In a market flooded with inexpensive wireless speakers designed for mass purchase and placement throughout the home, finding meticulously crafted, high-quality speakers is increasingly rare. Though such products still exist, they’re becoming more niche with… Read More »Bang & Olufsen Beolab 8 Speakers: Ultimate Fusion of Design + Sound
Dezeen Showroom: Italian tile maker Casalgrande Padana combined technology and aesthetic research to create an ultra-realistic marble-look tile with optional three-dimensional veining. The vein-touch finish replicates the low-relief patterning of marble, which in the dramatic black-and-white… Read More »Marmora Nero Antico tile by Casalgrande Padana
The mechanics of theaters and places of entertainment remain largely unchanged since the invention of the amphitheater, some four thousand years ago. The specific pitch of the seats and shell behind the performers enhance the… Read More »The Arkhe Collection by Studio Kali Marks a Smart Space to Gather
Indian practice Studio Terratects has completed Urul, a house on a forested site in Kerala, India, which features a mud-plastered interior. Designed for a client engaged in environmentalism, the home in Wayanad has a natural… Read More »Studio Terratects nestles earthy home into Keralan forest
Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei‘s skyscraper in Dubai with a 230-metre-long skybridge has pipped BIG‘s first supertall to be named Dezeen readers’ favourite new skyscraper. To mark World Skyscraper Day today, we invited readers to vote… Read More »One Za’abeel voted best skyscraper of the past year by Dezeen readers
Dezeen Showroom: large areas of fixed glazing can be opened to allow for ventilation with the Ublo window, created by Korean start-up Ublo. The Ublo window is a small, circular aperture similar to a porthole that… Read More »Ublo window by Ublo