Dezeen Agenda features Sabine Marcelis's installation at Coachella 2026

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an inflated installation by Sabine Marcelis at this year's Coachella. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.

Sabine Marcelis headlined this year's Coachella Art programme with an inflated maze featuring large orange and yellow tubes.

This week's newsletter also included the Trump administration's updated design for its proposed triumphal arch, Niall McLaughlin's design for a Sydney cathedral and a study which linked data centres to creating a heat island effect.

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Marvel at Manabu Kosaka’s Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures of Retro Objects

It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does a 35mm film camera include a strap and a back hatch that opens, the lever used to advance the film and other gears are also built into the top, some of which are even moveable.

Around ten years ago, Kosaka faced uncertainty about the direction of...

Wallpaper for the Amphibian restaurant

A seamless pattern created for the branding of the Greek restaurant Amphibias, in collaboration with the agency Faze. The work explores a surreal world where strange creatures and plants intertwine into a continuous, flowing composition.

Five Texas cities "catalyzing" urban development with convention centres

Nearly $9 billion of convention centre design and construction is currently underway in Texas's five biggest cities. Local writer Kate Mazade asks experts about the phenomenon and dives into the plans for each city.

From tactical renovations and expansions to complete demolitions and rebuilds, the Lone Star State is exploring how once-hermetic buildings that disrupt the urban environment can look outward to create connections through it.

Michael Lockwood, senior principal at Populous, who is overseeing convention centre projects in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, called the resurgence of convention centre construction in Texas a "perfect storm of conditions" driven by changing state laws...

Spatially complex bamboo table among projects from The University of Hong Kong

Dezeen School Shows: a table made from bamboo and wood, which uses AI in its design process, is among the projects from The University of Hong Kong.

Also featured is a reconstruction of a log building with local materials, and a construction project exploring soil-based techniques.

Institution: The University of Hong Kong
Course: The Building Society
Tutors: John Lin, Zhen Liu, Raimund Krenmueller, Kuo Jze Yi, Beven Chang, Yuwei Zeng, Chang Liu, Taketo Nagaoka, Jenny Hsiao, Kaiho Yu, Rainer Hehl, Xin Hua, Deane Simpson, Peng Jiamin, Lidia Ratoi, Luowei Mei, Olivier Ottevaere, Garvin Goepel and Mads Hovgaard Laursen
School statement:

"The Building Society...

Charleroi Palais des Expositions revamp wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2026

A 1950s convention centre in Belgium, revitalised by architecture studios AgwA and Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck, has been awarded this year's Mies van de Rohe Award.

The seven-year transformation by AgwA and Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck prioritised the conservation of the 50,000-square-metre Charleroi Palais des Expositions in Charleroi, Belgium, which was originally completed in 1954.

It was selected as the 2026 winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award's architecture category in recognition of its "bold yet resourceful approach", the jury said.

"It is awarded for...

Ralf Jacobs' Incredible Harmonograph: Furniture That Can Draw Patterns

Ralf Jacobs is a Netherlands-based artist who works "at the intersection of art, design, science, and signal." He invented this incredible Harmonograph, a piece of furniture that can draw patterns:

He's designed the "hinge" mechanism to be frictionless, which gives the drawing utensil a lot of momentum:

15 Artists Explore the Potentiality of Fabric and Fiber in ‘Textile Art Redefined’

Until just the past few decades, textiles were generally created with only practical applications in mind. Although fiber and cloth in its myriad forms had been produced for millennia around the globe, fabrics were woven for either domestic or industrial use, and crafts such as knitting, weaving, basket- and net-making, and more were considered purely functional. Think clothing or decor. Even ornate medieval tapestries were conceived as utilitarian objects, used in stone buildings like churches and large homes to soften sounds and insulate against the cold.

Within the canon of Western art history, in particular, the hierarchy of fine art has...

Iyo Hasegawa's Wrench-Based Furniture

These Wrench furniture pieces were made by Japanese artist Iyo Hasegawa.

They're made from threaded rods holding stacked offset wrenches, a tool whose form has captivated Hasegawa.

Washers are used as spacers, and the pieces are fastened together with nuts.

Hyperice (Hypervolt 3)