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Dorothée Meilichzon nods to Alice in Wonderland for Cotswolds hotel interior

October 17, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

French interior designer Dorothée Meilichzon has created the interior for boutique hotel Cowley Manor Experimental, adding chequerboard details and hidden keyholes to the rooms of the former country house. Meilichzon drew on the history of the Cowley Manor Experimental, which is said to have inspired author Lewis Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland, when designing

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Dion & Arles creates “salon in which you can dine” for Il Gattopardo restaurant

October 6, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

French design and interiors studio Dion & Arles drew on the work of 20th-century Italian designers Carlo Mollino and Gio Ponti for the interior of Mayfair restaurant Il Gattopardo in London. “We envisioned Il Gattopardo to be a salon in which you can dine – not just a restaurant,” the designers told Dezeen. The studio

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Dezeen In Depth reports on Chinese architects working through the night as pay plummets

September 30, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at Chinese architects’ nightmare working conditions and features an interview with the first Black president of the RIBA. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. Chinese architects told Dezeen they are regularly working through the night while their pay plummets as the country’s property industry deals with a severe crisis. Dezeen

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Dezeen Agenda features Diébédo Francis Kéré saying he is open to designing skyscraper

September 26, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an interview with architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, who tells Dezeen he could design a skyscraper when the time is right. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Burkinabè architect Kéré has risen to become one of the profession’s biggest stars in recent years, becoming the first African to win

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Dezeen Debate features “camp and eccentric” Wedding Cake pavilion by Joana Vasconcelos

August 3, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a 12-metre-high Wedding Cake pavilion made by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Designed as a sculptural folly, Wedding Cake is an immersive installation at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England, which “combines patisserie and architecture as a temple to love”. Commenters overwhelmingly loved it, calling the project

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Joana Vasconcelos unveils pastel wedding-cake pavilion

August 2, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos has created the 12 -metre-high Wedding Cake pavilion, which is clad in ceramic tiles, at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. Part sculpture, part architectural garden folly, Wedding Cake is an immersive sculpture “combining patisserie and architecture as a temple to love,” Vasconcelos told Dezeen. The exterior of the three-storey pavilion was clad

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Dezeen Agenda features the world’s largest office building

August 1, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the world’s largest office building and London Underground waste repurposed into tiles for tube stations. Architecture studio Morphogenesis unveiled the Surat Diamond Bourse in India, which surpassed the Pentagon to become the world’s largest office building. Set on the outskirts of the city of Surat, the 660,000-square-metre office building was designed as a

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Dezeen in Depth asks if AI will really take architects’ jobs?

July 29, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at whether architects could lose their jobs to artificial intelligence and features an interview with Bjarke Ingels. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. As part of our AItopia series exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact architecture and design, Dezeen examined whether the technology could end up taking architects’ jobs. As part of the piece,

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“Suburban sprawl is a much worse problem than skyscrapers” says commenter

July 12, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an interview with 2023 AIA Gold Medal winner Carol Ross Barney, who argues skyscrapers are “just not that valuable”. Barney, who runs Chicago studio Ross Barney Architects, said that investing in undervalued infrastructure, rethinking density and continuing to open up the architecture field to women and minorities

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Dezeen In Depth explores how architects can help protect queer spaces

July 1, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at the changing nature of queer spaces and features an exclusive interview with Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. With Pride Month drawing to a close, Dezeen spoke with LGBTQ+ designers and researchers about the evolution of queer spaces and how architects can help protect them. Designers are calling for the

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