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From a furniture show in a former high-end sex shop to an homage to Dutch brickwork in New York by designer Floris Wubben, we've rounded up key shows and installations taking place during NYCxDesign 2024. New York City's annual design festival NYCxDesign begins this week, with events and programming oriented around institutions such as the International

From a furniture show in a former high-end sex shop to an homage to Dutch brickwork in New York by designer Floris Wubben, we've rounded up key shows and installations taking place during New York design week 2024. New York City's annual design festival begins this week, with events and programming oriented around institutions such

Canadian practice Studio North has wrapped a wooden screen around the curved corners and cantilevers of a Calgary house near a winding river. Studio North completed the 4,520-square-foot (420-square metre) residence – known as Elbow House – at the end of 2023 on an 8,050-square-foot (748-square metre), wedge-shaped property along the banks of the Elbow

Dezeen School Shows: a sustainably designed running shoe with replaceable and reconfigurable modular components is included in Dezeen's latest school show by New Designers. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Belgium-based flooring brand Modulyss has showcased a range of carpet tiles on Dezeen Showroom, including a collection informed by motifs found in nature. Each pattern in Modulyss' Handcraft carpet tiles references a different type of naturally occurring ornamentation. Its Moss range has a tactile, furry surface, while Grind recalls how paths are created by walking

Promotion: bathroom brand Grohe hosted an installation named Aquatecture at this year's Milan Design Week, situated in the courtyard of the neoclassical Palazzo Reale. Designed by the brand's in-house design team Lixil Global Design, the installation aimed to celebrate the power of water and the history of the building's courtyard, which was formerly a garden

Dezeen Showroom: design brand Carnegie Acoustic Solutions has launched a new collection of high-performance, sustainable acoustic products called Hyper Sonic. The Hyper Sonic collection is the first product release from Carnegie Acoustic Solutions, featuring four new Xorel Artform products and five new Kirei PET products that have sound-dampening properties and stylish aesthetics. The collection includes

Dezeen Showroom: American brand Carnegie Fabrics has launched a new collection called Hyper Sonic, which blends its innovative textile designs with acoustic solutions. The Hyper Sonic collection forms part of a new line from Carnegie Fabrics called Carnegie Acoustic Solutions, which intends to deliver sound-dampening performance alongside aesthetics. The collection includes a number of products that

Architecture practice Studio Vio has blended contemporary materials with traditional crafts and lush gardens at De Hue Space, a holiday home in Hue, Vietnam. Located in the village of Thuy Bieu just west of the city centre, De Hue Space has seven guest rooms alongside common living areas and is intended to promote local tourism.

Design duo Formafantasma paired harsh steel rods with delicate glass flowers in its La Casa Dentro furniture collection, comparing modernism's sobriety with the "femininity" of more decorative motifs. Creative and life partners Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin made the furniture to "address the canons of modernism" – an early 20th-century movement favouring functional, pared-back design

Skyscrapers get a bad rap but are crucial to the success of cities, writes economics professor Jason Barr. Skyscrapers remain controversial in the 21st century, yet they are getting taller and more numerous. Seven times more buildings of 150 metres or taller have sprung up since 2000 than were constructed in the entire 20th century.

In this video produced by Dezeen for Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier, Philippe Starck describes the "genius" of Alessandro Mendini following the opening of Io Sono Un Drago, an exhibition celebrating the designer. French designer Starck, who has contributed an immersive installation to coincide with the exhibition, emphasised the impact that Mendini has had on

Urbanist Hélène Chartier, technologist John Maeda, curator Llisa Demetrios, architect Laura Narayansingh and designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal have been named Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. Read more

Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger took a spiritual approach when producing the furniture for his latest exhibition, 12 Chairs For Meditation. Exhibited at Nilufar's Viale Lancetti gallery during Milan design week, the show was developed around a vision that the founder of Reisinger Studio experienced during meditation. This led him to design a series of 12

Promotion: Kiwi design studio Formway has reimagined the traditional dining room set-up for its own furniture brand Noho, creating a collection of tables and chairs that are conducive to other activities besides dining. Noho's repertoire consists of three pieces – the newly launched Dine table range, the Noho Move chair and the Lightly chair, which was

Hospitality brand Highstay has brought a contemporary spin to these 19th-century Parisian apartments, which its team has renovated to offer accommodation during the Olympic Games and beyond. The holiday apartments are intended for short- and long-term stays of up to one month, offering an alternative to hotels "for those coming to the city this summer