Lidar and radar technology help to make EX90 "the safest Volvo ever"

Car company Volvo's electric EX90 SUV has been shortlisted for a 2025 Dezeen Award for its innovative safety features, including sensors that can detect pedestrians up to 250 metres ahead.

Volvo has already built its reputation around safety and the company's first fully electric seven-seater promises to be "the safest Volvo ever", with eight cameras, five radars, 16 ultrasonic sensors and a roof-mounted Lidar sensor.

"The standard safety in the EX90 will be beyond that of any Volvo before it, offering one of the most advanced sensor systems on the market," the company said.

EX90's...

The Blue Box / Bruzkus Greenberg

© Pion Studio architects: Bruzkus GreenbergLocation: Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, GermanyProject Year: 2025Photographs: Pion StudioArea: 75.0 m2

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Full English breakfast cast in wax for Maggie Yang's hyperrealistic food candles

London-based designer Maggie Yang has created a collection of wax candles replicating different foods, including a Ploughman's pie, a wheel of brie and an entire breakfast plate with beans and brown sauce.

The collection, titled Pantler's Rations, is made by casting silicone onto real food items to create moulds that "pick up as much texture as possible", Yang explained.

The final candles are cast into these moulds and later sculpted, painted and glazed by hand to achieve their realistic appearance as varying food items.

"From loaves, cakes to pies, every bakery item...

Final week to book your Dezeen Awards 2025 party tickets

Ticket sales for the Dezeen Awards 2025 party end this week, 21 November at 23:59 London time. Don't wait – secure your place before it's too late!

Tickets are available at a discounted rate of £180 for all studios that entered this year's Dezeen Awards, and £225 for everyone else. Plus, save an additional 10 per cent on the standard ticket price when you book a package of five or more tickets.

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Taking place at Exhibition White City in London from 6:00pm until 11:00pm, the party will feature an evening of entertainment...

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The Silent Pavilion: Carlo Scarpa and the Giardino delle Sculture at the Venice Biennale

Giardino delle Sculture / Carlo Scarpa. Image by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra [Flickr under license CC BY-NC 2.0]

When we think of Venice, familiar images come to mind: Piazza San Marco, winding canals, and the reflection of Byzantine domes on still waters. Few, however, imagine that among those reflections lies a discreet chapter of Italian modernity — the architecture of Carlo Scarpa.

More than an architect, Scarpa was a craftsman of light and matter, a poet of detail who knew how to listen to the Venetian tradition and respond to it with gestures of...

B-Frame Residence / Peter Braithwaite Studio

© Ema Peter Photography architects: Peter Braithwaite StudioLocation: Terence Bay, CanadaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Ema Peter PhotographyPhotographs: Courtesy of Peter Braithwaite StudioPhotographs: Area: 1200.0 ft2

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Sculpting Saudi Arabia’s Urban Vision: Buildner Reveals Winners of the Mujassam Watan Challenge

Courtesy of Buildner

Buildner and the Mujassam Watan Initiative have announced the results of the Mujassam Watan Urban Sculpture Challenge.

This international competition invited architects, artists, and designers to create visionary public sculptures that reflect Saudi Arabia's rich cultural heritage and forward-looking ambitions. As the Kingdom undergoes a profound transformation under Vision 2030, this initiative—organized in partnership with the Mujassam Watan Initiative—called for works that engage with both history and future, tradition and innovation, within the public realm.

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Studio Edwards creates "mobile architecture" for retail spaces

Melbourne-based Studio Edwards has collaborated with local fashion brand LOWF to create Shift Space – a relocatable modular retail system.

Designed for disassembly and reuse, the Shift Space system was designed so it can be configured to suit a variety of settings, from compact laneway shops to gallery-scale interiors.

Comprising clothing rails, displays and seating, each component is designed for longevity and flexibility, enabling it to be reassembled across multiple iterations with minimal waste.

The system combines salvaged Oregon timber, industrial-grade wool felt and galvanised steel stud frames, connected with reversible fixings that allow the entire...

3D building design software Snaptrude launches free student plan

Promotion: American technology company Snaptrude is making its flagship building design tool free for architecture students across the world, so that they can "build the kind of portfolios that get them hired".

The Snaptrude Student Plan gives aspiring architects access to the same digital platform used by many established practitioners to rapidly turn their ideas into usable, presentable models.

The system includes 2D and 3D modelling software, including Building Information Modelling (BIM), and a Program mode that replaces disconnected spreadsheets with a live-linked table that's synced directly to the model.

There's also a presentation mode for showing the...