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Alchemy is a Toronto cannabis dispensary designed by Paolo Ferrari

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Alchemy marijuana shop by Paolo Ferrari

Toronto designer Paolo Ferrari has created the interiors for Alchemy, a marijuana dispensary that “rejects staid cannabis clichés” with mirrored ceilings and custom-made sniff jars connected to digital display screens. Located in Downtown Toronto, the shop is the licensed flagship for Canadian-grown cannabis brand Alchemy. Ferrari designed the retail space to be an immersive and

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Kelly Wearstler creates virtual garage for LeBron James’ electric Hummer

March 22, 2021 India Block 0
Kelly Wearstler virtual design for Hummer EV

American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has designed a virtual garage in the desert that she imagines housing basketball player LeBron James’ electric Hummer. Informed by California’s modernist architecture and the landscape around Joshua Tree, the house-garage hybrid was designed to mark the launch of the electric Hummer with James envisioned as the client. “I imagined

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Williamsburg tattoo parlour Atelier Eva is designed to feel like a spa

March 19, 2021 India Block 0
Atelier Eva in Williamsburg

Turkish artist Eva Karabudak designed a soothing and welcoming interior for her tattoo parlour, Atelier Eva, in New York’s Williamsburg neighbourhood. Karabudak acted as lead designer on the project, creating a neutral space with concrete and glass surfaces and furnishings in a palette of charcoal grey and eggshell white. She also commissioned bespoke furniture in

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“Generosity is absolutely essential in any act of architecture” says Jean-Philippe Vassal

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Jean-Philippe Vassal

In this previously unpublished interview, Lacaton & Vassal co-founder Jean-Philippe Vassal explained why the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio believes that buildings should be renovated instead of demolished. “Just try to repair and just try to add what is missing,” said Vassal. “You will give much more pleasure than by rebuilding after demolition.” Vassal, who along

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SO-IL designs prefabricated backyard home for Los Angeles

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Pebble House by SO-IL

New York architecture studio SO-IL has created Pebble House, a flower-shaped prefabricated house, for the Los Angeles Accessory Dwelling Units scheme. Clad in corrugated metal, Pebble House would act as a self-contained residential extension, raised on a rounded platform that doubles as an exterior deck. SO-IL designed the floor plan in the shape of a

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David Adjaye unveils more interiors for 130 William skyscraper in New York

March 17, 2021 India Block 0
Lobby of 130 William

New images of the interiors of 130 William, architect David Adjaye’s concrete skyscraper in New York, show repeating arch motifs that recall the tower’s facade. The 66-storey residential building, which is due to complete later this year, is located in Lower Manhattan. Residents have already begun to move into some of 130 William’s 242 apartments.

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Top ten designs for Burning Man’s off-grid desert outpost Fly Ranch revealed

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Fly Ranch top 10

The top 10 designs for Fly Ranch, a permanent outpost of the Burning Man festival, include an orchard planted in a rammed earth spiral and thatched composting toilets. Fly Ranch is a collaboration between Burning Man and the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), which plans to build sustainable structures on a 3,800-acre ranch in Nevada’s

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Marvel proposes using shipping containers for Covid-safe outdoor theatre in New York

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Pop-up theatre concept by Marvel

Architecture firm Marvel has designed a concept for open-air theatres within shipping containers to put on outdoor performances in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. Marvel’s concept involves converting shipping containers into stages bridging between two scaffolding towers, raised 12 feet (3.6 metres) over the street. In the evenings, the road could be closed off to vehicle traffic

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Eight homes, suits and kits for surviving an apocalypse

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Cyberhouse designed by Modern House Architecture & Design for Cybertruck-driving apocalypse survivors

From a wearable survival kit to an underground bunker, here are eight homes, suits and kits that architects and designers have created to prepare for an apocalypse. Cyberhouse by Modern House Architecture & Design Taking its design cues from Tesla’s Cybertruck, Cyberhouse is a concept for a fortified home for those planning to survive a zombie apocalypse

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Renzo Piano completes Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles

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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures by Renzo Piano

Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, adding a concrete and glass sphere to a 1930s building. Images revealed by the studio show the exterior and interior of the moviemaking museum, which will open 30 September 2021. The Academy Museum occupies the Saban Building, formerly the May

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