Performance Review
Everything that's going wrong with architecture
As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession. More about Everything that's going wrong with architecture
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Performance Review
Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review
With design and architecture seemingly in crisis, our Performance Review editorial series will interrogate the multitude of issues plaguing the industry. More about Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review
Design
Lidar and radar technology help to make EX90 "the safest Volvo ever"
Car company Volvo's electric EX90 SUV has been shortlisted for a 2025 Dezeen Award for its innovative safety features, including sensors that can detect pedestrians up to 250 metres ahead. More about Lidar and radar technology help to make EX90 "the safest Volvo ever"
Homeware design
Full English breakfast cast in wax for Maggie Yang's hyperrealistic food candles
London-based designer Maggie Yang has created a collection of wax candles replicating different foods, including a Ploughman's pie, a wheel of brie and an entire breakfast plate with beans and brown sauce. More about Full English breakfast cast in wax for Maggie Yang's hyperrealistic food candles
Dezeen Awards
Final week to book your Dezeen Awards 2025 party tickets
Ticket sales for the Dezeen Awards 2025 party end this week, 21 November at 23:59 London time. Don't wait – secure your place before it's too late! More about Final week to book your Dezeen Awards 2025 party tickets
Interiors
Studio Edwards creates "mobile architecture" for retail spaces
Melbourne-based Studio Edwards has collaborated with local fashion brand LOWF to create Shift Space – a relocatable modular retail system. More about Studio Edwards creates "mobile architecture" for retail spaces
Promotion
3D building design software Snaptrude launches free student plan
Promotion: American technology company Snaptrude is making its flagship building design tool free for architecture students across the world, so that they can "build the kind of portfolios that get them hired". More about 3D building design software Snaptrude launches free student plan
Interiors
Frida Kahlo's family home in Mexico City opens as Museo Casa Kahlo
The museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has expanded into the former home of her sister, where exhibitions designed by Rockwell Group offer glimpses into the artist's private life. More about Frida Kahlo's family home in Mexico City opens as Museo Casa Kahlo
Architecture
"Quiet but powerful" home in Melbourne references temple architecture
Frameless expanses of glazing break up the monolithic, angular volumes of Temple House, a family home in Australia designed by local studio J Kidman Architecture with interior design practices Golden and Studio Tali Roth. More about "Quiet but powerful" home in Melbourne references temple architecture
Design
Five next-gen Nigerian designers using culture "not as ornament but as intelligence"
A skeletal chair and a lamp wearing a hat were among the standout projects from emerging designers at this year's Design Week Lagos, where they featured in the annual Design + Innovation exhibition. More about Five next-gen Nigerian designers using culture "not as ornament but as intelligence"
Interiors
Tent-like canopies bring "outdoor feeling" to Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund
Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee on Shanghai's West Bund waterfront, featuring wooden canopies stretched out above a prefabricated concrete counter. More about Tent-like canopies bring "outdoor feeling" to Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund
Architecture
Prospect Berkshires "landscape hotel" features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts
A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins around a lake in Massachusetts, USA, and renovated a historic building to serve as the restaurant. More about Prospect Berkshires "landscape hotel" features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts
School Shows
Five empowering healthcare devices designed by students
Dezeen School Shows: we've rounded up five student projects presented on Dezeen School Shows that are designed to upgrade and improve healthcare apparatus. More about Five empowering healthcare devices designed by students
Architecture
Besley & Spresser clads Sydney Harbour pavilion with oyster shell terrazzo
Bespoke terrazzo tiles made using the shells of local rock oysters clad this colonnaded pavilion on Sydney's waterfront, designed by local architecture studio Besley & Spresser. More about Besley & Spresser clads Sydney Harbour pavilion with oyster shell terrazzo
Lookbooks
Seven bathrooms with contrasting materials that reject uniformity
This lookbook compiles bathrooms with unlikely textural, material and colour combinations, creating dramatic schemes in rooms renowned for sterility. More about Seven bathrooms with contrasting materials that reject uniformity
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen we published aerial photos of Neom's workers camps
This week on Dezeen, we reported on satellite photography of worker housing that has been built alongside Neom's major construction sites. More about This week on Dezeen we published aerial photos of Neom's workers camps
Architecture
SHoP Architects completes FIT building with "origami-like folded metal panels"
US studio SHoP Architects has completed an academic building for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City that contains a subterranean sewing lab viewable from the street and a backside atrium that links to a neighbouring building. More about SHoP Architects completes FIT building with "origami-like folded metal panels"
Interiors
MoMA Design Store receives refresh from Peterson Rich Office
The Museum of Modern Art's retail space in Soho, New York, has undergone a major renovation by Brooklyn architecture studio Peterson Rich Office. More about MoMA Design Store receives refresh from Peterson Rich Office
Dezeen Showroom
Twelve products for home offices and workplaces to improve concentration
Dezeen Showroom: from wellbeing-enhancing office pods to products that covertly control noise, the following pieces are designed to make workplaces more design- and comfort-forward. More about Twelve products for home offices and workplaces to improve concentration
Architecture
Fifty-metre-long skylight spans length of Kitaoka Group headquarters in Japan
A fifty-metre-long skylight cuts through the centre of Kitaoka Group Head Office Building, renovated by Tokyo studio Wataru Architects in Mima City, Japan. More about Fifty-metre-long skylight spans length of Kitaoka Group headquarters in Japan