Architecture
Architecture
House by Joris Verhoeven features handmade bricks and a lopsided roof
Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). More
Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). More
A plywood storage wall stores and displays furniture, ingredients and cooking apparatus at this Paris culinary workshop by architecture studio Septembre (+ slideshow). More
Ian Anderson's Philadelphia-based ceramics studio has developed a collection of porcelain tableware by deforming traditional shapes, with the aim to increase, or at least maintain, the functionality of each piece (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2015: traditional machiya houses in the Japanese city of Kyoto are under threat from modern development, so Royal College of Art graduate Adam Roberts proposes stacking them up to make them more cost and space efficient (+ slideshow). More
This week we reported on the latest controversy to hit Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper (pictured) and Pharrell Williams and Zaha Hadid's collaboration for Adidas, and published the first piece in our summer-long series on Postmodernism. Click through for more of the biggest architecture, interiors and design stories from the past seven days. More
Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects stacked prefabricated construction modules horizontally and vertically to create this staff cafeteria at the factory where they are produced (+ slideshow). More
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Anodised aluminium panels surround windows and doors set into the angular concrete facades of this house in Tübingen, Germany, by Steimle Architekten (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2015: Central Saint Martins graduate Firdaws Fourcroy has created a cutlery set that is deliberately difficult to eat with, aiming to help users relate to behaviour caused by schizophrenia (+ slideshow). More
Music: Spanish director Joan Guasch has used 3D mapping and animation to distort and transform images of a man and woman in Delorean's music video for Crystals (+ movie). More
Graduate shows 2015: Larisa Bulibasa has developed a vision for the City of London in which a complex network of alleyways, dead ends and enclosed spaces evoke the bewildering financial practices conducted within. More
London's Aram Gallery is hosting an exhibition of products by young designers who are working with ordinary materials and processes in "extraordinary" ways (+ slideshow). More
A fitted kitchen, a seating nook and a desk space are all contained in oak-lined recesses in the otherwise black walls of this apartment in Ljubljana, Slovenia by local studio Arhitektura d.o.o. (+ slideshow). More
The walls of this extension to a house in Melbourne feature a mismatched pattern of bricks and roof slates, sourced when part of the original building was demolished (+ slideshow). More
Crystal-covered strands in London designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng's Design Miami/Basel installation respond to movement nearby by curling and twisting, as shown in this movie filmed by Dezeen (+ movie). More
New York architect Sharon Davis has completed a new housing complex for doctors and nurses in a village in rural Rwanda, which was built by local residents using regional materials (+ slideshow). More
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a communications manager at Selldorf Architects, which restored the original west-to-east orientation of the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts to provide the institute space to house a permanent collection (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Pomo summer: patterned tiles, geometric screens and a bright yellow staircase were added to this apartment in Athens by local studio Point Supreme (+ slideshow). More
The logos for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Japanese graphic designer Kenjiro Sano have been unveiled by the event organisers. More
Extra Moooi: explore furniture and lighting by designers including Marcel Wanders, Studio Job and Jaime Hayón, which is currently on display at Dutch design brand Moooi's new US store. More