From the incisive to the intemperate, here are Dezeen’s top 10 quotes of 2023, taken from the interviews and opinion pieces we have published this year. Dezeen has published more than 100 interviews and over 50 opinion pieces this year, featuring some of the best-known voices in architecture and design. Our interviewees and writers have
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New planning legislation that aims to boost biodiversity in development projects will come into effect in England in January. Here, Dezeen explains what architects need to know. What is biodiversity and why does it matter? In this context, biodiversity usually refers to the variety of all species living within a certain area or ecosystem, including
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Continuing our review of the year, Dezeen looks back at the most controversial stories to hit the world of architecture and design in 2023. The Sphere planning battle This year saw the world’s largest spherical building open in Las Vegas – the MSG Sphere, a concert venue designed by Populous and covered in a gigantic
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From a sprawling concrete villa in California with interiors by designer Kelly Wearstler to a timber-framed cottage within a Scottish ruin, here are Dezeen’s top five houses of November 2023. Our latest roundup of the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen in the last month also includes a hexagonal home in Amsterdam, a playful Sydney townhouse
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In this lookbook, we collect eight residential interiors that were put together with limited funds but still have a certain richness. Featuring exposed structures, simple materials and sparing use of finishes, these budget interiors prove that adventurous design doesn’t have to be reserved for the very wealthy. This is the latest in our lookbooks series,
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Next in our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Pop Up, Danish studio Tredje Natur’s bold proposal for cities to build floating car parks on top of flood-preventing reservoirs. Pop Up is a response to the fact that dense cities, notably Tokyo, are building enormous underground cavities to defend against flooding, while at street level
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The coordinator of the mammoth Great Green Wall project to heal land in Africa’s Sahel region, Elvis Paul Tangem, calls for help from architects in this interview conducted as part of Dezeen’s Designing for Disaster series. One of the world’s most ambitious climate initiatives, the Great Green Wall is targeting around 780 million hectares of
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Emergency planner Lucy Easthope explains why she gets “chills at the back of the neck” when hearing that architects are working pro bono on disaster recovery in this interview conducted as part of Dezeen’s Designing for Disaster series. Easthope is the UK’s leading disaster expert, having advised the government and the military on responses to
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Our latest series looks at how designers and architects can help manage natural hazards. Dezeen features editor Nat Barker explains why it’s time to start Designing for Disaster. This year, as in previous years, the world shook, then burned, then flooded, then did it all again. The February earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria claimed so
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Four out of five of October’s houses of the month are renovations or extensions, from a Hamptons home styled on a Bond villain’s lair to a Victorian terrace in Melbourne interspersed with mini gardens. Our latest monthly roundup of the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen also features a pale-brick family home in Berlin,
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