Closca creates accessories for folding Fuga helmet to shield cyclists from the cold and dark



Bike helmet brand Closca has updated its folding headgear with accessories designed to keep cyclists safe and warm during winter (+ slideshow).  (more…)

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Custom joinery creates tailored storage systems inside home for Emil Eve Architects founders



Architect couple Emma and Ross Perkin used plywood to create bespoke storage solutions inside this tiny London flat, allowing them to showcase books, toys and cooking ingredients (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Studio Swine designs furniture for Henry Ford’s failed Amazon city



London Design Festival 2016: Studio Swine used very hard rubber to craft this black furniture collection, designed for American industrialist Henry Ford’s failed utopian city (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Dezeen’s new Pinterest board celebrates the best of British architecture

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This week saw the Caruso St John-designed gallery for Damien Hirst win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, as the UK’s best new building. To mark the occasion, we’ve scoured our archives to find more examples of Britain’s finest contemporary architecture and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.

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Filmmaker’s first architectural project is modernism-influenced Miami villa



Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes has completed his first built project: a tropical-modernist mansion in Miami that is currently among the city’s most expensive residential properties (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Bangkok shoe store by External Reference mimics a bank vault



Safety deposit boxes function as display cabinets in this Bangkok shop for Spanish footwear brand 24 Kilates. (more…)

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Graffiti-covered Les Magasins Généraux warehouse in Paris transformed into BETC offices



Advertising agency BETC has taken a huge derelict flour and grain warehouse on the banks of the Canal de l’Ourcq in Paris and transformed it into offices boasting a large roof garden and plant-filled courtyards (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Quentin Deronzier documents growing up for Jerry Folk music video



For Jerry Folk’s Kids music video, French visual artist Quentin Deronzier used Cinema 4D to create hypnotic visuals that document the transition from childhood to adulthood (+ movie). (more…)

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Pia Bauernberger makes custom coats to suit how individual designers work



Vienna Design Week 2016: Austrian designer Pia Bauernberger has designed a series of work coats with features tailored to the idiosyncrasies of specific designers and artists (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Concrete dovecote transformed into children’s playhouse by AZO Sequeira



A small concrete structure once used as a house for doves has been transformed by Portuguese studio AZO Sequeira Arquitectos Associados into a garden playroom. (more…)

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