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Six architecture and design events in August from Dezeen Events Guide

August 1, 2022 Sophie Chapman 0

Chart Art Fair, Seattle Design Festival and BIO 27 are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in August include the Oslo Design Fair, a three-day event featuring exhibitions and talks, and the Arne Jacobsen and St Catherine’s College conference. The one-day conference celebrates the college’s 60th

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This week Saudi Arabia unveiled a mirrored megacity for nine million people

July 30, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia

This week on Dezeen, we revealed the Saudi Arabian government’s plans to build a 170-kilometer-long city, which will be called The Line. Designed to house nine million people, the 500-metre-high skyscraper will stretch 170 kilometres across northwest Saudi Arabia. The rectilinear megastructure will include residential, retail and leisure areas as well as schools and parks.

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Kanye West’s Yeezy Gap collection launched in bins at Herzog & de Meuron Miami car park

July 29, 2022 James Parkes 0
Image of a person wearing Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga

Musician Kanye West’s latest collaboration with retailer Gap and fashion brand Balenciaga has launched at a series of dumpster-style pop-ups across the US and at Gap’s Times Square store. The much-anticipated launch of the second Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga collection took place at several pop-ups including one at Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road multi-storey car park. Yeezy Gap

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Formafantasma and Artek’s Cambio exhibition explores Finnish design’s link to forestry

July 28, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Cambio

Design duo Formafantasma has collaborated with furniture brand Artek to explore the relationship between the timber and design industries in Finland through an exhibition at Helsinki Design Museum. Called Cambio: On Finnish Forestry, the exhibition is part of Formafantasma’s wider Cambio project – an ongoing investigation into the global impact of the extraction, production and

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Get listed in Dezeen’s digital guide for London Design Festival 2022

July 26, 2022 Anna Marks 0
An illustration of a bus as part of London Design Festival

Are you exhibiting at this year’s London Design Festival? Get your event listed in our digital guide to the week on Dezeen Events Guide, which will feature the festival’s key events. Taking place from 17 to 25 September 2022, London Design Festival features hundreds of events across the city, including the trade fair Design London

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MK&G Hamburg presents optimistic visions for an uncertain future

July 25, 2022 Amy Frearson 0
Teahouses of Domesticity by Objects of Common Interest at Ask Me if I Believe in the Future exhibition at MK&G Hamburg

Inflatable “teahouses” and futuristic foods feature in Ask Me if I Believe in the Future, a conceptual exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Curated by Maria Cristina Didero, Ask Me if I Believe in the Future comprises a series of objects and installations based around topics that could shape the future of humanity.

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This week the Stirling Prize shortlist was revealed

July 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Exterior of Sands End Arts and Community Centre by Mae Architects

This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, which was dominated by projects in London. Of the six projects on the shortlist for this year’s prize, which includes buildings by Niall McLaughlin Architects, Hopkins Architects and Henley Halebrown, four are located in London with the other two in Cambridge and Falkirk, Scotland. The list includes a school, a

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“Marcus Fairs was undoubtedly one of the design world’s pre-eminent power brokers”

July 14, 2022 Justin McGuirk 0
Marcus Fairs at the Icon offices

Marcus Fairs, who passed away earlier this month, changed the way we consume design news, writes Justin McGuirk. Marcus Fairs 27 November 1967 to 30 June 2022 Salman Rushdie once said that the internet was the final victory of the numerate over the literate. Such snidery was not uncommon among the denizens of print media

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