A holiday home punctuated by arches in Tulum and a “rugged” home in Argentina are among the projects in this roundup, which centres on brutalist houses in South and Central America. Although brutalism emerged out of western Europe in the 1950s and 60s, the movement spread to countries in Latin America in the 1960s and
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Next in our Timber Revolution series is a profile of Mjøstårnet, an 85.4-metre-high tower in Brumunddal, Norway, that was one of the world’s first true timber skyscrapers. The 18-storey mixed-use building was named world’s tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) when it was completed in March 2019, comfortably
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Architecture studio KOT Architects has designed a creamy showroom-cum-office inside a new building in Tel Aviv for French fashion house Dior. Situated on the 17th floor of a newly built office block, the showroom, which features a large birch plywood bookcase and neutral colours, was designed to simulate the comforting feeling of a home. “The
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London-based architect Shahed Saleem has created a colourful pavilion in the shape of a mosque, which has been erected at the V&A museum as part of this year’s Ramadan Festival. Saleem, who is of Indian heritage, designed the pavilion for the Ramadan Tent Project’s annual festival, which celebrates the holy month of Ramadan. He drew
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Georgian architect Sandro Takaishvili has converted an apartment building in Tbilisi into a hotel, with interiors informed by his love of cinema and movie projectors in all 16 rooms. Taking over three storeys above a restaurant in the capital’s Vera neighbourhood, the Blueberry Nights hotel features a theatrical colour scheme, Japanese furnishings and moody lighting.
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Our latest lookbook features cross-laminated timber interiors, including a colourful German vacation home and a tenement-style housing development in Edinburgh, and is part of Dezeen’s Timber Revolution series. Architects looking to offset the carbon emissions of a building often choose cross-laminated timber (CLT), a type of mass-timber made from laminated timber sections that can be
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Architecture studio Urb has proposed creating The Loop as a covered highway for cyclists and pedestrians that would wrap around Dubai. Envisioned to encourage Dubai’s three million residents to switch from cars to healthier modes of transportation, The Loop would also incorporate a hyperloop line. “The Loop aims to make Dubai the most connected city on
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A sculptural spiral staircase, floor-to-ceiling windows and panelled walls have been paired with contemporary furnishings in Space Copenhagen’s renovation of a restaurant and hotel in Switzerland. Called Mammertsberg, the combined hotel and restaurant is housed within a 1911 villa that overlooks the Alps mountain range in Freidorf, Switzerland. Danish design studio Space Copenhagen focused on
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Designers Inma Bermúdez, Moritz Krefter, Jorge Penadés and Alvaro Catalán de Ocón have created three playful wooden furniture pieces on show at Madrid Design Festival. Devised by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Natural Connections was on show in the entrance hall of the cultural building Matadero Madrid. Each of the three furniture pieces was
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As people’s interest in ultra-organised homes shows no signs of abating, we’ve collected eight clutter-free kitchens with smart storage solutions in our latest lookbook. Spearheaded by Japanese organisational guru Marie Kondo, well-organised interiors have become a global trend. In no room is this more evident than in the kitchen, where pantries are stocked up with
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