Design News

Impulse Purchase

Design News • 17 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

OK Go turns a music video into an open-source playground for design and animation >
A Grand Gesture

Design News • 17 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

“Dear New York” Transforms Grand Central into a sweeping art installation. >
Urify

Design News • 17 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Ambient health screening by Yidan Xu shortlisted for the James Dyson Awards 2025. >
Ocean Bonds

Design News • 9 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Designing finance for the planet, Bonds for Ocean Conservation reimagines debt as a tool for conservation. >
Upcycled Tower

Design News • 9 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Quay Quarter Tower, The World’s First Upcycled Skyscraper >
Care-wear

Design News • 9 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Coperni pushes the fashion boundary with new line of regenerative wear. >
Radically Human

Design News • 3 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Thomas Heatherwick, director of the 2025 Seoul Architecture Biennale sets a provocative mission: make cities radically human. >
Lensare, wearable for harmful light stimuli

Design News • 3 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Student designed wearable for harmful light stimuli >
Rahmah Library

Design News • 3 Oct 25 • Sponsored Content

Designed by The MAAK with support from the Rotary Club of Newlands and the Otto Foundation, the library serves 500 learners in District Six, Cape Town. >
Baghdad Sustainable Forests

Design News • 25 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

A Master Plan for Urban Renewal & Ecology >
ZHA’s Marine Habitats

Design News • 25 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Unveiled at the World Design Congress 2025, Nereid by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) >
Transparent Happiness

Design News • 25 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Yinka Ilori Designs for Public Joy >
Green Island Substation

Design News • 19 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Award winning substation design blurs boundaries between Infrastructure & ecology. >
Screen Free Processing

Design News • 19 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Helsinki’s Computer Playground teaches to code without a screen. >
Accelerate Wind

Design News • 19 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Turning Roofs into Energy Generators >
Climbing Amphitheatre

Design News • 12 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Farming ladders become a stage for community bonding >
Cool Cities

Design News • 12 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Solar-Powered Urban Cooling: KlimaKover’s Sustainable Approach to Beating the Heat >
Climate Landscapes

Design News • 12 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Bas Smets reshapes the future of cities at LUMA Arles >
Ritual of Rebuilding

Design News • 5 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

A timber soccer stadium designed for regeneration, community participation, and knowledge transfer >
Architecture with Hope

Design News • 5 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

The Betty Bazar Community Centre and Preschool for vulnerable communities >
Award winning Wonder Cabinet

Design News • 5 Sep 25 • Sponsored Content

Bethlehem’s inspiring hub for creativity, culture and commerce >
Space Garden

Design News • 22 Aug 25 • Sponsored Content

The Aurelia Institute in collaboration with Heatherwick Studio advance the frontier of space architecture. >
Origin

Design News • 22 Aug 25 • Sponsored Content

Nature’s digital twin >
Do Not Disturb

Design News • 22 Aug 25 • Sponsored Content

A new model for environmentally sensitive construction. >

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From the Archives

Portraits in plastic

Design News • 10 Jul 22

Established artist Mbongeni Buthelezi has exhibited widely in South Africa and abroad >
Weathering the storms

Design News • 10 Jul 22

Bangladeshi architect and recent Soane Medal recipient Marina Tabassum’s modular houses are built to survive monsoon season >
Life through the lens

Design News • 10 Jul 22

A Russian photographer is awarded for documenting the social transformation of the traditional ‘reindeer people’ >
All the feels

Q&A • 10 Jul 22

Fernado’s high-end fashion brand taps into the emotional connection we have to fashion items >