Design

Perforated aluminium screens envelop the exterior of Darlington Public School in Sydney, Australia, which has been redesigned by architecture studio Fjcstudio. Located on the outskirts of the city, the primary school was designed to serve as “a model for innovative educational spaces”, providing adaptable indoor and outdoor learning spaces for the students. The design by […]

Smartphones today are very complex products, which is why manufacturers have long discouraged or even disallowed owners from opening up theirs just to repair a single part. Most people probably don’t have the skills for that anyway, but the old policies also prevented small third-party businesses from offering more accessible repair services. That has been

Following the completion of Open Architecture‘s conical Sun Tower in China, we’ve collected 10 eye-catching skyscrapers, towers and cultural buildings that stand out from their surroundings. Spiky residential towers, an ark-shaped church and a timber castle viewpoint are among the featured buildings, many of which have become landmarks in their contexts thanks to their towering

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has created a collection of sculptural bottles including some with an integrated “terrarium of sorts” as part of a glassware collection for gin brand Bombay Sapphire. Unveiled today, the limited-edition set described as “the first ownable Thomas Heatherwick piece of its kind” includes one of three gin and tonic glasses and

Dezeen Showroom: architecture firm Workshop/APD has drawn on its projects on the US island of Nantucket to create the Atlantic collection of rugs for Warp & Weft. Designed by Workshop/APD designers Andrew Kline and Ruoxi Wang, the Atlantic rug collection applies the firm’s elegant, contemporary aesthetic to the shapes, lines and colours of the American east

The Indian government’s rushed redevelopment of the Central Vista in New Delhi fails to move on from the colonial history of Edwin Lutyens‘s original project, writes Amit Khanna. For millennia, kings and rulers have built so that they may live forever, and history has only been selectively kind. In New Delhi, Narendra Modi is pushing