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Five architecture and design events in December from Dezeen Events Guide
Taiwan Design Week, Miami art week and Designtide Tokyo are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in December include Business of Design Week and Chiang Mai Design Week. Taiwan Design Week 29 November to 7 December, Taiwan 2025 marks the third edition of Taiwan
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This week we revealed the Dezeen Awards 2025 winners
This week on Dezeen, we revealed all 60 winners of the Dezeen Awards 2025, including the architecture, interiors and design projects of the year. A children’s hospital by Herzog & de Meuron was named architecture project of the year, with the Symbolplus Office and the J39.5 seating collection receiving the awards for best interior and
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Twelve top architects and designers share advice for the younger generation
To round off our Performance Review series, we asked leading architects and designers for their words of wisdom, including Daniel Libeskind, Sabine Marcelis and Lina Ghotmeh. The design and architecture industries are complex, and making a living from them can be daunting. How should you navigate the industry as a fledgling? This is the question we
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Dezeen Awards 2025 Designers of the Year winners announced
Dezeen has announced the six winners of Dezeen Awards 2025’s Designers of the Year at this evening’s ceremony in London, which include MAD, Studio Toogood and Dimore Studio. Our Designers of the Year awards recognise the best emerging and established talent whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry across architecture, interiors
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Architects and designers moving into UX, say recruiters
Increasing numbers of architects and designers are moving into UX design in search of better pay and working conditions, we report as part of our Performance Review series. Recruiters specialising in the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) fields, which typically focus on app and website design, told Dezeen they are seeing significant interest
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This week we begun our architecture and design Performance Review
This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series, Performance Review, which will explore the multitude of issues plaguing the architecture and design industry. To kick off the serious architecture critic Edwin Heathcote set out 12 things wrong with architecture, which created a fervent debate in the comment section. We also looked at how architecture
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Ten diverse materials that express black as the “ultimate colour”
Born from his obsession with the colour black, The Black Book is architect Paul Cournet’s in-depth investigation into 100 black material samples. Here, he highlights 10 of his favourites. The book features materials ranging from charcoal, lava stone, carbon fibre and coal to vegan leather, charred wood, recycled plastics and ‘the blackest black’, accumulated by
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Shibanee & Kamal Architects design green-roofed housing community in Texas
Architects Shibanee Sagar and Aadi Sagar explain how they introduced green-roofed suburban housing to foster daily contact with nature in this Texas community, as shown in this exclusive video by Dezeen. Called Tapestry, the 121-home community in Frisco, Texas, was designed by Bangalore-based architecture firm Shibanee & Kamal Architects and was built by its construction
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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. Though people don’t say it very often, everyone knows it: design and architecture are broken. In most countries with well-established creative industries, many working architects and people in related roles are exasperated by measly earnings,
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