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Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system

Product Spotlight > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Product Design

A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable. >

1 Jun 16
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience

Next Generation > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Product Design

Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather. >

1 Jun 16
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >

27 May 16
Flood House explores a new typology of responsive architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Matthew Butcher’s Flood House looks at how future dwellings should be adapted to co-exist with their native environments. >

26 May 16
Studio [D] Tale: Design for social impact in emerging economies

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

We talk to cross-continental architecture and design studio Studio [D] Tale about innovation in the everyday, especially in emerging economies. >

25 May 16
Christian Benimana: Architects don’t have to be local to think local

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Rwandan architect Christian Benimana believes that the built environment should catalyse positive systemic change. >

24 May 16
Studio [D] Tale on design activism and innovation within existing systems

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

Social impact designers Studio [D] Tale talk about innovating within informal economies and interventions in existing, sometimes backward, systems. >

23 May 16
Cliff face shelter designed to provide safe passage for refugees

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Slice Refugee Hospitality Centre proposes an architectural solution to welcoming and hosting migrants that cross seas to seek asylum. >

23 May 16
Spherical garden rolls around looking for sunlight and water

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design

Interactive Architecture Lab creates a mobile garden that thinks for itself. >

20 May 16
Recycled materials unite on a grand scale with Collage House

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The Mumbai home is made from a collection of recycled and found materials. >

17 May 16
$Thomas Chapman on reconnecting a fractured city$

Thomas Chapman on reconnecting a fractured city

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

South African architect Thomas Chapman is fixing the past using layers of new design. >

17 May 16
A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >

16 May 16
Alfredo Brillembourg: Architecture as a response to social issues

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Alfredo Brillembourg’s work addresses the housing crisis and poverty through architecture. >

13 May 16
Jeanne Gang: The architecture of policing in America

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Founder of Studio Gang, Jeanne Gang talks about how architecture can help address police brutality in America. >

12 May 16
Snail shell shelter brings user closer to nature

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Helix is a micro-architecture structure that can shelter one nomadic individual. >

12 May 16
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >

11 May 16
Siyanda Mazibuko

Siyanda Mazibuko on his work: "I've got a crazy passion for making things from wood." We think that just about says it all. >

9 May 16
Counterspace: Investigating the strange in Johannesburg’s built environment

Q&A > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography

Counterspace Studio's recent investigation into the reappropriation of Johannesburg’s mine dumps led the group to discover how abandoned spaces are being used. >

6 May 16
Pedro&Juana: Architecture is a social service

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

Mexico City-based architecture and design practice Pedro&Juana create interactive and customisable spaces. >

6 May 16
Chimera IoT: a Kenyan startup designing smart homes

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

The recently established company adapts Western technology to African specific conditions. >

5 May 16
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Food Design

Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub. >

5 May 16
Green Product: Breathing Skins adapts to the environment

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

A showroom in Germany allows users to experience technology that adapts internal conditions to its external environment. >

4 May 16
Earthquake-resistant orphanage in Haiti is the start of a greater social initiative

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Ti Kay Là was built to house, support and educate street children in Haiti who are living in extreme poverty and without shelter. >

4 May 16
Skyscraper made out of wooden numbers

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Anders Berensson Architects is set to transform an old parking lot in Stockholm into a multi-use wooden skyscraper. >

29 Apr 16

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