Ben Dreith

New York

US Editor at Dezeen

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Articles

'The Futurist Cookbook' Gets an Update, One New York Meal at a Time

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Ben Dreith

How two men consumed with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's classic critique of food and culture found themselves with a checkerboard blanket in a New York park. This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. In 2019, the artist Allan Wexler moved from the Manhattan brownstone where he had lived with his wife and collaborator, Ellen, for 40 years.
Sixteen key exhibitions to see during NYCxDesign 2025

6 days ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

From exhibitions of historic design, such as designer Poul Kjærholm's furniture, to a collection of miniatures by Japanese retailer Muji and the much-talked-about freshman fair Shelter, here are 16 must-see events during this year's NYCxDesign. New York's yearly design festival is set to start next week with a plethora of events celebrating the design culture of the city.
Shelter fair seeks to surprise even "jaded designers" during NYCxDesign

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

Design trade show Shelter has been organised to bring the "razzle dazzle" of Milan to New York during NYCxDesign, according to this exclusive interview with showrunners Deirdre Maloney and Minya Quirk. Founded under the umbrella of online design marketplace Afternoon Light, Shelter is set to occupy most of the third floor of the 1931 Starrett-Lehigh Building in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. Shelter emphasises its focus on novelty – its first iteration is operating under the name Mart Nouveau.
Mexican chapel and full diner feature at San Diego's Lafayette Hotel

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

Hospitality group CH Projects and design studio Post Company have teamed up to refurbish and expand a 1940s hotel in San Diego, USA, described as a "city within a city". Originally opened in July 1946 as Imig Manor in the North Park neighbourhood, the Lafayette Hotel & Club hosted celebrities in what was a self-contained luxury property with a pool, rooms, restaurants and clubs.
Eight statement-making staircases that elevate living spaces

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ben Dreith

1 hour agoThe Met Gala 2025, scheduled for May 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is shaping up to be a landmark event for Indian cinema, with a potential record-breaking representation from Bollywood. Singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh has sparked excitement with a cryptic Instagram Story hinting at …
Eight statement-making staircases that elevate living spaces

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

From minimalistic silhouettes to sculptural curves, staircases offer creative ways to play with function and form. Our latest lookbook highlights eight staircases that take residential interiors to new levels. Staircases can be central to a room or pushed off to the side, but no matter their position, they play an important role in the home. Beyond their obvious functional aspect, staircases can play an important visual part, with designers orienting interior design schemes around them.
ODA converts parking garage into park-covered building in Buenos Aires

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

Architecture studio ODA has converted a derelict parking structure into a multi-use structure called OLA Palermo, adding green space on top as an extension of a nearby park. ODA maintained as much as 80 per cent of the structure of the derelict parking structure, while converting it for office, retail and restaurant use.
Watch a Dezeen talk at SCADStyle with Dominique Petit-Frère

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Sonia Singh |Ben Dreith

Transforming "contemporary ruins" into public activations can offer healing for local communities, says Limbo Accra founder Dominique Petit-Frère at a Dezeen talk filmed in partnership with SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. Titled Driving Social Change Through Material Practice, the talk brought together Petit-Frère and Dezeen's US editor Ben Dreith to discuss how transforming unfinished building sites can revitalise neighbourhoods and spark wider conversations about adaptive reuse.
AllSpace creates modular refugee shelters from recycled materials

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

Nigerian startup AllSpace has been recognised by both the Swarovski Foundation's Creatives for Our Future programme and The World Around's Young Climate Prize for its prototypes for modular shelters. AllSpace has created affordable, easy-to-assemble structures to address the growing refugee crisis worldwide, basing the design on vernacular forms made from on-hand and recycled materials, including aluminium, tarpaulin and 3D-printed plastic components.
US government restricts "sustainability" language for its overseas architecture

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Ben Dreith

US agency Overseas Building Operations has released a memo asking its architect collaborators to remove language relating to "sustainability" and "climate". According to reporting from The Architects Newspaper, the Overseas Building Operations (OBO) agency has asked any contractors to "re-review" language around in-progress projects and given new guidelines for approved language.