Trudie Carter
Our latest Pinterest board is crammed full of ideas for compact living
Micro apartments are being touted as the solution for cities facing an affordable housing crisis, so we've squeezed some examples onto our Pinterest board dedicated to tiny homes. Explore a Wroclaw flat occupying just 13 square metres, a dwelling in Madrid with rooms connected by ladders, and many more.
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Buildings in bloom feature on Dezeen's updated plants Pinterest board
Jean Nouvel has completed a tower with foliage bursting out of perforated walls and wide balconies, so we've added this and more verdant architecture to our Pinterest board dedicated to plants. It also includes Vo Trong Nghia's hotel with hanging gardens on its facades and a foliage-strewn house near Brussels by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc.
Today we like: Irish architecture and design
It's St Patrick's Day! We're celebrating by revisiting our archive of Irish architecture and design, including 13 of the country's best contemporary homes and a thatched pavilion overlooking the sea. See more projects from Ireland »
Leaf through examples of woodland buildings on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
We've created a Pinterest board full of architecture in woodlands and forests, including a cluster of timber teepees and a "creature-like" cabin that stands above a Latvian meadow.
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This week, London's next batch of skyscrapers and Piccadilly Circus renovation were revealed
This week on Dezeen: a major redevelopment for London's Piccadilly Circus was approved this week, while new research suggested the city's skyscraper boom looks set to continue. More
Holiday homes from all over the world feature on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
Imagine staying in a concrete summer house that sits among dunes on the Argentinian coastline, or a pair of rural Icelandic cottages with burnt timber cladding. These beautiful holiday homes from Dezeen's archive proved popular on Instagram, so we've created an entire Pinterest board full of remote retreats.
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Today we like: bookshops
To celebrate World Book Day, we've rounded up every bookshop ever published on Dezeen – from SelgasCano's concept store based on the fictional Library of Babel to a rainbow display in Rio, where books are arranged by colour rather than by title. Browse all our bookshops »
Every Serpentine Gallery Pavilion features on Dezeen's updated Pinterest board
Bjarke Ingels unveiled his design for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion this week, so we've updated our Pinterest board to include images of each project since the commission began in 2000. Browse SelgasCano's colourful plastic structure, Sou Fujimoto's cloud-shaped grid, SANAA's reflective aluminium canopy and many more.
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Pay respects to the best memorials on Dezeen with our new Pinterest board
A towering steel Holocaust memorial in Italy was popular this week, so we've revisited the best commemorative architecture published on Dezeen. Visit our latest Pinterest board to explore more examples, including a concentration camp house shrouded in glass, a fan-shaped stone structure in Japan and a tribute to suspected witches burnt at the stake in 17th-century Norway.
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London's best house extensions feature on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
Residential extensions in London have been popular with our readers recently, following this year's Don't Move Improve! awards. Visit our new Pinterest board for a selection of the best, including a sunken glass box, a yellow-framed"shopfront" and a black timber structure featuring a walkway for cats.
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Concert halls take centre stage on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
A concert hall in Poland featuring concrete and crushed brickwork impressed readers this week, so we've visited the Dezeen archives to create a Pinterest board full of awe-inspiring performance venues. Others include a spiky building shortlisted for last year's Mies van der Rohe Award and Herzog & de Meuron's part-completed Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
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Extreme staircases feature on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
Readers were up in arms this week about a folded steel staircase, which they claimed were missing a crucial handrail. Our latest Pinterest board is dedicated to similarly extreme staircase design, from cantilevered wooden treads "as thin as plates" to a conceptual flight of steps attached midway up a skyscraper.
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See innovative Dutch architecture on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
Rotterdam is "the city of the future" say architects, who claim that experimental construction is transforming the Netherlands' second city into a world-class destination. So we've created a new Pinterest board celebrating innovative Dutch architecture, including OMA's vertical city complex and MVRDV's colossal market hall.
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Dezeen's new Pinterest board celebrates Pritzker Prize winners past and present
Alejandro Aravena was named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker Prize this week. We've created a Pinterest board of projects by the Chilean architect, as well as buildings by past winners including SANAA, Shigeru Ban and many more.
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Reflect on some of the best examples of mirrored architecture with Dezeen's latest Pinterest board
Mirrored facades can help buildings camouflage into their surroundings or create optical illusions. We've created a new Pinterest board full of reflective architecture, including a desert cabin that appears to be invisible and a Japanese cafe that mirrors a bank of cherry blossoms.
Feast your eyes on Dezeen's updated food Pinterest board
From knitted meat served up in a virtual restaurant to a chocolate flat-pack Christmas tree, we've updated our food-themed Pinterest board to include the best new edible design projects.
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See charred wood facades on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
We've recently published a lot of buildings clad in wood that has been charred using a Japanese technique called Shou Sugi Ban. These include a blackened garden studio in London and a rural Icelandic cottage that settles into the landscape. Visit our new Pinterest board for even more examples of burnt-wood facades.
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Explore examples of floating architecture on our new Pinterest board
Rising sea levels are leading to a surge of interest in floating architecture. We've created a new Pinterest board full of the best buoyant buildings, including a proposal for mass housing on London's canals and a conceptual amphibious city in China.
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Explore iconic stadiums on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
Herzog & de Meuron unveiled its final design for the revamp of Chelsea FC's London stadium this week, so we've created a Pinterest board full of iconic stadiums. Others include Zaha Hadid's scrapped plans for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the world's largest free-spanning dome and a solar-powered structure in Brazil.