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Eight Scandinavian summer houses with extraordinary interiors

With the arrival of summer, our latest lookbook explores vacation homes in Denmark, Sweden and Norway that go above and beyond the traditional...

Dark Skies festival installation "treats sound as a primary building material" thumbnail
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Dark Skies festival installation "treats sound as a primary building material"

More than 100 speakers can be suspended from this timber-framed canopy and sound installation, designed by Swiss studio Leopold Banchini Architects with architect...

Lesley Lokko launches Nomadic African Studio as "a space to think about architecture differently" thumbnail
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Lesley Lokko launches Nomadic African Studio as "a space to think about architecture differently"

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko has established the Nomadic African Studio, which will run annual architecture workshops across Africa. Organised by Lokko’s African Futures...

Forgeworks uses cedar shingles to update 1960s bungalow in Bath thumbnail
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Forgeworks uses cedar shingles to update 1960s bungalow in Bath

UK architecture studio Forgeworks has completed the renovation of a bungalow in Bath, cloaking its entire exterior with a skin of cedar shingles....

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Ateliers O&S Architectes draws on agricultural architecture for French gymnasium

French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has completed the Marie Marvingt Gymnasium in northern France, creating barn-like volumes clad in timber planks to help...

Burberry rebrand "totally and utterly irresponsible" says Peter Saville thumbnail
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Burberry rebrand "totally and utterly irresponsible" says Peter Saville

Redesigning Burberry‘s logo less than five years after its rebrand was a reckless move, graphic designer Peter Saville has told Dezeen. Saville initially...

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"Gorgeous next chapter for this structure!" says commenter

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the renovation of a Grade II-listed historic recording studio in Somerset by Tuckey Design Studio....

Aidlin Darling Design sculpts concrete bas relief into California house thumbnail
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Aidlin Darling Design sculpts concrete bas relief into California house

San Francisco studio Aidlin Darling Design has wrapped concrete and cedar panels around the L|J Residence in Atherton, California, which was designed to...

Coop Himmelb(l)au co&founder Helmut Swiczinsky dies aged 81 thumbnail
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Coop Himmelb(l)au co&founder Helmut Swiczinsky dies aged 81

Deconstructivist architect Helmut Swiczinsky, a founding partner Viennese studio Coop Himmelb(l)au, has passed away at the age of 81. The news was announced...

Pharrell and Nigo design "surprising and entertaining" district in Tokyo thumbnail
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Pharrell and Nigo design "surprising and entertaining" district in Tokyo

Producer Pharrell Williams and fashion designer Nigo are collaborating with Japanese hospitality brand Not A Hotel to design a commercial district in central...