When curating a space using collectible design and art, there will always be a delicate balance navigating the fine line between creating an impractical, museum-like atmosphere versus a cozy, functional home adorned with art-centric accents.… Read More »A Brooklyn Townhouse Is a Marriage of Domestic Comfort With Artistic Elegance
Dezeen Showroom: designer Tianning Zhao highlights the beauty of both light and shadow in this portable and versatile lamp, which can be used indoors and outdoors. The Astral table lamp has a petite form, with a… Read More »Astral lamp by Tianning Zhao
Perforated brick walls surround the Terra Cotta Workshop in Vietnam, which contains a brick kiln and visitor centre by architectural studio Tropical Space. Located alongside a river in Dien Phuong, the workshop was constructed to… Read More »Tropical Space wraps kiln and workshop in perforated brick walls
As monocultures continue to spread sameness throughout the human and natural world, Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter set out ways that designers can ensure they maintain creative diversity. Intentional or not, the modern era has… Read More »“‘Ideadiversity’ may be at an all-time low”
Lisbon-based studio SIA Arquitectura has completed Casa da Encosta n Grândola, Portugal, which has a series of lime-rendered volumes wrapped around a central courtyard. Encompassing a main home and four smaller, near-identical guesthouses, Casa da… Read More »SIA Arquitectura uses lime render and wood to “echo the sandy landscape” surrounding coastal home
British studio RSHP has received planning consent to build cylindrical housing blocks within Victorian gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks in London. RSHP‘s plans to redevelop the gasworks will include refurbishing the Grade II-listed gas holder frames,… Read More »RSHP to transform world’s largest cluster of Victorian gas holders into housing