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Metal cladding and an asymmetrical roof define the exterior of the South E8 housing block by architecture firm LOHA in Raleigh, USA. The distinctive block, which contains eight apartments, replaces a single home in a neighbourhood near the downtown of North Carolina's capital city. It was developed as Raleigh has become a sought-after place to live, partly

A proliferation of multi-designer exhibitions showing variants of a single object allowed the work of numerous emerging and local designers to take centre stage during NYCxDesign week, writes Dezeen's US editor Ben Dreith. While plenty of the showrooms on Madison Avenue held events featuring contemporary European furniture design, many local curators opted for formats that

Dezeen Showroom: from a modular furnishing system to tableware made from quartz, we've rounded up ten furniture and homeware pieces by Italian brands on Dezeen Showroom. Italy's long history of furniture making and status as a significant player in the design world is reflected in the products below. This selection features designers and companies hailing from

Dezeen Showroom: British studio Pearson Lloyd applied circular design principles when creating Contour, a versatile chair made from recycled and recyclable materials for office furniture company Senator. The Contour task chair is distinguished by its simplicity – rather than using complex mechanics, it aims to provide automatic ergonomic comfort for a wide range of bodies, on

Dezeen Showroom: Turkish bathroom brand VitrA has released a minimalist washbasin made from almost 100 per cent waste materials, including discarded ceramics from the company's own production processes. The recycled ceramic washbasin has been carefully developed to cause minimal environmental impact, according to VitrA. "The recycled ceramic washbasin embodies the principles of circular manufacturing, where

Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has completed The Atrium at Sumner Houses, an affordable housing block with 190 apartments for seniors in Brooklyn, New York. Located at the centre of the New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA) Sumner Houses campus, the 11-storey block is wrapped around a full-height central atrium that gives the building its name.

The Vision Pro will "redefine how we connect and create" says Apple vice president of human interface design Alan Dye, as its operating system wins top honour at the D&AD Awards. Apple was recognised with a Black Pencil – the D&AD Awards highest accolade – for its visionOS operating system, which powers the recently launched

Architect Ma Yansong explains how his studio MAD combined historical and contemporary elements for its first train station in this talk, hosted by Dezeen for the Beijing architecture practice. The one-on-one conversation between Yansong and Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft was held to celebrate the opening of the project, named Train Station in the Forest. MAD's first station

Fashion garments made from airbags and furniture crafted from "unattractive" materials are among the projects on show at this year's Southern Sweden Design Days in Malmö. Organised by architecture and design centre Form/Design Center, the annual design festival Southern Sweden Design Days showcases work from national and international participants across design, architecture and crafts. Operating

Dezeen Showroom: furniture maker Morgan worked with designer Magnus Long on a chair made from wood and cane that intends to showcase British craftsmanship. Launched at Clerkenwell Design Week 2024, the Barricane dining chair combines a solid wood frame with a cane backrest, which loosens the formality of the chair's straight lines and gives it a

Brands are backing away from prioritising the planet amid difficult financial conditions but sustainability cannot be a mere trend, writes Caroline Till. It now feels as though we've reached a tipping point in the design and lifestyle industries. Global unrest and economic uncertainty are causing financial and strategic jitters; brands and corporations are shifting away

A graphite mural and pine sculptures are among the artworks in an exhibition examining the colonial history embedded in the Royal British Institute of Architects' London headquarters. The exhibition, named Raise the Roof: Building for Change, grapples specifically with the colonial symbolism in two of the building's most divisive interior features. These are the Jarvis

Designer and artist Jérôme Pereira has created a series of carefully weighted lighting sculptures using tree branches he foraged from the forests near his studio in the south of France. Pereira presented nine of these works in his inaugural solo exhibition, Celestial Attraction, staged by design gallery Philia during Milan design week. Many of the

Promotion: more than 9,000 red bricks form a curved volume within the interior of this mixed-use building's lobby, which has been awarded Gold in the Commercial category at the Brick in Architecture Awards. The lobby, which forms the entrance to an office building at Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a brick curtain wall that was

Stay Playful (When No One Feels Like Playing) is a sugary pink helter skelter, which has been repaired by interiors studio 2LG and placed in London's Spa Fields park as an installation for Clerkenwell Design Week. Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead of 2LG studio created the helter skelter – a traditional British fairground ride – as