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  • The Drop Store shows what products may look like in a water-scarce future

    To mark the UN Water Conference 2023, design agency Publicis Groupe Benelux has created a range of conceptual "supermarket" products that show what consumption could look like in a world with less water. More

    Ben Dreith | 28 March 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Human Climate Horizons tool projects impact of global heating on each nation

    A data platform showing how different levels of global heating will affect people's lives around the world has been launched by the United Nations. More

    Nat Barker | 7 December 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Sustainable architecture efforts hindered by "sloppiness" says UN climate ambassador

    Architects must take greater accountability for their sector to help decarbonise the built environment, says UN Race to Zero ambassador Sarah El Battouty in this exclusive interview from the final day of the COP27 climate conference. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 18 November 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Norman Foster to launch UN sustainability declaration for architects

    The United Nations has written a set of "principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture" for architects to sign up to called the San Marino Declaration, which architect Norman Foster is set to launch ahead of COP27. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 23 September 2022 | Leave a comment
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    SOM and Burckhardt+Partner create mass-timber office for UN on Lake Geneva

    Architecture studios Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Burckhardt+Partner have unveiled a hybrid mass-timber and concrete office block on the United Nations campus in Geneva. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 24 June 2022 | Leave a comment
  • IKEA designs "safe spaces" for children and at-risk refugees fleeing Ukraine

    Furniture company IKEA has donated its products and design services to create a series of refugee support centres in Eastern Europe, set up by the United Nations to offer aid and sanctuary to the most vulnerable groups displaced by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 21 June 2022 | Leave a comment
  • BIG and Samoo unveil design for "flood-proof" floating city Oceanix Busan

    Architecture firms BIG and Samoo and tech company Oceanix have revealed their design for a first-of-its-kind climate-resilient floating city, destined for the seas off Busan in South Korea. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 29 April 2022 | Leave a comment
  • UN gives green light to "historic" global treaty to end plastic waste

    World leaders from 175 countries have agreed to draw up a legally binding UN treaty that will regulate plastic production and pollution on an international scale for the first time. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 4 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Stride Treglown places "sinking" Monopoly-style house in River Avon ahead of COP26

    Architecture firm Stride Treglown has installed a sculpture of a bright red "sinking house" in Bath's Pulteney Weir to draw attention to climate change. More

    Jane Englefield | 29 October 2021 | Leave a comment
  • SOM designs UAE diplomacy building with Middle Eastern motifs in Manhattan

    Architecture firm SOM has designed a limestone-clad building patterned with symbolic palm leaves for the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in Manhattan. More

    Jane Englefield | 15 October 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Es Devlin to hold "conference" of trees as an installation during COP26

    British designer Es Devlin will unveil a temporary installation of 197 trees and plant species to highlight issues related to climate change during the COP26 conference. More

    Jane Englefield | 30 September 2021 | Leave a comment
  • UNbuffer postcards explore the symbols of Cyprus' ceasefire line

    Graphic designer Alexandros Kosmidis has created UNbuffer, a series of postcards that explore the United Nations' line between the Greek and Turkish sides of Cyprus. More

    India Block | 1 October 2020 | Leave a comment
  • UN and WHO launch Global Call Out To Creatives to make informative coronavirus visuals

    The United Nations has launched an open competition for creatives to design informative works that accurately communicate public health messages in a bid to "flatten the curve" of the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Natashah Hitti | 30 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Justified creates smudged blue fingerprint logo for United Nations museum

    London creative agency Justified wanted to create a "rallying symbol" when developing the visual identity for the Museum for the United Nations, which is designed to engage the younger generation. More

    Natashah Hitti | 4 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • United Nations criticises voice assistants for promoting gender biases

    A United Nations report has found that Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and other female-voiced digital assistants "reinforce commonly held gender biases". More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • "Let's start designing the future that gives us a future"

    The United Nations says we have 12 years to take action against climate change, to avoid global disaster. It's the greatest design challenge in history, says Nicolas Roope. More

    Nicolas Roope | 10 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Ten thousand IKEA refugee shelters left unused over fire fears, United Nations admits

    The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has mothballed 10,000 of IKEA's award-winning refugee shelters over concerns about the product's vulnerability to fire. More

    Marcus Fairs | 29 April 2017 | 15 comments
  • United Nations North Delegates' Lounge by Hella Jongerius and Rem Koolhaas

    Designer Hella Jongerius and architect Rem Koolhaas have renovated the North Delegates' Lounge at the United Nations buildings in New York (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 20 September 2013 | 14 comments
  • Hella Jongerius and Rem Koolhaas to design United Nations delegates lounge

    Dezeen Wire: a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolhaas and graphic designer Irma Boom have been selected to re-design the North Delegates’ Lounge at the United Nations headquarters in New York. More

    Rose Etherington | 19 December 2011 | Leave a comment

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Everything you need to know about Saudi mega-project Neom

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    Giant canopy by Adjaye

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    Heatherwick Saudi museum

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    Brutalist cube-shaped home

  • Timeless Beacon by FangFang

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    Ma Yansong installation

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    Ma Yansong installation

  • Highgate Road facade of The Arches townhouses by The DHaus Company

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    Arched London townhouses

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    Arched London townhouses

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