Robert Storey’s pop-up Shoe Park for Everlane references Barbican conservatory



US set design studio Robert Storey has designed a plant-filled temporary retail space for online store Everlane in New York, influenced by the verdant conservatory at London’s brutalist Barbican Estate (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Alvar Aalto “changed the history of skateboarding”



Finnish Modernist architect Alvar Aalto accidentally invented the skateboard bowl with a 1930s swimming pool design, according to a US skateboarding magazine and a Finnish newspaper. (more…)

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US job of the week: architect at 20th Century Fox

US JOTW Fox for Dezeen

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural job captain at film studio 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

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10 of the most popular hotel rooms on Dezeen’s Pinterest boards



From a bed cocooned in an ice vortex to a colourful suite in America’s first gay boutique hotel, this week we’re counting down Dezeen’s most-pinned hotel room interiors from all around the world (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Limited-edition Dezeen watch by Void is “stripped back until it’s almost blank”



Dezeen Watch Store: a meeting in Hong Kong in 2008 led to the launch of the first Void watch on Dezeen and, shortly after that, the creation of Dezeen Watch Store. As we unveil our first limited-edition collaboration with the watch brand, founder David Ericsson explains how the elegantly minimal timepiece came about (+ interview). (more…)

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“The housing crisis isn’t a crisis, it’s a design project”



Opinion: the UK’s housing crisis is no accident, but has been carefully orchestrated to become a catch-all excuse for self-serving projects, argues Phineas Harper in his first Opinion column for Dezeen. (more…)

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Daan Roosegaarde launches campaign to make Beijing a smog-free city



Beijing Design Week 2016: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has brought his huge smog vacuum cleaner to Beijing, and claims he can “make a whole city smog-free” (+ movie). (more…)

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Wooden stables completed by Pook on the edge of a Finnish forest



This wooden stables on the edge of a Finnish forest features an asymmetric gabled roof which covers stalls for the horses and a lowered barn containing manure (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Marcus Fairs is first digital journalist to be made RIBA Honorary Fellow



Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will be the first digital journalist to be made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. (more…)

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Co-working spaces can benefit corporations as well as startups, Haworth finds



Haworth white papers: co-working spaces popular with small companies and individual workers could help large corporations be more innovative, according to a report by office furniture giant Haworth. (more…)

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