Julius Breitenstein creates Unpaid Intern device to aid designers



Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins graduate Julius Breitenstein has created a device that performs the activities an intern would usually do in a design office.  (more…)

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Mecanoo’s KRONA centre features a light-filled atrium and zigzagging concrete staircases



Dutch firm Mecanoo has completed a library and cultural centre in Kongsberg, Norway, which centres around an atrium with concrete staircases running across its walls and through its centre (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Perforated screens cover Barcelona marina buildings by SCOB Architecture and Landscape



SCOB Architecture and Landscape has built a restaurant and an office block in Barcelona‘s Port Vell Marina, and covered both buildings with perforated white screens (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Nienke Hoogvliet’s Sea Me furniture is made from woven seaweed



Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet used seaweed to create a furniture collection that highlights its possibilities as a material. (more…)

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Max Mertens installs sea of swings over a busy Luxembourg street



Luxembourg artist Max Mertens has installed hundreds of swings above a shopping street to offer pedestrians a new experience of a familiar place (+ movie). (more…)

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Lucy McRae film explores how design could prepare humans for outer space



Lucy McRae‘s short film The Institute of Isolation is a fictional examination of the ways travellers to outer space could use architecture and design to train their bodies for the challenge (+ movie). (more…)

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AGi Architects completes cardiac rehabilitation centre overlooking Kuwait Bay



With stone-clad walls and a deep red atrium, this medical centre in Kuwait was designed by AGi architects to look more like a cultural building than a health facility (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Raúl Sánchez uses angled walls to create blind spots in open-plan apartment in Barcelona



Grey-veined marble is paired with raw concrete and exposed pipework in this Barcelona apartment, in which architect Raúl Sánchez has used angled walls to create visual breaks in the layout.  (more…)

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Steeply pitched roofs feature on Dezeen’s new Pinterest board

House Over the Sea by Elliott + Elliott faces a bay in Maine



Local architects Elliot + Elliot have completed a seaside residence that juts out over the rocky Maine shoreline (+ slideshow). (more…)

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