Ilse Crawford uses UNESCO-protected craft technique for Zanat Touch furniture



Ilse Crawford has collaborated with Bosnian brand Zanat to create furniture using a UNESCO-protected traditional carving technique (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Villa Le Lac is a glass-walled house overlooking Lake Geneva



Swiss architect Philippe Meyer has converted a former office building on the shore of Lake Geneva into a house with glass walls to provide expansive views of the surrounding scenery (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Spanish architects develop custom furniture for young adults returning to childhood homes



Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: with many of Spain‘s young adults unable to find work and forced to move back into their childhood homes, a team of architects has developed plans to make these spaces more suitable for adulthood (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Our latest Pinterest board celebrates the best new British design

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With the London Design Festival upon us, we’ve selected the best contemporary examples of British design and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.

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Wendell Burnette builds little house on the prairie in Wisconsin



This zinc-clad home by US studio Wendell Burnette Architects sits in the middle of a Wisconsin crop field (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Rimartus designs kitchen based on the silhouette of a flying bird



Lithuanian design studio Rimartus looked to the shapes of flying birds to design its minimal Wing kitchen for manufacturer Imprimere (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Shell-like roofs provide shelter at Pforzheim Central Bus Station



Stuttgart architecture studio Metaraum has completed a bus station in the German city of Pforzheim, featuring curving canopies that swoop up and over waiting areas (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Gustaf Holtenäs animates a space cartoon for Fabula Spatium music video



Gustaf Holtenäs based his animated video for Russian musician Mitya’s track Fabula Spatium on surreal sci-fi art from the 1970s (+ movie). (more…)

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Glithero suspends highlighter-bright “abstract clock” above V&A stairwell



London Design Festival 2016: Taking inspiration from the passage of time, London design studio Glithero has created a kinetic installation that extends across six floors at the V&A museum. (more…)

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Split House by BKK Architects is made up of two angular wooden structures



Angular volumes clad in timber and metal step down the side of a sloping site to form this house near Melbourne with ocean views (+ slideshow). (more…)

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