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OEO Studio uses materials in a “playful way” for Designmuseum Denmark cafe and shop

August 3, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Tables, design chairs and stone floors at Designmuseum cafe

Copenhagen-based OEO Studio has created a cafe and shop interior for Denmark’s Designmuseum using stone, steel and wood to honour architect Kaare Klint’s original design. OEO Studio worked with materials and colours that reference Klint’s design from the 1920s and added details such as custom-built cabinets to the shop and a “monolithic” steel serving counter

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Video reveals 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper The Line in Saudi Arabia

July 28, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Visual of The Line city in Saudi Arabia

This video shows the design for The Line, a 500-metre-tall, mirror-clad skyscraper that was designed to house nine million people in Saudi Arabia. The linear city, which will be 170 kilometres long and 200 metres wide, was launched by Saudia Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and is described as “a revolution in civilization.” It will

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Ten contemporary living rooms with cool stone surfaces

July 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Budge Over Dover house in Sydney designed by YSG

Rough-hewn granite and smooth marble are among the materials chosen for the living rooms in this lookbook, which use stone to create elegant interiors. While stone surfaces can help rooms feel cooler during hot summer days, they also create a warm, organic atmosphere in modern interiors – especially when contrasted against glass surfaces and other

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This week the Stirling Prize shortlist was revealed

July 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Exterior of Sands End Arts and Community Centre by Mae Architects

This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, which was dominated by projects in London. Of the six projects on the shortlist for this year’s prize, which includes buildings by Niall McLaughlin Architects, Hopkins Architects and Henley Halebrown, four are located in London with the other two in Cambridge and Falkirk, Scotland. The list includes a school, a

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Ten tranquil bathrooms with timber-clad interiors

July 10, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
A timber-clad bathroom

Our latest lookbook features ten bathrooms where timber cladding has been used to create interiors with a luxurious, warm feel. While bathrooms with ceramic and stone interiors can feel sterile and spartan, using timber creates a cosy and enveloping atmosphere, as demonstrated by these ten projects. Ranging from cypress to spruce and cork, the materials

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Women-led studios create sculptural pavilions for Women in Architecture exhibition

July 6, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Pavilions by Tatiana Bilbao and Helen & Hard

Architecture studios Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Helen & Hard and Ensamble Studio have designed three pavilions for the Women in Architecture exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center. The exhibition, which was curated by Sara Hatla Krogsgaard, aims to highlight the work that women architects have created in Denmark and showcases work by both historical and contemporary architects.

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Frank Maali and Gemma Lalanda transform 1950s garage into steel-clad event space with a “sacral feeling”

June 20, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Steel-clad Vipp Garage

Architects Frank Maali and Gemma Lalanda have turned a 1950s garage into an events space at homeware brand Vipp’s Copenhagen headquarters, which opened during the 3 Days of Design festival. Called Vipp Garage, the architecture duo’s design was informed by the industrial Island Brygge neighbourhood where it is located. It has steel-clad walls and a polished concrete

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Henning Larsen constructs translucent pavilion to mark Fritz Hansen’s 150th anniversary

June 16, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Translucent pavilion for Fritz Hansen

Danish architecture studio Henning Larsen has built a wooden pavilion for furniture brand Fritz Hansen’s 150th anniversary that forms part of the 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen. Made to showcase Fritz Hansen’s furniture, the glued laminated timber (glulam) pavilion was designed to be largely translucent to let in as much light as possible during

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Gehry House extension seems to “emerge from the inside of the house”

May 30, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Steel-clad Gehry House in California

Continuing our series exploring deconstructivist architecture we look at Gehry House, architect Frank Gehry’s radical extension to his home in Santa Monica, California. Gehry House was built around and encompasses an existing Dutch-style suburban building, which Gehry expanded by adding a number of interlocking structures that disrupt the shape of the original building. “The force

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Foster + Partners designs Manila skyscraper with wraparound verandas

May 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Exterior of Foster + Partners' BWDC tower in Manila

British architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled the BWDC Residential Tower in Manila, Philippines, which will feature wraparound verandas with large roof overhangs that help keep the apartments cool. Designed to have expansive views of a golf club in central Manila, the 45-storey skyscraper aims to mitigate the city’s high temperature and humidity by

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