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Eight bedrooms with bathtubs that make a lavish statement

June 11, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

A steel bathtub in a grey carpeted bedroom and a marble bath positioned on a wooden plinth are included in Dezeen’s latest lookbook, highlighting luxurious bedrooms with bathtubs. Typically confined to bathrooms with splash-safe surfaces, a bathtub in a bedroom has an air of grandiosity and indulgence. It is often seen as an impractical design

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Five luxury residential projects designed by luxury car brands

June 7, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Luxury car brands including Bentley, Bugatti, Aston Martin and Porsche are making the move into high-end homes. Here are five houses and skyscrapers designed by car companies. Last month Bugatti unveiled its first residential development in Dubai. The tower is the latest foray into real estate by luxury car brands, which are now developing numerous high-end apartments and houses. Each of the

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Lina Ghotmeh unveils Serpentine Pavilion as “an invitation to dwell together”

June 5, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a glulam structure named À Table for the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion in central London, which was informed by table discussions and the surrounding tree canopy. Ghotmeh designed the 300-square-metre pavilion structure to enclose a trio of scalloped-shaped tables, which wee also designed by the architect, creating a gathering space that

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Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum steps up slope below Indian fort

June 2, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Vastushilpa Consultants has created a museum and memorial in India to honour the victims of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and celebrate the resilience of the local Kutch community. Vastushilpa Consultants placed the Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum on a hill below a fort, which was restored as part of the project, on the outskirts of the

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Studio Other Spaces designs “anti-monument” to Ethiopia’s former prime minister

May 30, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann’s firm Studio Other Spaces has designed five buildings and seven pavilions within the Meles Zenawi Memorial Park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Created in memory of the country’s former prime minister, the buildings in the 65-hectare park, located directly to the north of the city, were developed over a decade by Studio Other Spaces.

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MVRDV designs demountable office building as “source to harvest materials from”

May 26, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created Matrix One, a laboratory and office building in Amsterdam designed to be dismantled into reusable parts. The six-storey building has a steel frame structure and prefabricated hollow-core concrete floor slabs, which were assembled without fixed connections so that parts can be detached and reused after the building’s life span.

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Largest-ever Norman Foster retrospective opens at Centre Pompidou in Paris

May 18, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

An exhibition dedicated to the work of British architect Norman Foster has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, showcasing drawings and original models produced by the architect over the last six decades. The exhibition, which according to the Norman Foster Foundation is the largest-ever retrospective display of Foster’s work, features around 130 of the architect’s

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Gensler and Civilian transform 1930s Detroit post office into workspace and technology centre

May 17, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

American architecture studio Gensler and interior design studio Civilian have restored the historic Book Depository building in Detroit and transformed it into the headquarters for technology company Newlab. Gensler and Civilian transformed the art deco building to be usable by tech companies, adding purpose-built prototyping labs, open-plan co-working spaces and outdoor green spaces. The 270,000-square-foot

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Grid Architects designs women’s-only social housing tower for London

May 5, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Planning approval has been granted for a housing development in London that will provide 102 affordable homes to women, designed by Grid Architects for the Women’s Pioneer Housing association. Named Brook House, the social housing tower will have a 15-storey core with 11- and 13-storey wings on either side. Located in the district of Ealing,

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Workshop Architects renovates and expands purple Mérida home

May 4, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Local architecture studio Workshop Architects has renovated a Spanish colonial house in Mérida, Mexico, and added two concrete buildings in its garden. Named Casa Pulpo, the 235-square-metre residential project is characterised by lilac-hued exterior walls and traditional pasta floor mosaic tiling in the interiors. “The traditional architecture of Mérida uses pasta tile for the floors,

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