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Corstorphine & Wright carves scoop into office facade to celebrate neighbouring church
Architecture studio Corstorphine & Wright has completed The Scoop, an office extension in London named after the gouge in its white-brick facade. The four-storey office building has been extended sideways and upwards and wrapped in glazed bricks, arranged to draw attention to the circular window of the neighbouring Grade II-listed church. "The church's circular window
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/03/corstorphine-wright-scoop-london-office/
Thirteen independent designers standing out in New York City
Thirteen designers practising in New York City have been selected as part of our North American Design 2024 series, which highlights an array of independent design studios in cities across the continent. From studios working in plastics and metals to handmade pieces informed by Congolese design, these design studios are representative of the boundless talent
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/03/new-york-city-independent-furniture-designers/
The country where design is dominated by women
Unlike in most parts of the world, Iceland's design scene is overwhelmingly female. Nat Barker explores what makes the tiny Nordic nation different. This year, Iceland's annual design festival, DesignMarch, began just three days after Milan design week, which is still the biggest event in the industry calendar. For anyone attending both, the stark contrast
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Jakob Sprenger embellishes Aesop store with salvaged plaster medallions
Austrian architect Jakob Sprenger has installed 1920s plaster medallions above a large sculptural sink as the centre of skincare brand Aesop's store in Paris. Located within a residential neighbourhood in the district of Ternes in Paris' 17th arrondissement, Sprenger designed the store to "create a feeling of simple domesticity". The space was designed around four
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/03/jakob-sprenger-aesop-store-paris-antique-medallions/
Archmongers celebrates "raw beauty of brutalist concrete" in Trellick apartment refresh
Newly exposed concrete walls are paired with a matching terrazzo in this sensitive home renovation by London studio Archmongers in North Kensington's Trellick Tower. Led by architects Margaret Bursa and Johan Hybschmann, Archmongers reworked a duplex apartment on the 23rd and 24th floors of the listed 31-storey tower block. The design stays true to the
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/03/trellick-apartment-renovation-archmongers-brutalist-concrete/
UK design education has "fundamental problem" says Jo Johnson
British politician Jo Johnson, brother to the former prime minister Boris Johnson, has criticised the current state of Britain's design and technology education. Speaking at the launch of the Design Council's report A Blueprint for Renewal: Design and Technology Education, Johnson outlined his frustrations and called for changes to the country's education system. Secondary school
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UK design education has "fundamental problem" says Jo Johnson
British politician Jo Johnson, brother to the former prime minister Boris Johnson, has criticised the current state of Britain's design and technology education. Speaking at the launch of the Design Council's report A Blueprint for Renewal: Design and Technology Education, Johnson outlined his frustrations and called for changes to the country's education system. Secondary school
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/03/jo-johnson-design-education-fundamental-problem/
Lindal Cedar Homes offers house plans informed by Frank Lloyd Wright designs
Seattle-based manufacturer Lindal Cedar Homes has partnered with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to create a series of purchasable house designs informed by the American architect's Usonian philosophy. The floor plans of nine houses are available to purchase in The Lindal Imagine Series, including designs based on Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs 1 house in Wisconsin.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/lindal-cedar-homes-frank-lloyd-wright-usonian-plans/
Dezeen Debate features "smart and humble" church conversion in Transylvania
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a guesthouse in Transylvania. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Romanian studio Modul 28 renovated and expanded the rectory of a church in Transylvania, converting it into a guesthouse. Readers were stunned by the extension, with one calling it a "very smart and humble project!" Another joked, "Cool
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/guesthouse-transylvania-modul-28-dezeen-debate/
Feldman Architecture updates 1970s home in coastal California
US studio Feldman Architecture has created the Pebble Beach Residence to have a "distinctively northern Californian, mid-century feel" by including wooden surfaces and brightly lit rooms. The project was created for a couple who wanted a weekend retreat that would "fuel their love of surfing and golfing". They purchased a 1970s fixer-upper house in Pebble
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/feldman-architecture-1970s-home-california/
Students at EMMA Creative Center present three design projects
Dezeen School Shows: a project combining fashion and furniture whilst commenting on sustainability within design is included in this school show by students at EMMA Creative Center. Also included is a textile project that explores perceptions of time and a dining table that reimagines eating as play. Emma Creative Center Institution: EMMA Creative Center School:
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/design-projects-emma-creative-center-dezeen-schoolshows/
Rival Chicago fairs to "lose ground" without cooperation says Design Days organiser
Rival Chicago design events NeoCon and Fulton Market Design Days must start working together for the benefit of the city, an organiser of one of the fairs has said. The two events, both geared towards the contract furniture market – furniture meant for commercial installation – take part over the same few days in early
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/neocon-design-days-chicago/
Stone cellar in Estonian forest forms base for wooden Põro House
Architects Hanna Karits and Mari Hunt used locally sourced wood to create this house in Estonia, which sits on top of a disused cellar in a forest. Named Põro House, the home is designed to have minimal impact on its remote plot, which is surrounded by lakes and trees in Võru County. It occupies a
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/poro-house-hanna-karits-mari-hunt/
"We need Heatherwick – he is unique in our generation"
Thomas Heatherwick has come in for criticism over his Humanise campaign, but here Aidan Walker mounts an impassioned defence of the British designer. There's a lot of commentary on Thomas Heatherwick flying about at the moment, much of it negative. Most recently it came in response to the news that Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is working
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/thomas-heatherwick-aidan-walker-opinion/
Five Gay Times magazine covers that "balance visual impact with meaningful representation"
UK LGBTQ+ media brand Gay Times is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Here, senior art director Jack Rowe shares five key magazine covers with progressive design language. Rowe selected the covers from the 540 magazine covers included in Gay Times: The Exhibition, an audiovisual decade-by-decade timeline displaying the brand's journey over the past 40 years.
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Five Gay Times magazine covers that "balance visual impact with meaningful representation"
UK LGBTQ+ media brand Gay Times is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Here, senior art director Jack Rowe shares from five key magazine covers with progressive design language. Rowe selected the covers from the 540 magazine covers included in Gay Times: The Exhibition, an audiovisual decade-by-decade timeline displaying the brand's journey over the past 40
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/gay-times-magazine-covers-history/
JEB Group unveils partitions "optimised for acoustics"
Promotion: acoustic partition brand JEB Group has enclosed a wood-lined meeting room with a sliding partition system, forming the centrepiece of an office in Hong Kong. Named "Summit Partition Systems", the set up features a slim frame with a curved design, intended to integrate with the overall interior design. The project also uses the company's
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/jeb-group-office-partitions-promotion/
Max Radford Gallery opens London showroom to get people "in front of real objects"
Max Radford Gallery has opened a permanent space in east London that shows collectible designs from its past shows, including pieces by Carsten in der Elst and Amelia Stevens. Located in Hackney Downs, the showroom displays works that the gallery first showed at Belgium's Collectible design fair, as well as pieces from earlier exhibitions. By
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/02/max-radford-gallery-london-showroom-real-objects/
Mancini Duffy uses "elaborate" hydraulic system to reposition theatre in Times Square skyscraper
Local architecture studio Mancini Duffy has led the completion of a Times Square skyscraper, which included lifting a historic Broadway theatre and integrating a giant LED screen that opens onto an outdoor stage. Mancini Duffy, Perkins Eastman, and PBDW Architects led the demolition, restoration and design of TSX Broadway, a 47-storey skyscraper that now hosts
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/01/mancini-duffy-reposition-theatre-times-square-skyscraper/
Ten design projects by students featured in New Designers
Dezeen School Shows: a glassware collection for beverages that accentuates the visual effect of light is included in this school show by New Designers. Also included is a redesign of a car that adapts to travelling outdoors and a textiles project that takes cues from the architecture of cathedrals. New Designers School: New Designers Statement: "The
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/01/student-projects-design-new-designers-dezeen-schoolshows/