Kuwait-based Babnimnim Design Studio has created a geometric mosque in Kuwait City that combines classical Islamic motifs with contemporary forms. Situated in Kuwait City’s residential Al-Masayel district, the Mamluki Lancet Mosque is contained within five… Read More »Babnimnim Design Studio encloses Kuwait mosque within rotated square forms
Promotion: the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has announced the winners of its annual Concrete in Life photography competition that aims to highlight the “beauty and essential role that concrete plays around the world”.… Read More »GCCA reveals winners of its Concrete in Life photography competition
Architecture office Mooradian Studio used spray-on paper pulp to create a bumpy texture across the walls and ceilings of north London menswear store Natalino. Taking over a former art gallery in Fitzrovia, Natalino‘s first physical… Read More »Mooradian Studio sprays London boutique interior with recycled newspaper pulp
Estudio Carroll has completed a boutique hotel coated in pink chukum and set in an artificial wetland in Puerto Escondido, Mexico with a shape informed by “the female form”. The 620-square metre Xique Boutique Hotel… Read More »Estudio Carroll clads rounded Mexican hotel in pink chukum
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features MVRDV’s designs for a series of bayside residential towers in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled a collection of stepped… Read More »Dezeen Agenda features MVRDV’s plans for stepped high-rises in Shenzhen
Local architecture studio Hewitt has unveiled the 33-storey-high Skyglass residential block in downtown Seattle, which was informed by an offset stack of magazines. Called Skyglass, the 335-foot-high (102 metre) tower is located just east of… Read More »Hewitt creates residential tower in Seattle informed by stack of magazines