Furniture
Furniture
Kevin Hviid's chair collection includes one resembling a giant bow tie
Copenhagen architect Kevin Hviid has launched a collection of chairs, including one with a seat back that looks like an oversized bow tie. More
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Today we like: glass
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has just unveiled a glass kitchen and created a glass wardrobe earlier this year, but he's not the only one who has been pushing the boundaries of the transparent material.
In August, a team from MIT's MediaLab unveiled a technique for 3D-printing molten glass (pictured), and a team of students used smartphone glass to build a lightweight pavilion, while Patricia Urquiola and Nendo were among the designers who revealed glass furniture during this year's Milan design week. See all our stories about glass design »
Residential
Residential
Stark concrete house by ISM Architecten is topped with a glass study
A glass study projects from the roof of this concrete house near Brussels, but it presents an austere windowless facade to the street (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Tokujin Yoshioka designs glass kitchen "to show the beauty of kitchen tools"
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has developed a transparent modular kitchen system with smoked glass surfaces that display the tools inside (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Explore examples of wooden architecture on our latest Pinterest board
With a group of architects branding timber as the wonder material of the 21st century, we've created a Pinterest board full of the best wooden architecture projects from the pages of Dezeen. Explore examples including Finland's tallest wooden apartment block, a house with a burnt-wood exterior, and much more.
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Architecture
Architecture
3XN completes Copenhagen hospital building featuring slanted stone walls
Angled stone surfaces create zigzags across the facade of this hospital building in Copenhagen by Danish firm 3XN (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Plywood artist's studio by Ruetemple combines areas for storage, seating and sleeping
A plywood partition separates working and relaxation areas inside this artist's studio in Moscow, incorporating both furniture and shelves for tidying away art supplies (+ slideshow). More
Graphics
Graphics
Jean Jullien's Peace for Paris illustration becomes symbol of unity in wake of terror attacks
An image created by French designer Jean Jullien in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris yesterday has gone viral, becoming the most-shared symbol of unity with the French city. More
Graphics
Graphics
Fantastical plants bloom and dance in Hideki Inaba's video for Beatsofreen
Music: Japanese animator Hideki Inaba has designed an imaginary ocean world of plants and squid-like creatures for the video of Beatsofreen track Slowly Rising. More
Furniture
Furniture
Carolin Pertsch's stools feature seats made from washed-up seagrass
German designer Carolin Pertsch has used bundles of seagrass to create an eco-material that forms the seats for a collection of stools. More
Interiors
Interiors
Site Specific Arquitectura converts Portuguese warehouse into monastery chapel
Portuguese studio Site Specific Arquitectura has transformed a warehouse at a Lisbon monastery into a minimalist chapel featuring simple furnishings and a lime-green confession booth (+ slideshow). More
News
News
This week, architects embraced "the timber age" and heralded the rise of "broken-plan" living
This week on Dezeen: the trend for open-plan living may be coming to an end, according to architects we interviewed this week, while other industry insiders told us that wood is taking over from concrete and steel as the architectural wonder material of the 21st century. More
Interiors
Interiors
Inês Brandão installs black box of rooms inside converted barn home
A black box built from oriented strand board houses the kitchen and bathrooms of this converted barn home in Portugal, and also integrates a staircase leading to the mezzanine floor above (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
MIT students create 2,000-pound "megalith" that can be moved with a fingertip
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed and built a 2,000-pound sculpture that can be rocked, rotated, lifted, and hauled upright with minimal effort (+ movie). More
Retail
Retail
Snarkitecture suspends 700 Air Jordan replicas in Kith's Brooklyn store
New York studio Snarkitecture has designed a Brooklyn store for menswear brand Kith, including a cereal bar and an installation made from 700 replica Nike Air Jordan II sneakers (+ slideshow). More
US job of the week: project architect at Murphy Burnham and Buttrick
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a project architect at Murphy Burnham and Buttrick, whose transformation of a derelict service building into a volunteer centre in Riverside Park, New York, is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Architecture
Architecture
MVRDV unveils plans for sunken lagoon park in Taiwan
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV is to replace a flooded shopping centre in the Taiwanese city Tainan with a lagoon to create a "hip urban pool" and artificial beach (+ slideshow). More
Graphics
Graphics
Snoop Dogg launches edible marijuana range with branding by Pentagram
US rapper Snoop Dogg has launched a line of edible cannabis products with packaging designed by Pentagram to skirt around US laws on controlled substances (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Dubai to fight fires in world's tallest skyscrapers using jetpacks
Dubai, home to the world's tallest skyscraper, will use jetpack-equipped firefighters in high-rise emergencies as early as next year. More
Design
Design
Apple design team abandoning sketchbooks for the Apple Pencil, says Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive says Apple's design team is moving away from pen and paper in favour of the company's recently released Pencil stylus and iPad. More