architecture

Can this space elevator take humanity to the final frontier?

The award-winning creator of a sustainable rocket alternative tells Dazed his vision for transporting humanity from the sea to the stars

Life & Culture

Jan 12, 2024

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

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What Barbie’s high-pink, utopian aesthetic can teach us about ourselves

As Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is released, Liara Roux speaks to writer Whitney Mallett about the doll’s bubblegum-pop Dreamhouses, and what they can teach us about girlhood, desire and contemporary society

Life & Culture

Jul 21, 2023

Liara Roux

Beauty

Pasteloza: finding beauty inspiration in post-communist Polish architecture

In a new beauty shot, photographer Olga Sokal looks to the colourful shapes and patterns that cover the concrete flat blocks of her hometown of Belchatow

Beauty

Mar 29, 2023

Alex Peters

Science & Tech

Right-wing libertarians are building a whole city in the metaverse... why?

Liberland, an unrecognised micro-state between Serbia and Croatia, has enlisted Zaha Hadid Architects to design its ‘cyber-urban’ outpost

Science & Tech

Mar 31, 2022

Thom Waite

Fashion

Virgil Abloh’s commandments for hacking creativity

In ode to the late fashion trailblazer’s genius, we asked four collectives touched by Abloh’s vision to pick one of his strategic hacks and tell us what it means to them

Fashion

Mar 15, 2022

Kemi Alemoru

Art & Photography

The collective turning Ghana’s urban ruins into radical playgrounds

“Young architects can change the world by not building buildings,” said Virgil Abloh. Accra-based urban design collective Limbo Accra are doing just that

Art & Photography

Feb 09, 2022

Irina Baconsky

Fashion

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Everything to know about Burberry’s slick new Sloane Street store

Created in collaboration with architect Vincenzo De Cotiis, the London flagship reflects Riccardo Tisci’s vision for the brand

Fashion

Jul 22, 2021

Dominic Cadogan

Art & Photography

Divine Southgate-Smith, “Take A Second to Breathe” (2021)

Divine Southgate-Smith explores Black joy as a political ideology

Take A Second to Breathe is an immersive video installation inviting you on a journey through seductive utopian landscapes

Art & Photography

Jun 08, 2021

Emily Dinsdale

Life & Culture

What does leaving the city have to do with the end of the world?

In the UK and elsewhere, people have been leaving urban centres for greener pastures – but how can we carve out spatial equality in the post-COVID city?

Life & Culture

Apr 20, 2021

Nadia Idle

Science & Tech

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Iddris Sandu is the digital architect designing the future

The 23-year-old Ghanaian-born designer and technologist has worked alongside Nipsey Hussle and Kanye West – here we go deep on the new realities he wants to create

Science & Tech

Apr 08, 2021

Thomas Gorton

Arts+Culture

Snarkitecture’s guide on how to collide art and architecture

As the monomaniac art innovators collaborate with COS in Seoul, the collective reveals the secrets to their immersive worlds

Arts+Culture

Nov 16, 2017

Claire Marie Healy

Art & Photography

Peep one woman’s photo diary of the ‘bad boys’ in her life

Megan Christiansen explores her relationship with New York and its inhabitants in this new bare all photo book

Art & Photography

Jul 07, 2017

Niamh Leonard-Bedwell

Arts+Culture

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie (1999)

The queer as hell psychedelic anime you need to see

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie is an animated adolescent apocalypse directed by the Japanese version of David Lynch featuring drag races, lesbians and girls who turn into cars

Arts+Culture

Jul 06, 2017

Evelyn Wang

Arts+Culture