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Basile Studio enlivens Moxy Williamsburg hotel with “eclectic grab-bag” of spaces

May 10, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Hotel brand Moxy has opened its first outpost in Brooklyn, with plentiful gathering spaces including a bar with motorised 20-feet-tall liquor shelves and an eatery modelled on Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus architecture. Californian hospitality design practice Basile Studio spearheaded the interior design of the 216-room hotel, set in the heart of Williamsburg on bustling Bedford Avenue. The aim

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Eight brutalist Mexican interiors that prove concrete doesn’t have to feel cold

April 30, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Raw concrete surfaces are softened by timber and plenty of daylight inside these Mexican houses, rounded up here as part of our latest lookbook. Many of these brutalist interiors leave their concrete shells exposed and their cavernous rooms largely unadorned. But freed of the constraints posed by frigid temperatures, they also create a greater connection

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Eight earthy kitchens where terracotta tiles add warmth and tactility

April 9, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

For this lookbook, we’ve collated eight kitchens from Dezeen’s archive that use terracotta tiling to bring a sense of warmth into the functional space. Terracotta – meaning baked earth in Italian – technically refers to any object made from fired clay. But most commonly, the term is used to describe pottery made from a porous

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The “enormously important” hidden carbon impacts of getting mass timber wrong

March 31, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Architects are increasingly using mass timber in the hopes of creating net-zero buildings but carbon assessments are missing key sources of potential emissions, researchers tell Dezeen in this Timber Revolution feature. The standard method for determining a building’s overall carbon footprint is a whole-building life-cycle assessment (LCA) that breaks down emissions at every stage –

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Eight top-heavy homes with dramatically oversized roofs

March 21, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

From steep single pitches to gables with overhanging eaves, we’ve rounded up eight houses with roofs that protrude beyond their footprint to shelter inhabitants from rain, sun, snow and prying eyes. Big roofs can be one straightforward way of reducing a home’s overall energy use – providing shade to help keep interiors cool in hot weather

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This week the 15-minute city inventor responded to “shocking” conspiracy theories

March 18, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

This week on Dezeen, we published an exclusive interview with 15-minute city creator Carlos Moreno in which he discusses the conspiracy theory that his urbanism strategy was designed to restrict people’s freedom. The 15-minute city concept advocates for creating polycentric cities where no essential amenities are further than a short walk or cycle ride away. This

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Shigeru Ban’s timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers “incredulous”

March 17, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland’s first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss publishing group Tamedia, the office takes over a prominent site on the banks

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“Timber is being abused” says architect Hermann Kaufmann

March 3, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Sloppiness and misinformation are threatening to prevent large-scale wood construction from reaching its full potential, argues Hermann Kaufmann – the “grandfather of mass timber” – in this interview as part of our Timber Revolution series. “Now is a really dangerous time for wood as a resource,” the Austrian architect told Dezeen. “You can say it’s

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Six Barbie Dreamhouses that chart the evolution of the American home

February 22, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Toymaker Mattel and architecture magazine Pin-Up have released a book celebrating Barbie’s Dreamhouse to mark its 60th anniversary. Here, the editors pick six emblematic examples that show how the dollhouse has evolved. The monograph, which the publishers say is “the first architectural survey of the world’s best-selling dollhouse”, features glossy images of the houses captured by fashion

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Smith Mordak named CEO of UK Green Building Council at “critical period” for sector

February 21, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

The UK Green Building Council has announced that architect and Dezeen columnist Smith Mordak will become the charity’s chief executive officer. Mordak will be leaving their current role as the director of sustainability and physics at British engineering firm Buro Happold to take up the full-time advocacy role and help the UK’s built environment sector to

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