This week we launched our mid-century modern design series

This week on Dezeen, we kicked off our mid-century modern design series with an overview of the movement, which is showing no signs of abating after more than 70 years. In the first of a series of profiles of mid-century modern designer, we looked back at the career of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero The post This week we launched our mid-century modern design series appeared first on Dezeen.

This week we launched our mid-century modern design series
Mid-century modern design series

This week on Dezeen, we kicked off our mid-century modern design series with an overview of the movement, which is showing no signs of abating after more than 70 years.

In the first of a series of profiles of mid-century modern designer, we looked back at the career of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen, whose creations were adopted as the optimistic symbols of a new post-war age.

We also spoke to author Cara Greenberg, whose book popularised the term mid-century modern series. She told us that the style is "never going away".

Dezeen Awards announced
The Dezeen Awards shortlists were announced

This week also saw us announce the shortlists for Dezeen Awards 2024. The 82-strong architecture shortlist included buildings by Schemata ArchitectsUrbanusStudio GangMVRDV (pictured) and Grimshaw.

We also announced the interiorsdesign and sustainability shortlists as well as the Designers of the Year shortlist, which included Fala AtelierHolloway Li and FOG Architecture.

Tall white towers along Williamsburg
Selldorf Architects completed the One Domino Square skyscraper in New York

In New York, Selldorf Architects completed a pair of porcelain-clad skyscrapers on the waterfront of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighbourhood.

Named One Domino Square, the development comprises 55-storey and 39-storey residential skyscrapers located between the Williamsburg Bridge and the recently opened Domino Sugar Refinery.

Mountain Dew rebrand
Mouthing Dew unveiled its rebrand

In design news, PepsiCo unveiled a rebrand of its Mountain Dew soft drink, which placed the mountain back at the core of the identity.

Alongside a rejuvenated colour palette, mountains were incorporated into the logo and packaging, while the word mountain was reintroduced to the logo.

Megalopolis poster
We published an opinion on the Megalopolis film

In an opinion piece this week, we focused on the visionary architect at the centre of Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre epic movie Megalopolis.

"This is a film about architecture," wrote Will Wiles. "And when a film as cumbersome with meaning and fatally earnest as Megalopolis uses architecture to make its point, what is it saying?"

Stairway House by Nendo
We rounded up houses with gloriously impractical features

Following the publication of a house with a wooden slatted floor in the upper-storey living room last month, we rounded up a series of houses with gloriously impractical features from the Dezeen archive.

The homes feature transparent walls, unorthodox plans and giant staircases (pictured above).

Cornish house with low roof
Hugh Strange Architects' Cornish courtyard home was one of this week's most popular stories

Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included a Cornish courtyard home by Hugh Strange Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop's "big cube" in Paddington and an aluminium-clad extension to a hotel in Singapore.

This week's lookbook featured eight soothing cabin interiors to retreat to this autumn.

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