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“The world ran out of pink” due to Barbie movie production

June 8, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

The sets of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie movie required such vast amounts of pink paint, they swallowed up one company’s entire global supply, according to production designer Sarah Greenwood. Speaking to Architectural Digest, Gerwig revealed that the team constructed the movie’s fluorescent Barbie Land sets almost entirely from scratch at the Warner Bros Studios Leavesden

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Six renovated Parisian apartments in historical Haussmann-era buildings

June 3, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Period details are mixed with contemporary interventions inside these renovated apartments in Paris, built in the mid-19th century during Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s reconstruction of the French capital. In his role as the prefect of the Seine département under Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann was responsible for creating the network of boulevards that still define the city’s urban landscape

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Ten standout pavilions from the 2023 London Design Biennale

June 1, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A giant wind chime, touch-sensing bio-textiles and windows for Ukraine are among the most intriguing installations from the London Design Biennale, which opens at Somerset House today. The biennale’s fourth edition was curated by the Nieuwe Instituut and its artistic director, Aric Chen. With the theme of The Global Game: Remapping Collaboration, the event aims

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Eight houses that integrate swimming pools into their architecture

May 16, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

From a cantilevered rooftop pool in Marbella to a brutalist home with a swim-up lagoon, here are eight houses that don’t relegate swimming pools to the garden. Most of these residences are located in balmy climates such as Mexico or Singapore that allow living spaces to be opened up to the elements – and with

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Basile Studio enlivens Moxy Williamsburg hotel with “eclectic grab-bag” of spaces

May 10, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Hotel brand Moxy has opened its first outpost in Brooklyn, with plentiful gathering spaces including a bar with motorised 20-feet-tall liquor shelves and an eatery modelled on Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus architecture. Californian hospitality design practice Basile Studio spearheaded the interior design of the 216-room hotel, set in the heart of Williamsburg on bustling Bedford Avenue. The aim

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Eight brutalist Mexican interiors that prove concrete doesn’t have to feel cold

April 30, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Raw concrete surfaces are softened by timber and plenty of daylight inside these Mexican houses, rounded up here as part of our latest lookbook. Many of these brutalist interiors leave their concrete shells exposed and their cavernous rooms largely unadorned. But freed of the constraints posed by frigid temperatures, they also create a greater connection

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Eight earthy kitchens where terracotta tiles add warmth and tactility

April 9, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

For this lookbook, we’ve collated eight kitchens from Dezeen’s archive that use terracotta tiling to bring a sense of warmth into the functional space. Terracotta – meaning baked earth in Italian – technically refers to any object made from fired clay. But most commonly, the term is used to describe pottery made from a porous

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The “enormously important” hidden carbon impacts of getting mass timber wrong

March 31, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Architects are increasingly using mass timber in the hopes of creating net-zero buildings but carbon assessments are missing key sources of potential emissions, researchers tell Dezeen in this Timber Revolution feature. The standard method for determining a building’s overall carbon footprint is a whole-building life-cycle assessment (LCA) that breaks down emissions at every stage –

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Eight top-heavy homes with dramatically oversized roofs

March 21, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

From steep single pitches to gables with overhanging eaves, we’ve rounded up eight houses with roofs that protrude beyond their footprint to shelter inhabitants from rain, sun, snow and prying eyes. Big roofs can be one straightforward way of reducing a home’s overall energy use – providing shade to help keep interiors cool in hot weather

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This week the 15-minute city inventor responded to “shocking” conspiracy theories

March 18, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

This week on Dezeen, we published an exclusive interview with 15-minute city creator Carlos Moreno in which he discusses the conspiracy theory that his urbanism strategy was designed to restrict people’s freedom. The 15-minute city concept advocates for creating polycentric cities where no essential amenities are further than a short walk or cycle ride away. This

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