New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Totalling 60,000 square feet (5,574 square metres), One
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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a stone home in Scotland by local practice Izat Arundell. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Izat Arundell has completed a home in Scotland's Outer Hebrides that was finished with blocks of local stone. The house, known as Caochan na Creige – meaning 'little quiet one by the
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London design practice EcoLogicStudio has created a collection of everyday objects using algae, including a desktop air purifier that outputs material used to create furniture and accessories, to be shown at Milan Design Week. The PhotoSynthetica collection is anchored by the AIReactor, a desktop "photobioreactor" that uses algae to purify the air. The biowaste from
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Toronto-based studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has been selected to expand the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, Canada, which is one of the country's oldest museums. Read more
Toronto-based studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has been selected to design the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, Canada, which is one of the country's oldest museums. The 134,000-square-foot building designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects in collaboration with international firm EXP will unite the current disparate collections of the museum, currently spread in different facilities throughout
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Wood has been used to construct the swooping form of this indoor swimming pool, created by Dutch studio VenhoevenCS and French studio Ateliers 2/3/4 for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Located in the Saint-Denis district, the Aquatics Centre is the only permanent building constructed for the major sports event, which begins on 26 July 2024.
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Dezeen Showroom: UK-based design duo Fung + Bedford drew on the Japanese art of origami in the design of this statement light for Danish brand Frandsen. The Sora pendant light has a horizontal form suspended from two cords and flanked by wing-like protrusions, which make it appear to hover in mid-air. An LED strip light
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Dezeen Showroom: Finnish company Woodio has added three new spring-inspired colours to its bathroom collection, all made from a wood composite intended to provide a sustainable alternative to ceramics. The key new colour for Woodio's products is Blossom – a rose-tinted shade that Woodio describes as the "eye-catcher tone of this spring" and a hue for
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Love Walk II is a Victorian villa in London that has been retrofitted and extended by architecture studio Knox Bhavan to create a home in which its owners can comfortably grow older. Located in the conservation area of Camberwell Grove, Love Walk II was updated to improve both the habitability and energy efficiency of its
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Italian designer and architect Gaetano Pesce, a pioneer of the Radical Design movement who blurred the boundaries between art and design, has passed away at age 84. Pesce's death in his adopted home of New York was announced this morning by his studio in a post on Instagram. "Over the course of six decades Gaetano
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From a standing start, Taiwan has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious social-housing programmes. Dezeen finds out more as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Having only become government policy in 2016, Taiwan expects to have amassed a social-housing stock of 200,000 units by the end of 2024 – and has already
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In the lead-up to Milan design week, we have collected twenty of its must-see exhibitions, including a Salone del Mobile installation by David Lynch, an arts club by Faye Toogood and a "playground" by IKEA. For this year's Milan design week, numerous big brands and studios in the design, interior and fashion industries will present large-scale
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There is just one month left to enter the Marmoleum Design Challenge, which invites architects and designers to create an interior space using Marmoleum to promote wellbeing. Enter now before the contest closes on 30 April. Launched in February, the Marmoleum Design Challenge tasks entrants with creating a 10-square-metre space within a space that can
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A clash of old and new surfaces, geometries and colours defines this conversion of a warehouse and office in Porto into a home by local studio Fala Atelier. Called House of Many Faces, the dwelling is tucked on a long, narrow site between largely abandoned industrial spaces overlooking the River Duoro. "The very long narrow
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Reddymade founder Suchi Reddy has joined Dezeen Awards 2024 as a judge. Here she selects five projects that best reflect her studio's work. Originally from Chennai, a city in eastern India, Reddy founded her New York-based practice Reddymade based on "a design ethos informed by neuroaesthetics, the study of how the brain responds to the
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Promotion: window manufacturer Velux has highlighted the lessons learned by the partners behind its experimental Living Places housing concept. Read more
London studio SODA has converted a 1970s office block in Liverpool city centre into a residential building that includes co-working and wellness facilities. The adaptive reuse project sees the 10-storey block, which spent decades as an office for HM Revenue and Customs, transformed into rental homes managed by operator Livingway. Roca contains 120 one- and
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London studio SODA has converted a 1970s office block in Liverpool city centre into a residential building that includes co-working and wellness facilities. The adaptive reuse project sees the 10-storey block, which spent decades as an office for HM Revenue and Customs, transformed into rental homes managed by operator Livingway. Roca contains 120 one- and
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