Australian studio Align has completed Picnic Island Cabin, a holiday retreat on the edge of a tiny island in Tasmania, clad in a palette of spotted gum timber and steel.
Silicon Valley startup 1X Technologies will start shipping its Neo humanoid robots into people's homes this year. Dezeen's Ellen Eberhardt was given an exclusive look behind the scenes where designers are turning the stuff of science fiction into reality.
Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower is on course to be the world's first kilometre-tall building. But, architect Gordon Gill tells Dezeen in this interview, a skyscraper double that height is already realistic.
Sticks, pasta and braille all feature in an exhibition of chopsticks, presented at Milan design week by a new platform that brings together design from Japan, China and South Korea.
USM's classic Haller storage system forms the framework for a "breathing" textile membrane that cocoons visitors to this Milan design week installation, developed in collaboration with architecture studio Snøhetta and artist
Annabelle Schneider.
Promotion: Japanese footwear brand ASICS has teamed up with Los Angeles studio NUOVA to create an immersive sensory installation during Milan design week, which celebrates the movement central to its Gel-kinetic 2.0 sneaker.