02/09/2024
Piles of green-hued books characterise London Aesop store:
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Dezeen is the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design magazine. Dezeen was launched at the end of November 2006 and has grown rapidly ever since, attracting over two million unique visitors every month. Dezeen was started as a simple blog in 2006 by Marcus Fairs, author of Twenty-First Century Design (published October 2006 and republished in June 2009) and Green Design (publi
shed March 2009) and former founding editor of icon magazine. In 2007 he was joined by Rupinder Bhogal and together they set up Dezeen Limited, which they now run as co-directors. They launched the recruitment site Dezeen Jobs in 2008, followed by Dezeen Watch Store in 2010. Dezeen has published two best-selling books: Dezeen Book of Ideas in 2011; and Dezeen Book of Interviews in 2014. About Marcus Fairs
A furniture design graduate, Marcus began his journalism career writing for publications including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Conde Nast Traveller. He launched icon, the international architecture and design magazine, in 2003, and edited the publication until November 2006. Under Marcus, the magazine rapidly established itself as one of the world’s most influential and respected design journals, winning a string of awards including Launch of the Year and Designer of the Year in 2003 and Monthly Magazine of the Year in 2005 and 2006. Marcus himself has won numerous awards, including Journalist of the Year (2002) and Architectural Journalist of the Year (2004). He also regularly appears on radio and TV, writing and presenting a documentary about French designer Philippe Starck for the BBC in 2003 and appearing in the major BBC series Home in 2006. An accomplished public speaker, Marcus has spoken at conferences in London, Tokyo, New York, Stockholm and Cape Town, among others. Marcus launched Dezeen at the end of November 2006 and the site grown rapidly ever since, now attracting over 1.75 million unique visitors every month. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential design websites in the world. As founder and editor-in-chief of Dezeen, Marcus has won awards including the BSME's Business Editor of the Year in 2013. In the same year he was named one of the 100 most influential figures in the UK creative industries by the Hospital Club. In 2011, French magazine Architectural Digest placed him in the 100 qui comptent list of the most important figures in global design. www.dezeen.com
Piles of green-hued books characterise London Aesop store:
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/03/green-books-marylebone-aesop-store/
Architecture studio Enter Projects Asia has completed a private gallery in Chiang Mai, Thailand, featuring a rattan structure designed by an algorithm.
Architecture studio Enter Projects Asia has completed a private gallery for a collector in Chiang Mai, Thailand, featuring an undulating rattan structure designed by an algorithm that weaves its way in and out of the building.
Swedish furniture brand IKEA has launched its first product range for pets, which includes rattan beds and patterned soft toys.
IKEA has partnered with rehoming centre Woodgreen Pets Charity to launch its first product range for pets, which includes beds, bowls and blankets.
Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.
Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will feature facades designed to resemble waterfalls.
Sweeping curves and planted terraces feature in this staggered office building in Singapore.
Sweeping curves and planted terraces feature in this staggered office building which London-based studio Eric Parry Architects has added to the side of a Singapore park.
Åsa Hjort Architects completes blocky home on Sweden's southern coast:
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/01/04/asa-hjort-architects-completes-blocky-home-on-swedens-southern-coast/
Instead of traditional cushions or upholstery, this chair's seat and backrest is a knitted, knotted tube that serves as a planting bed for chia seeds.
University of Gothenburg students Alice Hultqvist, Emelie Sjöberg and Linnea Nilsson have created Chia-Chair, a chair for cultivating plant life.
Occupied by a couple with a young son, the Solit-Garreau Residence is located in the leafy Chevy Chase neighbourhood in northwest Washington, DC.
Studio Bower has created a wood-clad extension for a 1940s cottage that preserves the home's charm and feels like a "generous treehouse inside."
OMA altered this 1970s building and added outdoor paths to better connect it to the surrounding green space.
OMA has transformed a modernist building in Singapore into the Air Circular Campus and Cooking Club, adding a cylindrical orange steel frame.
Located in a space that was originally a bank, Etch was first renovated and opened as a restaurant in 2017.
Architect and interior designer Akram Fahmi has revamped the Etch restaurant in Hove, UK, with black and white interiors to reflect its minimalist menu.
Rashid Ali Architects creates chequered garden tea room in Somaliland:
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/21/hargeisa-somaliland-garden-pavilion-rashid-ali-architects/
Lama is formed of a vertical staircase tower, offering views out over the Andes Mountains.
Architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a pair of concrete pavilions in the Chilean countryside – one is a lookout tower, while the other is a sunken shelter.
Romanian studio Modul 28 has updated and extended the rectory of a church in Transylvania.
Modul 28 has updated and extended the rectory of a church in Transylvania, transforming it into a guesthouse that "balances preservation with innovation".
A mint-green lounge pit and custard-yellow home office has been installed by designer Sabine Marcelis on the top floor of Vitra's Herzog & de Meuron-designed flagship store.
A mint-green lounge pit and custard-yellow home office are among several colourful set pieces installed by designer Sabine Marcelis on the top floor of Vitra's Herzog & de Meuron-designed flagship store in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
A demountable house by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has been installed as "a reminder of the precariousness of our existence".
A demountable house by Marina Tabassum has been installed as "a reminder of the precariousness of our existence" at the Vitra Campus in Germany.
Wallmakers punctuates arts centre roof with skylight seating:
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/27/wallmakers-nisarga-art-hub-skylights-roof-kerala/
A sage green facade formed of rhythmic wooden panels defines Babendiekstraße 23, a pair of timber houses design by architecture studio NOTO.
A sage green facade formed of rhythmic wooden panels defines Babendiekstraße 23, a pair of timber houses that NOTO has completed in Hamburg, Germany.
Funnel-shaped concrete skylights illuminate a plant-filled courtyard at the centre of this home in Bangalore, India.
Funnel-shaped concrete skylights illuminate a plant-filled courtyard at the centre of this home in Bangalore, India, designed by local studio A Threshold.
Local studio Dumican Mosey has completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood.
Local studio Dumican Mosey completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood.
CAZA employs passive cooling for concrete FR House in the Philippines:
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/01/22/fr-house-philippines-caza/
The CH73 House occupies a long, slender site that slopes down toward a ravine.
LBR&A has designed a residence that "breaks the imposed paradigms of construction" in a Mexico City neighbourhood.
The Brooklyn-based firm was tasked with designing this 800-square-foot addition for a Long Island house.
Worrell Yeung has completed a black-coloured home extension called Springs Artist Studio to offer the "experience of being perched in the trees".
Located in a conservation area, this extension is informed by desert modernism, a style that emerged in Palm Springs during the mid-20th century.
British studio Will Gamble Architects used natural materials throughout Palm Springs, a glazed extension to the back of a Grade II-listed house in north London.
RAPA combines thatch and stone at lakeside holiday home in Hungary: https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/06/rapa-thatch-stone-summer-house-hungary/
This open-air theatre is located within La Fontaine Park, which encompasses 34 hectares in Montreal's Le-Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood.
Architectural studio Lemay renovated Montreal's Théâtre de Verdure, which consists of a stage on an island and a fan-shaped seating area.
This Electric Vehicle development aims to integrate green technologies into a community-focused residential development.
US architecture firm Gensler has created an apartment complex with circular buildings and integrated electric vehicle parking towers in Ontario
Officially called Preservation Storage Facility, this project was constructed to preserve historic and cultural items "relevant to Canadians".
B+H Architects has created an archival storage facility in Gatineau, Quebec with a massive double-layer concrete envelope and automated retrieval systems.
Diez + Muller Arquitectos has extended the corporate offices of an industrial company in Ecuador with a sinuous concrete structure.
Timber framing, compostable toilets and a rooftop photovoltaic array are among the sustainable features in an Oregon office building that was designed and partly funded by US firm ZGF Architects.
The Bay View campus contains two office buildings for Google alongside an events centre and 240 short-term employee accommodation units.
Search engine company Google has opened its BIG and Heatherwick Studio-designed Bay View campus in California's Silicon Valley
This old red Volvo has been retrofitted with a roof-mounted "de-refinery" that heats plastic to obtain oil for the fuel tank.
Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx has retrofitted an old car to run on an unusual fuel source: waste plastic that is turned back into oil.
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