Chile appoints an architect and urban planner to address the heat crisis, a Twitter bot calls out the gender pay gap, and design-focused brands leave Russia in this week’s Design Line.

From Disegno #25, Lauren Teixeira tries to escape from the monstrous clutches of Zaha Hadid’s Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Sony’s Hirotaka Tako and Philip Rose tell Disegno how industrial design is moving beyond plastic with the help of rice husks, bamboo and glowing digital fungi.

This week’s The Design Line includes Amazon’s automated organic shopping experience, the icy perils of New York’s Billionaire’s Row, and Dries Van Noten’s collectible beauty launch.

Made for Maison et Objet A look into Maison&Objet’s 2022 immersive installation from the international art collective teamLab.

Michael David Mitchell wonders if the Snoo, a robotic crib designed by Yves Behar, is the solution to the alienation and difficulty of bringing up a baby in modern America.

The Crit brings you everything you need to know about design in February 2022.

The Design Line recaps the o2 Arena taking a weather beating, the fake design agency that “jobfished” its victims, and quantum technology revealing a hidden world.

Disegno speaks to fashion designer Mary Katrantzou about pushing the envelope for colour and pattern with her postage stamp butterfly tile collaboration with Villeroy & Boch.

As a new display of Bethany Williams’s work opens at London’s Design Museum, we revisit our interview with the designer from 2020 about working in fashion during lockdown.

A beautiful new wing to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet stands in stark contrast to the glowering menace of the existing building, as made famous in Lars von Trier’s TV series Riget.

A Disney-designed town, Es Devlin’s Superbowl set and Vera Wang on ice at the Winter Olympics all feature on the Design Line this week.

Poet Richard Osmond explores in verse a design project from Goldsmiths’ Interaction Research studio: sunglasses for puffins.

Glenn Adamson and Sarah Archer explore the changing cultural significance of the colour pink, accompanied by an assortment of rose imagery, shot by Theresa Marx at Berlin’s Terrassenhaus.

This week's the Design Line includes a new director for the Cooper Hewitt, a redesign of Sketch’s Instagram-famous pink room, and MVRDV breaking its silence over the Marble Arch Mound.

The Portal Tables project at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, sees The Decorators explore commensality, with a series of inflatable furniture that invites humans and microbes to dine together.

Disegno speaks to Danielle Dean about Amazon (Proxy), a multimedia installation that has Amazon Mechanical Turk workers retell the story of Henry Ford’s failed plantation in the Amazon.

Front dives into the history of the mirror, with a collection for Galerie Kreo that explores its material and cultural resonances.