Grinding pepper and cracking chestnuts open aren’t typically moments that spark joy, that is, until now. Expanding the Twergi collection for their spring/summer 2024 launch, Italian brand Alessi is re-releasing a pepper mill and a… Read More »Twergi Brings Color and Function With Joy to the Kitchen
Did you ever own one of those halogen torchiere lamps? You may recall the intensely bright, affordably priced, and dangerously hot lighting rods, which were eventually banned due to their propensity to tip over and… Read More »The Brighter Floor Lamp Brings the Sun Inside
International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to… Read More »Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of “sitting under a tree”
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. Named the Álvaro Siza Wing, the three-storey extension has a… Read More »Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery
Conserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture is a way of boosting the city’s international profile, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation chair Gayane Umerova tells Dezeen in this interview. The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is… Read More »Preserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture an act of “cultural diplomacy” says cultural foundation’s head
Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Located on the edge of… Read More »AHMM to transform office into co-living space next to London’s Barbican estate