It’s World Photo Day! To celebrate, we’ve rounded up ten of the most popular recent photo essays on Dezeen, including Modernist Palm Springs houses shot by moonlight and Lego models of Brutalist buildings. (more…)
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural designer at New York studio Peter Marino Architect, which clad watch-brand Hublot’s Fifth Avenue store in angled black metal panels (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Fashion brand Milly’s logo freezes, grows flowers and is applied like body paint in this campaign by New York design studio Sagmeister & Walsh (+ movie). (more…)
Once again, landscape as a main theme of the project. This time, under our feet the fields, as an horizon the see and a vast changing sky. We were asked to design the first floor extension of a country house, characterized by its random openings configuration and the “gotelé” texture of the lime walls.
The requirement of a quick construction and the condition of a viewpoint guided the construction decisions. We looked for a clear relationship with the house and the new construction, not imitating but maintaining its own aesthetic and function.
Just one exterior access, through an sculptural exterior staircases made of rusted steel was planned. As we go up to the sky we have
a first taste of the views that will be at the studio. Half original roof is used as a terrace, half as a studio. While the limits in between melt with 11 meter sliding windows and sliding timber blinds.
The rest of smaller openings, strategically placed, create green leaves squares. The skin is made by Aquapanel boards outside and plasterboard inside, creating a air chamber to ensure thermal comfort and hide the monorail windows in their opened position. As sunscreen, the traditional timber blinds widely used in Mediterranean architecture but reinvented as sliding elements, combining tradition, contemporaneity and coherence with the rest of elements.
An exposed concrete island, a dark walnut staircase and spotty tiles all feature in our roundup of the most-pinned kitchens to be featured on Dezeen (+ slideshow). (more…)
GRAFT has designed a new residential complex, called WAVE, on a former harbor along the Spree River in Berlin, Germany. Drawing inspiration from the waterfront site, the two L-shaped buildings are situated parallel to the river and facing one another, creating an inner courtyard and providing units with views of the river and “The Molecule Men,” the iconic sculpture by artist Jonathan Borofsky.
The sculptural expression of the facade references the flowing motion of water movements, and is created by projecting balconies and oriel windows beyond the building envelope. Along the waterfront, the architects opted to give the facade maximum glazing, giving the elevation an aesthetic of simplicity and the warmth of the southern sun.
Inside the volumes, apartment types of several shapes and sizes allow for a mixture of potential tenants, ranging from 1.5 room apartments of 27 square meters to 156 square meters units featuring five rooms. A mezzanine level offers apartments with private gardens, and on the top floor, penthouses measuring between 206 to 296 square meters feature private access to a roof garden. Most of the units have a balcony or oriel window to provide views to the water.
The “fifth surface” of the facade will made up of the rooftop containing gardens and lounge space. Together with the lush courtyard in the community center, the buildings will become a place of natural respite and a green oasis in the city.
The building is slated to be completed in 2018.
Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Alessio Romano’s latest watch for Projects is based on Japanese ideas of simplicity, with a stripped-back monochrome design. (more…)
From the architect. The project involves the organization of an apartment located in the attic of a newly built building with 5 floors. The attic space was to become an extension of the apartment located on the lower floor, which was no longer suitable to host family who over the years had passed from 2 to 4 people.
The idea is to turn this existing space in the new living, dining and family studies, in which a new toilet was also created. The new space becomes the new living area of the house while the existing flat situated on the lower level becomes the sleeping area.
The design of the furnishings identifies the hierarchies of the domestic space, defining the ritual moments of living. The detail of the elements defines the interior space, making recognizable the dwelling places that are put together by a visual relationship, which makes the space dinamic and at the same time hierarchized.
Following the success of last year’s virtual tour of Selgascano’s 2015 Serpentine Pavilion, Photographer Nikhilesh Haval of nikreations has shared with us his virtual tour of BIG’s 2016 Pavilion entry. Hosted this year on Google Street View, the tour allows you to move through and around the “unzipped wall” design, giving you the ability to perceive how sunlight interacts with the structure. Check out how visitors are using the pavilion as an escape from the sunny park or sipping on drinks ordered at the pavilion bar – and don’t forget to look up, where it’s easy to get lost in the sea of interlocking fiberglass bricks.
Gallery: The Serpentine Pavilion and Summer Houses Photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu
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