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Studio Vio surrounds concrete holiday home in Vietnam with lush gardens
Architecture practice Studio Vio has blended contemporary materials with traditional crafts and lush gardens at De Hue Space, a holiday home in Hue, Vietnam. Located in the village of Thuy Bieu just west of the city centre, De Hue Space has seven guest rooms alongside common living areas and is intended to promote local tourism.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/13/studio-vio-de-hue-space-holiday-home/
Andrés Reisinger creates 12 chairs based on vision he had while meditating
Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger took a spiritual approach when producing the furniture for his latest exhibition, 12 Chairs For Meditation. Exhibited at Nilufar's Viale Lancetti gallery during Milan design week, the show was developed around a vision that the founder of Reisinger Studio experienced during meditation. This led him to design a series of 12
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/13/andres-reisinger-12-chairs-meditation-nilufar/
Noho develops furniture based on insights on how people actually live
Promotion: Kiwi design studio Formway has reimagined the traditional dining room set-up for its own furniture brand Noho, creating a collection of tables and chairs that are conducive to other activities besides dining. Noho's repertoire consists of three pieces – the newly launched Dine table range, the Noho Move chair and the Lightly chair, which was
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/13/noho-formway-furniture-promotion/
Highstay designs Paris holiday apartments for Olympics visitors and holiday makers
Hospitality brand Highstay has brought a contemporary spin to these 19th-century Parisian apartments, which its team has renovated to offer accommodation during the Olympic Games and beyond. The holiday apartments are intended for short- and long-term stays of up to one month, offering an alternative to hotels "for those coming to the city this summer
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/13/highstay-paris-olympics-pied-a-terres/
Red staircase anchors Diesel store in Miami Design District
Fashion brand Diesel has debuted a retail design concept at its store in the Miami Design District, featuring raw metal surfaces and a red lacquered spiral staircase. Designed under the creative direction of Glenn Martens, who joined the brand in 2020, the industrial-style store is intended to reflect "the brand's signature bold attitude". "Envisioned as
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/12/diesel-store-red-staircase-miami-design-district/
OFIS Arhitekti adds looping extension to modernist villa in Slovenia
A semi-enclosed, winding extension that aims to facilitate "inside-outside living" defines Ring House, a 1930s villa in Slovenia renovated by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. Located in the suburbs of the capital city Ljubljana, the modernist villa required updating to improve its connection to the garden, as it had no direct access from the ground floor.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/12/ofis-arhitekti-ring-house-extension/
Olivier Delannoy creates mirrored “English garden” for Daroco Soho restaurant
Paris-based restaurant group Daroco has opened a London outpost with mirrored, curving interiors designed by French architect Olivier Delannoy. Delannoy, who has worked on Daroco's previous projects, reproduced the mirrored ceiling from its two Paris restaurants for the Daroco's latest location in Soho. "Though the layout maintains an orderly appearance, the reflection of the mirror
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/12/daroco-soho-restaurant-olivier-delannoy/
BoND revives mid-century Sears Catalog kit house in Fire Island Pines
New York studio BoND has "brought back the simplicity" to this modernist home on Fire Island by stripping away finishes from previous renovations and adjusting the internal layout. The 1,100-square-foot (102 square metres), two-bedroom home is a Sears Modern kit house – the blueprints and building supplies for which were originally ordered from the American
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/11/fire-island-house-renovation-bond/
HCCH Studio creates Twisted Brick Shell Library "to cuddle visitors" in China
Architecture practice HCCH Studio has created a shell-like brick pavilion in Longyou County, China, which draws on its agricultural surroundings. Aptly named Twisted Brick Shell Library, the pavilion is located on an area of farmland separated from the nearby city of Quzhou by the Quijiang River. HCCH Studio designed it as a multifunctional space where
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/11/hcch-studio-twisting-brick-shell-library/
Eight interiors with pyramidal ceilings that create dramatic depth
For our latest lookbook, we've brought together eight houses from Mexico to Norway featuring pyramidal ceilings that reveal their structure and create a sense of depth. Similar to domed and vaulted ceilings, pyramidal ceilings have four panes that angle upwards towards a central point. Because of their depth, they often conform to architectural elements visible
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/11/interiors-pyramidal-ceilings-lookbooks/
Watch The World Around Summit 2024 live
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to livestream its annual summit, featuring talks centred on "the intersection of architecture with ecological and social justice". Watch it live here from 1pm New York time. Now in its fifth year, the World Around summit speakers will include MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong, MASS Design Group landscape
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/11/watch-world-around-summit-2024-live/
This week it was reported that Saudi Arabia authorised "lethal force" for Neom clearance
This week on Dezeen, we covered reports that Saudi Arabia cleared its forces to use "lethal force" to remove people from villages ahead of The Line megacity as part of Neom. We reported that the BBC spoke to Colonel Rabih Alenezi, who told the British media organisation that ahead of the development of The Line
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/11/saudi-arabia-lethal-force-clear-land-neom/
BIG creates 3D-printed data storage device to be sent to the Moon
Danish architecture studio BIG and technology company Lonestar Data Holdings Inc have created a data storage device for the moon, where it is designed to rest indefinitely after arrival. The device, called Freedom Payload, is about the size of a hardback book and 1 kilogramme in mass. It will store data from "governments, enterprise businesses,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/10/big-moon-3d-printed-data-storage/
Hebra Arquitectos tucks Lone Oak House within wooded site in Chile
Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. The project was commissioned during the Covid
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/10/hebra-arquitectos-lone-oak-house-in-chile/
Five US-based courses featured on Dezeen Courses
Dezeen Courses: interested in studying in the US? We've rounded up five US-based courses covering a variety of subjects including landscape architecture, exhibition design and industrial design. Our roundup includes undergraduate and postgraduate programmes available at institutions from all over the US and is aimed at American and international students alike. Here are five US-based
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Milos outdoor collection by Jean-Marie Massaud for Vondom
Dezeen Showroom: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created the Milos outdoor furniture collection for Vondom, channelling the landscape of the Mediterranean. The Milos collection includes sofas, armchairs, sun loungers and coffee and side tables, all made of soft, organic shapes. "For this new collaboration with Vondom, I wanted to evoke the original identity of this
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Slow tiles by Marazzi
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Marazzi has launched the Slow tile collection, which is designed to evoke a slow-living philosophy by reviving the look of terracotta. The Slow collection combines the high-performance qualities of contemporary porcelain stoneware with the appearance of terracotta – the reddish-brown clay that has long been used for flooring and roofing. The Slow
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/10/slow-tiles-marazzi-dezeen-showroom/
Emil Eve Architects brightens London house with terracotta tile-clad extensions
Local studio Emil Eve Architects has revamped the Aden Grove house in east London, adding loft and rear extensions characterised by angular forms and terracotta tiles. The terraced Victorian home in Newington Green required an update due to its dark interior and series of narrow, disjointed rooms, said Emil Eve Architects. "Like many Victorian terraces,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/10/emil-eve-architects-aden-grove-extensions/
Giles Tettey Nartey creates communal table for pounding and serving fufu
Pestles, mortars and bowls are integrated into the surfaces of the Communion table, created by designer Giles Tettey Nartey specifically for preparing the West African staple dish fufu. Carved from American maple, the monumental furniture piece consists of a central serving table surrounded by five workstations for pounding boiled cassava and plantain into a dough.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/10/giles-tettey-nartey-communion-table-fufu/
Elisa Ossino focuses on "the tactility of the material" for limestone V-Zug showroom
Promotion: Italian architect Elisa Ossino has designed a "tactile" showroom in Milan for Swiss home appliance brand V-Zug. Overlooking Piazza San Marco in the Italian city's Brera district, the space is organised into two areas – one that displays V-Zug's home appliances and one that functions as an "interactive kitchen". This was designed for visitors
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/10/v-zug-milan-showroom-elisa-ossino/