Narch creates a collage of decorative tiles by removing walls in a Barcelona apartment



Architecture studio Narch has renovated a Barcelona apartment, removing many of the internal walls to create a single space with a variety of patterned tile floors (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Neri&Hu combines Japanese and Californian design for Selfridges’ Body Studio



Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the biggest-ever retail department at London department store Selfridges, dedicated to women’s underwear, sleepwear and sportswear (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Philipp Bretschneider’s simple garden pavilion frames views over the Mediterranean



Architect Philipp Bretschneider has perched a garden viewpoint on a picturesque Mallorcan hillside, using the steel structure to frame views across the Mediterranean Sea (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Nick Ross’ Last of the Free homeware is based on Roman histories of Scottish tribes



Milan 2016: Scottish designer Nick Ross researched Roman accounts of his country’s indigenous Caledonian people and used the findings to create a collection of furniture and homeware (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Daring house designs feature on Dezeen’s new Pinterest board

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Plans to build a subterranean residence with a swimming pool for a roof were given the go-ahead this week, prompting us to pin wildly ambitious house designs – built or imagined – to a new Pinterest board.

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House Wieckin by Möhring Architekten features black-painted walls and deep corner windows



Möhring Architekten clad this holiday home in rural Germany in black-painted wood to look like a traditional barn, but then cut windows out of the corners to give it a contemporary edge (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Paul Eis uses Instagram to give German architecture a colourful makeover



Photo essay: keen to embark on career in architecture, young German student Paul Eis has been documenting the buildings of Berlin and Hamburg, but adapting them with bright colours (+ slideshow). (more…)

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“Calatrava’s transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York”



Opinion: Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren’t really public at all, says Alan G Brake. (more…)

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Ruffmercy collages archive footage of J Dilla for The Sickness music video



Music: Bristol-based director Ruffmercy has combined archive footage of J Dilla with hand-drawn animation in the music video for the late American rapper’s most recent posthumous track The Sickness (+ movie). (more…)

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UUfie completes light-filled Ontario medical clinic with translucent polycarbonate walls



Canadian architecture studio UUfie has inserted polycarbonate partitions into a medical clinic, part filling them with glass to create a hazy “horizon” (+ slideshow). (more…)

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