Architecture
Architecture
SURI modular housing system provides emergency shelter for refugees
This adaptable shelter system is providing temporary housing for refugees displaced by conflict in their home countries. More
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Residential
Residential
Zanderroth Architekten designs cb19 apartments without internal walls to create flexible layouts
The apartments in this new Berlin co-housing project by Zanderroth Architekten were designed without the need for load-bearing walls inside, giving the owners flexibility to decide on their own layouts (+ slideshow). More
Interiors
Interiors
Timothy Hatton Architects designs floating steel staircase for Deirdre Dyson gallery
London firm Timothy Hatton Architects has added a burnished steel staircase to rug designer Deirdre Dyson's Chelsea carpet gallery as part of a renovation of her studio. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Nikolay Polissky's SELPO pavilion is covered in thousands of wood offcuts
Russian artist Nikolay Polissky has transformed a dilapidated building in the village of Zvizzhi into a pavilion covered in pieces of timber, which he described as "a sculpture you can walk through" (+ slideshow). More
Residential
Residential
Patrick Dillon's SaLo House is an off-grid forest dwelling overlooking the Pacific Ocean
Architect Patrick Dillon built this sustainable house on a forested hilltop in Panama from salvaged materials that had to be brought to the site by boat and horseback (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Dubai Design Week to showcase student work from RCA, ÉCAL and more in Global Grad Show
The inaugural Dubai Design Week will feature projects from 10 international design schools including London's Royal College of Art and Swiss college ÉCAL for its future-themed Global Grad Show (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Ronald Janssen turns derelict Amsterdam factory into 12 back-to-back residences
Dutch firm Ronald Janssen Architecten collaborated with architect Donald Osborne to overhaul an old gearwheel factory in the heart of Amsterdam, creating 12 maisonettes with double-height living spaces (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
SOM adds glass skyscraper to growing Chinese tech district
American firm SOM has completed a new tower in Nanchang, China, which features an exterior diagrid system that helps to shade the glass building. More
Competition
Competition
Competition: five Do It Yourself books to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer five readers the chance to win one of five copies of Do It Yourself, a book containing instructions for 50 DIY projects written by prolific designers and artists (+ slideshow). More
Graphics
Graphics
Adrian Frutiger, type designer and creator of London's street-sign font, dies aged 87
Swiss typographer Adrian Frutiger, designer of typefaces including Univers, Avenir and the eponymous Frutiger, has died. More
Design
Design
Marc Thorpe designs a mini draught beer dispenser for Stella Artois
New York-based Marc Thorpe has become the latest designer to produce a compact draught beer dispenser with a design for Stella Artois that was created for small restaurants and bars (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Today we like: design using bacteria
Designer Ori Elisar has developed a bacterial ink and grown typographical symbols in a petri dish. Here are more stories featuring microbes, including a lamp powered by glowing octopus bacteria (pictured), clothes grown from single-cell organisms and cheese made from the sweat and tears of celebrities.
Architecture
Architecture
Urbane Kultur adds boomerang-shaped extension to domed Tournesol swimming pool
French architecture studio Urbane Kultur has refurbished and extended this dome-shaped swimming pool just outside Strasbourg, which is one of nearly 200 built around France in the 1970s (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
Aalto University students reimagine coffee machines and household appliances
Students from the Collaborative and Industrial Design program at Helsinki's Aalto University have created five new concepts for coffee machines and other household products, aiming to "simplify and clarify" existing models (+ slideshow). More
Residential
Residential
Vokes and Peters adds black timber extension to a cabin on Australia's Sunshine Coast
Brisbane studio Vokes and Peters has converted this timber holiday home in Queensland into a permanent residence for a semi-retired couple by adding an angular extension (+ slideshow). More
Graphics
Graphics
Ori Elisar grows typography in a lab using bacteria-filled petri dishes
Jerusalem designer Ori Elisar has used a bacteria-based ink to grow a Hebrew alphabet in the lab for his Living Language type experiment. More
Residential
Residential
House in Ikoma has a central void that stretches all the way up to its pitched roof
The internal spaces of this house in the Japanese city of Ikoma are arranged around a full-height void that incorporates the staircase (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Hans Abaton styles children's dormitory at Esther Koplowitz Foundation as row of colourful houses
Gabled blocks with brightly coloured facades house bedrooms for children with Cerebral Palsy at this treatment centre in Madrid, which has been updated by local studio Hans Abaton (+ slideshow). More
Lighting
Lighting
Marta Bakowski uses thread to create patterns across Rays lamps
Product designer Marta Bakowski has created a series of lamps wrapped in cord that use single threads to create a graphic representation of rays of light (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Curved lightwell cuts through 3.5-metre-wide Vietnam townhouse by Kientruc O
Curving balconies featuring tropical planting wrap a lightwell in the core of this narrow home in Ho Chi Minh City that is just 3.5 metres wide. More