Northumbria University graduate Hope Underwood has developed a water harvesting system that can be retrofitted to domestic drainpipes to divert rainwater and use it for flushing toilets. Underwood set out to develop a practical solution… Read More »Student creates retrofit rainwater harvesting kit to reduce water bills
Architectural models of various scales are displayed throughout the Midtown Manhattan studio of global firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, which was recently renovated by its in-house team. Overlooking Bryant Park and The New York Public Library… Read More »KPF refreshes and opens up interiors of its New York City offices
Dezeen School Shows: an urban park with creative spaces informed by Huddersfield’s natural environment is among the landscape projects from students at the University of Sheffield. Also featured is a pedestrian network in the Lower… Read More »Post-industrial landscape reimagined into park among projects from the University of Sheffield
A corrugated-metal roof supported by turquoise-coloured steelwork declares the renovation of this public pool house in the Czech Republic, completed by local studio Mjölk Architekti and architect Marie Vondráková. Known as Lesní Koupaliště or Forest… Read More »Mjölk Architekti and Marie Vondráková rebuild fire-ravaged Forest Pool in Liberec
From a privacy-conscious home in Japan to a vaulted greenhouse in Chile, this roundup spotlights buildings from around the world that are brightened by luminous glass bricks and blocks. Popularised in the 1930s, glass bricks… Read More »Eight buildings bejewelled with glass bricks and blocks
French designer Philippe Starck has renovated a 1920s building on Madrid‘s Gran Via into a hotel that conjures the spirit of Grand Cafés and the Generation of ’27. The 57-room hotel was designed to feel… Read More »Philippe Starck fills Brach Madrid hotel with “an infinite number of surprising and mysterious objects”