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Belvedere Tower is a top-heavy cross-shaped Dutch apartment block

December 23, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0
Belvedere tower in the Netherlands by René van Zuuk Architekten

Dutch architect René van Zuuk has completed an apartment building in the town of Hilversum featuring a cross-shaped plan that expands as it rises to accommodate more living units on the upper storeys. The Belvedere Tower is surrounded by four-storey postwar apartment blocks and is positioned at the end of a cluster of 1980s modernist

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Roar’s Nursery of the Future is a high-tech learning space for children in Dubai

December 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0
Nursery of the Future in Dubai by Roar

UAE-based studio Roar has completed a nursery school in Dubai that features integrated technologies to encourage active play and introduce children to computer coding. The interior design firm headed by Pallavi Dean developed the Nursery of the Future, as part of a project backed by the UAE government that aims to transform the country into

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10 architectural photographers to follow on Instagram

August 4, 2018 Danil Boparai 0

With Instagram becoming an increasingly influential tool within architecture, we’ve selected 10 of the best architectural photographers who will freshen up your feed with their stunning images of projects from around the world. A post shared by ©Hufton+Crow (@huftonandcrow) on Apr 26, 2018 at 4:49am PDT Hufton + Crow Award-winning British photographers Nick Hufton and Allan Crow use their Instagram

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Casa Perfect showroom opens in Elvis Presley’s former Los Angeles home

February 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Design gallery The Future Perfect has opened another California location, this time inside a house that once belonged to Elvis Presley in Beverly Hills. The residence in the Trousdale Estates neighbourhood has become the gallery’s latest home in Los Angeles, following a stint in a modernist Hollywood Hills home that opened in January 2017. “Nomadic

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Muji offers first look inside its “anti-cheap” hotel in Shenzhen

January 9, 2018 Alice Morby 0

Wood-lined bedrooms, a minimal diner and a shop all feature inside the Muji Hotel in Shenzhen, which is due to open to the public later this month. The Muji Hotel, located in the city’s Futian district, is the first hospitality project initiated by the Japanese retailer, which is best-known for its minimalist homeware products. Kitted-out

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Vladimir Radutny honours Mies’ minimalism at renovated Lake Shore Drive apartment

December 17, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Architect Vladimir Radutny has renovated an apartment in the iconic 860-880 Lake Shore Drive complex by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, using a restrained palette to show off the architecture and the views. The 750-square-foot pied-à-terre is the second renovation that Vladimir Radutny Architects has completed in the modernist towers, which were completed

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Dezeen’s top 10 staircases of 2017

December 1, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Kicking off our review of 2017, editorial assistant Natasha Levy picks the best staircase designs from the past year, including a huge spiral stair lined with copper and set of steps made from 2,000 pieces of plywood. Experimentarium, Denmark, by CEBRA The form of a DNA strand provided the cues for this helical staircase, created by Danish

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1908 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman and her

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