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Ten sunny interiors that make use of the Colour of the Year 2023

September 17, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Cafe Banacado, Sweden, by ASKA featuring Dulux Colour of the year 2023 Wild Wonder

For our latest lookbook, we’ve curated 10 interiors decked out in Wild Wonder after paint brand Dulux named the pale yellow hue as its Colour of the Year for 2023. Dulux describes Wild Wonder as a “soft gold with hints of green” that speaks to people’s desire for a closer connection to nature and better

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Ten living spaces with glossy surfaces that create depth and dimension

August 20, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
The Village apartment, Germany, by Gisbert Pöppler with glossy red lacquered wall

Mosaic tiles, red-lacquered wood panelling and sleek resin floors feature in this lookbook of 10 living spaces proving that high-shine surfaces don’t need to feel clinical. Glossy finishes – whether in the form of reflective paint, stone or simple sheet metal – can help to add polish and contrast to living rooms, which are traditionally heavy in

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Ten homes that use colour to turn stairs into statements

July 24, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Matryoshka House, Netherlands, by Shift Architecture Urbanism

A Swedish house with a stairway hidden behind a bookcase and an architect-revamped new build in the Netherlands feature in our latest lookbook of ten homes with colourful staircases that draw the eye. Adding a layer of paint makes it possible to turn even simple stairs into standout architectural features, rather than just functional ones.

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Ten playful pink kitchens that use colour in unexpected ways

July 9, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Pink kitchen in Studio11 office, Belarus, by Studio11

From the bubble-gum-coloured cabinets of a Tokyo apartment to the rosy mosaics found in a modernist Grecian villa, our latest lookbook rounds up 10 pink kitchens from the Dezeen archives. Architects and designers often reach for different shades of pink when they want to add interest and personality to a functional space, such as a

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Elon Musk’s The Boring Company opens first station in expanded Las Vegas transit tunnel system

July 1, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Teslas standing in The Boring Company's Vegas Loop station at Resorts World Las Vegas

Elon Musk’s infrastructure firm The Boring Company has opened the first of around 55 stations that are set to be constructed as part of a tunnel network underneath Las Vegas, which will see passengers carried across the city in a fleet of Teslas. The newly opened stop, located at the Resorts World Las Vegas hotel complex,

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IKEA designs “safe spaces” for children and at-risk refugees fleeing Ukraine

June 21, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
IKEA Blue Dot shelters

Furniture company IKEA has donated its products and design services to create a series of refugee support centres in Eastern Europe, set up by the United Nations to offer aid and sanctuary to the most vulnerable groups displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Swedish furniture brand created interiors with a homely, comforting atmosphere inside

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Ten multi-generational homes that organise space in interesting ways

June 19, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

A Mumbai apartment with its own temple and a Tokyo home for three generations and eight cats feature in this lookbook highlighting ten intergenerational households that showcase how interiors can balance privacy and community. Multi-generational living, in which several generations of a family cohabit under one roof, is already common practice in many parts of Asia,

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“Timber prices going up daily” in Europe due to Ukraine war

June 17, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

European architects and designers are struggling to source wood for their projects as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought imports from the region to a standstill, threatening stocks and driving up prices across the continent. Studios are reporting that costs for solid oak and birch plywood have doubled in the last few months, while others

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Ten gravity-defying homes that are raised up on stilts

May 27, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Stepping Stone House, UK, by Hamish & Lyons

From an artist’s cabin perched above a tidal salt marsh to an entire elevated apartment block in Italy, here is a roundup of 10 homes on stilts from the Dezeen archives. Hoisting buildings up on pillars allows them to occupy otherwise uninhabitable sites such as lakes, steep slopes and craggy coastal outcrops, bringing inhabitants closer to

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BIG completes “world’s most environmentally-friendly furniture factory” in Norway

May 25, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Birde-eye view of The Plus furniture factory by BIG for Vestre in a forest

Architecture firm BIG has constructed a mass-timber Passivhaus factory in a Norwegian forest for outdoor furnituremaker Vestre, which features a green roof and solar panels as well as an exterior slide. Instead of being hidden away on an industrial estate, The Plus factory development is nestled in 300 acres of woodland near the village of

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