New York 2016: 11 international designers and studios have produced a range of simple furniture and homeware based on the American Shaker movement (+ slideshow). (more…)
Designers reinterpret Shaker artefacts for Furnishing Utopia exhibition
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Penda combines stepwells with water mazes for Indian garden design
Kennerly clads San Francisco townhouse in glass and white plastic
Kennerly Architecture & Planning has completed a San Francisco residential building with a number of distinctive features, including a perforated metal gate, white plastic cladding and lush landscaping (+ slideshow). (more…)
Milton Glaser designs Get Out The Vote graphic for US election
Graphic design legend Milton Glaser is among the designers who have created posters encouraging Americans to head to polling stations and vote in this year’s presidential election. (more…)
Architects including Mecanoo and Studio Weave propose solutions to Britain’s housing crisis
Walter Segal-inspired cottages, co-living and custom-built terraces are among the solutions to Britain’s housing crisis proposed in an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London (+ slideshow). (more…)
Dezeen Mail issue 306 features this week’s biggest architecture and design stories
A renovated Barcelona apartment with barrel-vaulted ceilings (pictured), 3D-printed fur and MVRDV’s huge staircase in Rotterdam city centre feature in this week’s Dezeen Mail.
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Five must-see installations at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week
Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: with Clerkenwell Design Week just around the corner, Dezeen reporter Alice Morby has picked out the things to look forward to, including a Tom Dixon installation inside a church and a timber temple in a historic archway. (more…)
Dramatically overhauled plans unveiled for Preston Bus Station
John Puttick Associates has significantly revised its designs for a new youth centre at Preston Bus Station, a transport hub in northern England that has become an icon of Brutalist architecture (+ slideshow). (more…)
Rogers Stirk Harbour unveils own studio inside its recently completed Leadenhall Building
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has revealed its new home inside the so-called Cheesegrater tower, featuring brightly coloured furnishings, exposed steelwork and a big central meeting space (+ slideshow). (more…)
Napur Architect wins Budapest museum contest with huge skateboard-ramp design
Hungarian firm Napur Architect has been selected ahead of BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects to design a major new museum in Budapest’s City Park (+ slideshow). (more…)
