Airbnb models Tokyo office on local neighbourhoods



Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Johnny Lui reimagines London planning process as multiplayer video game



Graduate shows 2016: in this movie, Royal College of Art graduate Johnny Lui explains his concept for a digital planning system, which architects would play like a video game to get projects built in the real world. (more…)

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Cloud Pavilion is a glass-walled events space in Shanghai



Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a pavilion on the bank of Shanghai’s Huangpu River, with thin metal columns surrounding a glass-walled room shaped like a cartoon cloud (+ movie). (more…)

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Creative industries must present a united front to make best of Brexit says John Sorrell



Creatives must “get their act together and speak with a united voice” to protect the future of the sector post-Brexit, according to London Design Festival and Creative Industries Federation founder John Sorrell. (more…)

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Call for entries to the Tile of Spain Awards 2016



Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit projects that feature Spanish-made ceramics to the Tile of Spain Awards 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Moarqs and Ottolenghi Architects wrap Lamas House with concrete screen



A concrete screen wraps the upper storey of this villa in Buenos Aires Province, blinkering bedroom windows from the street and directing views into a planted courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Pedro Venzon bases stackable Pudica chair on Brazil’s colonial architecture



The form of this chair by designer Pedro Venzon is based on the curves and shapes found in architecture left over from Portugal’s colonisation of Brazil (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Delfino Lozano’s Casa G features an elevated brick games room



A brick volume containing a games room balances on steel beams that raise it above the sloping plot of this house in the Mexican city of Zapopan (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Architects imagine new uses for Philip Johnson’s New York State Pavilion



A proposal to add a giant curvaceous greenhouse on top of the pavilion designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964-65 World’s Fair has won a competition to suggest uses for the abandoned structure. (more…)

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Shipping container serves as mobile boutique for luxury sportswear brand Needs & Wants



Online retailer Needs & Wants Studios has collaborated with a Toronto architecture student to transform a shipping container into a mobile boutique that serves as the brand’s first physical store (+ slideshow). (more…)

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