10 of the most popular pink-hued interiors on Dezeen’s Pinterest boards

“Installation art has finally taken over the last bastion of architecture”



Opinion: colossal public artworks like Thomas Heatherwick’s interlinking staircases for New York are the architectural monuments of our time, says Aaron Betsky. (more…)

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Denis Guidone’s new watch for Projects references a Kandinsky artwork



Dezeen Watch Store: the latest watch from American brand Projects takes its unusual dial design from a drawing produced in the 1920s by influential Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. (more…)

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Derelict shed converted by Sue Architekten into writer’s studio and playroom



Sue Architekten has converted a 1930s outhouse near Vienna into a writing studio, guest room and playhouse, accessed via a trapdoor (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Job of the week: architects at Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Competition: five copies of a children’s origami book to be won



Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Owl & Dog Playbooks to give away five copies of a children‘s book filled with pre-scored sheets for making folded paper models of fish (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Timber-clad Gamla Villan by Mer Architects offers views of Finnish meadow and sea



A grand window offers views of the woodland and sea in this house in Hanko, Finland, designed by Mer Architects as a contemporary update of the town’s historic villas (+ slideshow). (more…)

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JamesPlumb uses ancient dying technique to create indigo fabric for limited-edition bench



London design studio JamesPlumb has revisited a medieval technique it previously used for dying fabric, and has this time used it to create a limited-edition bench (+ slideshow). (more…)

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ZGF wraps Arizona medical facility in layer of creased metal panels



American firm ZGF Architects has completed a cancer centre in downtown Phoenix with a faceted, copper-coloured screen that evokes the scaly skin of a desert reptile (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Dezeen Mail issue 326 features this week’s best stories and discussions