Новости за 22.04.2024

Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers' KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas (KU) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. BIG's design was chosen as part of an open call,

Unprotected historic homes are at risk of demolition where land holds greater value than architectural importance, says conservation group Docomomo US in response to actor Chris Pratt's tearing down a mid-century home designed by modernist architect Craig Ellwood. Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger drew attention online when news broke that the couple had begun

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has designed a tiered, 62-storey supertall skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York. Located at 350 Park, the supertall skyscraper will rise approximately 1,600 feet high (487 metres), holding office spaces and a public plaza at ground level. Renderings show a tiered tower made up of rectangular volumes that

Dezeen Showroom: in tandem with its release at Milan design week 2024, Italian design brand UniFor has listed its distinctive Andromeda furniture collection on Dezeen Showroom. The Andromeda series comprises a credenza, tables, sofas and coffee tables, all of which were designed in collaboration with international architecture and design studio LSM. The Andromeda credenza has

Promotion: Czech brand Mmcité has been creating urban furniture for 30 years but continues to adapt to the "constantly evolving" needs of public space, says founder and creative director David Karásek. Mmcité's benches, bins, bike racks and bus shelters can be found in 40 countries around the world, from Mont Blanc to the Dubai Water

Dezeen Showroom: British brand Skopos has created a range of fabric upholstery named Encanto, designed to add pops of colour and texture to a range of commercial spaces. Made from soil- and stain-resistant polyester, it aims to be a stylish upholstery option that performs well in high-traffic areas, including office, education, care, high-end hospitality and cruise

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has completed Frame House, a family home in Ljubljana clad in red-brick tiles that play on the area's pitched-roof buildings. Frame House is located in the city's suburbs and designed by OFIS Arhitekti with a footprint of 200 square metres so as not to intrude on the site's large rear garden.

With Earth Day 2024 and an increasing number of environmental campaigners calling for an end to plastics, is time finally up for the 20th century's miracle material? Rima Sabina Aouf finds out if we can – and should – abolish plastic. Earth Day 2024 has the theme of "Planet vs Plastics", campaigning for "the end"

Car company Tesla has issued a recall of nearly all Cybertrucks sold to date, following reports of its accelerator pad becoming stuck at "full throttle". The recall applies to 3,878 vehicles produced between 13 November and 4 April, when Tesla started utilising soap as a lubricant to aid assembly in an "unapproved change" to the manufacturing

We need to end our use of plastics for the sake of the planet and human's health, writes the director of Earth Day's end plastic initiatives Aidan Charron. Plastics have become ubiquitous in our lives, they are everywhere and unavoidable but it hasn't always been like that. They are relatively new materials and while they

Zaha Hadid Design, Heatherwick Studio and Foster + Partners were among the studios taking part in this year's Milan design week, with starchitecture product designs including a plastic-waste chair and mesh furniture. This year's edition of Milan design week felt like a return to form, with big brands sharing space with emerging designers and more experimental

There's still time to get listed in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the 12th anniversary of NYCxDesign, the annual festival located in New York City. Running this year from 16 to 23 May 2024 and located across the city's five boroughs, the festival hosts an eight-day programme of talks, exhibitions, installations, open studios, product

Dezeen Showroom: office furniture brand Narbutas has launched the Round Multipurpose table, designed to accommodate both work and leisure needs in the workplace. A versatile piece of furniture, the Round Multipurpose table has a lightweight design available in two depths and three height variations, which can be combined to create long table arrangements. Its design is

Dim lighting and dark tones define the interiors of the second Smith & Mills restaurant in New York, recently completed by architecture studio Woods Bagot. Read more

Architects Melike Altınısık and Anupama Kundoo, multidisciplinary designer Michele De Lucchi, sustainability director Mina Hasman and curator Abraham Thomas have joined the Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. Read more

Experimental furniture and nostalgic films combine in Diurno, a Milan design week installation exploring the past and future of the living room. Curated by Gianmaria Sforza, the show features the work of Lausanne-based design studio Panter & Tourron and Italian video artist Davide Rapp. It saw a Milanese studio apartment transformed into a "speakeasy-style secret

Dezeen Showroom: a rug that draws on the appearance of a flower's reproductive system is among 14 new products recently listed on Dezeen Showroom. Anther rug by Laura Niubó for Niubó Los Angeles-based designer Laura Niubó has created a series of rugs informed by the reproductive organs of plants – among them is the Anther rug,