Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh government buildings captured in new images by Benjamin Hosking



World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Reza Aliabadi’s Opposite House in Toronto is split down the middle



Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Fold-out furniture and storage solutions transform Silvia Allori’s home into a studio



Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own home and workspace, featuring furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Brazilian apartment block by Arquitetura Nacional features a wall of sliding windows



Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Boy turns into a tree in James’ Dear John music video



Music: a boy is seduced and then poisoned by a “beautiful mutant flower” that turns him into a tree and forces him to leave his girlfriend in Péter Vácz’s video for James’ Dear John track (+ movie). (more…)

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Viu eyewear creates gallery-like space for its Vienna flagship store



An old bookstore has been stripped back to its concrete foundations to create a minimal space for Swiss eyewear brand Viu’s first store in Austria (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Ruined “cultural palace” in Romania revived by architect Vlad Rusu



Romanian architect Vlad Rusu has resurrected a “cultural palace” that was originally built in the 1930s but has sat in ruin for 20 years after being ravaged by fire (+ slideshow). (more…)

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This week, Kanye West asked Ikea to collaborate and the Rio 2016 Olympics kicked off

Official Rio 2016 Olympics posters unveiled

This week on Dezeen: architecture and design stories about this year’s summer Olympics flooded out as the event commenced in Rio de Janeiro this week, while Kanye West hit the headlines after declaring his desire to work with furniture giant Ikea. (more…)

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Le Corbusier’s Immeuble Clarté housing informed his Unité d’Habitation design



World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list (+ slideshow). (more…)

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