Architecture studio NAAD has gutted a 100-year-old house in Kyoto and re-skinned the interior in plywood to create a temporary dwelling that is designed to look incomplete (+ slideshow). (more…)
Spanish furniture brand Missana has launched a hand-upholstered three-seater sofa by product design studio La Selva that integrates a wooden drinks tray (+ slideshow). (more…)
Menos é Mais Arquitectos and João Mendes Ribeiro slotted both light and dark structures among the stone buildings of an old warehouse complex to create this arts centre – one of 40 projects now on the shortlist for the Mies van der Rohe Award. (more…)
Business news: luxury brand B&B Italia could be sold to a major American furniture group, Dezeen understands. (more…)
News: the jury tasked with selecting the design for a new hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor‘s Therme Vals spa in Switzerland has “dissociated itself” with the client’s decision to appoint Los Angeles firm Morphosis. (more…)
News: SO-IL co-founder Florian Idenburg “knew” the design studio’s facade for the New York architecture gallery would be a target for graffiti, but hoped it would be “better quality”. (more…)
Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). (more…)
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