Promotion: the American Hardwood Export Council and design journal Disegno’s podcast returns for a fourth season exploring the relationship between wood and the design industry. Word on Woods podcast focuses on “unexpected and timely” topics, with each episode including an interview with a leading designer, architect, manufacturer or forestry expert. Above: Anna Maria Øfstedal creates furniture with a chainsaw. Photo by Benjamin Lund. Top image by Petr Krejčí The latest…

Local studio 3DM Architecture has married arched volumes with a pared-back material palette to create Twentyfour, a minimalist home in Malta. Slotted in among a series of terraced houses in Rabat, the three-storey home is designed to celebrate traditional Maltese aesthetics through modern design. Twentyfour is a house in Malta by 3DM Architecture “The point of departure for this project was almost a self-awareness that we had a studio, that…

Global architecture studio Populous has released visuals of the Qiddiya City Esports Arena, which will be located in “the world’s first mixed-use gaming and esports district”. Designed to be a focal point for Saudi Arabia‘s Qiddiya entertainment megaproject, the proposal by Populous aims to reinforce the city’s “play life” ethos informed by entertainment, sports and culture, the studio said. The arena will be the first development for the area, which…

Next in our review of 2023 we round up 10 eye-catching car designs featured on Dezeen this year, including Tesla’s Cybertruck, a muscular SUV by Rezvani Motors and David Beckham‘s designs for a pair of Maserati cars. Electric vehicles and designs integrating digital technology dominate this year’s list, which also saw BMW reveal their prototype for a colour-changing sedan and an Australian student invent an affordable kit to convert vehicles to…

Australian architecture studio Fraser & Partners has revealed its design for a nearly 190-metre-tall residential tower named C6 in Perth, Australia, describing it as a “new benchmark in height for mass timber”. Fraser & Partners says C6, which will be 189.1 metres tall, will become the world’s tallest hybrid timber housing once it is completed, towering over plans for SHoP Architects’ 180-metre-tall hybrid timber tower in Sydney and Schmidt Hammer…

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New planning legislation that aims to boost biodiversity in development projects will come into effect in England in January. Here, Dezeen explains what architects need to know. What is biodiversity and why does it matter? In this context, biodiversity usually refers to the variety of all species living within a certain area or ecosystem, including plants, animals, insects, bacteria and fungi. Each species in an ecosystem has its own impact…

Designer Manu Bañó used a single sheet of weathered steel to create OBJ-03, a sculptural lamp formed from “the fewest possible elements”. OBJ-03’s minimalist design is defined by a folded sheet of oxidised steel, which was developed through experiments with cutting and folding pieces of paper. A steel bar located at the back of the lamp provides stability “I designed the lamp by making numerous cuts and different folds on…

Promotion: Swiss firm Küchel Architects has revealed its design of fashion brand Moncler’s St. Moritz store, which features burnt and brushed oak wood to evoke rugged Alpine landscapes. Located in the Alpine town of St. Moritz, 1800 meters above sea level, the store occupies a first-floor location along the town’s central thoroughfare, Via Maistra. It is the Italian label’s largest mountainwear flagship store dedicated exclusively to the Moncler Grenoble line.…

Examples of practical and playful paper packaging were presented at this exhibition curated by designer Makoto Umebara as part of the Takeo Paper Show in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition was organised by Takeo Co, a specialist paper trading company established in 1899. Since 1965, Takeo has presented an annual showcase of paper that explores the material’s meaning and value through collaborations with leading designers. Above: Mechanical sculpture by Masaya Ishikawa and…