Dezeen Showroom: Spanish rug brand Nanimarquina worked with US company Designtex to create a duo of high-performance textiles for the contract market that have a crafted feel. Join and Mending are both woven polyester upholstery fabrics… Read More »Join and Mending fabric by Nanimarquina and Designtex
French architecture studios Atelier 9.81 and Perrot & Richard have renovated the Palais Rameau exhibition hall in Lille, inserting a modular and demountable timber frame into its heritage-protected steel shell. Originally designed in 1878 by… Read More »Demountable timber structure reinvigorates Palais Rameau in Lille
Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and local studio PBDW Architects have completed a “quasi-invisible” renovation of Marcel Breuer‘s brutalist 945 Madison Avenue for auction house Sotheby’s. Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects aimed to… Read More »Herzog & de Meuron transforms Breuer Building into Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters
While Neom struggles to create ground-breaking urbanism, it is having more success replicating suburbia in the desert, writes Tom Ravenscroft. Despite grand ambitions and a barrage of flashy renders, progress on Neom has been slow.… Read More »“Neom promised radical urbanism but is delivering sterile desert suburbia”
Satellite photography has revealed the numerous settlements containing thousands of identical housing blocks that have been built for those working on Neom in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. Taken from Google Maps, the satellite images… Read More »Aerial photos reveal repetitive housing of Neom workers camps
Dezeen Showroom: surfaces brand Forbo Flooring aimed to combine the durability of hard floors with the tactility of carpet in this flooring, which is decorated with digitally printed surface designs. Flotex flooring is designed to… Read More »Flotex flocked flooring by Forbo Flooring