South African architect Sumayya Vally has designed a site-specific installation for the inaugural Art Basel Qatar fair in Doha, with moveable components that pay homage to lost communal spaces across the Islamic world. More about Sumayya Vally creates modular forum for Art Basel Qatar based on Muslim gathering spaces
South African architect Sumayya Vally is collaborating with creative platform To.org to create a geometric wellness and fitness centre, designed for the refugee community in Kakuma, Kenya. More about Sumayya Vally references termite mounds for refugee wellness centre in Kenya
Projects by architects Sumayya Vally and David Gianotten are among this year's Sydney Design Week highlights, chosen by curators Keinton Butler and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco. More about Six visions of the future at Sydney Design Week
With just one day to put forward a nomination for the Designers of the Year awards at Dezeen Awards 2024, last year's winners explain how winning boosted their visibility and underscored designers' responsibility to society. More about Winning was "immensely rewarding and almost surreal" says past Designers of the Year winner
Last week we launched our public nomination for the Designers of the Year awards at Dezeen Awards 2024. Here, we round up last year's winners. More about Three weeks left to nominate your favourite studios for Designers of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2024
Dezeen Awards judges joined architects and designers from all over the world in a ceremony where this year's winners were revealed. More about Architects and designers from around the world celebrate at Dezeen Awards 2023 party
South African architect Sumayya Vally has been named emerging architect of the year at this week's Dezeen Awards 2023 ceremony. More about Sumayya Vally named emerging architect of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023
Dezeen has announced the winners of the six Designers of the Year categories at this evening's Dezeen Awards 2023 ceremony, which include Patricia Urquiola, White Arkkitekter and Pearson Lloyd. More about Dezeen Awards 2023 Designers of the Year winners announced
A series of boat-like forms will be tied together to create the Asiat-Darse pedestrian bridge, which South African architect Sumayya Vally is designing for Vilvoorde in Belgium. More about Sumayya Vally unveils design for sculptural pedestrian bridge in Belgium
Promotion: car brand Lexus displayed the four winners of this year's Lexus Design Award, including a jacket that turns fog into drinking water and a humidifier made from ceramic waste, at Milan design week 2023 More about Lexus Design Award exhibition displays "power of design" at Milan design week
Niger-based Atelier Masōmī has unveiled a library in Monrovia dedicated to Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, which will contain exhibitions designed by South African architect Sumayya Vally. More about Atelier Masōmī designs raw-earth-brick presidential library in Liberia
Architects should work creatively with planning constraints rather than fighting them in order to preserve the character of historic cities, according to panellists exploring the legacy of Christopher Wren at a talk filmed by Dezeen for World Monuments Fund. More about "Wren's rebuilding on the medieval street pattern is the essence of London" say architects
Islamic Arts Biennale artistic director Sumayya Vally explains how the event in Saudi Arabia aims to build understanding about both Muslim art and the Muslim world in this exclusive interview. More about Islamic Arts Biennale "a historic moment for the entire Muslim world" says curator Sumayya Vally
For this year's Notting Hill Carnival, South African architect Sumayya Vally created a pavilion made up of fragmented parts that only came together during the course of the parade. More about Sumayya Vally creates Notting Hill Carnival pavilion with "a diasporic logic"
South African architect Sumayya Vally has been appointed to the curatorial team for the first Islamic Arts Biennale, which is set to take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. More about Sumayya Vally to curate inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale
Nigerien architect Mariam Kamara and South African architect Sumayya Vally are collaborating to design a presidential library for Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia. More about Mariam Kamara and Sumayya Vally to design presidential library in Liberia
Dezeen promotion: Serpentine Pavilion architect Sumayya Vally was among the creatives who participated in a recent event hosted by MYTH and Therme Art to discuss the importance of gathering and creative production on mental wellbeing. Watch highlights from the event here. More about Watch MYTH and Therme Art's Communion event exploring the mental health benefits of creative collaboration
In the final instalment of our exclusive video series with Counterspace founder Sumayya Vally, the South African architect discusses the role of recipes in her Material Histories project for the Istanbul Design Biennial. More about "Recipes are important archives of where we come from and how we've evolved" says Sumayya Vally
In the third of our series of exclusive video interviews with Sumayya Vally, the architect discusses how her studio Counterspace's Children's Courtroom project aimed to teach kids about the law, rights and equality. More about Counterspace's Children's Courtroom installation "teaches children about the justice system"
In the second part of our exclusive video series with Sumayya Vally, the architect discusses how her studio Counterspace's project Folded Skies addresses the complex geographies of Johannesburg. More about Counterspace's Folded Skies installation aims to explore "the complexities of land"