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Pirajean Lees creates Arts and Crafts-style interior for Mayfair restaurant

June 1, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

London design studio Pirajean Lees referenced Mayfair’s pastoral past and created a series of spaces that nod to the idea of a Georgian manor house when designing restaurant 20 Berkeley. Pirajean Lees aimed to build a story around the space and its sequence of many small rooms, while tapping into the restaurant’s British produce-led culinary approach.

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35:35 Slope House / 77 Studio architecture

June 1, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

The view from this house is simply breathtaking. It has been built on an escarpment by the Vistula River. “35:35 Slope House” built on an escarpment is the latest design by Polish 77 Studio Architecture studio in Warsaw. The building is an example of the conscious use of unique natural values. The horizontal block almost grows into the green slope, it also establishes a dialogue with the river, which becomes an important point of reference.

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“Neom’s unwelcome presence in Venice reinforces the need for radical change”

June 1, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Venice Architecture Biennale and Neom’s Zero Gravity Urbanism exhibition presented two alternative visions for the future, writes Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft. This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale was a significant moment – a moment of enthusiasm, a moment of youth, a moment to celebrate the future. But alongside the main event, a vying vision of the future was presented

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“I sometimes feel like I fell into doing fashion” says Jonathan Anderson

June 1, 2023 James Parkes 0

Loewe creative director Jonathan Andersen set up the brand’s annual craft prize to decode the “chintz” and “pastiche” associations of the discipline, he tells Dezeen in this interview. Luxury fashion house Loewe recently announced the sixth winner of its annual craft prize at NYCxDesign, which celebrates applied arts and innovation in modern craftsmanship. A spiky egg

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SOM and Princeton University create self-balancing arch for Venice Architecture Biennale

June 1, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architecture studio SOM has worked with Princeton University’s Form Finding Lab for its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale – a self-balancing brick arch that was built using augmented reality. The Angelus Novus Vault forms the entrance to the Time Space Existence group show, organised by the European Cultural Centre around the theme of the

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The Modernist Laboratory of the Future: Exploring Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn’s Architecture in India

June 1, 2023 Maria-Cristina Florian 0

At the beginning of 2022, curator Lesley Lokko announced the title of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia: “The Laboratory of the Future.” The theme’s intention is to highlight the African continent as the protagonist of the future, a place “where all these questions of equity, race, hope, and fear converge and coalesce,” in the words of the curator. As the fastest urbanizing continent, Africa is viewed as a land of potential, but also of challenges, where matters of racial equity and climate justice are played out with a significant impact on the world at large.