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Lloyd Wright chapel to be disassembled following ongoing California landslide
Following an increase in land movement surrounding Lloyd Wright's Wayfarers Chapel outside of Los Angeles, the organization has announced it will disassemble the landmark for preservation. Located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 100-seat church was completed in 1951 by son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Lloyd Wright, and has remained
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/lloyd-wright-wayfarers-chapel-dissassembly-california/
Dezeen Debate features an electric car that will "change urban congestion permanently"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an electric car created by design studio Roth Architecture in Tulum. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Tulum-based Roth Architecture has designed an electric car using local materials to reduce the environmental impact of fossil fuel transportation. Readers discussed the vehicle, with one praising it as a
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/electric-car-roth-architecture-local-material-dezeen-debate/
MAB3 and Zénite create forest of books for a Brazilian library
Brazilian architecture studio MAB3 and Zénite Arquitetura & Construção have teamed up to install a wood-wrapped library in a school in São Paulo. The 470-square metre Graded School Library was completed in 2023 in a building constructed in 1961. The library is the American school's latest addition after architect Siegbert Zenettini updated the building in
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/mab3-and-zenite-create-forest-of-books-for-a-brazilian-library/
IED students and CampusX envision Gen Z student housing
Promotion: the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Florence has led a collaboration between students on its Interior and Furniture Design programme and design company CampusX. With guidance from professors of the Rizoma Architetture programme at IED, the students were tasked with reimagining student housing for the next cohort of students in Generation Z –
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/ied-students-and-campusx-envision-gen-z-student-housing/
Krft sculpts "bulging" form for Brighton College arts centre
A combination of grey brick and flint clads the sculptural exterior of this performing arts centre, which Dutch studio Krft has created for a college in Brighton, UK. The project replaces a series of ad-hoc extensions to Brighton College's main building – an adjacent neogothic structure that was completed by architect Gilbert Scott in 1849.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/krft-brighton-college-performing-arts-centre/
Specere chair by Andreas Krob for Okamura
Dezeen Showroom: designer Andreas Krob and Japanese office furniture brand Okamura have released a task chair that combines the aesthetics of 1950s drafting chairs with modern ergonomic support. The Specere office chair comes in two styles – a chair and stool – both of which reference vintage drafting chairs in their shape and compact proportions. At
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Specere chair by Andreas Krob for Okamura
Dezeen Showroom: designer Andreas Krob and Japanese office furniture brand Okamura have released a task chair that combines the aesthetics of 1950s drafting chairs with modern ergonomic support. The Specere office chair comes in two styles – a chair and stool – both of which reference vintage drafting chairs in their shape and compact proportions. At
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/specere-task-chair-andreas-krob-okamura-dezeen-showroom/
Specere chair by Andreas Krob for Okamura
Dezeen Showroom: designer Andreas Krob and Japanese office furniture brand Okamura have released a task chair that combines the aesthetics of 1950s drafting chairs with modern ergonomic support. The Specere office chair comes in two styles – a chair and stool – both of which reference vintage drafting chairs in their shape and compact proportions. At
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/specere-task-chair-andreas-krob-okamura-dezeen-showroom/
Dezeen's top five houses of May 2024
A rammed-earth townhouse, a renovated modernist kit home and a concrete house in Switzerland feature in Dezeen's houses of the month for May. Also included in our monthly list of the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen are houses in Hawaii and Hyderabad – both with gabled corrugated-metal roofs. Read on to find out
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Six collectible design highlights from RAD Design in Bucharest
The inaugural edition of RAD Design, held in Bucharest, Romania, marks the first contemporary collectible design fair in Eastern Europe. RAD Design showcased furniture, lighting and decorative objects, bringing together the work of 17 different designers, independent makers and galleries from Romania and around the world. Titled With or Without Poetry, With or Without Function, the
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/collectible-design-highlights-rad-design-bucharest/
John Pawson unveils pared-back furniture that is "all about the timber"
British designer John Pawson has created a collection of bespoke wooden furniture for Danish manufacturer and long-term collaborator Dinesen. Named the Pawson Furniture Collection, the pieces are each based on the span of a timber board. It marks 30-years of collaboration between Pawson and Dinesen and draws on their original furniture collection created in 1992. "This
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/04/john-pawson-dinesen-timber-furniture-collection/
Micah Rosenblatt creates steel furniture based on the cityscape of New York
Local designer Micah Rosenblatt has debuted a collection of steel furniture covered in light green automotive paint that was informed by the architectural styles found throughout New York City. The City Block collection encompasses 16 pieces of furniture, including a dining room table, chairs, sculptural floor lamps, and a loveseat, all predominantly made of steel
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/03/micah-rosenblatt-steel-furniture-informed-new-york-city-horizon/
SOM breaks ground on skyscraper with "handmade surfaces" in Guadalajara
American studio SOM has unveiled images of a skyscraper in Guadalajara, Mexico, which will be clad in red-toned concrete with interiors designed by Mexico City-based Héctor Esrawe. Designed in collaboration with Esrawe and Mexico City architecture studio Estudio AMA, the Legend development will hold offices, retail, a hotel and apartments. The development will consist of
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/03/som-red-skyscraper-guadalajara/
Hopp tile collection by Equipe Cerámicas
Dezeen Showroom: an elongated tile shape and elegant arched relief pattern distinguish the Hopp tile collection, made by Spanish brand Equipe Cerámicas. Equipe Cerámicas describes the Hopp tiles as "an irresistibly beautiful product with an elegant and architectural design". The tiles have a slim format and come in either a plain surface design or a decor
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/03/hopp-collection-equipe-ceramicas-dezeen-showroom/
Agricultural sheds inform metal home in Taiwan by Studio Tngtetshiu
The "anonymous" metal buildings found in rural Taiwan were a visual reference for Double Roof House, which local practice Studio Tngtetshiu has created in Tainan. Double Roof House comprises a home, warehouse and playground, located alongside a red-brick church previously renovated by Studio Tngtetshiu. To contrast the solidity of the church, the studio used a steel-framed
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/03/double-roof-house-studio-tngtetshiu/
"My mum only recently started to understand what I do" says Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian enjoys the fact that people find it hard to pin down exactly what she does and believes others should embrace her "non-linear" approach, she tells Dezeen in this interview. "I love people not fucking understanding what I do," Ben Hayoun-Stépanian told Dezeen. "Bottom line is, they don't understand what I
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/03/nelly-ben-hayoun-stepanian-interview/
Hassell completes "democratic and non-hierarchical" building for Sydney law school
Architecture studio Hassell has completed the Michael Kirby Law Building at Macquarie University in Sydney, organising its teaching spaces around a skylit, timber-framed atrium. Located on the university campus to the north of Sydney's centre, the 8500-square-metre building replaces an existing two-storey administration centre built in the 1980s around an underutilised courtyard. Hassell transformed the
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/03/hassell-michael-kirby-law-building-sydney/
Torii bench by Ultramar Studio among nine new products on Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Showroom: a bench made from wood that mimics the shape of Japanese Torii gates is among nine new products recently listed on Dezeen Showroom. Torii bench by Ultramar Studio A frame made up of cylindrical wooden lengths ending in flat brass discs makes up furniture brand Ultramar Studio's distinctive Torii bench. The bench references
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PGM Arquitectura adds garden suites to César Pelli skyscraper in Mexico City
Local studio PGM Arquitectura has completed a series of garden suites on top of the podium of the St Regis hotel skyscraper in Mexico City, originally designed by Argentine-American architect César Pelli. Hotel chain St Regis brought on PGM Arquitectura to refresh the interiors of the skyscraper in Reforma, one of the city's central business
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/02/pgm-arquitectura-st-regis-mexico-city/
F+G Architectes creates "deliberately restrained" timber stable near Lyon
French studio F+G Architectes has created a stable outside Lyon that is formed of wooden structures designed as a modern take on the area's typical agricultural buildings. Called Les Écuries de la Roche, the building in the commune of Vourles provides space for 28 horses, alongside a clubhouse and indoor and outdoor riding arenas. It
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/06/02/fg-architectes-timber-stable-lyon/