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Elon Musk’s The Boring Company opens first station in expanded Las Vegas transit tunnel system

July 1, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Teslas standing in The Boring Company's Vegas Loop station at Resorts World Las Vegas

Elon Musk’s infrastructure firm The Boring Company has opened the first of around 55 stations that are set to be constructed as part of a tunnel network underneath Las Vegas, which will see passengers carried across the city in a fleet of Teslas. The newly opened stop, located at the Resorts World Las Vegas hotel complex,

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IKEA designs “safe spaces” for children and at-risk refugees fleeing Ukraine

June 21, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Furniture company IKEA has donated its furnishings and design services to create a series of temporary refugee shelters in Eastern Europe, set up by the United Nations to offer support and sanctuary to the most vulnerable groups displaced by Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Swedish furniture brand created spaces with a homely, comforting atmosphere inside several

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Ten multi-generational homes that organise space in interesting ways

June 19, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

A Mumbai apartment with its own temple and a Tokyo home for three generations and eight cats feature in this lookbook highlighting ten intergenerational households that showcase how interiors can balance privacy and community. Multi-generational living, in which several generations of a family cohabit under one roof, is already common practice in many parts of Asia,

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“Timber prices going up daily” in Europe due to Ukraine war

June 17, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

European architects and designers are struggling to source wood for their projects as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought imports from the region to a standstill, threatening stocks and driving up prices across the continent. Studios are reporting that costs for solid oak and birch plywood have doubled in the last few months, while others

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Ten gravity-defying homes that are raised up on stilts

May 27, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Stepping Stone House, UK, by Hamish & Lyons

From an artist’s cabin perched above a tidal salt marsh to an entire elevated apartment block in Italy, here is a roundup of 10 homes on stilts from the Dezeen archives. Hoisting buildings up on pillars allows them to occupy otherwise uninhabitable sites such as lakes, steep slopes and craggy coastal outcrops, bringing inhabitants closer to

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BIG completes “world’s most environmentally friendly furniture factory” in Norway

May 25, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Birde-eye view of The Plus furniture factory by BIG for Vestre in a forest

Architecture firm BIG has constructed a mass-timber Passivhaus factory in a Norwegian forest for outdoor furniture maker Vestre, which features a green roof and solar panels as well as an exterior slide. Instead of being hidden away on an industrial estate, The Plus factory development is nestled in 300 acres of woodland near the village

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Ten green living rooms that prove the colour’s versatility

May 14, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Budge Over Dover house in Sydney designed by YSG

A fashion editor’s apartment in São Paulo and a home covered in panels of mint-green metal mesh feature in our latest lookbook, which rounds up ten lounge interiors where green is used both as a background colour and a striking design statement. Whether sage, emerald or khaki, green goes with both cool and warm colours,

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Ten kids’ rooms with space-saving loft beds and bunk beds

May 1, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Bunk bed in Birch and Clay Refugio, UK, by Rise Design Studio

Our latest lookbook features 10 compact children’s bedrooms that use bunk beds to conserve precious space and make more room for play. By stacking two beds on top of each other to form a single unit, bunk beds can free up floor space and create a greater sense of privacy in shared rooms. Loft beds,

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MP Duncan Baker launches bill to cap embodied carbon in UK buildings

February 2, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Orange crane next to buildings under construction used to illustrate stories about embodied carbon bill by Duncan Baker

North Norfolk MP Duncan Baker is set to propose a bill to the UK Parliament today that would make it mandatory to calculate and reduce the embodied carbon footprint of new buildings for the first time. If passed into law, the Carbon Emissions (Buildings) Bill would require building regulations to be amended to limit the

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Five architecture and design events in February from Dezeen Events Guide

February 1, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Vesper death mask by Neri Oxman from Dezeen Events Guide February 2022

Madrid Design Festival, a Neri Oxman retrospective and a drag-queen-led tour of celebrity homes during Palm Springs’ Modernism Week are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Among the other events taking place in February is the World Around architecture summit in New York, which will include presentations on major projects from

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