Feste designs free-to-use cabins for 25 locations in southern Norway

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Norwegian studio Feste Landscape/Architecture has unveiled a series of wooden cabins that can be freely used by hikers exploring the mountainous coastal landscape of Norway's Agder region. The Agder Day-Trip Cabins are being installed in each of the 25 municipalities in Agder to encourage both locals and tourists to spend more time in nature. The
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Lara Bohinc uses colour-coated cork for bulbous outdoor furniture in Miami

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UK-based designer Lara Bohinc has unveiled a series of bulbous furniture and decorative objects for public use at the Miami Design District during the city's art week. Called Utopia, Bohinc's collection comprises four different clusters of sculptural forms, placed both in the Miami Design District and outside of the Design/ Miami fair in Miami Beach.
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Dezeen Agenda features renovated brutalist townhouse in London

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The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the renovation of a 1960s townhouse in London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Architecture practice Pricegore has restored a modernist townhouse in Chelsea, London. The studio converted the four-storey house into a three-bedroom home. Pricegore aimed to improve the existing home by creating larger and more
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Partisans creates pixelated brick facade for Toronto house

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Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto, Ontario. Named Canvas House after the homeowner's art collection, the 5,220-square foot (485-square metre) residence is "reminiscent of a painting, using brick as a medium," said Partisans co-founder Alex Johnson. The 2022 design is a
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Zaha Hadid Design's gift guide features curved steel bowls and metallic eyewear

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Promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with Zaha Hadid Design to put together a Christmas gift guide that includes everything from eyewear to sculptural stainless-steel bowls. The guide also features several glass products, ranging from tumblers to candle holders, as well as a limited-edition print. Read on for our roundup of 10 gift ideas from Zaha Hadid
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A Threshold disguises community centre in India as "ancient ruins"

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A series of freestanding brick walls designed to resemble ruins frame this community centre near Bangalore, India, designed by local architecture studio A Threshold. Appropriately called Subterranean Ruins, the building is dug into a steeply sloping site overgrown with mango, banana and coconut trees and designed as a freely accessible, multifunctional centre for the village of
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Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2023

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Continuing our 2023 review, we have selected 10 striking staircases published on Dezeen this year, from prefabricated plywood steps at a Cornish home to a colourful set for an opera in a Swiss theatre. Architects and designers have continued to find clever solutions to travelling on foot from one storey to another in 2023 by
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Architects and designers from around the world celebrate at Dezeen Awards 2023 party

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Dezeen Awards judges joined architects and designers from all over the world in a ceremony where this year's winners were revealed. The event at Shoreditch Electric Station in London welcomed guests from 24 different countries including Australia, Japan, USA, China, India and Mexico to celebrate the 50 winners. The 39 project category winners, followed by
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Patricia Urquiola named interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023

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Spanish architect and designer Patricia Urquiola has been named interior designer of the year at the Dezeen Awards 2023 ceremony. The Designers of the Year category rewards the best emerging and established talent across architecture, interiors and design. It recognises creatives whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry. Urquiola was awarded
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"A variety of perspectives only makes for a stronger team" says Burberry

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For the next interview in our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series, we spoke to Ben Ayres, lead architecture designer at fashion label Burberry, about the architecture side of the brand and its recruitment needs. Alice Laycock: What projects do you tend to work on as lead architecture designer and what have you been working on
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Blond designs "attractive and desirable" heat pump system for Electric Air

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London design studio Blond has worked with Electric Air to develop an elevated product design and visual identity for the start-up's heat pump system, in a bid to bring low-carbon heating and cooling to more US homes. Electric Air founder Chris Mui recruited the design agency to help him fulfil his mission of convincing homeowners to ditch
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Natural Material Studio creates restaurant panels from leftover beer

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Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio has handcrafted swirly panels made of spent grain salvaged from beer production for a restaurant opened by the local ÅBEN brewery. Led by designer Bonnie Hvillum, Natural Material Studio created the thick, semi-translucent and semi-rigid rectilinear panels out of surplus beer sourced from the ÅBEN brewery in Copenhagen. The first step
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"Extraordinary ordinary house" in London named UK's best new home

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The polycarbonate-lined Green House that architecture studio Hayhurst & Co slotted into a tight site in London has been named the RIBA's House of the Year for 2023. Replacing an existing home in an alleyway in Tottenham, the plant and light-filled residence is modelled on a riad – a type of traditional Moroccan house built
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RISD students create floating mycelium pods to cleanse waterways

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A team of Rhode Island School of Design students and researchers have created tesselated, floating planting beds made of a mycelium biomaterial to cleanse waterways of pollutants and restore wetland habitat. The floating Biopods act to introduce native plants back to degraded wetland systems while cleansing the water through bioremediation, or the re-introduction of microorganisms
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Smart Aid Kit uses AI to remotely diagnose and manage health conditions

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Design studios Map Project Office and Modem have developed a concept for a diagnostics kit backed by artificial intelligence that would allow patients to perform basic triage on themselves. The Smart Aid Kit offers a vision for how generative artificial intelligence (AI) could help to provide universal healthcare with the help of four different sensors
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Local cedar forms snow-cooled rice warehouse in Niigata Prefecture

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Japanese studio Kei Kaihoh Architects has completed a timber-framed storage facility in Joetsu City that offers rice farmers a way to refrigerate their harvest without relying on gas or electricity. Instead, the Yukinohako facility is naturally cooled using snow – an abundant local material in this mountainous part of Niigata Prefecture, surrounded by ski resorts
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Stanaćev Granados divides levels of Chilean beach house with cargo-net floor

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Chilean architecture studio Stanaćev Granados has created a seaside house with a concrete and wood-clad exterior and a cargo net in the floor in Chorrillos, Chile. Known as the Primeriza House, the 2,750-square foot (256-square metre) residence was completed in 2020 in a small clearing in a cypress-filled hill that slopes steeply down to the
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Heirloom opens first large-scale carbon capture plant in US

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Climate technology company Heirloom has opened the first commercial Direct Air Capture plant in the US, which will sequester atmospheric carbon for permanent storage using energy-efficient kilns. Located in Tracy, California, the Heirloom facility will use a limestone filtration process to capture up to 1,000 tons of CO2 per year, which will be then stored permanently.
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