French design company Petite Friture‘s newest products include playful pendants shaped like sausages and lighting based on laundry (+ slideshow). (more…)
Petite Friture adds sausage lamps and pink-splashed mirrors to collection
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Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye encapsulates the Modernist style
World Heritage Corb: one of the most important buildings by architect Le Corbusier from the 17 that have been to UNESCO’s World Heritage List is Villa Savoye, the top-heavy weekend retreat created as a Modernist version of the French country house (+ slideshow). (more…)
Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic architecture features on our Brazil-themed Pinterest board
A golf course with a rainwater-collecting canopy is among the architecture projects from Rio de Janeiro on our Brazil-themed Pinterest board, which we’ve updated ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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Red Barn by Roger Ferris and Partners provides an artist’s retreat in Connecticut
New York-based firm Roger Ferris + Partners has built an artist’s studio and residence clad with bright red siding on a Connecticut estate (+ slideshow). (more…)
DArch creates plastic surgery clinic inside heritage-listed building on a Greek island
The old bones of a 1912 building have been preserved in its renovation into a plastic surgery practice on the Greek island of Rhodes (+ slideshow). (more…)
Bilding is a faceted wooden community centre built by students in an Austrian park
Contortionist is controlled by an octopus in Klyne’s Lend Me Another Name music video
Music: after eating some strange eggs, a girl goes through an “inner metamorphosis” controlled by an octopus in Barcelona-based director Alan Masferrer’s music video for Netherlands band Klyne. (more…)
Fleet Architects creates timber “nest” and zigzagging bar for east London brewery
Fleet Architects has paired slatted timber screens with wooden parquet flooring in this transformation of a “concrete shell” in east London into a craft beer house (+ slideshow). (more…)
House with stone walls built by Spasm Design around a sunken courtyard in India
This week, anticipation mounted ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics
This week on Dezeen: the countdown to this year’s Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro entered its final stages this week, with images of completed venues and news of unfinished facilities both emerging. (more…)
