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Fikra Graphic Design Biennial "sets a precedent" for adaptive reuse in UAE
The inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, in the UAE emirate of Sharjah, shows how the region can rethink its approach to adaptive reuse of buildings. More
The inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, in the UAE emirate of Sharjah, shows how the region can rethink its approach to adaptive reuse of buildings. More
A terrazzo-like print covers the surfaces of this installation that Note Design Studio created for flooring brand Tarkett, which won Small Interior of the Year 2018 at Dezeen Awards. More
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY to design a major overhaul of its wing for arts produced in Africa, Oceania and the Americas. More
Zaha Hadid Architects is exhibiting its architectural models and product designs at a temporary gallery in the firm's 520 West 28th residential complex in Manhattan. More
Rollerskating rinks, national anthems and the humble table are just some of the points of reference for contestants in this year's Rigg Design Prize exhibition, which celebrates the best of Australian interior design. More
Carpenters Workshop Gallery has set up its fourth permanent location, taking over part of an arts venue inside a former church on the US West Coast. More
Works by Australian designer Charles Trevelyan, including skeletal-looking furniture and monolithic marble benches, are currently on show at New York's Carpenters Workshop Gallery. More
Body adornments that create alien-like appendages such as skin growths and webbed fingers feature in new fashion brand A.Human's collection, which is currently on show in a nightmarish exhibit for New York Fashion Week. More
Drawings and maquettes by Buckminster Fuller prove that he predicted current global issues, and demonstrate how he proposed to solve them, according to the curator of an upcoming exhibition about the late inventor. More
Instagram sensation The Color Factory has arrived in New York City, where visitors can interact with a myriad of tonal installations and take photos in a giant blue ball pit. More
Desks, a kitchen and a garden are hidden under raised office floors in this installation created by Swiss architect Leopold Banchini at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. More
Austrian architect Johann Obermoser has cantilevered a lair-like concrete volume from the precipice of a mountain in Sölden, Austria, to house an exhibition exploring the history of James Bond. More
An exhibition has opened in Glasgow showcasing the best of contemporary Scottish design. Curator Stacey Hunter talks Dezeen through her highlights, which include a raincoat printed with hand-drawn weather symbols and silk scarves depicting the lovers of Ettore Sottsass. More
The Blue House, home of Frida Kahlo, has been partially recreated inside the V&A museum in London, for an exhibition of the artist's belongings. More
New York's Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting the "extreme maquettes" of late Congolese sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez, who modelled futuristic African cities with recycled cardboard, colourful paper and Coca-Cola cans. More
Ettore Sottsass' Memphis designs join eccentric contemporary furnishings that decorate a townhouse in New York's Soho for this installation. More
A presentation by Cambridge Analytica, portraits generated from DNA and a Facebook drone sit beside each other in a new design exhibition that opens to the public this weekend at London's V&A. More
Chilean collective GT2P has used a computer to delicately cut wavy forms based on the Andes mountains into the top of a wooden coffee table, currently on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More
A room filled with giant spinning mushrooms and a set of bright yellow-green bathrooms are among the surprises found inside the OMA-designed Torre, which opened last week as the final part of the Fondazione Prada arts complex in Milan. More
The Garage Museum in Moscow is hosting an exhibition dedicated to an anti-modernist manifesto from the 1960s, featuring full-scale mockups of Andy Warhol's famous studio and a conceptual cubist home. More