The Twentieth Century Society’s latest book, 100 20th-Century Shops, is a showcase of architecturally significant stores from across the UK. Here, the charity’s director Catherine Croft selects 10 of the most interesting. Described by Croft… Read More »Ten shops that showcase the “stylistic diversity” of British retail architecture
Australian architect Nic Brunsdon has created a giant sphere that inflates and deflates throughout the day for this year’s National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission in Melbourne. Called (This is) Air, the project is designed… Read More »Nic Brunsdon creates inflatable sphere for National Gallery of Victoria
Dezeen Showroom: design brand Egloo has created a chimney-like freestanding heater made from terracotta that features a spinning flame powered by bioethanol. Egloo‘s Tornado heater is named after the flame that is visible through an… Read More »Tornado heater by Egloo
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an aluminium-disc-topped pavilion in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Created as the Japanese architect’s first-ever project in Australia, the concrete structure is the… Read More »“If you know anything about concrete, you know this is extraordinary” says commenter
In the latest instalment of our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series, Omar Nobil, VP of product design and brand creative for Design Within Reach, explains what the company is looking for when hiring. Alice Laycock:… Read More »“I’m looking for people who have a defiant optimism and a solution-oriented mindset”
Chinese interiors studio RooMoo has used nearly 6,000 pieces of oak from discarded distillery barrels to adorn this whiskey bar in Shanghai. Laizhou Bar is located in the city’s buzzy Xuhui District and is an… Read More »RooMoo reuses distillery’s old whiskey barrels to decorate its bar