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Breezy louvre walls enclose restaurant in Thailand by Studio Locomotive thumbnail
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Breezy louvre walls enclose restaurant in Thailand by Studio Locomotive

An external skin of timber louvres filters light and air into the double-height interiors of Waankarn, a restaurant and events space in Thailand...

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Kenta Hirayama clads House in Kinuta in steel-sheet facade

Architect Kenta Hirayama has designed an “unpretentious house” in Tokyo‘s Setagaya Ward, which features a metal facade and deliberately simple gabled roof. Called...

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Marmoleum Cocoa flooring by Forbo Flooring

Dezeen Showroom: surface brand Forbo Flooring‘s Marmoleum Cocoa flooring makes use of unwanted cocoa shells – an oft-wasted by-product of the cocoa industry. Marmoleum...

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MVRDV wraps Beijing roof tiles around Chinese moon gates for fashion flagship store

Architecture studio MVRDV has designed a flagship store for Chinese fashion brand Urban Revivo in Beijing, China, with a dramatic facade informed by...

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Algae "biocells" powered by photosynthesis could replace disposable batteries

Bio-designer Lucia Giron has worked with the University of Cambridge‘s Department of Biochemistry to develop prototypes of an algae-based battery alternative, which harnesses...

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Assemble turns former dairy warehouses into adaptable community hub

Architecture collective Assemble has converted a pair of former dairy warehouses into a “robust and adaptable” community centre and church on Becontree Estate in...

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Omega and Swatch release gold MoonSwatch in limited edition of 1,969

Watchmakers Swatch and Omega have collaborated to celebrate the anniversary of the first moon landing on 21 July 1969 with a limited run...

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MVRDV wins competition for "new world wonder" in the Netherlands

Architecture studio MVRDV has been revealed as the winner of social enterprise Shift’s competition to design a €240 million landmark in Rotterdam, the...

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"Women are living in a physical world that is too often designed without them in mind"

Product design desperately needs to drop the notion that things can be made based on an “average-sized” human being, writes Karen Korellis Reuther....

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Sunflower Network opens modular children's hospital in Ukraine

Charity organisation Sunflower Network has opened a paediatric clinic in Brody, Ukraine, which it claims is the country’s first healthcare infrastructure to open since...