Dutch design studio Luis Marie has channelled the traditional craft of pleating to create an acoustic room divider that can stand on its own despite being made entirely from textiles. Shortlisted in the textile design category… Read More »Luis Marie pleats recycled fabric to create “first-ever all-textile room divider”
Architecture studio Snøhetta has designed an experiential retail space in New York’s SoHo neighbourhood that is intended to be an ever-evolving canvas for innovation. 113 Spring occupies a 3,000-square-foot (279-square-metre) space inside a landmarked cast-iron… Read More »Snøhetta creates “ephemeral” retail concept lab in New York
Swedish studio White Arkitekter has completed the renovation of Feskekôrka, a historic seafood market in Gothenburg, celebrating the timber-framed structure of its church-like hall. Named Feskekörka, which translates as fish church as a reference to… Read More »White Arkitekter restores Gothenburg’s fish church
A barn in rural England and a lakeside cottage in Poland feature in this roundup of homes with highly textured facades, finished with scaly-looking shingles. Shingles are a type of roof and wall cladding formed… Read More »Seven scaly-looking houses that are sheathed in shingles
This week on Dezeen, we showcased Nike’s Mind trainers, which were “designed from the brain down” to improve athletes’ concentration and focus. Described by Nike as the company’s “first neuroscience-based footwear”, the shoes have distinctive… Read More »This week we revealed Nike’s first neuroscience-based footwear
London studio Farshid Moussavi Architects and US studio Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects have completed a building and sprawling gardens for the first Ismaili Center in the US. Located within a long, narrow 11-acre plot… Read More »Farshid Moussavi Architects wraps Ismaili Center in Houston with “tapestry in stone”