Sustainability
Sustainability in creative fields from design to fashion and jewellery, as explored by Wallpaper*
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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
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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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
By Nick Compton Last updated
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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
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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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
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Eat up Ancillary Equipment's radical food storage solutions
Not only providing innovative alternatives to food storage, Ancillary Equipment is a manifesto to our uncertain, dystopian future
By Phoebe Gardner Last updated
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Piuarch's innovative urban gardening kit
Milan studio Piuarch moves from green roofs to a multipurpose module for city dwellers, offering planting, workstation and wellness space in one
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Christopher Raeburn and Aesop redefine adventure for today
The Adventure Roll-Up is a sustainable carrying case for hand care that can be made at home, created by Christopher Raeburn and Aesop
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Formafantasma asks: what is the global impact of wood consumption?
The Amsterdam-based duo’s exhibition Cambio reopens at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery
By Ali Morris Last updated
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2021: a year late but somehow right on time
Hashim Sarkis' main show ‘How Will We Live Together?' at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale opens a year later than originally expected, but ponders on questions that are more timely than ever
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Koto's first off grid eco-sauna clings to Irish headlands
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Eco footwear pioneer Allbirds launches apparel line
The San Francisco-based sustainable shoe brand launches its first clothing collection, crafted using TrinoXO
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Milan’s EICMA 2018 powers ahead with the all-electric motorbike pioneers
By George Chapman Last updated
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Water inspires Holzweiler’s Snøhetta-designed Oslo flagship
Holzweiler Platz, the new retail destination of fashion brand Holzweiler in Oslo, is designed by architects Snøhetta as a naturalistic space that unites fashion, art and food
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Porky Hefer’s Endangered collection explores art, sustainability and wildlife conservation
By Nurit Chinn Last updated
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Use less: Forgo champions a personal care revolution with subscription handwash
The team behind Swedish design studio Form Us With Love launch new brand Forgo, a sustainable subscription-based personal care service that uses less material for a palm cleaning revolution
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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Allbirds unveils plant-based alternative to leather
Allbirds, pioneer of sustainable fashion, unveils a sustainable fabric alternative Plant Leather
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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Spring board: Kvadrat, Really and Max Lamb set a new benchmark in sustainable design
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Can farmer designers save the planet?
The future of farming, the climate crisis, and how we can feed ourselves sustainably are at the heart of a new exhibition, ‘Farmer designers: an art of living’, at Bordeaux Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (until 17 January 2022)
By Shawn Adams Last updated
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Dutch Design Week 2019 captures the zeitgeist
What to expect from the 18th year of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, from social design to sustainable innovations
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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Scandinavia’s new sustainable stations recharge mind, body and electric cars
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Virgil Abloh is on the hunt for the next big thing in sustainable design
Virgil Abloh and Evian raise a glass to the next generation, announcing €50,000 grant for sustainable design initiatives, open to 18–35 year olds. Here, discover what the creative polymath hopes to see from the entries
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Could this Swiss start-up shape a new approach to city travel?
KOMMA presents its Urban Mobility Vehicle proposal as a new bid for sustainable urban travel
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Kindred Black gives sustainable skincare a new look
Kindred Black's Slow Beauty line elevates sustainable skincare to new heights with handblown glass bottles and innovative ingredients
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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Climate camp: Oualalou+Choi design the COP22 Village in Marrakech
By Mary Pelletier Last updated
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Olé! These Balearic brands will bolster your summer spirit
Are these small-town brands some of Spain's best kept secrets?
By Marta Represa Last updated
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The C40 World Mayors Summit flags Copenhagen as one of the greenest cities in Europe
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Tom Ford unveils a watch made entirely from ocean plastic
The Tom Ford Ocean Plastic Timepiece is now on sale
By Hannah Silver Last updated


