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Painted Garden flooring by Milliken
Dezeen Showroom: flooring company Milliken has created dappled carpet tiles that take cues from both gardening and flower displays seen at the Chelsea Flower Show. The Painted Garden flooring range manifests as single plank-shaped tiles that can be installed in a range of patterns – including a herringbone format – to create dynamic carpeted floors.
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Painted Garden flooring by Milliken
Dezeen Showroom: flooring company Milliken has created dappled carpet tiles that take cues from both gardening and flower displays seen at the Chelsea Flower Show. The Painted Garden flooring range manifests as single plank-shaped tiles that can be installed in a range of patterns – including a herringbone format – to create dynamic carpeted floors.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/02/painted-garden-flooring-milliken-dezeen-showroom/
Mamout adds "smallest possible extension" to townhouse in Brussels
Belgian studio Mamout has extended a townhouse in Brussels, adding a small garden room built from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured steel. Aiming to improve the connection between the home and its garden, Mamout drew on the form of an existing bow window on the rear facade to create a glazed seating area for the existing
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/02/mamout-architects-townhouse-extension-brussels/
Elding Oscarson creates CLT dome theatre inside Swedish museum extension
Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Made from 277 pieces of triangular cross-laminated timber (CLT), the spherical structure, which the designers refer to as a "visualisation dome", contains tiered seating surrounded by 3D
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Four weeks left to enter Dezeen Awards 2024
Dezeen Awards celebrates the world's best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the individuals and studios behind it. With only four weeks left to enter Dezeen Awards 2024, start your entry today! Now in its seventh year, there are 41 project categories spanning architecture, interiors, design and sustainability. Entering gives you a chance to
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/02/dezeen-awards-2024-four-weeks-left/
Dice furniture changes function depending on how you "throw" it
Swiss studio Kosmos Architects has designed Dice, a multifaceted piece of oak furniture that can be used as a stool, a coffee table, a lamp or a footrest. The five-pronged furniture piece weighs 10.5 kilograms and has a "warm" oak wood frame characterised by subtle chequerboard patterns. "Throw the dice, and this project will take
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/02/dice-multifunctional-furniture-kosmos-architects/
Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects designed to be “elegant but spare”
American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. Located along the Kona Coast on the island of Hawaii, the house was designed for a family who wanted a functional and beautiful retreat that was minimalist in
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/01/hawaii-house-walker-warner-architects-elegant/
SOM designs skyscraper with "exposed structure" for downtown Miami
American architecture studio SOM has designed a skyscraper in downtown Miami defined by two expansive terraces and an "exposed structure". Located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood, 848 Brickell will rise 50 storeys and host office and retail space, as well as a restaurant and fitness centre across 750,000 square feet (69,680 square metres). Renderings show three
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/01/som-office-tower-with-exposed-structure-for-downtown-miami/
Architecture criticism in 2024 defined by "shouting and not a lot of clarity" says Paul Goldberger
The transition from print to online journalism has led to "chaos" within architecture criticism that has upsides as well as downsides, author Paul Goldberger tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview. Pulitzer Prize-winner Goldberger served as the in-house architecture critic for The New York Times in the 1970s and '80s during the zenith of postmodernism. He
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/01/architecture-criticism-paul-goldberger-interview/
Japandi tile collection by Cobsa
Dezeen Showroom: four different-shaped tiles in twelve different colours make up Japandi, a range of ceramic tiles by Spanish brand Cobsa. Named after the style that combines Scandinavian and Japanese design, Japandi is designed as a versatile collection that offers designers "endless combinations and arrangements", said Cobsa. The four tile shapes available are named Circle,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/01/japandi-tiles-cobsa-dezeen-showroom/
"Powerful demonstration of architecture at its best" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a selection of brutalist and modernist churches captured by photographer Jamie McGregor Smith in his book Sacred Modernity. With 139 photographs of 100 churches, McGregor Smith created the book to showcase the sculptural and unique forms of some of the churches built across Europe in the post-war
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/01/powerful-demonstration-of-architecture-at-its-best-says-commenter/
Pixelated furniture appears throughout Lunet eyewear store in Bucharest
Romanian practice Bogdan Ciocodeica Studio played with the idea of "blurry vision" in this eyewear store in Bucharest, where pixelated furnishings sit against translucent latex curtains. This is the third space that Bogdan Ciocodeica Studio has designed for Lunet, having worked on the eyewear brand's inaugural Bucharest store and another branch in the city of
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/01/lunet-eyewear-shop-interiors-bucharest-bogdan-ciocodeica/
Dezeen Debate features "whimsical and reverent" slaughterhouse conversion
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a conversion of a Czech slaughterhouse into an art gallery. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio KWK Promes has repurposed a slaughterhouse in the Czech Republic into the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery, featuring exhibition spaces lined with rotating concrete walls. These additions comprise six large
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/slaughterhouse-conversion-czech-republic-dezeen-debate/
Eero Saarinen's Black Rock skyscraper refurbished in New York
The first and only skyscraper designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in New York City has undergone a renovation by Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects to help it "meet the expectations of today". At the behest of developer HGI, local architecture studios Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects renovated and restored the 51W52 skyscraper, also known
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/eero-saarinens-block-rock-skyscraper-refurbished-new-york/
Ten architecture student projects by the Confluence Institute
Dezeen School Shows: a project proposing a refurbishment of Paris' Montparnasse centre is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the Confluence Institute. Also included is a diploma project that examines the role of textiles within buildings and a group project that examines the possibilities of combining contemporary 3D printing methods with ancient
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Demand for "evolving aesthetic" behind Areen Group's Sonet brand
Promotion: design studio Areen has launched a brand called Sonet, which will provide interiors and product design among other design-led services. Sonet said it would be a lifestyle brand with an emphasis on "emotive experiences, urbanity and wellbeing". It builds upon Areen's 35 years of experience of delivering design projects for large organisations, spanning hospitals,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/sonet-areen-luxury-lifestyle-brand-interiors/
Luna outdoor furniture by Ramón Esteve for Vondom
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish brand Vondom has launched a collection of outdoor furniture pieces called Luna, designed by architect Ramón Esteve with chunky, curving forms. Luna comprises a sofa, armchair, coffee table and a daybed, united by their exaggerated, rounded forms that Esteve has crafted from a mix of plastic and fibreglass. According to Vondom, Esteve's
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/luna-vondom-dezeen-showroom/
Unknown Works revamps co-founder's "cramped" Victorian home in London
Architecture studio Unknown Works has renovated a terraced London house called Oasis, adding a side and rear extension to create a flexible interior and maximise natural light. The Victorian home in Kentish Town is owned by Unknown Works' co-founder Theo Games Petrophilos, who wanted to update its interior with a large open-plan living area suitable
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/unknown-studio-oasis-house-renovation/
Tradition outdoor furniture by Povl B Eskildsen for Fritz Hansen
Dezeen Showroom: teak frames support the Tradition collection of modular outdoor seating, conceived by designer Povl B Eskildsen for Danish furniture company Fritz Hansen. According to Fritz Hansen, the Tradition seats are designed by Eskildsen as "an invitation to unwind" and can be used as individual furniture pieces or combined in various arrangements, catering to
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/tradition-fritz-hansen-dezeen-showroom/
Winning was "immensely rewarding and almost surreal" say past Designers of the Year winner
With just one day to put forward a nomination for the Designers of the Year awards at Dezeen Awards 2024, last year's winners explain how winning boosted their visibility and underscored designers' responsibility to society. Architecture firm White Arkitekter said winning a Dezeen Award "definitely increased exposure internationally", while Parisian interior design studio Uchronia said
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/30/dezeen-awards-2024-designers-of-the-year-winners-testimonial/