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Luminaire to exhibit works by Konstantin Grcic and Piero Lissoni at Design Miami

November 28, 2019 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is hosting an exhibition at its Miami Design District showroom featuring works by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, architect and designer Piero Lissoni and fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester. The Luminaire Lab exhibition will open on Thursday 5 December 2019 to coincide with this year’s Art Basel and Design Miami events. Designs from Lissoni’s limited-edition

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Mas de Lucia Extension / Cristina Moya Arquitecta

November 28, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Mas de Lucia is a property dominated by the presence of an old magnificent country house surrounded by an extension of orange trees, where different events are held in the present. In this project, we were commissioned together with Xavier Salvador to create a wide space for the celebration of outdoor events but protected from rain and sun and at the same time to integrate 2 existing industrial buildings in the intervention. The Mas is a traditional country house, built facing the sea in the east, where the breeze comes from in summer and located by a pine forest to protect it from the sun.

Powder Room Palettes: 10 Purples That Pack a Punch (10 photos)

November 28, 2019 Bryan Anthony 0

The color purple is often associated with royalty, and powder rooms are often described as jewel boxes of design, so combining the two seems like a great way to create a space fit for kings and queens. Check out the following 10 powder rooms that feat…

Hesselbrand Unveils Acquarossa Timber Hotel & Spa in Switzerland

November 28, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

Hesselbrand Architects have revealed the design for Acquarossa Spa & Hotel in Switzerland, a 120 room hotel in the Swiss region of Ticino. Designed around well-being and experience-based tourism, the project utilizes a combination of traditional building materials and new construction technology to ground an environmentally sustainable approach in one of the most remote parts of Switzerland.

living center by hangzhou 9M architectural design co. blends into the hills of rural china

November 28, 2019 sofia lekka angelopoulou I designboom 0

the low-pitched building comprises three glass boxes connected via corridors.
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How to Design a Home That Boosts Well-Being (8 photos)

November 28, 2019 Amanda Pollard 0

Architects and designers are increasingly looking to science for proof that buildings have an impact on our mental health. In neuroarchitecture, evidence from neuroscientific studies is being used to help create spaces that will improve the well-being…

Secondary School Sauland / PPAG architects + Helen & Hard

November 28, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

PPAG Architects has developed around 30 school projects, and have become experts in educational buildings. The construction of a small secondary school in the southern Norwegian village of Sauland, which PPAG Architects designed together with the Norwegian Helen & Hard, brings cluster and village together. Austrian-international school construction expertise and Scandinavian timber construction expertise were the subject of a successful fusion.

peter pichler designs luxury ‘tree suites’ elevated within an austrian forest

November 28, 2019 lynne myers 0

the proposed structures form part of a new 7-star hotel development and intend to provide guests with a unique experience.
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Crystal Palace was “birth of modern architecture” says Norman Foster

November 28, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Crystal Palace was high-tech architecture says Norman Foster

British architect Norman Foster has revealed that if he could visit any building from history, it would be Crystal Palace, which he cites as a major influence on high-tech architecture. Speaking to Dezeen during an interview for our high-tech architecture series, Foster explained that the modular iron and glass building designed by Joseph Paxton would

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Competition: win a three-night stay with five friends at Cabü by the Sea in Kent

November 28, 2019 Semi Han 0

Cabü cabins by the sea in Dymchurch, Kent, England

In our latest competition, we’re offering one reader and five friends a three-night stay in the Boat House cabin at Cabü by the Sea in Kent. Located in St Mary’s Bay, near Romney Marsh wetlands on the Kent coastline, the timber-frame cabins offer a chance to relax outdoors by the English coast. The winner and

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