Including a skinny house in Japan, a home in Canada that is deliberately unfinished and a lonely cottage in the Outer Hebrides, here are Dezeen’s houses of the month for April. Also featured are a villa in suburban London and a two-in-one holiday home on the Finnish coast. Read on to find out more about
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An official report into the collapse of a 10-year-old mass-timber bridge in Norway in August 2022 has criticised the structure’s design and construction. Two drivers had to be rescued after the Tretten Bridge, over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the Øyer area of southern Norway, gave way as a heavy goods vehicle was crossing. Completed in
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The gender pay gap at Foster + Partners is the widest it has been since the data was first compiled six years ago despite an overall improvement at the UK’s largest architecture firms year-on-year, official figures show. Reported per the UK’s legal requirement for companies with over 250 employees to reveal their gender pay gaps
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To round off our Social Housing Revival series, we’ve put together a list of 50 architecture studios around the world that have made a name for themselves through their work on social housing. For the past month, the Social Housing Revival has explored how we are again in an era when the best architects want
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To round off our Social Housing Revival series, we’ve put together a list of 50 architecture studios around the world that have made a name for themselves through their work on social housing. For the past month, the Social Housing Revival has explored how we are again in an era when the best architects want
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From a standing start, Taiwan has embarked on one of the world’s most ambitious social-housing programmes. Dezeen finds out more as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Having only become government policy in 2016, Taiwan expects to have amassed a social-housing stock of 200,000 units by the end of 2024 – and has already
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Architect Kate Macintosh is known for designing council housing, but in this Social Housing Revival interview she argues that a better way to address the UK’s housing-affordability crisis would be a tax on land values. Retired Scottish architect Macintosh is celebrated for her work on publicly owned buildings, particularly two 1970s social-housing schemes in south
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Increasing numbers of people in social housing are living in inhospitable conditions because they are unable to afford even basic furniture and flooring, Dezeen reports as part of our Social Housing Revival series. In the UK, social-rented homes are usually handed over to new residents in a sparse state – lacking basic elements of decoration
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Public housing is an essential part of the solution to the housing crisis in the US, California politician Alex Lee tells Dezeen in this interview conducted as part of our Social Housing Revival series. California State Assembly member Lee is one of a small number of voices leading calls for a new social-housing programme to
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From a glitzy Parisian apartment to a converted garage in Buffalo, New York, our latest lookbook collects eight residential interiors where floor-to-ceiling curtains inject a theatrical feel. Curtains aren’t just for covering windows. A set of statement drapes can be an easy way to significantly change the mood of a room, particularly in apartment renovations.
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