Design

Festivals Design Week Mexico, Dutch Design Week and Archtober are among the key creative events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this October. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: forms and shapes distilled from pylons, signals and beacons make up this lighting collection created by French duo Marie & Alexandre and produced by design brand Petite Friture. Read more

An approach of "frugality and honesty" informed the minimally-finished plywood and plaster surfaces of Twin Pitches, the renovation and extension to a home in London by local studio Atelier Baulier. Read more

Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has created a trio of mirrored and resin installations at Apple Park in California, all informed by the latest iPhones. Read more

Architecture studio Henning Larsen has won a competition to design a swimming pool to replace Gothenburg's historic Valhallabadet with a timber-framed building that will also house other sports facilities. Read more

Plans to demolish the Museum of London and Bastion House to make way for the London Wall West scheme will be challenged at the High Court, following environmental concerns raised by campaign group Barbican Quarter Organisation. Read more

Environmental organisation A Plastic Planet has removed the paywall around its PlasticFree database, giving designers and brands unfettered access to its directory of expert-verified plastic substitutes. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: US company MeSpace has created an office pod designed for neurodiverse individuals that gives users a high level of control over internal conditions. Read more

There's more to rattan than wicker. Designers are finding new ways of shaping the vine material into furniture with a lower carbon footprint than metal or plastic alternatives. Read more

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed a redesigned logo with a bold, sans-serif font by London studio Johnson Banks as it prepares for its 200th anniversary. Read more

American architect Jeanne Gang has designed a bottle wrapped in bronze branches for the Gordon & MacPhail 85 Years Old from Glenlivet Distillery, which is the world's oldest whisky. Read more

Promotion: designer Domenico Orefice referenced iconic landmarks from Renaissance Milan when developing the CottoMilano porcelain stoneware collection, which reimagines traditional terracotta tiles. Read more

Local developer Neutral has stated that construction on its mass-timber Edison skyscraper in Milwaukee, which it claims will be the "world's tallest", has been halted due to rising tariffs. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Flokk-owned, UK-based brand Connection has updated its Harp system, a characterful space dividing solution featuring bungee cords as stylised see-through walls. Read more

Chilean studio Max Núñez Arquitectos has raised a prefabricated steel house onto columns for a sloping site in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Chile, comparing it to a "lunar lander". Read more

Promotion: Chinese technology company Roborock has designed the Qrevo CurvX robot vacuum cleaner to be an aesthetic addition to any home, while being highly functional. Read more

Students and faculty from 10 universities have built timber installations on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York. Read more

London studio Hopkins Architects has completed a performing arts and education centre at the University of Oxford, which features a four-storey atrium and a Passivhaus concert hall. Read more

London studio Selencky Parsons has completed Bulls Barn, a family home in the south of England that looks like a cluster of small buildings. Read more

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has been named on the Time100 Next list of the world's 100 most influential rising stars. Read more