Architecture & Interiors | Design Indaba

Stained Glass Masters

Cape Town-based Stained Glass Masters create contemporary handcrafted stained glass windows and light features. >

12 Dec 14
A school is unpacked in Malawi

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors

How a rural school went from fabrication at a workshop in Johannesburg to erection on a dusty site in the village of Chimphamba. >

11 Dec 14
Beyond Entropy Africa

Beyond Entropy Africa is a Luanda-based agency of architects who propose urban development projects in keeping with everyday people’s lived realities. >

2 Dec 14
MBOISA 2015: 12 ways to define beauty

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

Here are the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2015 nominations, from the personal to the practical to the political. >

1 Dec 14
Planning the Impossible

African Report > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Kigali’s city planners have devised an ambitious plan to transform this quaint capital city into a regional powerhouse. >

28 Nov 14
Built memories

Focus On > Architecture & Interiors

In this Focus On, we look at four diverse projects that commemorate significant historical events through the built form. >

23 Nov 14
Help for the homeless

Focus On > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Product Design

Shelter is one of the most basic human needs. We round up four innovative designs for temporary shelter. >

16 Nov 14
Architecture & Water (Part 3): Water Park

FilmFestFriday > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The final part of this documentary series looks at ideas such as floating islands, which bring the Thames River into the greater urban fabric of London. >

7 Nov 14
Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers

Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers mix traditional design principles with contemporary trends. >

7 Nov 14
Take Five

Take Five > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Our African Report on the vibrant portraits of Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj captured readers' attention this week. >

7 Nov 14
The tales that monuments tell

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography

Photographer David Goldblatt tells us which post-Apartheid monuments he considers successful and why. >

5 Nov 14
Making a city desired

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

The "City Desired" exhibition explores issues of city making and contemporary urbanism through the lens of Cape Town. >

1 Nov 14
Architecture and Water (Part 2): Gentrification machine?

FilmFestFriday > Architecture & Interiors / Film & Animation

The second of a three-part documentary series explores the gentrification along the Thames driven by desirable riverside living. >

31 Oct 14
Studio Propolis: The labourers of love

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft

Inside the Nairobi-based workshop of Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner, a husband-and-wife team who make all their own designs by hand. >

30 Oct 14
Nesting instinct

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Design Thinking

Porky Hefer is expanding his interest in sustainable design by building a house. Just don't ask him for elevation plans. >

27 Oct 14
Architecture and Water (Part 1): A River Runs Through It

FilmFestFriday > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The first of a three-part documentary series asserts that water management is as much a political issue as it is an urban planning one. >

24 Oct 14
The face of the future

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Product Design

The overall winner of the Dutch Design Awards is 'Sweetie', a project that fights sex tourism online through an avatar that has the appearance of a young girl. >

18 Oct 14
Paragon takes top sustainability honours

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

The Johannesburg-based firm won the 2014 AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture for its design of the Alexander Forbes Headquarters. >

10 Oct 14
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Readers loved graphic design maestro Seymour Chwast's personal history of the evolution of styles this week. >

10 Oct 14
For the love of trees

Focus On > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Product Design

Trees must be one of nature's finest designs. We roundup five designs from our archive that take their inspiration from the leafy form. >

5 Oct 14
What's in a brief?

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Watch Tom Bassett's documentary "Briefly", featuring interviews with top designers such as Frank Gehry, Yves Béhar and David Rockwell. >

1 Oct 14
Light and shadow

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The subtle play of light through the spaces of this children's facility in the Japanese town of Yamadi-machi is designed to encourage healing. >

29 Sep 14
Call for submissions: "Take Two" at Design Indaba Expo 2015

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Design Thinking / Product Design

We're planning an exciting new exhibition on the second life of objects – and we want your work to be part of it. Apply before 31 October! >

19 Sep 14
Working on Water

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Watch the full episode from Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series on Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi's groundbreaking projects in Lagos and Port Harcourt. >

16 Sep 14

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