A 400-metre zip wire that would have ended on the roof of Liverpool’s Central Library within its UNESCO World Heritage Site will no longer be built following a legal challenge made by the Victorian Society. The planned zip wire will not be built in the city centre after Liverpool’s mayor, Joe Anderson, overruled the planning
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Design studio Dutch Invertuals has created a collection of compact offices made from corrugated aluminium and wood for Dutch holiday park operator Droomparken. Named Tiny Offices, the small workspaces were designed to be places where you could “freely dream, perform and create”. They have been installed in two of Droomparken’s holiday parks in the Netherlands.
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Gitai Architects used rammed earth and stones from the nearby Mitzpe Ramon crater to build the Landroom observatory in Israel’s Negev desert. Landroom is intended to function as a shelter from the sun in daytime and an observatory at night. The structure measures just six square metres and has space for only two people. Israeli
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Architecture studio Von M clad the exterior of a hotel in Ludwigsburg, which was constructed from wooden modules, in white shingles to contrast with the surrounding buildings. The Stuttgart studio built the hotel in the centre of Ludwigsburg, Germany, near its baroque castle and a 1970s shopping centre as part of a plan to rejuvenate the
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The Victorian Society conservation group is attempting to stop construction of a zip wire in Liverpool, which would end at a listed building within the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. The charity has applied to the UK’s High Court to have a judicial review into Liverpool council’s decision to grant planning permission for the attraction.
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Shuhei Goto Architects added large, stepped boxes to a former lecture hall to transform it into a playful multi-level office in Shizuoka, Japan. The Shizuoka-based studio worked with creative agency Loftwork on the project, called CODO, which was designed for logistics company Suzuyo’s head office in the city. An auditorium, which had previously been used for
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First lady Melania Trump has been criticised on social media for her pared-back redesign of the Rose Garden at the White House, with users comparing her to French queen Marie Antionette. Melania Trump’s design, which was created with landscape architecture firms Perry Guillot and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, was described as “upsetting” and “an uninteresting patch of lawn”. The first
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A laboratory, a tennis pavilion and a kindergarten are among these ten translucent buildings with exteriors made from polycarbonate or glass that showcase their internal structure. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, by Behnisch Architekten This timber and concrete laboratory at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is encased in translucent polycarbonate panels, echoing the industrial buildings
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This week on Dezeen, we featured three unusual restrooms designed for the Tokyo Toilet project, including Shigeru Ban’s colourful, transparent design. As well as Ban’s restroom, whose transparent walls become opaque when the toilets are in use, designs include Wonderwall’s concrete toilet that references primitive Japanese huts, and Fumihiko Maki’s “squid toilet” which is located
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Two weeks after a giant explosion destroyed large parts of Beirut, architects and designers are pondering how to rebuild their lives and businesses, with some considering leaving the city for good. “Most of the locations where Beirut Design Week used to take place are in ruins,” said Doreen Toutikian, founder of Beirut Design Week. “The
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