A red aluminium roof modelled on banana leaves shelters Shiv Nader School, completed by architecture studio Vastushilpa Sangath in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, India. Run by the philanthropic body Shiv Nader Foundation, the… Read More »Vastushilpa Sangath covers Indian school with banana leaf-shaped roof
Anna Pinnock created a Venetian palazzo, complete with trompe l’oeil pillars and graphic wallpaper, for the set of The Phoenician Scheme, the latest film by director Wes Anderson. For The Phoenician Scheme, Pinnock had to… Read More »You “create a world” for every Wes Anderson film says set designer Anna Pinnock
The future potential of earth as a building material was the focus of this year’ soil-rich Morocco pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Moroccan architects Khalil Morad El Ghilali and El Mehdi Belyasmine aimed to… Read More »Morocco rethinks earthen architecture in Venice pavilion
Dezeen Showroom: a tile informed by the appearance of limestone has been released recently by Italian surfaces manufacturer Ceramiche Keope. Grace tiles have a combination of warm- and cool-toned patches that Ceramiche Keope intended to… Read More »Grace tiles by Ceramiche Keope
We must simplify our understanding of regenerative design in order to start usefully applying the concept, writes Jo Barnard. Sustainability is dead; long live regenerative design. Or so designers keep saying. But what does it… Read More »“What on earth is regenerative design?”
Postalco Design Studio rethought the concept of storage in Stakko Chunks and Blocks, an exhibition at the Karimoku Research Centre in Tokyo. The show centres around a hardwood box designed by Postalco‘s Mike Abelson and… Read More »Postalco turns storage boxes into hackable furniture for Karimoku exhibition