Italian studio C+S Architects has completed a nursery near Bergamo featuring a red concrete retaining wall engraved with representations of the animals from a famous 1950s puzzle by designer Enzo Mari. The playful wall welcomes children… Read More »Enzo Mari animals decorate Italian nursery by C+S Architects
Dramatically veined marble, colourful storage displays and original architectural features come together in this Brooklyn loft renovated by locally based Batliboi Studio. The space in an early 20th-century former manufacturing building on Atlantic Avenue was… Read More »Batliboi Studio combines industrial and playful elements in Brooklyn loft
Our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings pick for 2019 is Goldsmith Street in Norwich, designed by architecture studio Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley. In the competition’s 27-year history, there has never been a more… Read More »Mikhail Riches’s Goldsmith Street was the most significant building of 2019
Blush-coloured basins, originally born from the conspicuous consumption of the post-war era, are experiencing a resurgence in contemporary bathroom interiors. This lookbook compiles eight of our favourite examples. After white, pink was the most popular colour… Read More »Eight bathrooms resurrecting pink sinks for the 21st century
This week on Dezeen, US president Donald Trump issued the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order. One of a flurry of executive orders issued by Trump on his first day in office, the presidential action… Read More »This week Trump signed an executive order promoting “traditional and classical” architecture
American studio CLB Architects adapted a former Kmart department store into a headquarters for an energy and manufacturing company in Wyoming, adding a weathering steel facade What was once an 82,230-square foot (7,545-square metre) concrete Kmart… Read More »CLB Architects converts former Kmart building into manufacturing facility