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Ten homes with decorative parquet wooden flooring

February 27, 2022 James Parkes 0

1930s apartment, Portugal, by Aboim Inglez Arquitectos

Our latest lookbook highlights 10 homes with decorative parquet flooring including a Victorian terraced home and 1930s apartment feature in Portugal. Parquet flooring is a traditional style of hardwood flooring, that is used to create decorative and mosaic-like patterns in homes and interior settings. The decorative hardwood flooring is made from short wooden battens that

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Paris set to build four-kilometre-long urban cable car

February 18, 2022 James Parkes 0

Y-shaped pylons will support the cable car system

Construction is set to begin on Paris’ first urban cable car, a 4.5-kilometre-line that will connect several suburbs in the southeast of the city to the Metro system. Named Câble 1, the system will link the suburb of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges with the Créteil Pointe du Lac station on Paris’ Metro line 8. Construction will begin later this

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BIG’s multi-storey film studio for Robert De Niro set to be built in New York

February 14, 2022 James Parkes 0

Architecture studio BIG won approval for a 44-metre-high film studio in Queens, New York City, which is set to be the “first vertical film studio in the world”. The 760,000-square-foot film and television studio, which received planning permission last year, will be built for New York-based developer Wildflower Development Group. Wildflower Development Group is collaborating with American actor

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The Dezeen guide to bridge design and architecture

February 14, 2022 James Parkes 0

Our latest Dezeen guide explains the seven key types of bridges including beam bridges, tied-arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges and cantilevered bridges. Bridges are structures that are built to cross or span physical obstacles without blocking or obstructing movement below. These structures often provide a way above an obstacle that might otherwise be difficult to cross.

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SOM designs Fort Lauderdale Federal Courthouse informed by classical architecture

February 9, 2022 James Parkes 0

The building will have a fluted glass and metal exterior

Architecture practice Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has received approval for a new 10-storey federal courthouse with a fluted metal and glass exterior in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Recently approved by the US General Services Administration, the new Fort Lauderdale Federal Courthouse will encompass 252,000 square feet (23,411 square metres) across 10 storeys and will be built

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Zaha Hadid Architects begins construction on Ukranian metro stations

February 3, 2022 James Parkes 0

Render of the metal canopy metro station

British firm Zaha Hadid Architects has begun construction on three new stations for the Dnipro Metro in Ukraine as part of a four-kilometre line extension. The trio of Zaha Hadid Architects-designed stations — Teatralna, Tsentalna and Muzeina – form part of the metro line extension in the city of Dnipro that first broke ground in

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Kengo Kuma creates pavilion supported by live bamboo at Kyoto temple

February 2, 2022 James Parkes 0

Architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has built a pavilion with a textile roof supported by bamboo stalks on the grounds of a temple in Kyoto, Japan. Named Kyoto Yudo Pavilion, the structure designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates was built in a bamboo grove within the temple site. The studio used Tyvek, a synthetic fabric made from polyethene fibres,

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Ten self-designed homes by architects and designers

January 29, 2022 James Parkes 0

Interior of concrete house with wooden floor

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected ten homes from the Dezeen archive that were self-designed by architects and designers including John Pawson, Sarah Wigglesworth and Alan Maskin. From a two-storey apartment in New York City to a second home on the grounds of a former 17th-century farming complex, these homes offer interior inspiration and insights

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Makhno Studio designs conceptual settlement within Martian crater

January 24, 2022 James Parkes 0

Plan C is a 3D-printed Mars settlement concept

Ukrainian architecture practice Makhno Studio has designed a 3D-printed settlement for Mars named Plan C that would encircle the edge of a crater. The concept was developed during coronavirus lockdown when the studio was questioning how underground living could be comfortable if life on Earth’s ground level became difficult. In response to this, Makhno Studio developed a proposal for

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22 Parkside “led to most of the work I do” says Richard Rogers

January 15, 2022 James Parkes 0

In the final exclusive interview that Dezeen filmed with Richard Rogers in 2013, the late architect discusses the concept behind his Wimbledon house, 22 Parkside. The interview forms part of a series Dezeen filmed with Rogers to coincide with a retrospective of his work at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2013. Rogers, who

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