Nat Barker
Nat is the features editor of Dezeen.
He qualified as an NCTJ Gold Standard journalist in 2016 and spent five years working for trade magazine Inside Housing. He has also presented a podcast called Fintech Mix.
Nat was named New Journalist of the Year at the IBP Awards in 2017 and Journalist of the Year at the same event in 2018. He was included on PPA's 30 Under 30 list of rising stars in the published media industry in 2020. In 2024, he won Best Specialist Writer at the BSME Talent Awards. In 2025, he was named Architectural Journalist of the Year at the IBP Awards.
Stories by Nat Barker
Ten ways that architects used weathering steel in 2025
Five great Dezeen features you might have missed in 2025
Most of world’s largest wooden structure The Grand Ring to be burned as “chips for fuel”
Bamboo scaffolding under scrutiny following devastating Hong Kong high-rise fire
Nine times that Nike tried to transform footwear
Dezeen’s top five houses of October 2025
Norwegian designers use reclaimed materials to customise USM Haller furniture
DS Collab exhibition seeks to put Norwegian design shoulder-to-shoulder with Scandi neighbours
Hyundai “rethinks the compact EV from the ground up” with Concept Three
Nine homes designed around growing food for a good life
Ten recent buildings that prove domed architecture is back in vogue
Judge spares London office tower from demolition in right-to-light legal battle
How long should a building last?
The 10 biggest building announcements of 2025
How architecture fees got so low
Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review
Landmark report finds “blatant and uncompromising sexism” in UK architecture
Six Soviet-era buildings given contemporary transformations
Encourage density even if you “don’t give a damn about the planet” says Norman Foster
“We’re due a renaissance” in cool small cars says Hyundai design boss
Ten upcoming sports stadiums where technology takes to the field
Stirling Prize-winning council homes sold off at a discount
