Photography by Greg Fonne Architecture firm Mizzi Studio were commissioned by Italian café brand Colicci, to design a new cafe located at the entrance to Westfield City’s Shopping Centre in London. Inspired by nature, Mizzi Studio designed the roof to take on the form of an abstract leaf blowing in the wind. Copper was chosen […]
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for “London’s greenest public building”, a school that would be entirely powered using the tidal movements of the River Thames. The conceptual plans for the Thames Tidal Powered School involve a building that juts out over London’s principle waterway. A series of large turbines positioned underneath would then allow
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The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores the “aquatecture” of Baca Architects, which includes plans for floating houses, villages and even a Grand Prix track. London-based Baca Architects has developed a number of concepts that aim to move growing urban populations into floating communities on docks and canals. The studio’s plans to reinvigorate a water space in London’s
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British firm Guard Tillman Pollock punched a hole through a detached Edwardian property in north London to create a driveway leading to this modernist-inspired house that faces onto a secluded garden. The existing house is situated on a landlocked site at the end of a terrace in Highgate, north London. Its previous owners had also purchased an
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The inaugural ArchFilmFest is now underway in London, and Dezeen reporter Eleanor Gibson has selected her top picks – ranging from an insight into the life of ageing architect Gottfried Böhm to a look at the tech infrastructure of New York’s art-deco buildings. Dezeen is media partner for ArchFilmFest London, which takes place from 6 to 11 June 2017 in two locations,
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Design magazine Cereal has teamed up with ‘design-literate’ estate agents Aucoot to create a temporary three-bedroom penthouse apartment on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London. Functioning as a show apartment, the choice of finishes and furnishings are intended as a physical representation of the Cereal brand. Contemporary and vintage furnishings are placed against a backdrop of moody greys
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Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion opens at London’s V&A today, with the exhibition showcasing over 100 pieces of the Spanish designer’s work from the later stages of his career, as well as the works of designers he has influenced. Cristóbal Balenciaga founded the Balenciaga fashion house in 1919, and went on to become one of the most
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Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry. Called California: Designing Freedom, the exhibition documents the American west-coast counterculture movements of the 1960s, and looks at how they fed into today’s
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Robots were used to manufacture the components of these two pavilions, which form the new shop for the V&A museum in London. Designed by London studio Friend & Company, the shop is intended to pay tribute to the V&A’s first retail space, which functioned as a showcase for contemporary crafts from 1863 onward. This new space was
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British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London’s City Road. Black & Milk’s client asked the firm to create an interior with “a hint of understated luxury”. In response, the studio redesigned the apartment’s open-plan living room to accommodate a formal
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