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Ten joyful interiors with decorative printed wallpaper

May 2, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Post House Inn bedroom with printed wallpaper

Our latest lookbook takes a look at interiors that have been filled with printed wallpaper to create playful, colourful spaces and bring a sense of joy to the rooms they’re in. Patterned, printed wallpapers are an easy way to revive tired rooms and create interesting designs for everything from guest bathrooms to main bedrooms. Here, we

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Mars Architectes creates wooden apartment block enclosed by 1970s housing

April 26, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Paris residential building made from wood

French studio Mars Architectes has built a Japanese-informed wooden apartment building within the courtyard of a 1970s housing complex in Paris. The studio designed the stepped building to reference Japanese temples, with slender wooden pillars holding up each floor. Located off the Avenue de Saint-Mandé in Paris’ twelfth district, the building was created for the French

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Ten key Aldo Rossi projects that showcase the scope of his work

April 20, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
The Il Palazzo hotel by Aldo Rossi

A new retrospective of postmodernist architect Aldo Rossi’s work has recently opened at Rome’s MAXXI museum. Its curator Alberto Ferlenga picks ten designs that demonstrate the scope of Rossi’s work and how it is still relevant today. Named Aldo Rossi: The Architect and the Cities, the exhibition presents a wide range of work by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning

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Theatrical curtains enclose the entrance of Tokyo fashion store The Playhouse

April 14, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Moving curtains at The Playhouse store

Architecture studios Pan Projects and Haruki Oku Design have renovated a fashion store in Tokyo using moving curtains and rotating walls to create adaptable retail and events spaces. Renamed The Playhouse, the building for the Vulcanize fashion store in the Aoyama district was directly informed by the theatre with a dramatic facade animated by moving curtains. London-based Pan Projects worked with local

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Ten interiors with pastel colours that freshen up the home for spring

April 10, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Pale yellow dining room with wooden floors

For this lookbook, we’ve rounded up ten home interiors decorated in pastel tints that show how ice-cream colours can give spaces a fresh, calming look. The selection from our archive, which includes bathrooms to bedrooms and kitchens, shows how pastels – made by adding white to pure colours to make them more luminous and less

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The metaverse will allow you to “extend your body into architecture” says Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular

April 9, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
The Fabricant virtual design

The virtual world and the real world will become one and the human body will merge with fashion and architecture, according to speakers at Dezeen Club’s metaverse meet-up event held at a virtual rooftop bar earlier this week. “The virtual world and the real world will integrate,” said Amber Slooten of virtual fashion studio The

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Ten lush rooftop gardens that serve as tranquil oases above the city

April 5, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Ten rooftop gardens

In the third of a trio of spring lookbooks this Easter weekend, we’ve rounded up ten verdant rooftop gardens including a penthouse garden in Australia and a stepped vegetable garden in Vietnam. This is the latest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks series providing visual inspiration for the home. Previous articles in the series feature terrazzo kitchens,

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Schemata Architects designs tiny Nakamata sweet shop in Maebashi

April 2, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Nakamata sweets store in Maebashi

Tokyo studio Schemata Architects has designed a confectionery store in Maebashi, Japan, with a courtyard to help open up and revive a shopping street that was on the decline. The Nakamata sweet shop is located on a once-busy street that was at risk of becoming a so-called “shutter street” – a street in Japan where

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Trama Arquitetos creates raw concrete house above cork tree grove in Braga

March 30, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Cork Trees House with concrete roof

Portuguese architecture studio Trama Arquitetos has created Cork Trees House, a concrete and Corten-steel clad home located on a slope above a grove of cork trees in Braga, Portugal. The single-level house was built on a plot of land set above the centuries-old trees and Trama Arquitetos aimed for its design to connect with this

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Ten architect-designed kitchens with terrazzo details

March 27, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Terrazzo kitchen in House P, China

The terrazzo trend shows no sign of slowing down, with the decorative speckled material cropping up in residential projects as well as in restaurants and workspaces. For this lookbook, we’ve rounded up ten playful and practical terrazzo kitchens. Terrazzo is a composite material made by mixing marble, granite, quartz or glass chips with a binder

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