Audio speaker makers regularly draw inspiration from outside the realm of audiophilia, shaping cabinetry and cases after designs referencing everything from automobiles, skyscrapers, kintsugi-repaired Japanese ceramics, to handbags. But a church might be a first,… Read More »Agnes Audio Speaker Is Brutally Honest About Its Architectural Inspiration
Simon Vorhammer refers to himself as an architect, but his talents encompass so much more. In 2016, he established Vorhammer Computational Design, a Munich-based collective operating across different scales and typologies at the crossroads of… Read More »F5: Simon Vorhammer Talks Irish Water Towers, Glass Bubbles + More
Dezeen Showroom: British lighting brand Curiousa has released its inventive Wave II collection – a sequel to its earlier series of pendant lights combining glass elements in different shapes and colours. The Wave II collection features candy-coloured,… Read More »Wave II pendant lighting collection by Curiousa
Large rocks from the surrounding area are suspended in a gabion wall around The Infinite Rise, a holiday home in southern India by local architecture practice Earthscape Studio. The Infinite Rise is located near the… Read More »Gabion walls filled with stone “camouflage” Indian home by Earthscape Studio
Architects are often wrongly blamed for past failures in social housing, Mikhail Riches co-founder Annalie Riches says in this Social Housing Revival interview. Riches set out in her career to design great social housing, in… Read More »“I really hate the word ‘social’ housing” says Annalie Riches
Seven years after declaring: “I am not a female architect. I am an architect”, Dorte Mandrup writes that gender-based lists remain a symptom of an industry that is changing too slowly. Seven years ago, I… Read More »“Women remain an anomaly in the architectural curriculum”