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Ready your engines and voyage to Burning Man through our new Pinterest board
The "temporary city" of Burning Man has risen once again from the desert foundations of Black Rock City for its 2019 edition. Explore the community-driven music event with our updated Pinterest boards,...
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Timber pavilions and other-worldly installations animate the plains at...
Burning Man revellers, including architect Bjarke Ingels, have captured the installations, pavilions and stages at this year's event, including elevated stepping stones and a huge arm made of scrap...
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Tuo Lei designs DIY streetwear from festival tents to be kept as souvenirs
ÉCAL graduate Tuo Lei has created a fashion collection from abandoned festival tents, based on simplified patterns that can be replicated at home with just basic sewing skills and the accompanying...
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Festival in India offers Morag Myerscough "unequivocal apology" for copying...
Sulafest music festival in India has apologised to British designer Morag Myerscough for copying her colourful pavilion design, promising to commission original work in future. Myerscough credited the...
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Architensions unveils surreal steel-framed playground at Coachella
Architecture studio Architensions has designed a series of colourful, steel-framed towers installed at California music festival Coachella. The studio designed the installation to be a point of...
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"Heart that captures a moment in time" forms centrepiece of set design for...
London-based Tawbox studio intended to reflect our fractured world by creating a set design featuring an aluminium heart that shattered and came back together during recent shows by British rapper...
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Eleven Burning Man 2022 installations that showcase deep-desert design
A bulbous sculpture by architects Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange, an ornate temple and a walkway made of recycled ocean plastic were featured at the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert...
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Glastonbury's mushroom mycelium pavilion explores sustainable stage design
Festival set designer Simon Carroll has created the spiralling Hayes Pavilion from salvaged timber and mycelium at Glastonbury festival to challenge the industry's over-reliance on polystyrene foam....
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Architecture and design highlights from Glastonbury 2023 captured in Dezeen...
This exclusive video shot by Dezeen features some of the best installations featured at this year's Glastonbury festival, including outlandish stages and a mushroom mycelium pavilion. Glastonbury...
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Esrawe + Cadena installs spinning chairs at FORMAT Festival in Arkansas
Woven spinning chairs by Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena, and a hidden stage with entrances made from portable toilets were some of the highlights of FORMAT Festival in Arkansas. FORMAT, which stands...
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Three large-scale and "deeply interactive" installations at Coachella 2024
Soaring, spikey plywood towers and a colourful, kinetic "settlement" by artist Morag Myerscough are among the large-scale installations at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in...
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Do Lab creates sprawling fabric "mushrooms" for Coachella stage
LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The...
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Piovenefabi creates repurposed-steel-beam stage at Horst Arts and Music festival
Architecture studio Piovenefabi has created The Ring stage using repurposed steel beams for the 10th edition of Horst Arts and Music festival in Brussels. Named Ring, the stage is the latest in a...
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Glastonbury's Hayes Pavilion "pushes the boundaries" of what bioplastic can do
Biodesign startup Re:Right Design has reprised its demountable Hayes Pavilion for this year's Glastonbury festival, cladding it in a biomaterial made from seaweed to demonstrate how sets can be built...
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Ten outdoor music festival installations and pavilions
This week sees the start of Glastonbury festival. As summer begins, we have rounded up 10 unique pavilions installed at outdoor music festivals. Salvaged timber pavilions and colourful steel-framed...
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Pulp sci-fi and tropical modernism inform Glastonbury's first dedicated South...
Set designers Shirin Naveed, Shankho Chaudhuri and Esha Sikander created a mini-nightclub for this year's Glastonbury festival that only played music from South Asian artists. Arrivals is Glastonbury's...
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Love Hultén creates tiny music stage for crowd of sperm and eggs
Swedish maker Love Hultén has collaborated with the country's Way Out West music festival to create the Future Fan Stage for an audience of sperm and eggs awaiting IVF. The Future Fan Stage combines...
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Stufish creates festival stage informed by Barbican Conservatory for Lana Del...
Entertainment architecture studio Stufish has designed 12-metre-high columns and ornate window frames for a stage for artist Lana Del Rey, which was shown at the Reading and Leeds festivals over the...
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Cake Architecture "exposes the guts" of Rally festival with demountable...
Panels of translucent fibreglass envelop this multi-level stage designed by Cake Architecture for London arts and music festival Rally, revealing the reusable scaffolding structure at its heart. Named...
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Ten architectural installations from Burning Man 2024
From a canyon-like podium for the man effigy to a solar-powered battery library for artists, here are 10 large-scale installations from this year's Burning Man event in Nevada captured by photographer...
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