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Long Nguyen Design wraps Vietnam restaurant in bamboo screen
A screen of bamboo shelters diners at the Nhà Tú Garden Restaurant in Vietnam, which has been completed by architecture studio Long Nguyen Design. Located in the city of Dong Nai, the restaurant stands on a stretch of green space that separates a residential area from a nearby industrial park. Long Nguyen Design described its
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Reusing existing venues for Olympics "is not easy" says Populous' Francois Clement
Paris 2024 comes close to the limit of what is possible in terms of minimising construction for Olympic Games hosted in a single city, explains Populous' Francois Clement in this Olympic Impact interview. Clement, who has been involved with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games since he assisted the city's bid in 2016, explained
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Dart office chair by Allseating
Dezeen Showroom: Canadian furniture company Allseating has launched an ergonomic office chair named Dart, which features horizontal stitching for additional back support. Intended to have a sleek appearance suited to a variety of meeting spaces, the Dart office chair has an upholstered seat and backrest placed atop a height-adjustable base. "As the way people work continues to
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/25/dart-office-chair-allseating-dezeen-showroom/
Dubai to convert 64-kilometre-long highway into "human-centric" Green Spine
Architecture studio Urb is planning to convert a 64-kilometre-long arterial road in Dubai into the "world's greenest highway", designed as the emirate's answer to New York City's High Line. Green Spine will replace the Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road, also known as E311, with what Urb is dubbing the "world's greenest highway". The road will
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Sukchulmok creates adjustable stool made entirely from steel
Architecture studio Sukchulmok has created the cone-shaped Chul-02 Cone Stool to showcase the "sharp and mechanical form of steel". The piece is composed of three connected components – each featuring conical tops held up by pointed legs that can be inserted into the ground. "These [three components] are designed to appear as individual pieces while
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/25/sukchulmok-steel-cone-stool/
WXY Architecture and Jerome Haferd Architecture design structures for historic Africatown
US studios WXY Architecture and Jerome Haferd Architecture are among four firms that have won a competition to design several cultural venues for historic Africatown in Alabama. The Africatown International Design Idea Competition, spearheaded by Renee Kemp-Rotan of local architecture firm Studio Rotan, called for proposals to assist a Mobile, Alabama community in the improvement
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/wxy-architecture-jerome-haferd-africatown-design-competition/
Atelier l'Abri embraces "expressive potential of construction" with Montreal shed
Local architecture studio Atelier l'Abri has created a shed at a Montreal farmhouse with a galvanized steel and hemlock timber structure. Named Melba Pavilion, the 45-square-metre structure was designed as a workspace and storage for the surrounding Maison Melba property, which includes a residence, studio, workshop and greenhouse dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Located between the property's greenhouse
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/maison-melba-pavilion-atelier-labri-montreal-shed/
California Baptist University spotlights ten architecture student projects
Dezeen School Shows: a museum clad in tiles made from ceramics is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at California Baptist University. Also featured is a care facility for people with Alzheimer's and an educational centre that integrates spaces for spirituality as well as academia. California Baptist University Institution: California Baptist University School:
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Suchi Reddy installs voice-to-colour AI sculpture in Michigan Central
Architect Suchi Reddy has created an installation in a recently restored train station in Detroit that responds to the words spoken into microphones with colourful LED lights. Me + You consists of a circle of modules with microphones surrounded by LED screens set up in the middle of the southern concourse of the Michigan Central,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/suchi-reddy-colour-ai-sculpture-detroit-central/
Menow stools by Studio Cohaku
Dezeen Showroom: Tokyo-based Studio Cohaku has designed Menow, a collection of round stools characterised by slitted, "wrinkle-free" upholstery. The Menow collection includes three sizes – small, medium and large – and is suitable for use in offices and commercial spaces. Studio Cohaku designed the curved stool with slits at its four corners, "inspired by ribbed
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Madam Architectuur updates Belgian bungalow with red-timber cladding
Brussels studio Madam Architectuur has renovated and extended a bungalow near Aalst, updating its exterior with bright red-painted timber that is "striking yet modest". Named Charlotte, the low-slung home was built on the outskirts of a nature reserve in the 1990s but lacked a relationship with its surroundings. Madam Architectuur reconfigured and extended the concrete
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/madam-architectuur-charlotte-belgian-bungalow/
O-voilà mirror by Gianluca Soldi for Soldi Design
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Soldi Design has released a "bold and provocative" mirror shaped like a broken egg, created by founder Gianluca Soldi. O-voilà is characterised by a bulbous body available in three colours, interrupted by a large mirrored face with a jagged perimeter. The result is a bright oval form that was designed to
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/o-voila-mirror-soldi-design-dezeen-showroom/
O-voilà mirror by Gianluca Soldi for Soldi Design
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Soldi Design has released a "bold and provocative" mirror shaped like a broken egg, created by founder Gianluca Soldi. O-voilà is characterised by a bulbous body available in three colours, interrupted by a large mirrored face with a jagged perimeter. The result is a bright oval form that was designed to
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/o-voila-mirror-soldi-design-dezeen-showroom/
"Building 1.5 million homes is not the same as solving the housing crisis"
Keir Starmer's newly elected government has made big promises about increasing housing supply in England without properly explaining why it wants to do so, writes Peter Apps. Last week saw the UK's new government spell out its priorities in the King's Speech, with housing grabbing most of the headlines. Keir Starmer's Labour Party won the
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/labour-1-5-million-homes-housing-crisis-peter-apps-opinion/
Neri&Hu animates gridded Taipei apartment block with arched screens
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens. Located on a former US military base in Taipei, the apartment block is intended to echo the community feel and slower pace of life in the district, contrasting the city's bustling commercial areas. It is
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/neri-hu-taiwan-apartment-block/
Five objects that tell stories of "care and repair" from Helsinki exhibition curators
Acts of mending and maintenance are the subject of the Fix: Care and Repair exhibition in Helsinki, Finland. Here, its curators share five works that shed light on a rarely celebrated topic. The Fix: Care and Repair exhibition brings together objects and artworks that tell a story about shifting social attitudes towards repair. "The way
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/five-objects-care-and-repair-helsinki-exhibition-curators/
One month left to enter Dezeen and Bentley's Start Something Powerful Competition
There is just one month left to enter our Start Something Powerful Competition, which calls for ideas that could have a powerful impact on how people live over the next 100 years. Enter now before the contest closes on 21 August. Announced earlier this month, Dezeen and Bentley have teamed up to launch another global
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/start-something-powerful-competition-bentley-one-month-reminder/
Five outdoor architecture and design events on Dezeen Events Guide
To celebrate summer, we've selected five current and upcoming events taking place outdoors from Dezeen Events Guide, including Chart Art Fair, Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and Horst Expo. Also featured are Domaine de Boisbuchet – Summer Workshops and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. Bruges Triennial 13 April to 1 September, Belgium The fourth edition of Bruges Triennial is
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/24/five-outdoor-architecture-design-events-dezeen-events-guide/
WXY Architecture creates welcome centre for New York nature preserve
New York City-based studio WXY Architecture has unveiled a wooden, light-filled visitor centre for a nature preserve on the seaside in Rockaway, Queens. The Arverne East Welcome Center marks the entrance to a 35-acre nature preserve and is part of Phase 1 of New York City's first net-zero residential community. Known as Arverne East, it
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/23/wxy-architecture-welcome-centre-queens/
Dezeen Debate features "sympathetic and classy" New York extension
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features CookFox Architects' extension to an early 1900s building in New York. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. CookFox Architects restored the facade of a historic Upper West Side apartment building and added a tiered 19-storey extension made up of two volumes clad in red and white bricks.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/23/new-york-extension-cookfox-dezeen-debate/