This week on Dezeen, we revealed all 52 Dezeen Awards 2024 winners together with the structure, interiors and design tasks of the 12 months.
The Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World Residents was named structure challenge of the 12 months, Aesop Diagonal finest inside of the 12 months and the Faneeri folding chair design challenge of the 12 months.
We additionally introduced the Dezeen Awards 2024 Designers of the 12 months and Fernando Laposse was named the winner of the Bentley Lighthouse Award 2024.
In design, automobile model Audi ditched its distinctive four-ring emblem for its Chinese language electrical automobile vary, which as a substitute options an all-caps AUDI wordmark.
The rebrand follows Jaguar revealing a modern visible identification final week. In an opinion piece, design author Sophie Tolhurst stated “the long run Jaguar is providing feels baffling somewhat than visionary”.
Additionally in design, Dezeen reporter Jane Englefield investigated the “knotty drawback” of polyurethane foam within the pliable furnishings business. A agency favorite for over half a century, the versatile materials has dominated the business for the reason that tardy Nineteen Fifties, however has earnest sustainability points.
Foam is a “vital environmental and security drawback”, in accordance with Celine Sandberg, founding father of all-women-run Norwegian biofoam producer Agoprene.
“Polyurethane is the product of two petrochemicals, derived as by-products of the petroleum business, which makes it extraordinarily reasonably priced however extremely polluting,” she stated.
In structure information, the 85 Social Dwellings in Cornellà social housing challenge in Barcelona, Spain, was named the world’s finest constructing by RIBA.
Designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes, the constructing has a modular timber framework and was described by the judges as “inclusive and sustainable”.
With December starting subsequent week, we additionally featured a collection of design-led Christmas timber from world wide, together with a pair designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for the Version lodges in Tokyo.
In London, designer Anna Lomax reimagined a Christmas tree as a twisting column for the V&A, whereas artist Liz West designed a neon Christmas tree in King’s Cross.
This week, we additionally spotlighted 15 Indian furnishings and homeware manufacturers value understanding.
In accordance with a latest IMARC Group report, India’s design market will develop from $31.5 billion in 2023 to $67.4 billion in 2032, and these studios want to make their mark.
Well-liked tasks featured on Dezeen this week included a chapel within the Czech Republic, a cube-shaped church and neighborhood centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, and a timber-framed inside for a house on a Croatian island.
This week’s lookbooks featured fashionable kitchens with metallic gold surfaces in sudden locations and bedrooms with bedside tables that add a current contact.
