Articles by Dezeen staff

Michele De Lucchi to debut his Earth Stations workplace in Milan

April 4, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
Earth Stations by Michele De Lucchi for Poltrona Frau promo

Dezeen promotion: architect Michele De Lucchi will turn Poltrona Frau’s flagship store into a futuristic workplace during Milan design week. Called Connecting Experiences, De Lucchi’s takeover of Italian furniture brand Poltrona Frau’s Milan flagship store will see the space turned into a prototype of his Earth Stations. The architect will divide the space into several “nodes”, each one

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AHEAD Asia announces region’s best hotels for 2019

March 11, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
AHEAD Asia Awards winners 2019:

Dezeen promotion: a historic hotel in China and a cocoon-like guest lodge in Sri Lanka are among the hospitality projects commended in this year’s AHEAD Asia Awards. Celebrating design-focused hospitality projects from across the globe that provide exceptional guest experiences, submissions to the AHEAD Awards programme are divided into four regions: Asia, Americas, Europe, and the

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Singapore Institute of Architects launches competition to design Founders’ Memorial

February 12, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
The Singapore Institute of Architects Founders' Memorial design competition

Dezeen promotion: architects are being invited to design a new waterfront memorial building commemorating the founding of independent Singapore. The competition to design the Founders’ Memorial, which is being organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects, will see architects from across the globe go head-to-head to create a space dedicated to celebrating the values of Singapore’s founding

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Architect@Work to explore future-proofing at 2019 event in London

January 11, 2019 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: future-proofing is the theme for this year’s Architect@Work event, which features talks on reimagining heritage, zero carbon cities and modern methods of construction. Architect@Work is a two-day trade show for architects, interior designers and specifiers. This year it will take place from the 30 – 31 January 2019 at a new location, the Old Truman

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The Met’s A Year of Architecture in Day symposium returns with MAD, OMA and more

January 9, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
Qatar National Library by OMA

Dezeen promotion: a day of architecture talks will take place Saturday 19 January 2019 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman and OMA’s Ellen van Loon on the roster of speakers. Dezeen is media partner for the third edition of In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in Day, which will

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Toyo Ito and Ron Arad headline Business of Design Week 2018 in Hong Kong

November 27, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: architects Ben van Berkel, Ron Arad and Toyo Ito are among the line-up of speakers announced for this year’s Business of Design Week conference – and Dezeen readers get 30 per cent off tickets. The annual event returns to Hong Kong from 3 to 8 December, 2018, and will explore the theme “Think, Collaborate, Create”. These ideas will

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Velux skylights illuminate copper double spiral staircase in CEBRA’s Experimentarium

November 14, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: the 10-tonne copper spiral staircase rising through an atrium of CEBRA’s Experimentarium in Denmark is lit from above by Velux skylights. Danish studio CEBRA refurbished the popular science attraction in Copenhagen, doubling the centre’s exhibition spaces and adding two large atriums with centrepiece staircases. Shaped like the double helix strands of DNA, the spiralling

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Otis’ self-climbing lifts used in construction of City of London’s tallest skyscraper

November 1, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Otis’ Sky Build lifts, which climb up a building as it is built, are enabling the efficient construction of the 278-metre-tall Twentytwo skyscraper in London’s financial district. Designed by London-based PLP Architecture, the tower formerly known as 22 Bishopsgate will be the tallest building in the City of London when it completes in 2019. Two of

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