Arch 11 completes Rocky Mountain home atop a concrete plinth



Colorado architecture firm Arch11 has raised a single-family residence on a concrete plinth to provide unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountains (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Call for entries to American Architecture Prize 2016



Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects to submit projects to the American Architecture Prize, which will be judged by Alejandro Zaera-PoloSadie Morgan and Will Alsop (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Iwan Baan photographs Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Vagelos Educational Building in New York



Photographer Iwan Baan has released new images of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s recently completed medical building for Columbia University, which trades a typical educational facility’s “boring” horizontal layout for vertical organisation (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Tokyo Olympics medals could be made of old smartphones



To make medals for Tokyo 2020, Olympic organisers are considering mining Japan’s vast repositories of e-waste for millions of discarded smartphones and computers. (more…)

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La Granja Ibiza is a members-only retreat with a rustic “back-to-basics” design



Designer Armin Fischer has converted an old stone farmhouse in the Ibizan countryside into a rustic members-only retreat offering guests ritualistic activities like communal farming and meditation (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Adidas unveils toddler versions of Kanye West’s Yeezy Boost 350



Sports brand Adidas is releasing child-size editions of the popular Yeezy Boost trainers designed by rapper Kanye West (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Sunset-hued counter welcomes customers at Tokyo cheese tart shop by Yota Kakuda



Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has combined industrial and citrus tones in his interior design for Bake Kitasenju, a cheese tart shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…)

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MAD transforms Japanese house into curvaceous kindergarten with a slide along one wall



Chinese studio MAD has draped a “skin” of white asphalt shingles over the wooden structure of an old house in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture to create a kindergarten with a curving roofline (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Ferm Living unveils collection of minimal furniture and homeware



Northmodern 2016: glass-fronted cabinets and pick-and-mix lighting systems feature in Danish brand Ferm Living‘s Autumn Winter 2016 collection (slideshow). (more…)

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Tiny cabin in Rhode Island by 3six0 provides retreat for local artist



Rhode Island studio 3six0 has created a geometric wooden cabin “cut like a gemologist shaping a stone” to serve as a retreat for an artist from Providence (+ slideshow). (more…)

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