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Weathering the storms
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Architecture & Interiors
Bangladeshi architect and recent Soane Medal recipient Marina Tabassum’s modular houses are built to survive monsoon season
10 Jul 22
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Life through the lens
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Art & Photography
A Russian photographer is awarded for documenting the social transformation of the traditional ‘reindeer people’
10 Jul 22
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All the feels
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fernado’s high-end fashion brand taps into the emotional connection we have to fashion items
10 Jul 22
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Design World Mourns
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Urban & Landscape Design
Pioneering Marcus Fairs “changed the landscape of design journalism”
7 Jul 22
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Straw men
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Architecture & Interiors
A sustainable model with houses made of straw is coming to the Netherlands
3 Jul 22
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A great catch for fashion
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Product Design
A start-up is harnessing invasive species to supply the fashion industry with fish leather
3 Jul 22
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Dreams in 3D
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Architecture & Interiors
Lumka Jordan designs interiors that are enhanced by her own homewares and fragrances.
3 Jul 22
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Skyfall
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Architecture & Interiors
Frank Gehry reveals a striking addition to the skyline of his home city, Toronto
1 Jul 22
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The shape of water
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Art & Photography
Maya Lin’s sprawling installations pay homage to – and ask questions about – watery ecologies
29 Jun 22
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The presence of absence
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Bamiyan Cultural Centre in the Bamiyan Valley meditates on the complex history and uncertain future of Afghanistan
29 Jun 22
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It takes a village
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Product Design
Intrepid designer Lani Adeoye is inspired by the organic rhythms of the traditional society, adapting them for modern audiences
29 Jun 22
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Subverting narratives
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Siyabonga Mtshali designs Gqom luxury apparel for the black queer body
29 Jun 22
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Arbour days
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Design Activism
Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway
21 Jun 22
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Superstructures
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Architecture & Interiors
Mona-Lisa Mthethwa believes architecture can be used as a tool to bring about sustainable change
21 Jun 22
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Home and away
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African Design
The new Africa Centre in Southwark is poised to unveil a permanent collection of contemporary African art, following a much-anticipated refurbishment
21 Jun 22
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Dream, explore, discover
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Product Design
Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe
21 Jun 22
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Future compostable
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Product Design
Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier
13 Jun 22
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Hold my beer
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer
13 Jun 22
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A continental visionary
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Design Thinking
Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges
13 Jun 22
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Fast track to a modern Senegal
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Architecture & Interiors
Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation
13 Jun 22
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When pictures tell stories
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Art & Photography
Fashion and portrait photography allow Thulani Kubeka to paint with light.
6 Jun 22
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Photographic memory
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Art & Photography
Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past
6 Jun 22
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Just beachy
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Product Design
Tosin Oshinowo’s Coral Pavilion embraces the traditions of tropical modernism in West Africa
6 Jun 22
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For the birds
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Urban & Landscape Design
Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere
6 Jun 22
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