This week we highlighted the best designs from Milan design week
This week on Dezeen, we reported from Milan design week, revealing the best furniture, products and installations. To showcase the highlights of the biggest event in the design calendar, we published a series of roundups including standout installations, highlights from the Alcova exhibition, and funky chairs by emerging designers. UK studio Foster + Partners Industrial Design The post This week we highlighted the best designs from Milan design week appeared first on Dezeen.
This week on Dezeen, we reported from Milan design week, revealing the best furniture, products and installations.
To showcase the highlights of the biggest event in the design calendar, we published a series of roundups including standout installations, highlights from the Alcova exhibition, and funky chairs by emerging designers.
UK studio Foster + Partners Industrial Design was among those launching new designs at the fair – unveiling its Ori bird feeder that is designed to reduce the spread of disease.
We also looked ahead to the Expo 2025 Osaka, which is set to open this weekend in the Japan.
Held within the wooden Grand Ring designed by Sou Fujimoto, the national pavilions on show will include the "grand yet minimalistic" USA Pavilion centred around a translucent cube and the wooden Uzbekistan Pavilion that nods to ancient Silk Road shelters.
Ahead of the official opening, Japanese sportswear company Mizuno launched a pair of official trainers informed by the event's blue and red mascot.
This week also saw the UK's most under threat buildings revealed by conservation group Twentieth Century Society.
Of the 10 buildings featured on the 2025 Risk List of UK buildings, three are millennium-era buildings, which according to the group is the first time buildings from this period have appeared on the list.
In other architecture news, British architect Peter Cook unveiled his colourful design for the Play Pavilion, which will be built beside the Serpentine gallery in London.
Set to open on 11 June, the pavilion will have a geodesic dome roof and be wrapped with rounded walls decorated with Lego murals.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a home in Hyderabad cantilevered above a stone-clad plinth, a bat-friendly watchtower in the Netherlands and a concrete ruin transformed into a modern home overlooking Lake Como.
Our latest lookbooks featured designer bathrooms with freestanding baths, unfitted kitchens with freestanding units and living areas with exposed rammed-earth walls.
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