Houses of the month
Houses of the month
Dezeen's top five houses of February 2023
A mirrored villa in Belgium, a demountable house in the UK and a "truly ordinary" home in Vietnam feature in Dezeen's top five houses of the month for February. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Kolman Boye builds "house of offcuts" on Norway's south coast
Kolman Boye Architects has completed a weekend retreat in Lillesand, Norway, with a facade made from offcuts of wooden flooring material. More
Design
Design
Luma is a "magic compound" pill subscription service for the menopause
Design agency Morrama has developed a concept for a menopausal treatment service that would use artificial intelligence to tailor pills to help alleviate users' symptoms. More
Lookbooks
Lookbooks
Eight residential interiors with sociable split-level living areas
Our latest lookbook collects eight homes that feature split-level living areas, from a humble apartment in Mexico to a vast brutalist-style house in Bali. More
Architecture
Architecture
Fabric creates timber and polycarbonate shed to double as light sculpture
Timber slats that mimic the surrounding treeline wrap around a shed in Akaroa, New Zealand, which was designed by architecture studio Fabric to transform into a light sculpture at night. More
Architecture
Architecture
Erre Q Erre replaces parking lot with stone pavilion in Mexico City
Local architecture studio Erre Q Erre has created the Environmental Culture Center, a stone-clad pavilion and garden that replaces a parking lot in Bosque de Chapultepec, a large park in the centre of Mexico City. More
Architecture
Architecture
Adjaye Associates unveils Abrahamic Family House interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi
The Abrahamic Family House, an interfaith complex designed by architect David Adjaye that contains a church, a synagogue and a mosque, has opened in Abu Dhabi. More
Design
Design
Iwan Baan photographs Anish Kapoor sculpture squashed under New York skyscraper
Photographer Iwan Baan has released images of Anish Kapoor's long-awaited reflective sculpture in New York, which sits at the base of Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard Street skyscraper in Tribeca. More
News
News
Kenzo Tange's modernist gymnasium set to be demolished
The demolition of the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium in Japan by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kenzo Tange has been announced, sparking a petition to save it. More
Architecture
Architecture
Ström Architects adds contemporary extension to traditional English house
British practice Ström Architects has updated a period property in Surrey, England, with a large yet discrete extension built from fair-faced concrete and lime-washed brick. More
Architecture
Architecture
Ten impressively geometric cube-shaped buildings
The simple form of a cube is a popular shape for architects. Following the news that Saudi Arabia is planning a cuboid skyscraper in Riyadh, we have rounded up 10 of the most interesting cube-shaped buildings. More
Design
Design
Paul Cocksedge suspends over 2,000 pieces of coal in Liverpool Cathedral
British designer Paul Cocksedge has created a sculpture made from high-carbon coal, which was hung and illuminated inside Liverpool Cathedral as a comment on our fossil fuel dependency. More
Lookbooks
Lookbooks
Eight practical and beautiful concrete bathrooms around the world
Our latest lookbook explores eight bathrooms with striking concrete interiors, ranging from a Mexico City bathroom that also features a rough-hewn stone bathtub to a UK bathroom built around a "concrete sculpture". More
Architecture
Architecture
Adjaye Associates designs Brooklyn community centre to "disrupt the racial wealth gap"
UK studio Adjaye Associates has released designs for a Brooklyn campus for the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation that include a cultural centre and theatre. More
Architecture
Architecture
Hsu McCullough orients Los Angeles home around legacy elm tree
Local studio Hsu McCullough has completed a stucco and ash home with an accessory dwelling unit in Los Angeles' that wraps around an elm tree. More
Architecture
Architecture
KCAP and Kraaijvanger Architects transform postal warehouse into "monumental" offices
The vast concrete structure of a former postal sorting centre in the Netherlands has been transformed into a new headquarters for PostNL by Dutch studios KCAP and Kraaijvanger Architects. More
Interview
Interview
"The face of Palm Springs is changing" says Modernism Week CEO
As well as being a mecca for modernist architecture, Palm Springs is embracing climate-conscious design, says Modernism Week CEO Lisa Vossler Smith in this interview. More
Interiors
Interiors
Nagami 3D-prints recycled plastic to mimic melting glaciers in Spanish boutique
Spanish design studio Nagami has completed a shop interior for sustainable clothing brand Ecoalf near Madrid that is almost entirely 3D printed from recycled plastic. More
Stockholm Design Week
Stockholm Design Week
Seven emerging Swedish furniture designers at Stockholm Design Week
Now that Stockholm Design Week has drawn to a close, here's a look at seven rising Swedish design talents that exhibited at the event. More
Architecture
Architecture
Geometric perforations characterise coloured concrete housing block in Mexico
Mexican studio Miguel de la Torre Arquitectos has unveiled the coloured concrete Real de Los Reyes housing complex in Mexico City's Coyoacán neighbourhood. More