Best of DesignBlok 2026: Prague switches the lights on
Across Prague’s exceptional venues, light does more than illuminate. DesignBlok 2026 frames memory, craft, and ambition, asking designers: what should a room, or a city, reveal?
The Holy Redeemer Church by Fernando Menis in Tenerife
Shaped like giant rocks embedded in the ground, The Holy Redeemer Church provides a generous civic space in an area long in need of one. Inside, rough forms, textured surfaces and filtered light create an atmosphere of quiet introspection.
Poetic Daylight Pavilion: A Quiet Dialogue Between Space and Light
The Poetic Daylight Pavilion turns the passing hours into an architectural experience, celebrating how the sun’s quiet choreography defines atmosphere and well-being.
Google plays with light with the ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ exhibition in Milan
Lachlan Tuczan’s Google installation makes the invisible visible through luminous veils rippling through the mist. Shifting environments blur the boundaries between the tangible and intangible.
The ‘Scream The House Down’ project funnels lockdown frustration screams into an urban light installation
With social distancing still in place and tensions continuing to rise, London-based artist Marcus Lyall and not-for-profit arts organisation Illuminate Productions have transformed a soon-to-be-demolished office block in London Bridge into ‘Scream The House Down’, a light-responsive public artwork. “Please scream responsibly!”
Artist and architect of light Nanda Vigo passed away aged 83
Master of light, transparency and immateriality, Nanda Vigo was one of the most visionary postwar Italian architects and artists. Her creative journey began as a child fascinated by Giuseppe Terragni’s architecture and Flash Gordon comics. During her carrier she collaborated with some of the most influential avant-garde movements and creative minds such as the Zero Group, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Gio Ponti.
7 ‘Classic Blue’ atypical design and architectural projects going beyond the Pantone® hype
A cafe where to smell and taste pure blue-ness, an urban blue ‘lightscape’ installation raising awareness on climate change and a Russian Suprematism-inspired monochromatic bar in Moscow… 7 Classic Blue atypical projects going beyond the Pantone® hype!
Daedalum ‘luminarium’ by Architects of Air is a mesmerizing sculpture of color and light
Dedalum new ‘luminarium’ by Architects of Air is inspired by Greek mythology, Roman architecture and somewhere between a womb and a cathedral.
Lee Broom’s Christmas Tree of Glass for The Shard shines for good causes
Lee Broom reveals a cascading Christmas Tree of Glass for the Aqua panoramic restaurant at the 31st floor of The Shard supporting those affected by terrorism and the fire at Grenfell Tower.
Gates of light: Dan Roosegaarde explores futuristic eco-landscapes
Inspired by light-reflective butterflies wings, kites and bioluminescent algae, Dan Roosegaarde envisions futuristic sustainable light designs by the floodgates of the historic Afsluitddjk site in the Netherlands.
Celestial Fields installation by Eleanor Cranke mirrors desert starry nights with a forest of interactive lights at Burning Man 2017
At Burning Man 2017, Eleanor Cranke invites ‘burners’ to walk through and interact with the Celestial Fields installation: over 600 individually programmed rods rise directly from Nevada Black Rock desert.
Lumière cinematic light installation by Commonplace Studio
In Dubai, Lumière cinematic light installation by Commonplace Studio offered a meteorogical spectacle under a cloud composed of pendant lightbulbs.
Vortex: synchronized light architecture
A suspendended sculptural light intallation by 1024architecture pulses and breathes with music thanks to interactive LED lines transforming an industrial space in an open-air dancefloor.
Jar RGB by Arik Levy
Arik Levy’s combines thin colorful glass blowing techniques with color mixing and creates Jar RGB design lighting for Lasvit.
Dewar Glassware by David Derksen
With the Flask Vase, Flask Light and Dewar Light, young Dutch designer David Derksen payed omage to the work of XIX century phisician James Dewar who was in search of the absolute zero temperature point.