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This family home marries natural materials with a sustainability focus
Woodlands, a five-bedroom family house, is built on the site of a 1920s chalet bungalow
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Nendo and Fritz Hansen design fully recycled plastic chair
Take an exclusive look at N02 Recycle, a moulded, stackable chair system made from upcycled household plastic, Polypropylene
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Tara Gbolade is a sustainability-minded emerging architect to watch
The world is changing, architecture is adapting, and a new wave of young practices in London is emerging. They are armed with bold ideas, digital tools, new studio set ups and innovative design approaches. In our Next Generation series, join us in hailing these exciting studios from the UK capital through an ongoing series of weekly profiles. First in line is Tara Gbolade, the dynamic director of sustainability-minded Gbolade Design Studio.
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Earth brick barn house is Yinka Shonibare’s hub of creativity in Nigeria
Yinka Shonibare’s new artists’ residency space, Ecology Green Farm, in a remote part of Nigeria, offers a lush landscape for cultural and creative discovery
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Sustainable clothing brands doing less but better
LA-based sustainabiliy specialists RE/DONE launches its first upcycled sneaker, a low top style that draws on retro sporty silhouettes
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Is this the future of connected urban transport?
The Zbee is a highly-connected, shared urban transport pod
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Need-to-know technology news from Salone del Mobile 2018
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Architect Michael Murphy on designing healthcare systems
Design Emergency began as an Instagram Live series during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world, and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. Co-founders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn took over the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* to present stories of design’s new purpose and promise. Here, Paola Antonelli talks to architect Michael Murphy
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Sustainable water bottles aiming to cap plastic waste
Our picks of the best sustainable water bottles pair aesthetics with utility for sophisticated sipping
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Kelp mates: sea greens are gastronomic gold to palate-conscious planet savers
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Green stuff: Bottletop’s eco-chainmail accessories
Reebok launches the Forever Floatride Grow, its first plant-based performance shoe
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The sustainable farming innovator delivering to London homes and restaurants
Sustainable farming innovator Crate to Plate is pioneering fresh produce in London with the support of Michelin-starred restaurant Hide
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Eco-visionaries to the rescue at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London explores the precarious relationship between humans and nature that has been thrown out of balance by our accumulatively dangerous activities. Architects, artists and designers offer up their unique approaches into a laboratory of prototypes, concepts and emotive pieces that break down headlines into experiences.
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Best recycled designs from the Wallpaper* Design Awards
Contemporary designers are using waste to create furniture designs that combine a distinctive aesthetic with a sustainable approach
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Liaigre ‘Upcrafted’ objects showcase potential of sustainable design
Striding confidently towards more sustainable production, interior design company Liaigre has released ‘Upcrafted’, a series of limited-edition objects for the home, assembled attentively from the studio’s would-be waste
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Year in review: beauty & grooming editor Mary Cleary picks top 10 innovations in beauty of 2021
From ephemeral tattoos to virtual reality make-up, Wallpaper’s Mary Cleary reveals her top 10 stories of 2021 exploring innovations in beauty & grooming
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Seratech’s innovative sustainable cement wins Obel award 2022
The 2022 Obel Award goes to Seratech’s carbon-neutral composite cement
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Wallmakers’ sustainable architecture scoops Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
Indian architecture studio Wallmakers and its founder, Vinu Daniel, are crowned winners of the prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
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London Festival of Architecture announces simple and compelling 2021 theme
The theme for the 2021 London Festival of Architecture has been announced and it is centred around ‘Care'
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The World Around Summit 2022 takes us across the globe through architectural debate
We checked out The World Around Summit 2022, and offer you the highlights of some of the most current and timely debates in the architecture world
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Jared Della Valle's eco family retreat is in tune with the landscape
A minimalist, eco-friendly house overlooking the idyllic Hudson River Valley is the country home of New York based Alloy's principle, architect and developer Jared Della Valle
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Snøhetta unveils ultra-sustainable workspace in Norway
Powerhouse Telemark – an environmentally smart office building – is the latest addition to Snøhetta's growing portfolio of sustainable architecture
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Inside an apartment at Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale towers
Explore this penthouse by Dara Huang at Design Haus Liberty and COIMA Image, at architect Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale towers in Milan's Porta Nuova district
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Counterspace's Sumayya Vally on her Serpentine Pavilion
Counterspace is the fast-emerging South African architectural practice commissioned to create the latest Serpentine Pavilion in London. Here, its founder Sumayya Vally takes artist and photographer Mikhael Subotzky on a whistle-stop tour of their adopted hometown, Johannesburg
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SOM's carbon-negative architecture model unveiled during COP26
SOM reveals a model for carbon-negative architecture, the ‘Urban Sequoia’, during COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference
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Rainwater-harvesting architecture leads this Mexican home
The Rain Harvest Home by Javier Sanchez of JSa architects and Robert Hutchison of Robert Hutchison Architecture in Mexico combines style and sustainability
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PriestmanGoode’s planet-friendly takeaway food packaging
One year since the conception of PriestmanGoode's takeaway food packaging solution ‘Zero’ for Wallpaper* Re-Made, we find out how the project has developed
