Tiny camping pods by Andrea Zittel serve as a creative refuge in the California desert



Artists and writers wanting to play out a “desert fantasy” can rent a tiny sleeping pod at a remote campsite in southern California, which looks like a scene from a sci-fi film (+ slideshow). (more…)

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10 of the best architectural photography series for World Photo Day



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…)

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US job of the week: architectural designer at Peter Marino Architect

US job of the week: architectural designer at Peter Marino Architect

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.

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Flashing models appear in Sagmeister & Walsh’s rebrand campaign for fashion label Milly



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…)

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10 of the most popular kitchens from Dezeen’s Pinterest boards



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…)

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Forensic Architecture forms digital reconstruction of Syrian “architectural instrument of torture”



Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie). (more…)

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Kiura Chronograph is the latest timepiece from Projects to arrive at Dezeen Watch Store



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…)

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Muji to test prefab house by letting a competition winner live in it for free



Japanese design brand Muji has revealed the prototype for its latest prefab house, which it will test by having a competition winner move in rent-free for two years (+ movie). (more…)

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Renée del Gaudio builds Colorado home on land devastated by forest fire



A devastating forest fire cleared the land that this weathering steel-clad house by Colorado architect Renée del Gaudio was built on (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Uber’s self-driving taxis to arrive in the US this month



Taxi app Uber will trial a fleet of autonomous Volvos on the roads of Pittsburgh later this month, the latest development in the race towards driverless cars (+ slideshow). (more…)

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