Villa Borsani with the entirety of her Milan design week luggage

The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan Design Week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the fourth day (Thursday 18 April) – and follow the live feed for today's activity!   5:30pm Dezeen co-ceo Ben Hobson reports from a talk that has just taken place in the middle of Dutch brand

Artist Patrick Carroll has used recycled yarn to create hand-knitted painting-style pieces for the Days textile exhibition at JW Anderson's Milan store during Milan design week. Carroll presented translucent artworks that look "as if they are paintings", which were made using a 1970s flatbed domestic knitting machine and displayed on wooden stretcher bars – the