Architecture

If you’re staying outside your house or office for a certain period of time, it’s almost always required that you need to bring a power bank. Well, unless you’re one of those people who can live without looking at their smartphone (or your device has a lot of juice). But for the rest of us […]

Small pocket-sized flashlights are a dime a dozen these days, especially in the era of EDCs or Everyday Carry bags. Many of these come in rugged designs with bright LED functionality, and most of them utilize rechargeable batteries for convenience. Of course, that implies having some sort of charger always at hand, which requires carrying

LA-based Jared Frank Studio has looked to Milan‘s history of modernist design for references while focusing on “what a West Coast pizza parlour could be”. Wildcrust occupies a single-storey building with a fully glazed front in Highland Park, north of Downtown LA. At Wildcrust, Jared Frank Studio chose contrasting colours and materials in reference to

Local architecture studio Dílna has extended the art department at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, creating a minimalist stack of studios that were designed to look “more like a modern art gallery than a traditional educational facility”. Designed for the university’s Faculty of Education, the 300-square-metre building adds new workshop and studio facilities directly

For our latest lookbook, we’ve selected eight homes with multi-purpose staircases that double up as seating, storage and in one case even a climbing wall. Integrating additional uses into staircases can make them characterful interior features rather than just functional structures. This can be especially favourable in smaller spaces where storage is a priority and

This week on Dezeen, Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates completed a Parisian interchange station wrapped in vertical wooden louvres. Built as part of the Grand Paris Express transport system, Saint-Denis Pleyel Station has an angular form made up of wedge-shaped tiers wrapped in external ramps. It acts as an interchange between four metro lines and connects

Local studio Aprdelesp has showcased a line of electrical projects, including wall plugs and power cords, at Ago Projects gallery in Mexico City to forefront items it believes have historically been overlooked in design schemas. The exhibition was called Accesorios Especiales (Special Accessories) and showcased the launch of Aprdelesp‘s line of electrical accessories, designed to

Architecture studio Studio Gang has completed an expansive extension at the California College of the Arts San Francisco campus, which includes exposed bracing and a concrete terrace. The 82,305 square foot (7,646 square metre) addition extends outwards from the college’s main academic building and consists of buildings and courtyards encased in a large, elevated concrete

Dezeen School Shows: we’ve selected eight design projects that have been featured on Dezeen School Shows by students in China – specifically Hong Kong. These undergraduate and postgraduate projects range from interior to fashion design, spanning various themes and concepts. Included in this roundup is a project exploring kitchen design, a publication commenting on attitudes

Australian architect Mark Jeavons worked with interior design practice Ohlo Studio to restore Tomich House, a heritage-listed 1970s house in City Beach, Perth. Originally designed by brutalist Bulgarian architect Iwan Iwanoff in 1971, the home features a landscaped garden and sculptural curved walls built from white-painted concrete blocks. Tomich House had recently been acquired by