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The Songyang Story

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A series of buildings in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province that were developed as part of a social initiative.

In response to an urban explosion in China which will see over 300 million Chinese vill...

UCCA Dune Art Museum

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The UCCA Dune Art Museum is carved into a sand dune on a quiet beach on the coast of northern China.

By creating a structure that is embedded in the sand, the architects hope to defend the vulnerabl...

Wind and Rain Bridge

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Situated on the outskirts of an isolated region of southern China, which was dislocated after a major flooding in 2014; this bridge is a interlocking timber structure constructed without the use of me...

Lin’an History Museum

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Lin’an History Museum is located in the Lin’an District, west of Hangzhou, a major city in the east of China. The collections follow the story of the Qian family who established a local kingdom in the...

Design Curating and the Pandemic

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A panel exploring the impact of Covid-19 on design museums.

Pearl Lam

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Owner of Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore

Wei Sun Christianson

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Chief Executive Officer, China Co-Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Morgan Stanley

Q&A with Urbanus

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In this collection of interviews, some of this year's Beazley Designs of the Year nominees share their design stories, challenges and aspirations with the Design Museum.

Architecture 2019

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In this globally extensive section, featuring projects in Peru, India, China, Syria and Australia, we meet architects and designers whose ideas and impact have gone beyond the limits of the physical e...

Podcast: Ai Weiwei in conversation with Justin McGuirk

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Reflecting on what the works in the exhibition mean to him, and how they embody the tensions between past and present, hear Ai Weiwei talk about how his obsessive collecting of historical artefacts ov...

5 Unmissable Highlights from #MakingSense

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From Ai Weiwei’s largest ever Lego work to a Marble Takeout Box – here’s five unmissable highlights from #MakingSense.

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Design Researchers in Residence 2023/24: Open Call

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Applications are now closed for Design Researchers in Residence: Solar.

Sneakers Sweepstake

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The Design Museum launches a campaign for a cause, in partnership with StockX.

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Deyan Sudjic OBE and Alice Black to step down as co-directors

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After more than 12 transformative years at the Design Museum helm, co-directors Deyan Sudjic OBE and Alice Black will step down from their leadership positions at the end of January 2020.

Qionger Jiang

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CEO and Artistic Director of Shang Xia

David Chipperfield

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An architect producing subtle and sophisticated buildings, with a sensitivity for materials and an awareness of their environment.

Luigi Colani

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A design maverick pursuing an interest in imagining a world that does not yet exist — one of utopian architecture, high performance cars and huge supersonic aircraft flying many times the speed of sou...

Meet the designers

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Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World is one of the opening exhibitions at the new Design Museum in Kensington. It presents eleven installations by some of the most innovative and thought-provok...

Zaha Hadid

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The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, Zaha Hadid defined a radical new approach to architecture with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of mod...

Christian Louboutin

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With their instantly recognisable glossy red soles, Christian Louboutin’s shoes have become an important part of the fashion landscape.

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