Bologna-based Mario Cucinella Architects has created the concrete Santa Maria Goretti Church, which incorporates a cross-shaped entrance, in the town of Mormanno, southern Italy. Read more
Category Archives: Art & Design
Dezeen’s top 10 rebrands of 2021
Continuing our 2021 review, Dezeen looks back on a year of high-profile rebrands including Facebook changing its name to Meta and Volvo adopting a flat logo. Read more
How AI and robotics are reconstructing a 2,000-year-old fresco in Pompeii
Computer scientists and archeologists are working together to solve this ancient puzzle.
When we sit down to solve a jigsaw puzzle, there’s always one thing we take for granted: the picture on the box. Without that point of reference, we’d be pulling our hair out, trying and failing to rebuild a jumbled pile of miscellaneous pieces.
Pioneering architect Richard Rogers passes away aged 88
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect leaves behind a legacy of radical, high tech designs and four decades with his practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
Review of the Year 2021: Top 25 Features
We reflect on a big year for long-form stories on It’s Nice That and pull together 25 of the most popular stories for you to peruse.
Burberry creates mirrored pop-up store on Jeju Island
British fashion brand Burberry has installed a pop-up store that reflects a surrounding mountain range on Jeju Island, South Korea, for its latest outerwear clothing collection. Read more
Zinc-clad hikers’ cabin perches on a cliff edge in the Dolomites
Fight from the inside-out or boycott brands? How graphic designers shape a more sustainable and ethical food system
As the individuals who create systems and visualise our culinary choices, do designers have a responsibility to turn the tables on the food industry and lead us to a place where our consumption no longer negatively impacts the planet?
If you think paper bags are mundane, Tim Sumner asks you to think again
Fantastically specific and endlessly fascinating, To Have and to Hold is now becoming a gargantuan 500-page book collating all the paper bags that the graphic designer has collected.
How to design Indigenous housing that can withstand the devastation of climate change
A rapidly warming planet makes it imperative to consider Indigenous housing and climate change together.
Remote Indigenous communities in Australia will experience the impacts of climate change disproportionately to the rest of the country.