Prague-based Facha Architekti has unveiled House With a Red Addition, a striking, red-corrugated-metal extension to a small family home in the Czech Republic. Located in the central Příbram region of the Czech Republic, the 26-metre extension enlarges the family’s living space and improves the structure’s connection to the outdoors with seating steps, a larch terrace…
From hastily installed sheds and tents to more intricate structures with signage and considered design, author Penny Hardy highlights the absurdity, delight and ingenuity of dining sheds installed in New York during the Covid-19 pandemic. Collected in Hardy’s recently announced book, Pandemic Architecture: NYC Dining Sheds 2020-2024, the sheds represent a very specific time in…
Architecture studio Roomoor has completed Monastic Field, a concrete home within a temple precinct in Baleshwar that recalls the rock-cut monk’s dwellings of the Deccan Plateau. Set within the site of a Jain temple, the homes was designed for the family that originally donated the land for the temple in 2005. Monastic Field is a…
projects in From Inside Out – The Architecture of Peter Zumthor Wim Wenders, the four-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker known for films like Paris, Texas (1984) and Buena Vista Social Club (1999), has been working on From Inside Out – The Architecture of Peter Zumthor for about fourteen years. It was actually back in 2012…
Architecture firm Acronym Collective Studio has transformed a former brewery near Brno into a community centre, which addresses its corner site with a curved, perforated brick facade. Named Kulturní Centrum Pivovar or Brewery Cultural Centre, the building in the town of Velká Bíteš contains a library, information centre, family centre, multi-purpose community hall and creative…
This week on Dezeen, we revealed Jaguar’s Type 01 electric car, which was designed to “inaugurate a new era” for the British car brand. Created as the first car in a new era for Jaguar, the Type 01 was unveiled at an exclusive event in New York. The car is the production version of the…
A Win in Big Bend In Far West Texas, a coalition called No Big Bend Wall has formed to protest the construction of DHS infrastructure in a remote and environmentally The post Eavesdrop: Border wall on pause in Texas, class as the final frontier, Amman Design Week, cutlery for sale, a trad data center, and…
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Burgundy wood, white marble, and blue define Chiquita’s interior Chiquita by SahuquillodeArriba is a 59-sqm café, bookshop, and wine bar in Valencia’s El Botànic neighborhood, designed for product designer Gloria Izquierdo. The project combines coffee, books, and wine in a continuous interior that uses color, material contrasts, and custom furniture to connect the different functions.…
Building the idea of a night out A club facade is an image before it is a place. It was probably this idea that led me, more than a decade ago, to start photographing nightclubs. It began in 2011, during a bike ride along a canal in Burgundy. On a small road cutting…