Architecture

A group of Columbia GSAPP professors and students have created an inflatable installation for the New York university’s campus that hung suspended between two buildings and contained seating made of nets. The temporary Cloud Pavilion (Cloud) measured 66 feet (20 metres) wide and consisted of an inflatable, silver doughnut-shaped volume with a large net that […]

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for micro housing which promotes sustainability is included in this latest school show by students at the University of Waterloo. Also included is a botanical garden which includes education initiatives and a proposal for a food security system through combining a greenhouse with a food bank. University of Waterloo Institution:University

California studio LOHA has completed a residential and retail building called Bellevue53, which features a rooftop swimming pool and stepped elevations clad in white metal. Located just north of a major freeway, the multi-level building sits on a corner lot in Los Angeles‘ Silver Lake neighbourhood, known for its trendy restaurants, distinctive architecture and bohemian

Dezeen Showroom: onion bulbs and conchigliette pasta are among the organic shapes that informed this collection of ceramic pendant light clusters by Indian manufacturer Naaya Studio. The Cluster collection includes five different sculptural multi-tiered chandeliers – Bud, Flight, Sunrise Rings, Conchigliette and Cepa. Sunrise Ring and Conchigliette are among five designs in the Cluster series

Promotion: Estonian timber supplier Thermory has announced the winners of its annual wooden architecture design awards, including a swooping addition to Lisbon’s Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian by Kengo Kuma. The Thermory Design Awards celebrates architecture and design constructed with Thermory’s thermally-modified wood products. Thermory has named a winner for each of its four categories –

Dezeen Showroom: two L-shaped aluminium sheets create “the illusion of a single rectangular base” in this characterfully geometric coffee table by New York furniture designer Orlando Pippig. A thick slab of smoked glass tops off the AL-03 table, both concealing and revealing the base structure underneath depending on the angle from which it is viewed.

Textured tiles and exposed surfaces feature in the rehabilitation of this historic home in Valencia completed by local interior design studio Paloma Bau. Originally built in 1925, the studio aimed to improve its dark and heavily partitioned interiors to transform the space into a modern and functional home for its young owner. Paloma Bau has

German studio Ingenhoven Associates has redesigned Calwer Passage, a former shopping centre and office block in Stuttgart, adding a “natural curtain” of trailing plants to its facade. The scheme, which has been shortlisted in the mixed-use project category of Dezeen Awards 2024, involved the reconstruction and extension of the 1970s shopping arcade and office block

Dezeen Showroom: designer Jaime Hayon worked with Spanish furniture brand Viccarbe to extend the Aleta seating family with the launch of an executive chair. The Aleta Executive chair features a backrest made of two different materials – one on the inside and one on the outside – creating a personalised and considered aesthetic that can be specified

Design studio Policronica has transformed the interior of Hotel Elysée Montmartre in Paris, relying almost exclusively on a single species of wood. The 850-square-metre space nods to the studio’s signature aesthetic and features a monochrome interior characterised by architectural woodwork and wooden furnishings. Nearly all furnishings in the hotel were crafted from eucalyptus wood Nearly