INDEX Interior Design Event Dubai, UAE

Luulu gold crib design

Interior design event at Dubai World Trade Centre, 26 – 29 March – the world’s most luxurious baby bed clad in 24-karat gold plating, lined with Swarovski diamond-encrusted quilting and costing $60,000 (220,000AED), more than a year’s rent on a two-bedroom apartment in the Burj Khalifa.

Yale School of Architecture Events, New Haven

Yale School of Architecture Symposium 2018

Yale School of Architecture symposium – Noncompliant Bodies: Social Equity and Public Space, “designers of the built environment tend to overlook or actively exclude persons who fall outside white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied norms.” Convened by Joel Sanders and Susan Stryker with a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars.

Scottish Architecture News 2017 Archive: Buildings

Centre for the Scottish War Blinded, Kirknewton, Midlothian

Scottish buildings news 2017 archive – The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), in light of the report into the defects that led to 17 schools closing in Edinburgh, announce formation of a Commission of Past Presidents to investigate build quality in the construction industry, and what needs to be done to address it.

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2017

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2017 by MVRDV

MVRDV & The Why Factory stage a series of interventions for Seventh Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) (UABB) jointly curated by curator and critic, Hou Hanrou and founding partners of URBANUS, Liu Xiaodu and Meng Ya. The Biennale’s theme of Cities, Grow in Difference takes place across multiple sites in Nantou Old Town.