This week’s lookbook rounds up eight interiors with furnishings and surfaces finished in burl-wood veneer, allowing its swirly, psychedelic graining to serve a decorative function. Burl wood is a rare and expensive wood, often only… Read More »Eight interiors where burl wood provides natural texture
Ukrainian designer Anastasiia Tempynska combined futuristic details with fleshy materials that evoke the human body when creating the interior of the 13 Laser clinic and spa in Kyiv. Tempynska created an interior for 13 Laser… Read More »Anastasiia Tempynska designs futuristic interior for laser clinic in Kyiv
New York design studio Polonsky & Friends has lined this tiny New York omakase restaurant with burl wood veneer panels, while its counters and cabinetry are coloured to resemble bird feathers. Designed as a sister… Read More »Bird feathers and burls inform New York restaurant by Polonsky & Friends
Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. The only American cemetery on Dutch soil, the Netherlands American… Read More »Kaan Architecten adds “monumental” visitor centre to second world war cemetery
In this lookbook, we feature nine residential projects that demonstrate unique ways of interacting with a site’s history by weaving existing ruins into their designs. Until recently, it has been common practice to hide away… Read More »Nine contemporary homes where ruins reveal layers of the past
This week on Dezeen, the Royal Institute of British Architects named Ghanaian-Scottish architect and educator Lesley Lokko the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal. Lokko is the first African woman to receive the prestigious award… Read More »This week Lesley Lokko won the 2024 RIBA Royal Gold Medal