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It’s London, baby!
The London Design Festival returns this month.
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Bridge of steel
Sculptural steel arches protect this bridge from extreme weather conditions.
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Let them eat cake
This spectacular wedding-cake pavilion is a celebration of love.
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Designing for good
Unique collaboration including 600 designers creates solutions for clean water and sanitation.
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Child’s play
This revamped museum was designed with and for children.
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Heads up
William Kentridge's The Head & The Load comes to the African continent for the first time.
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Cabin fever
This wooden cabin can be opened up to let in nature.
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Naturally synthetic
This low-carbon biomaterial created from plant waste and microbes is an alternative to traditional clothing fabrics.
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Making sense
Design Indaba alum Ai Weiwei’s new exhibition includes a piece made from 650 000 Legos.
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Winning formula
David Chipperfield has been selected as the 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Shapeshifter
This New York theatre’s new branding changes for each production.
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Fossil fuels
An enormous hanging sculpture is made up of the amount of coal needed to power a lightbulb for a year.
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Makeup mobility
This beauty tool is designed to make the makeup-application process more inclusive.
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Music by design
Design Indaba alum Brian Eno’s colour-changing turntable won a Wallpaper* Design Award.
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To the nines
The 2022 Fashion Awards honoured the innovators, influencers and changemakers of the fashion industry.
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A step ahead
Multinational architecture firm BDP built a giant standalone staircase for students at the University of London.
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No place like home
A quirky family home in Dorset, England, is the Royal Institute of British Architects’ House of the Year.
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Earth first
The winners of the second Earthshot Prize were announced on 2 December 2022.
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Timeless timber
Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has been announced as the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion designer.
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Tickled pink
Design Indaba alum Morag Myerscough has transformed a courtyard at Sheffield Children's Hospital into a kaleidoscope of colour.
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Power up
Lift 109, the latest revamped feature of Battersea Power Station, opened to the public earlier in November.
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The language of precarity
Raw Nerves, running until 14 January 2023, is the latest exhibition at Hannah Barry Gallery in London.
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Hands-on
“The Seeing Hands” by Katie Schwab is a large-scale interactive exhibition that invites tactile engagement by kids.
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Read all about it
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the New Library at Magdalene College as the 26th Stirling Prize winner.
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