Month: December 2023

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MVRDV completes yellow office retrofit with zigzagging outdoor staircase

December 1, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled Haus 1, a bright yellow workplace adapted from a 1990s office building in Berlin with local studio Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. Located south of Tempelhof Field, it is the second project completed for Atelier Gardens – the redevelopment of a 23,800-metre-square film and media campus into a hub for social entrepreneurship

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25 Awesome Home Bars (25 photos)

December 1, 2023 Suzanne Ennis 0

Home bar designs are as diverse as alcoholic beverage options — and can have similar flavor profiles too. A clubby corner clad in walnut and brass is as strong and rich as a Manhattan, a pastel niche with a marble countertop is as sweet and effervesce…

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Ingenhoven Architects creates inflatable Ski World Cup start house on Matterhorn

December 1, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

German studio Ingenhoven Architects has used air-filled cushions to create a start house for the annual Alpine Ski World Cup downhill races at the Matterhorn mountain, Switzerland. Designed to sit at an altitude of 3,700 metres, the studio crafted the “igloo-inspired” structure to withstand extreme alpine conditions, while being completely energy independent and demountable. “An ephemeral

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Dezeen’s top five houses of November 2023

December 1, 2023 Nat Barker 0

From a sprawling concrete villa in California with interiors by designer Kelly Wearstler to a timber-framed cottage within a Scottish ruin, here are Dezeen’s top five houses of November 2023. Our latest roundup of the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen in the last month also includes a hexagonal home in Amsterdam, a playful Sydney townhouse

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Witherford Watson Mann draws on traditional almshouses for Appleby Blue senior housing

December 1, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Witherford Watson Mann aimed to “set a new benchmark” for inner-city older people’s accommodation with Appleby Blue, a social housing development in Southwark, London, for over-65s. Designed for and managed by the United St Saviour’s Charity, the development replaces a former care home on the site that had fallen into disrepair. It includes

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