Bleacher-style seating, traditionally found at sports grounds, is increasingly popping up inside and over the top of office spaces and public buildings. The stairs designed for sitting on feature in Snøhetta’s newly-opened SFMOMA extension and on Napur Architect’s skateboard-ramp design for a Budapest museum. We’ve added these and more of the best examples to a new Pinterest board.
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A three-metre-high pivoting glass door protrudes from the sloping roof of this London house extension, which is clad in fibre-cement panels to match a refurbished dormer window (+ slideshow). (more…)
The centrepiece of this garden-inspired Nordic restaurant in Copenhagen is an indoor greenhouse that Danish design studio Genbyg has created using recycled materials (+ slideshow). (more…)
Over 350 species of bird have made their home at this wetland centre, built by local firm X Architects on a former rubbish dump in the United Arab Emirates (+ slideshow). (more…)
This week on Dezeen: with the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 just around the corner, we examined some of the key themes already emerging from the world’s biggest architectural exhibition, including robotic construction (pictured) and the housing crisis. (more…)
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has designed a chair for furniture brand Fritz Hansen based on the shape of his firm’s Via 57 West “courtscraper” in New York. (more…)
Apple has debuted a series of new interior features at its latest store on San Francisco’s Union Square, designed with UK architecture firm Foster + Partners (+ slideshow). (more…)
