
Overtreders W creates zero-waste barn and restaurant for Dutch festival
Overtreders W has built a temporary barn from borrowed materials to host a pop-up zero waste restaurant at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. More
Overtreders W has built a temporary barn from borrowed materials to host a pop-up zero waste restaurant at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. More
While music acts like Beyoncé entertain throngs at this year's Coachella festival, visitors are also treated to large-scale sculptures and installations across the California desert site. Here are some of our favourites from the event this month. More
Undulating "concrete blankets" form a series of mountain-like structures in this conceptual pavilion designed by The Los Angeles Design Group for the Coachella festival. More
Music festivals like Coachella are changing the way people experience artworks and installations, according to American artist Phillip K Smith III. More
This carton-style backpack by Kingston University graduate Magdalena Huber is designed to help people at music festivals avoid long bar queues. More
The 2016 Burning Man festival is taking place this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, where New York-based creative director PieterJan Mattan has photographed his highlights from this year's event (+ slideshow). More
Revellers at a Tasmanian music festival were invited to cool off inside this wooden pavilion filled with Aesop products, designed by architecture studio Partners Hill (+ movie). More
Bjarke Ingels' firm has revealed images of a huge inflatable pavilion it created for this year's edition of the annual music festival in Roskilde, Denmark (+ slideshow). More
This 18-metre-high light installation was created by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Lowlands music festival in The Netherlands (+ movie). More
Later this week, 70,000 people will converge on a temporary city in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man founder Larry Harvey told Dezeen about the "stunning achievement" of creating a high-density, car-free festival in a remote and inhospitable landscape (+ slideshow + transcript). More
Ball-Nogues Studio created a sinuous orange and purple pavilion that towered over music fans at this year's Coachella music festival by blasting pigmented paper pulp over a string structure (+ slideshow). More
Latticed and LED-illuminated climbing frames and a geometric-patterned sun seat are among the installations to be erected in the Nevada desert for the Burning Man arts festival this summer (+ slideshow). More
A harlequin pattern of mirrors enveloped a patch of Hungarian woodland in this installation created by Budapest-based Studio Nomad for a summer music festival (+ slideshow). More
Timber frames that resemble traditional fish-drying racks by Norwegian studio Rintala Eggertsson Architects have been constructed on an island in Norway to host events during a cultural festival (+ slideshow). More
This modular honeycomb of wooden cells by a team of Belgian designers could provide a solution for people avoiding music festivals because they don't like sleeping in tents (+ slideshow). More
An architecture graduate from the University of Westminster has designed a temporary plywood "temple" for the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. More
For this year's Coachella festival, American artist Phillip K Smith III created an installation of shiny cuboids that by day provided a series of mirrors, but by night were transformed into neon towers of light (+ slideshow). More
This woven rattan tunnel by Dominican designers Natalia Ortega Gámez and Jose Thén offered a secluded hangout at Caribbean music festival Bacanalia (+ movie). More
This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. More
Revellers at this year's Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano (+ slideshow). More