Massachusetts-based designer and professor Iman S Fayyad has created a shelter from standard sheets of plywood, moulding it and fastening it with straps to form a “collective space” that is easy to assemble for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Called In The Round, the installation was placed on a landing within the Chicago Cultural Center, the […]
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Dezeen Showroom: from cork flooring to materials made from recycled plastic, the following surfaces are among those recently published on Dezeen Showroom. Among the selection are tiles that imitate the appearance of natural marble and stones, surfaces made partially from post-consumer appliances, and tiles containing PVC from old construction parts. Various international brands and manufacturers have recently […]
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US president Donald Trump has announced that there will be a 30 per cent tariff on upholstered furniture being imported to the USA from the start of October. Trump announced the furniture tariffs, alongside a 50 per cent tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities in a post on Trump Social yesterday evening. “We will be […]
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British architecture studio Medium has completed its renovation of Hearth House, a 1950s country home in Surrey, bringing clarity to a series of hotchpotch extensions. Nestled in the Surrey Hills National Landscape, the original two-storey pitched home had been gradually expanded with a cluster of single-storey rectilinear blocks, which suffered from poor thermal performance and […]
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This year’s Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism aims to directly engage the public rather than replicate the “echo chamber” of other architecture festivals, says the event’s general director Thomas Heatherwick in this exclusive interview. Speaking to Dezeen ahead of the opening of the fifth Seoul Architecture Biennale today, Heatherwick explained that he wants to start […]
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While big brands largely steered clear of major launches at this year’s London Design Festival, the next generation was out in force. Below, we meet some of the most promising young furniture and lighting designers coming out of the UK. Whether banding together to host group shows, occupying shops and hotels, or showcasing their work […]
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Dezeen Showroom: designer Domenico Orefice worked with Italian brand Ceramiche Keope to create this range of tiles that combines terracotta, contemporary aesthetics and Milanese architecture. The CottoMilano porcelain stoneware tile collection is informed by Milan’s historic Fornace Curti kiln, a source for Lombard terracotta since the 15th century. The CottoMilano tiles present a fresh take […]
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a collection of reflective cabins designed by prefabricated housing company ÖÖD for a remote hotel on Oregon‘s Rogue River. Twelve prefabricated cabins, designed with three mirrored sides to reflect the surrounding greenery, were added across the Tu Tu’ Tun Lodge property. Mirrored cabins by ÖÖD extend Oregon […]
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British designer Terence Woodgate has created a collection of carbon-fibre furniture for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, featuring super-slim forms that lend the pieces a lightweight appearance. The project, titled Lightness of Form, comprises a table, desk, chaise longue, chair and a cabinet that is still in development, all made using a recycled fibreglass material. Terence Woodgate […]
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International architecture practice OF Studio has created a brutalist concrete house with a cantilevered terrace and sloped foundations shaped by its site on a mountainside in Mendoza, Argentina. Completed in 2024, the 571-square metre (6,146-square-foot) house known as Brutal Honesty took six years to construct on the edge of a canyon. Brutal Honesty took six […]
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