Architecture & Interiors | Design Indaba

Cáustico: Speculating the future of water access

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Film & Animation

What happens to society if drinking water becomes our most lucrative resource? >

28 Sep 16
Devoted to urban planning

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Born in Kigali, Rwanda, this MIT student works to improve and provide affordable housing designs in Africa. >

27 Sep 16
Solving the problem of student housing with floating dormitories

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

See the unconventional, low-cost student residences recently unveiled in Copenhagen. >

26 Sep 16
Award-winning initiative turns theory into solution

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

CHHAT won the 2016 Fuller Challenge because of its ability to address real-life problems surrounding human shelter. >

23 Sep 16
This book celebrates creativity across the continent

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Co-edited by Gestalten and Design Indaba, this book celebrates creativity and design in Africa and the rise of new talent. >

21 Sep 16
A design solution to moving back in with your parents

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Spanish collective designs custom spaces and furniture for young adults returning home. >

21 Sep 16
Cairo’s future Science City: Weston Williamson & Partners win design bid

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

This London-based architecture firm has won the opportunity to design Egypt’s science hub. >

8 Sep 16
The Boring Collection: Lensvelt's deliberately drab furniture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

The remarkable thing about this furniture line is that it is totally unremarkable. >

7 Sep 16
Sculptural desalination plant imagined for Santa Monica pier

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Pipe is a sustainable water harvesting solution that could produce 4.5 billion litres of clean water for California. >

30 Aug 16
The dynamic solar shading of Kiefer Technic Showroom

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

This building reacts to the outside environment to benefit its inhabitants. >

30 Aug 16
A bamboo city built for communal living

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Penda explores the idea of a sustainable urban village made out of bamboo and rope. >

24 Aug 16
China opens record-breaking transparent bridge

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Urban & Landscape Design

The Hunan province is now home to the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world. >

23 Aug 16
Interior designer Seugnet Herbst challenges the ordinary

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

2016 Emerging Creative Seugnet Herbst challenges ordinary aspects of interior design. >

19 Aug 16
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market. >

19 Aug 16
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016. >

17 Aug 16 / Advertorial
Design Centre mimics human anatomy

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Solar-powered and inspired by skin and bone, the Xinhee Design Centre defies every office building norm. >

12 Aug 16
The Purpose Hotel hopes to change the world while you sleep

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

The Purpose Hotel is designed to change the lives of everyone involved in the design, by connecting all of the products, furniture and fittings to a cause. >

10 Aug 16
LA strikes silver with the Liquid Shard

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Los Angeles citizens add shimmer to outdated public park with a massive installation called "Liquid Shard". >

9 Aug 16
This floating home is 98 per cent recyclable

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The WaterNest 100 is a sustainable, futuristic floating home. >

3 Aug 16
Living architecture could be the answer to sustainable built environments

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

University team develop smart bricks with biological systems that can generate energy and clean water. >

3 Aug 16
MOBA replaces temporary housing with easy-to-assemble permanent homes

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Argentinian social company relooks at the concept of emergency shelters in developing countries. >

1 Aug 16
A modern emergency shelter inspired by a timeless art

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

This lightweight, mobile, structural fabric creates a “weaved” shelter for refugees and other displaced people. >

29 Jul 16
Floating Farm set to launch in Rotterdam

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Food Design

Waterfront dairy farm presents a sustainable approach to food production in cities. >

28 Jul 16
Senegalese village is thriving because of this one building

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Centre fosters creativity and enterprise in a remote village in Senegal. >

26 Jul 16

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