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Material Works Architecture has adapted part of the fifth floor of Lambeth's Grade II*-listed County Hall into a workspace for emerging climate tech businesses

A new design trend prioritises the needs of bugs and animals above human beings. Rima Sabina Aouf finds out about "interspecies design".

London Design Week is back for a ninth time, celebrating sustainability and groundbreaking technology in design and craftsmanship across the city

TRASH AND VAUDEVILLE. It’s the name of a store on New York’s East Seventh Street that opened in 1975 and “has been providing Rock n’ Roll to wear ever since.” In Lizzi Bougatsos’s latest show, “Idolize the Burn, an Ode to Performance,” the musician, performer, and artist transforms one such provision into The Crucifixion, 2022—a black leather brassiere augmented with underglaze ceramic and a man’s necktie. A stained, shopworn tag names the boutique and its most conventionally...

The London Design Festival is an annual event that takes place in the capital of the United Kingdom. It promotes London as a pioneering design capital globally, and this year the festival celebrated its 20th anniversary! 'Arup' was a key partner this year, and was involved in a myriad range of activities and projects. Arup's

We present three innovative bio-based materials that, replacing steel, concrete and limestone, can be used in structural applications.

Jeong Da-hyes horsehair-woven vessel becomes first Korean piece to win Loewe Craft Prize

The fungi’s roots called mycelium naturally start to degrade the waste to transform it into a strong material. The folds and crevasses on the biomass column are designed to retain moisture to facilitate the growth of edible mushrooms that can be harvested as food. Once this purpose is served, the structure is dried at a high temperature to stop the development of the fungi and solidify it into a load-bearing building column.

Blast Studio has developed a method for 3D printing with living mycelium and used it to form a two-metre-high column that could be harvested for mushrooms.

The Waste Age exhibition, which opens today at London's Design Museum, explores how design can create a circular economy that doesn't exploit the planet.