A skeletal chair and a lamp wearing a hat were among the standout projects from emerging designers at this year’s Design Week Lagos, where they featured in the annual Design + Innovation exhibition. In the brutalist… Read More »Five next-gen Nigerian designers using culture “not as ornament but as intelligence”
Interior studio Atelier Tao+C has designed a cafe for Blue Bottle Coffee on Shanghai‘s West Bund waterfront, featuring wooden canopies stretched out above a prefabricated concrete counter. The cafe overlooks a historic shipyard in West… Read More »Tent-like canopies bring “outdoor feeling” to Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund
A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins around a lake in Massachusetts, USA, and renovated a historic building to serve as the restaurant. Local design-build company Alander Construction designed the… Read More »Prospect Berkshires “landscape hotel” features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts
Dezeen School Shows: we’ve rounded up five student projects presented on Dezeen School Shows that are designed to upgrade and improve healthcare apparatus. These product and industrial design students have created innovative medical products that intend… Read More »Five empowering healthcare devices designed by students
Bespoke terrazzo tiles made using the shells of local rock oysters clad this collonaded pavilion on Sydney‘s waterfront, designed by local architecture studio Besley & Spresser. Named Pier Pavilion, the structure forms part of the… Read More »Besley & Spresser clads Sydney Harbour pavilion with oyster shell terrazzo
This lookbook compiles bathrooms with unlikely textural, material and colour combinations, creating dramatic schemes in rooms renowned for sterility. The bathroom’s rigid function as a place for washing, cleaning and bathing has led them to… Read More »Seven bathrooms with contrasting materials that reject uniformity