Lego and Nike add modular sports playground to Shanghai primary school
Design studio OLA Shanghai has collaborated with toy brand Lego and sports brand Nike to create a colourful modular playground at a primary school in Shanghai, China. Read more
Competition: win a Wake sleep light by Tala and Thomas Heatherwick
For our latest competition, lighting brand Tala is offering Dezeen readers the chance to win one of its newly released Wake sleep lamps, created by designer Thomas Heatherwick. Read more
Template vs. Custom Website Design: A Brutally Honest Cost-Benefit Analysis for Growing Businesses
Your business is growing, and your current lack online presence is starting to hurt. It’s decision time: a shiny new website. But immediately, you’re faced with the foundational choice that will dictate your budget, timeline, and digital potential for years to come: template or custom design? The debate is often framed as a simple battle …
Four workplaces around the world furnished with Dezeen Showroom pieces
Dezeen Showroom In Situ: for the next instalment of our In Situ series, we round up real-world workplaces furnished with products previously published on our Showroom section. Read more
Spaced Agency treats expansion of Chinatown restaurant as « architectural archaeology »
US studio Spaced Agency has built out the street level of the nearly 90-year-old restaurant Wo Hop in New York City, using the building’s basement dining room and facade as references. Read more
Bird-inspired pavilion among student projects from Hong Kong Design Institute
Dezeen School Shows: a pavilion with a design inspired by the black-winged stilt is among the projects from Hong Kong Design Institute. Read more
The Design Labo creates shell-shaped pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka
The shell of a prehistoric marine mollusc informed the spiral shape of the Pasona Natureverse Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, created by local architecture studio The Design Labo. Read more
Is the Stirling Prize too London-centric?
This year’s Stirling Prize shortlist has again raised concerns about London bias. Ahead of the winner announcement this week, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft crunches the numbers on whether the award for Britain’s best new building unfairly favours the capital. Read more
Apple spotlights Designers of Tomorrow in debut exhibition at Design Miami.Paris
Technology brand Apple is collaborating with Design Miami on an exhibition highlighting the work of four emerging designers as part of the fair’s Paris edition, which opens next week. Read more
« Recognition is long overdue for the local architects of tropical modernism »
The prevailing story of tropical modernism in the Global South has long overlooked the contributions of local architects and engineers, writes Mohamed Ismail. Read more

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