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Curve chair by SmithMatthias for Allermuir thumbnail
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Curve chair by SmithMatthias for Allermuir

Dezeen Showroom: design studio SmithMatthias aimed to give a classic form a slightly exaggerated edge in this chair, created for British brand Allermuir....

AB+AC Architects designs sculptural Alma Mater candle holders as "ritual objects" thumbnail
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AB+AC Architects designs sculptural Alma Mater candle holders as "ritual objects"

Lebanese-Italian studio AB+AC Architects has created its first collectible design collection, the brutalist Totem and Ring candle holders, which are made from iron....

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"Architects are obsessed with talent"

Talent is overrated in architecture and it means that other, more important qualities tend to be overlooked, writes Matthew Bovingdon-Downe. Architects are obsessed...

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Charlotte Taylor exhibition doubles as her home for 3 Days of Design

A dining table concealing a flat-pack chess set, wine glasses set in stones and a healthy dose of Ferrari-themed ephemera decorated this evolving...

Associer transforms Parisian 1970s school into media library and refugee centre thumbnail
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Associer transforms Parisian 1970s school into media library and refugee centre

French architecture studio Associer has completed the James Baldwin Media Library and the Refugee House in Paris, adapting and extending a former secondary...

Bentley unveils "biggest change" to logo in 100&year history thumbnail
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Bentley unveils "biggest change" to logo in 100&year history

Bentley has unveiled a simplified version of its familiar Winged B emblem, marking only the fifth rebrand since the carmaker was founded more...

Fahrenheit 180 shows tiles made from oyster shells at Lisbon's Gulbenkian art museum thumbnail
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Fahrenheit 180 shows tiles made from oyster shells at Lisbon's Gulbenkian art museum

Design collective Fahrenheit 180 has created tiles using discarded shells from oyster farms to show the “potential of overlooked materials”. The tiles are...

Cob not just "a hobbit house" material says researcher developing modern version thumbnail
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Cob not just "a hobbit house" material says researcher developing modern version

Cob is a low-carbon material poised for a revival, according to scientist Steve Goodhew. In this Building with Cob interview, he explains how...

Chinese construction site enclosed in world's "largest inflatable dome" thumbnail
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Chinese construction site enclosed in world's "largest inflatable dome"

A 20,000-square-metre marshmallow-like, inflated membrane has been raised over a construction site in Jinan, China, to protect neighbouring buildings from dust and noise....

Hudson Architects brings cob construction into the 21st century with CobBauge House thumbnail
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Hudson Architects brings cob construction into the 21st century with CobBauge House

For the next instalment in our Building with Cob series, we take a look at the first home to be built with CobBauge,...