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London architecture students design desert pavilions for Burning Man festival
Latticed and LED-illuminated climbing frames and a geometric-patterned sun seat are among the installations to be erected in the Nevada desert for the Burning Man arts festival this summer (+...
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Coachella festival pavilion by Ball-Nogues Studio built using over a tonne of...
Ball-Nogues Studio created a sinuous orange and purple pavilion that towered over music fans at this year's Coachella music festival by blasting pigmented paper pulp over a string structure (+...
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Magdalena Huber's Pikpäk lets festival-goers drink straight from their backpack
This carton-style backpack by Kingston University graduate Magdalena Huber is designed to help people at music festivals avoid long bar queues. The Pikpäk packaging concept – which was awarded first...
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Coachella offers experience with art outside the white gallery, says Phillip...
Music festivals like Coachella are changing the way people experience artworks and installations, according to American artist Phillip K Smith III. Ahead of the festival's first 2018 weekend, Smith...
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The LADG envisions concrete pavilion for Coachella festival-goers
Undulating "concrete blankets" form a series of mountain-like structures in this conceptual pavilion designed by The Los Angeles Design Group for the Coachella festival. The Los Angeles Design Group...
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Installations and artworks headlining Coachella 2018
While music acts like Beyoncé entertain throngs at this year's Coachella festival, visitors are also treated to large-scale sculptures and installations across the California desert site. Here are some...
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Overtreders W creates zero-waste barn and restaurant for Dutch festival
Overtreders W has built a temporary barn from borrowed materials to host a pop-up zero waste restaurant at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. The pop-up restaurant – named Brasserie 2050 – was...
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Banksy designs stab-proof vest for Stormzy's Glastonbury set
Banksy has revealed that he designed the Union Jack stab-proof vest that British rapper Stormzy wore during his headline set at this year's Glastonbury festival. The Grime artist began his set on the...
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Architecture and design highlights from Glastonbury 2019
This captioned movie explores some of the best installations at this year's Glastonbury music festival, including temporary structures by design studio Block9 and artist Joe Rush. Among the stages and...
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Stormzy "took south London to the farm" for Glastonbury set
The creative directors behind Stormzy's headline Glastonbury set honoured the British rapper's south London roots with visual nods to Croydon's Brutalist architecture. Creative producers Tawbox worked...
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Block9 reveals "monster" IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019
Block9 co-founders Gideon Berger and Steven Gallagher explain how they built the monolithic IICON stage at Glastonbury in this exclusive video shot by Dezeen at the famous music festival. IICON is a...
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Lapee female urinal designed to reduce festival loo queues
Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg have designed an industrial-standard female toilet for festivals and outdoor events that allows people to pee sitting down quickly and safely. Named Lapee, the pink...
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Six outdoor urinals for when you need to wee in the wild
From female urinals for festivals to pissoirs on the streets of Paris, here are six of the freshest outdoor urinals designs for peeing in the fresh air. P-tree by Aandeboom When revellers at the...
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Black Rock City is designed to "sprout out of nothing", says Burning Man...
Burning Man co-founder Will Roger has spent the last 14 years capturing the festival in aerial photographs. As a book of his images is released, he spoke to Dezeen about how they created a pop-up city...
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Instagram users capture Desert X installations in California's Coachella Valley
The inaugural Desert X art festival is underway in Southern California, where visitors are using Instagram to share images of installations including an entirely mirrored cabin and a seemingly infinite...
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Es Devlin creates "afrofuturist" scarred mask for The Weeknd's Coachella set
British designer Es Devlin has drawn on the aesthetic of afrofuturism for The Weeknd's stage set at Coachella music festival, which features a massive cracked mask animated by projection-mapped...
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California's Desert X returns with colourful and provocative installations
Installations set against the arid landscape of California's Coachella Valley for the Desert X biennial art festival include a huge orange block and a rainbow-like arch. Artists including Sterling...
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Diébédo Francis Kéré's colourful towers among installations and artworks at...
With Coachella music festival kicking off last weekend, Dezeen has picked out five of the bright and wonderful installations filling the Californian desert site. Sarbalé ke by Diébédo Francis Kéré...
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"The biggest problem with Coachella is that it all goes away after two weeks"
With Coachella now over, Aaron Betsky questions the value of the festival's temporary sets and large-scale installations, and if the strain that their construction and destruction places on the planet...
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Chloe Baines makes fashion collection from tents left behind at festivals
London College of Fashion graduate Chloe Baines has designed a collection of clothing and jewellery from the upcycled tents and metal pegs left after music festivals. The collection, called In Tents:...
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