Month: January 2021

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First instalment of The World Around virtual summit to feature talks on storytelling

January 30, 2021 Siufan Adey 0
Ya No Estoy Aqui by Fernando Frias

In partnership with The World Around, Dezeen is broadcasting a programme of live talks featuring Ryue Nishizawa, Liam Young, Alice Rawsthorn and more. Watch here from 3:00pm London time (10:00am New York time.) The first instalment of the day-long summit, which will be streamed on Dezeen in three parts, will feature a diverse range of

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Kvitfjell Cabin / Erling Berg

January 30, 2021 Pilar Caballero 0

Nestled in the landscape on the top of Kvitfjell (“White Mountain”) in Norway, this narrow cabin stretches 26 meters to frame the views of the surrounding mountaintops and the horizon beyond towards the south-west. Using traditional methods of construction, the entire cabin is built out of local pine wood.

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Seven “Japandi” interiors that blend Japanese and Scandinavian design

January 30, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
A navy wooden cupboard in a Japandi interior

This Dezeen Lookbook presents seven interiors that combine design influences from Japan and Scandinavia in a style that has become known as “Japandi”. A hybrid of east and west, the style is increasingly popular as a way to create interiors that are minimal without being cold. Japandi makes clever use of craftsmanship and tactile materials,

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Studio Symbiosis Rehabilitates ID Origins Headquarters in Mumbai’s City Center

January 30, 2021 Dima Stouhi 0

In the dense urban fabric of India’s Mumbai, Studio Symbiosis upgraded the ID Origins Headquarters into a new visual marker of the city, using organic strokes to merge old and new into one revitalized project. The HQ has been under construction since October 2019 and is a historic landmark for the company, as it was where the owners first initiated their business in the 1980s. The 18,750 sqm project was awarded the WA World Architecture Community Awards for its unique design approach.

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This week designers and architects created whale-shaped furniture and buildings

January 30, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Pinghe Bibliotheater at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China

This week on Dezeen, architecture and design looked to the ocean as whales informed the shape of both a wooden chair and a cultural building in China. Chinese studio Open Architecture designed Pinghe Bibliotheater, a new library and theatre at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China, to resemble a blue whale rising from the

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House For a Physicist / ATOMAA

January 30, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

When your client is a genius, you may be asked: how can you change the idea of an unhappy past, while avoiding the tabula rasa? How can you make everything fit? The apartment in question holds with it a rather dark and unpleasant past, one which the client aimed to disguise in a project which brings new domestic life and a rewritten narrative to the apartment.

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Matsumura / Haver House Remodel / Wendell Burnette Architects

January 30, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

This project is a small but important phased remodel of a 1952 Haver Home within the architecturally significant Marlen Grove neighborhood (a former citrus grove) for a young ASU Law Professor that commutes from his Bernal Box in the Bay Area to stay here when the University is in session. Ralph Haver, AIA was one of the most prominent architects practicing here during the postwar boom in Phoenix and similar to A. Quincy Jones worked for developers like Eichler in California.