Coachella 2025 installations include giant flowers and pinwheels

Large-scale works by Paris design studio Uchronia and TSOA's dean Stephanie Lin feature among the installations created for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, USA.

Three new installations by prominent architects and designers have been installed throughout the grounds to accompany the slew of international music acts at the yearly Coachella festival.

Meant to serve as objects of interaction for festival goers, the monumental installations can be seen from across the site, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, a short drive from Palm Springs.

Every year, the festival works with arts programmer Public Art Company to select three designs that are developed nearby.

"Working with team of Goldenvoice and Public Art Company was an inspiring process, and I believe that every stage of the collaboration added new life to the sculpture," The School of Architecture dean Stephanie Lin told Dezeen about her experience designing for the fair.

"The design had to be elegant from a production standpoint as much as from an aesthetic one, and I think that comes through in the experience of the work."

"The three installations make a great family with shared qualities despite their unique approaches – there is a time-based concept in all of them, while each offers a really different type of mesmerizing engagement. I love the radial and floral echoes across all of the works."

In years past, world-renowned architects such as Pritzker Prize-winner Francis Kéré and New York studio Architensions have created installations.

On top of the three new structures, a number of past installations will return, such as UK-based studio New Substances's towering translucent rainbow tower, Spectra.

Many of the structures' elements are reused or relocated after the fair in an effort to make the event more sustainable, according to Public Art Company.

Read on for this year's Coachella installations:

Take Flight by Isabel + Helen

London design studio Isabel + Helen has created a towering installation informed by "early 19th-century flying machines". The 60-foot-tall (18-metre-tall) structure is covered by colourful turbines powered by the wind.

This multi-faceted windmill is a reference to the studio's smaller-scale work, some of which includes a similar scheme meant to be worn by people to potentially generate energy.

Le Grand Bouquet by Uchronia

Parisian studio Uchronia, known for its colourful interior projects, has created a playful installation based on the flower-power motifs of the late 1960s and early 70s. It is centred by a 32-foot-tall piece that has green-painted metal stems topped with inflatable flowers, with several smaller ones surrounding it.

Around the base of the central "bouquet" are tiered seating elements painted a similar shade to the flowers. Uchronia won the Emerging Designer of the Year Award in 2023 at the Dezeen Awards.

Taffy by Stephanie Lin

Canadian designer and TSOA dean Stephanie Lin has created an installation made up of seven cylinders, the tallest of which rises 50 feet (15 metres). Informed by the colourways of mid-century desert modernism, the towers have scalloped facades made of mesh.

Window benches will weave underneath the slender metal legs of the towers, allowing viewers to pass through. The hollow towers were designed to interact with the sun during different times of the day.

Photography by Lance Gerber. 

Coachella takes place from 11 to 13 April and 18 to 20 April 2025. For more events involving architecture and design around the world visit Dezeen Events Guide. 

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