Design

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 […]

Wood is the dominant material throughout Karaka Tower, a vertical house extension in Wellington, New Zealand, designed by local studio Arête Architects to evoke a treehouse. Located on a densely vegetated and sloped site, the tower-like structure comprises an art studio and bedroom, which connects to the main house via a polycarbonate corridor. Arête Architects

As part of Dubai Design Week, British designer Ross Lovegrove has unveiled the first completed project from Deond, the design practice he founded with creative director Ila Colombo after moving to the United Arab Emirates. The Enfold pavilion is clad in 945 sheets of recycled cardboard, hand-folded into trapezoidal modules that overlap across its circular

Prince William has announced the five winning projects of this year’s Earthshot Prize, including technology designed to capture waste heat and convert it into usable and clean electricity. Founded by the prince and British wildlife presenter and historian David Attenborough in 2020, the annual Earthshot Prize awards five winners £1 million each to scale up

Dezeen Showroom: Danish architect Mette Fredskild has designed a customisable kitchen island for Lithuanian brand Kongacph that draws on the “calm and simplicity” of Japandi design. The bespoke solid oak 25×25 Workshop Kitchen is based on a simple grid system and named after the 25 by 25 milllimetre battens that comprise its structural frame. The

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Melbourne with a curved roof and textured concrete walls designed by LLDS Architects. Called Northcote House, the home is slotted into the site of a former car park, with bespoke elements including the irregularly shaped plywood roof structure created using computer numerically controlled (CNC) robotics.

Architecture studio Atelier Heyman Hamilton has renovated and expanded Torö, a holiday home on an island with the same name in Sweden, focusing on “the meeting between the building and the site”. The careful renovation aimed to honour the house’s 1970s Folkhem architecture, a Swedish movement that combined modern materials and mass production systems with

This video produced by Jim Stephenson spotlights the University of Aberdeen Science and Teaching Hub by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. It is the fourth video published by Dezeen in collaboration with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) to highlight