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SOM designs stepped glazed towers for Kazakhstan's new city thumbnail
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SOM designs stepped glazed towers for Kazakhstan's new city

American studio SOM has designed a pair of stepped, wedge-shaped towers to be a landmark for the new city of Alatau in south-eastern...

Metal-clad home perched on steel supports above Barcelona coast thumbnail
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Metal-clad home perched on steel supports above Barcelona coast

Local studios Jaime Prous Architects and Pineda & Monedero have completed Casa 144º, a corrugated metal-clad home near Barcelona that is raised above...

Thom Browne and Robbie Lawrence unveil metal newsstand informed by Tokyo's cityscape thumbnail
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Thom Browne and Robbie Lawrence unveil metal newsstand informed by Tokyo's cityscape

Photographer Robbie Lawrence has designed a news kiosk with Sean Thomson, which was installed at London‘s ICA art centre to showcase a zine...

Custom cordless table lamps by Neoz thumbnail
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Custom cordless table lamps by Neoz

Dezeen Showroom: restaurants can design custom cordless table lamps that encapsulate their aesthetic using the bespoke design service of lighting brand Neoz. Neoz’s...

Plastic bottles recycled into Parkinson's drug using bacteria thumbnail
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Plastic bottles recycled into Parkinson's drug using bacteria

University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to turn plastic waste into a Parkinson’s drug, advancing a new approach known as “bio-upcycling”. The...

Listing bid launched to protect David Chipperfield's first major building in UK thumbnail
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Listing bid launched to protect David Chipperfield's first major building in UK

Conservation group Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing application for the River and Rowing Museum in Oxfordshire, aiming to protect the future of...

Forgeworks revamps Somerset farmhouse with low-lying stone extension thumbnail
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Forgeworks revamps Somerset farmhouse with low-lying stone extension

An extension built from timber, glass and limestone unites a 19th-century farmhouse with an adjacent barn at this home in Somerset, overhauled by...

Glasshouse Theatre in Queensland operates "like a finely tuned musical instrument" thumbnail
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Glasshouse Theatre in Queensland operates "like a finely tuned musical instrument"

An undulating glass facade encloses the cantilevered first floor of the Glasshouse Theatre in Queensland, designed by Australian studio Blight Rayner Architecture with...

The strangest architecture competition ever? thumbnail
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The strangest architecture competition ever?

What’s the deal with the mysterious competition to design a new “world wonder”? And how did Apple manage to almost halve the price...

Pelli Clarke & Partners unveils bamboo forest-informed district in Yibin thumbnail
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Pelli Clarke & Partners unveils bamboo forest-informed district in Yibin

US architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has created an urban district informed by bamboo alongside a new high-speed railway station in Yibin,...