Paint brand Dulux has revealed Wild Wonder, a pale yellow paint colour that it described as “a soft gold with hints of green” as its Colour of the Year for 2023. Wild Wonder was selected for its close association with nature. The brand said this echoes the global shift toward sustainability, reconnecting with the outdoors
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The durable, stain-resistant qualities of granite make it a choice material for kitchens. Our latest lookbook showcases 10 kitchens on Dezeen that celebrate the light-coloured stone. Waterproof and scratch-resistant, the igneous rock granite has been used in construction and interior design for centuries. Today, the versatile material is often used as an alternative to marble
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Organiser Philippe Burguet has chosen eight of his favourite designs from the annual architecture competition Le Festival des Cabanes, which showcases 14 wooden cabins. This year’s edition of the Les Festival des Cabanes, or The Cabins Festival, which attracts around 30,000 visitors to Lake Annecy, France, each year, displays 14 wooden cabins made from wood
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This week on Dezeen, PETA’s general counsel for animal law Jared Goodman spoke about how architects could “easily” prevent billions of bird deaths per year caused by collisions with glazed and mirrored buildings. According to Goodman, the “simple indifference” of architects who construct buildings with large amounts of glazing or mirrored facades is partially responsible
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Architecture studio ZN Era has envisioned a skyscraper called Downtown Circle, which would be built around the Burj Khalifa in downtown Dubai. Set to be 550-metres tall and 3,000 metres in circumference, the skyscraper would be composed of two interconnected main rings that will house residential, public, commercial and cultural spaces. The structure would wrap around the tallest
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Architecture and research studio Gheorghe has inserted two triangular cross-laminated timber structures into a loft in Vienna as part of its renovation of the apartment. Set within a historic building in Vienna’s 13th district, the top level of the apartment was designed to encourage interaction between a couple and their children. Two cross-laminated timber (CLT)
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From a refurbished apartment in Barcelona to the home of an architectural designer in London, our latest lookbook rounds up 10 interiors that celebrate the tactility of exposed wooden beams. Beams are joists that support a building’s ceiling or roof. Rather than covering the interior beams, the designers below have left them as they were
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American artist Maya Lin has revealed a design for a spherical water fountain that will be installed in the Obama Presidential Center, a cultural complex in Chicago celebrating Barack Obama’s presidency. Called Seeing Through the Universe, the site-specific artwork is set to be the focal point of the Ann Dunham Water Garden, a garden named
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Construction is set to begin on the redevelopment of Berlin’s former Tegel Airport into a technological research hub, residential district and nature reserve in the northwest of the city. Named Berlin TXL – the Urban Tech Republic (Berlin TXL), the development will include a research park, landscaped area and Schumacher Quartier – a car-free residential
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Architect Muyiwa Oki has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Oki will serve as RIBA president from 1 September 2022 until September 2025 and will take over from the current president Simon Allford. He will become the institution’s first Black president and its youngest. The architect, who is currently employed
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