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Yellow stairs connect living spaces in Three-Generation House by BETA

April 22, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch architecture studio BETA has designed a house in Amsterdam for a multi-generational family with a central yellow staircase connecting their separate accommodation. BETA designed the Three-Generation House for a couple with young children who already lived in the city, and their parents who wanted to move in. The architects describe Three-Generation House as a “mini

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Heatherwick’s Vessel at Hudson Yards opens to the public

March 15, 2019 Dan Howarth 0

Visitors can now scale British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s giant honeycomb-like sculpture at New York’s Hudson Yards, which has opened along with the other public spaces at the vast West Side development. Temporarily known as Vessel, the Heatherwick Studio-designed structure is welcoming the first visitors with timed free tickets to climb its 154 staircases from 12pm,

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Medusa Group designs timber-clad school with herb garden roof

March 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Akademeia High School by Medusa Group Architekci in Warsaw

Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. Designed as an alternative to traditional schools, Akademeia High School has a system of flexible rooms that create an “educational ecosystem” of “ambiguous, multifunctional and inspiring spaces”. “Changes in the

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Sculptural staircase forms centrepiece of Loft Diego in Porto Alegre

March 12, 2019 Sophie Maes 0

Brazilian architecture studio Arquitetura Nacional has transformed a duplex apartment in Porto Alegre using a black spiral staircase, brise-soleil and locally sourced furniture. The 635-square-foot (59-square-metre) Loft Diego is located in residential building in a recently constructed mixed-use complex, where many residents live and work. Completed in 2019, the renovation was geared towards the client’s desire

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Casa Perfect New York gallery includes David Chipperfield staircase

March 11, 2019 Dan Howarth 0

Design gallery The Future Perfect has opened an exhibition space inside a townhouse in New York’s West Village, filled with collectible homeware and featuring a wooden staircase designed by David Chipperfield. The five-storey residence provides a home for Casa Perfect New York – an appointment-only gallery that follows a similar concept that The Future Perfect

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Arquitectura-G builds modern house behind crumbling old stone walls

March 10, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Single family house in Palau-Sator by Arquitectura-G

Architecture office Arquitectura-G has slotted a new house within the aged stone walls of a ruin in the medieval village of Palau-Sator, Spain. The plot in the centre of the village in the Empordà region near Girona previously contained a stone house that had deteriorated into a state of ruin. Barcelona-based office Arquitectura-G revived the site while respecting

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Vine Architecture Studio brightens up Mile End Road home with yellow staircase and skylights

March 7, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Mile End Road by Vine architecture studio

Vine Architecture Studio has refurbished a rooftop apartment in east London, with features including a yellow spiral staircase and generous rooflights that fill the interior with daylight. Mile End Road is a compact one-bedroom apartment that shares a stairwell with offices below, and both share the use of the roof terrace areas. Locally based Vine Architecture

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OMA adds iridescent glass escalator to New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue

February 21, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Dutch architecture firm OMA has updated the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Manhattan with a glass escalator that appears multicoloured from different angles. OMA’s stair connects the ground, first and lower levels of Saks Fifth Avenue and creates a diamond-shaped atrium, with the first floor visible from the ground level. The glass panels that

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10 staircases designed by Sri Lankan modernist Geoffrey Bawa

February 14, 2019 Amy Frearson 0

Geoffrey Bawa staircases: The Raffel House, Colombo, 1963

Every staircase designed by Geoffrey Bawa is unique says David Robson, the leading expert on Sri Lanka’s best-known architect. In a Dezeen exclusive, he picks out the 10 that are most worth knowing. The late Bawa was one of the driving forces behind the style of architecture known as tropical modernism, combining his education in the UK

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Brick staircase and rooftop terrace gives public space back to Mashhad

February 8, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Bouzarjomehr Co. Gallery and Showroom by WHY Architects Group

Why Architects Group has converted a residential building in Mashhad, Iran, into a commercial showroom for the Bouzarjomehr Company with a brick staircase leading to a public roof terrace. The Iranian architecture studio transformed an existing dilapidated house into a showroom space for the Bouzarjomehr Company, which specialises in distributing cables and wire. Rather than demolishing and

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