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Terrain modular seating by Webb for Connection

Dezeen Showroom: created by design studio Webb for Flokk-owned, UK-based furniture brand Connection, Terrain is a modular lounge seating system with a soft,...

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Selldorf Architects and Studios Architecture set to add subterranean entrances to Musée du Louvre

New York studio Selldorf Architects and Paris-based Studios Architecture have won the competition to design the biggest renovation to the Musée du Louvre...

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YNAS uses timber-framed canopies to reconnect Japanese home with the outdoors

Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its interiors and improving its connection...

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"Parametricism is a technophile triumph of fetishised process over outcome"

Parametricism is not what humanity needs from architecture in the 21st century, writes Catherine Slessor as part of our series on the style....

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Foster + Partners faces court over fatal window fall from London high-rise

British studio Foster + Partners is set to stand trial over alleged health and safety failings at The Corniche towers in London, after a...

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Zaha Hadid's Nordpark stations topped with parametric "ice formations"

As part of our ongoing Parametricism series, we look at the Nordpark Railway Stations, a collection of four funicular railway stations in Innsbruck,...

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Kuma&Elsa arranges Japanese apartments around translucent "huts"

Architecture studio Kuma&Elsa has renovated the top two floors of an apartment block in Japan, creating enclosures that aim to re-create the spatial...

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Emerald collection by Bisley

Dezeen Showroom: British workplace brand Bisley has introduced a new colour for its steel products including drawers and shelving: a vibrant Emerald green....

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Gras uses "light-touch approach" to convert dockside warehouse

An over-century-old factory in Edinburgh has been sensitively renovated into a food hall by architecture studio Gras. Previously housing the George Brown &...

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Natural Material Studio crafts lighting from leftover seaweed at Sticks n Sushi restaurant

Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio has created speckled pendant lighting out of kelp waste, salvaged from miso soup that would otherwise be thrown away...