New Zealand-born designer Sophie Rowley gives new life to discarded denim offcuts by recycling them into pieces of furniture with marble-like markings. Called Bahia Denim, Rowley's material development project has seen her transform discarded jean textiles into a series of tables featuring mottled patterns that bear a likeness to marble. The former Central Saint Martins student takes post-consumer denim offcuts from the production waste...
A snapping turtle tank provides a view through to a palm tree garden in an extension to a former council house in Dublin, designed by architecture studio TAKA. Dublin-based TAKA, headed by architects Alice Casey and Cian Deegan, refurbished and extended the ex-council house in the suburb of Monkstown to create House in a Palm Garden. TAKA reconfigured the property to include a space for a large...
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American delivery company FedEx has developed an autonomous robotic delivery device to help retailers distribute same-day orders to their customers. Designed to satisfy the ever-growing expectations of consumers, the SameDay Bot allows retailers to accept orders from nearby customers and send them by robot directly to the buyer's home or office that same day. After discovering that, on average, more than 60 per cent...
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New York firm Weiss Manfredi has revealed plans to update Edward Durell Stone's modernist US embassy in New Delhi, India, as part of a major overhaul of the complex. Commissioned by the US Department of State, Weiss Manfredi's masterplan is intended to transform the United States Embassy in the city's Chanakyapuri neighbourhood into a "multi-functional campus". The project marks the first update to the...
Snøhetta has released visuals of a Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. If built the museum would have exhibition space for the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology and the Municipal Museum of Bolzano, and would house the famous prehistoric mummy of Ötzi the Iceman. The proposal is an extension of Snøhetta's ongoing...
Architecture studio J Mayer H has unveiled a tram stop made from a stack of exposed-concrete discs in Kehl, Germany. J Mayer H designed the tram stop, which is outside Kehl town hall, as the terminus for the line that runs across the German border to Strasbourg, in France. German architect Jürgen Mayer H, who leads the studio, gave the tram stop an unusual form...
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Modern Rear Extension of Victorian Terraced House with a Smart Studio Above
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IKEA teams up with top African designers to launch Överallt furniture collection
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Balbek Bureau creates versatile work and rest areas inside Grammarly's Kiev office
Dezeen February 28, 2019
There's room for work, rest and play inside software company Grammarly's office in Kiev, which includes its own conference hall, nap pods, and a soundproof music room. The office occupies the top two floors of a 14-storey building in Kiev and has been designed by locally-based architects Balbek Bureau to accommodate the growing workforce of Grammarly. Founded in 2008, Grammarly is computer software that helps...
Four of the best architectural assistant jobs in London including positions at Studio Bark and Haverstock
Dezeen February 28, 2019
We've selected four of the top London-based opportunities for architectural assistants available on Dezeen Jobs, including roles at Studio Bark and Haverstock. Architectural assistant at Studio Bark Studio Bark is seeking an architectural assistant to join its team in London. The practice recently completed an off-grid home in Suffolk, which features a tapered roof opening that looks out onto a meadow. Find out more...
Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by an open concrete facade. All(zone) arranged each space...
