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Carsten Höller adds Doubt Staircase to 18th century Venetian palazzo

June 25, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Artist Carsten Höller has created a spiral staircase with an incline of five degrees to make users uneasy at the Palazzo Diedo in Venice. Höller installed the piece, which was designed both as an artwork and a functional staircase, as part of a renovation of the 18th century Palazzo Diedo by Italian practice Silvo Fassi.

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Mexico City boutique by MYT+GLVDK features double-conical staircase

June 8, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Mexico City studio MYT+GLVDK has designed a concept store in the south of the Mexican capital, featuring a staircase with both concave and convex portions beneath a vaulted ceiling. Uncommon Ground is a high-end fashion and accessories boutique situated in the Artz Pedregal shopping mall, close to the city’s southern periphery. MYT+GLVDK, led by Andrés

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Red staircase anchors Diesel store in Miami Design District

May 12, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Fashion brand Diesel has debuted a retail design concept at its store in the Miami Design District, featuring raw metal surfaces and a red lacquered spiral staircase. Designed under the creative direction of Glenn Martens, who joined the brand in 2020, the industrial-style store is intended to reflect “the brand’s signature bold attitude”. “Envisioned as

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Studio Locomotive completes garden-topped community centre in Thailand

March 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Locomotive has completed Tree O’Clock, a “communal hub” topped by rooftop gardens for an upcoming housing development in Thailand. Located in Phuket City, the centre provides the Villa Qabalah housing – which is due to complete at the end of 2024 – with a restaurant, bar, gallery, workshop, health studio and gardens,

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Eight closed staircases in tactile materials and sculptural shapes

February 24, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve gathered eight stylish closed staircases, ranging from a winding wooden spiral staircase to a light-filled “stairway to heaven”. Closed staircases – stairs that have been framed so that the threads and risers aren’t visible from the side – have become a popular search term on Dezeen’s Pinterest board. While they

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Mexico City community centre features blue-tinted concrete walls

December 20, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Design firms WORKac and Ignacio Urquiza Architects have created a multi-level, concrete community centre in an underserved neighbourhood that is meant to “promote the regeneration of social life”. The building by New York’s WORKac and local studio Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos – officially called PILARES Lomas de Becerra — is located in a hilly area and

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Mamout opens up Brussels townhouse with skylit atrium

December 15, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian architecture studio Mamout has refurbished a townhouse in Brussels with a series of simple alterations that “make the most of what already exists”. Located in Koekelberg, northeast of Brussels’ centre, the four-storey brick townhouse had previously been given a two-storey rear extension that Mamout said had left its interior dark and “almost unusable”. Instead

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WMR Arquitectos runs wood-framed house down a Chilean cliffside

December 12, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Chilean studio WMR Arquitectos has balanced a slanted wooden house with open interiors on a hillside overlooking the sea in Matanzas, Chile. Known as Casa Ladera, the 2,130-square foot (198-square metre) residence was completed in 2022 in La Vega de Pupuya along Chile’s central coast, which is known for its high cliffs and windy climate.

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