The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an installation by Ibrahim Mahama that covers London's Barbican Centre. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Ghanaian artist Mahama worked with hundreds of craftspeople to produce Purple Hibiscus, a handsewn installation of bespoke pink cloth adorning the lakeside terrace of London's brutalist Barbican Centre. Commenters discussed the project,
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US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland, USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. Ross Barney Architects created the Aerospace Communications Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally opened as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in
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Vancouver-based lighting company A-N-D has showcased two collections at Alcova during Milan design week, adapting its chandeliers to be placed on the floor to respect the historic setting. The lights flanked the walls of a room on the ground floor of Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, a 17th-century villa outside of Milan that is one of two
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Dezeen Showroom: Italian design brand UniFor has created a series of sculptural tables made from aluminium as part of its Andromeda collection, which debuted at Milan Design Week. The Andromeda tables are characterised by their slimline appearance and striking proportions, visual features that are echoed throughout the rest of the collection. As is the case
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Czech glass-making brand Lasvit has unveiled an outdoor installation made from fused glass at Milan design week, shown in this video produced for the brand by Dezeen. Titled Porta, the installation was created by Lasvit art director Maxim Velcovsky and forms part of the brand's Re/Creation exhibition at Palazzo Isimbardi in Milan. The installation
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Dezeen Showroom: distinctive finishes and details meet in the Mira furniture system, designed for installation in kitchens and living areas by Italian brand Scavolini. Developed by the company's research and development lab Vuesse, the Mira system has a linear, polished look, with an L-shaped profile on the doors and a combination of wood, metallic and
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Traditional materials and building techniques "celebrate the essence" of south Indian architecture at Telugu Medium, a restaurant in Hyderabad by local practice Sona Reddy Studio. Telugu Medium is located in the Jubilee Hills neighbourhood and housed in a vaulted structure of exposed brick and concrete, designed to suit the area's arid climate and reference its
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Google has returned to Milan design week with a kaleidoscopic installation by research studio Chromasonic, designed to simulate the experience of having synesthesia. Stretching across 600 square metres inside a redeveloped industrial building near Porta Venezia, Making Sense of Color takes visitors on a "sensorial journey" through a maze of semi-transparent screens. Changing patterns of
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The China Merchants Bank Headquarters by British architecture studio Foster + Partners has topped out in Shenzhen, with progress on a decorative ribbed steel and glass facade. Images of the skyscraper's construction progress show the height of its structural core and facades made from steel and triangular glass panels taking shape around it. Once complete, the
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As Milan design week continues, we've selected six pop-up spaces where you can grab a bite to eat while admiring the latest design launches in the Italian capital. Included in the roundup are restaurant spaces temporarily overhauled by design brands, a cosy dining room set in a Milanese palace and a hot dog pop-up by
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Cultural institutions Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier are hosting a retrospective show of Italian designer Alessandro Mendini at this year's Milan design week, showcased in this video produced by Dezeen for Triennale. The exhibition takes place at Trienalle Milano Triennale Milano partnered with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain to host the exhibition, which
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Architects should learn from Italo Rota's desire to constantly learn and evolve his view of architecture, Carlo Ratti writes following the Italian architect's death last week. What is architecture? Every designer has his own definition. For Le Corbusier, it was "the skilful, rigorous, and magnificent play of volumes under light", while for Gio Ponti it
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A fire has broken out at the 17th-century Børsen building in Copenhagen, Denmark, causing its iconic dragon tail-shaped spire to collapse. The fire at the building, which was once the city's stock exchange, began early this morning with the 56-metre-tall spire collapsing around 8:30am local time. Built in 1615, the Renaissance-style building is one of
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Dezeen Showroom: British designer Jasper Morrison has created a chair that is "both familiar and simultaneously fresh" for Finnish furniture brand Nikari. The Archetyp chair is a minimally designed wood-frame chair with an upholstered seat and back. It is available in two sizes – a slightly smaller version intended for use in lobbies, and a larger
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Japanese designer Hideki Yoshimoto has unveiled the Beyond the Horizon immersive art installation at this year's Milan Design Week, designed in collaboration with car brand Lexus. Drawing on Lexus' LF-ZC (Lexus Future Zero-emission Catalyst) concept car, which "explores possibilities for a next-generation Lexus battery electric vehicle", the installation aims to encapsulate and represent the brand's focus
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The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan Design Week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the first day (Monday 15 April) – and follow the live feed for today's activity! 5:00pm As anticipated in the first entry today, we can now bring you pictures from the launch of Samuel Ross's
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Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has designed a watch for LeBond with its face rotated by 30 degrees to optimise viewing. The timepiece has a minimalist design with a circular face and was created for the watch brand LeBond, which described it as "an architect's take on a driver's watch". To create
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