Several council homes on the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich could be sold at a discount just five years after they were built, Dezeen can reveal as part of our Social Housing Revival series. A Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Dezeen to Norwich City Council found that seven of the homes in
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The world is suffering from a housing-affordability crisis. Dezeen’s new series will explore the Social Housing Revival, and celebrate the best contemporary social housing around the globe. Last week, the UK Government revealed that at the last count, 109,000 households in England were legally homeless – a 10 per cent rise on a year before
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Two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, architecture and design studios in Ukraine are adapting to support the war effort while also ensuring they stay in business. Casualties in the war now number around 500,000, including more than 10,000 civilian deaths. With Saturday marking two years since Russia’s troops crossed the Ukraine border, Dezeen spoke to
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After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake, Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese architect Ishigami said he wanted his project to address a tendency for buildings in China to be “closed off” from their environment. But he is not the
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Architecture studios in Central Europe have been chronically overlooked, claims Chybik + Kristof co-founder Ondřej Chybík in this interview. Chybík, who says his own studio is the largest in the Czech Republic, is on a mission to put architecture from his home country – as well as Slovakia, Poland and Hungary – firmly on the
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In this lookbook, we collect 10 residential interiors where net floors provide an unusual place to sit, recline or jump about. Nets can be a fun way to link two storeys in the home. Featured below are examples from a New York apartment, a skinny house in Rotterdam and a small family residence in rural
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Already thinking about your next getaway post-Christmas? Here is Dezeen’s pick of 2023’s top 10 hotels, put together as part of our review of the year. Our selection of the most popular and noteworthy hotels featured on Dezeen this year includes what is possibly the world’s skinniest in Indonesia, the grand conversion of a 1940s
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From the incisive to the intemperate, here are Dezeen’s top 10 quotes of 2023, taken from the interviews and opinion pieces we have published this year. Dezeen has published more than 100 interviews and over 50 opinion pieces this year, featuring some of the best-known voices in architecture and design. Our interviewees and writers have
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New planning legislation that aims to boost biodiversity in development projects will come into effect in England in January. Here, Dezeen explains what architects need to know. What is biodiversity and why does it matter? In this context, biodiversity usually refers to the variety of all species living within a certain area or ecosystem, including
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Continuing our review of the year, Dezeen looks back at the most controversial stories to hit the world of architecture and design in 2023. The Sphere planning battle This year saw the world’s largest spherical building open in Las Vegas – the MSG Sphere, a concert venue designed by Populous and covered in a gigantic
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