A Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral

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Armed with high-magnification macro lenses, filmmaker Sandro Bocci journeyed through coral reefs to document a striking array of color, texture, and pattern. A project for Bocci’s collective Julia Set Lab, the short film homes in on the intricacies of a life form we can’t see with the naked eye. Subtle shifts in gradients, bold color juxtapositions, and a seemingly endless diversity of recurring motifs explode across the frame, revealing the beauty and complexity of the extraordinary organisms growing below the water’s surface.

Set to music by Maurizio Morganti, “Iteration” is the second collaboration by the pair, who continue to...

A Cardboard-Inspired Wooden Stacking Box

This Stacking Open Box is by industrial designer Yusho Nishioka. Inspired by cardboard boxes, the "flaps" serve as handles. A 45-degree bevel on the top and bottom of the boxes allows them to nest.

Nishioka designed the boxes for the craftspeople of Fukui, Japan to produce. They're being sold in a limited run at a currently-running exhibition by Japanese design shop ataW, but they provide no online product link I could find.

Flokk's design-forward seating features on Dezeen Showroom

From distinctive task chairs to sprawling modular systems, the following seating has been released this year by Scandinavian furniture manufacturer Flokk's sub-brands.

The HÅG X Recouture Capisco task chair features the original HÅG Capisco task chair's distinctive cruciform backrest, developed by designer Peter Opsvik and originally released by Flokk-owned ergonomic chair brand HÅG in 1984.

In the this version, created in collaboration with textiles brand Recouture, the rear side of the backrest is upholstered in traditional Norwegian vintage åkle textile, characterised by bright colours and...

Illustrations 2026 | July - October

MAS House / SUITE

Located in São Paulo, Casa MAS is the result of a complete renovation designed with spatial integration as its starting point and materiality as its structuring element. Developed by SUITE, the residence was redesigned to respond more precisely to the family's dynamics, promoting fluidity, comfort, and a consistent connection between indoors and outdoors.

This Sideways-Telescoping Camper Triples Its Footprint

In 2010, French inventor Eric Beau developed a towable caravan that could telescope sideways to expand its footprint. Sixteen years later Beau runs Beauer, a company that manufactures several iterations of his unique design. Their latest model is the X8, which uses electric motors to triple the caravan's footprint:

The interior can be ordered with one bedroom or two:

Because the sofa units also each fold out into double beds, Beauer reckons the two-bedroom model can sleep eight people.

Looking at the design, one...

Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

For decades, the riverfront at Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park was a hard industrial edge: sheds, trucks, and security fencing separating residents and visitors from the Mississippi. After Hurricane Katrina, the Reinventing the Crescent plan reframed the waterfront as a tool for recovery, resilience, and long-term economic development, envisioning more than six miles of continuous public space along the river.

Page\Park uses local stone and timber for school wellbeing hub in Edinburgh

Scottish architecture studio Page\Park has completed The Allardice Centre, a health and wellbeing hub for Fettes College in Edinburgh, which is topped with a lantern-like roof.

Named after the independent day and boarding school's alumnus David Allardice, the 469-square-metre centre brings together medical and pastoral care services in a fully accessible building nestled into a wooded plot.

Coliseum Place Affordable Housing / David Baker Architects

The six-level building includes 59 affordable homes and social services for low-income and formerly unhoused families, including households gaining assistance through the Oakland Housing Authority.

Dezeen Awards public vote reveals 16 winning designs

The results of the design public vote for Dezeen Awards 2026 have been revealed, with 16 design projects selected as winners by Dezeen's readers.

Projects voted as readers' favourite include a temporary festival venue made from an eclectic mix of salvaged materials, including fabric from hot air balloons and sheep's wool.

Another public vote winner is a set of jacquard textiles composed like music to create layered spatial compositions.

Dezeen Awards 2026 public vote winners revealed this week

Dezeen Awards 2026, in partnership with Trimble, will reveal all public vote winners this week. The architecture winners were announced on...