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Athens’ industrial Voulkanizater restaurant features wheel rims and car parts

December 2, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designers George Vlasis Pakalidis and Artemis Valyraki drew on the industrial origins of a tyre workshop when designing the Voulkanizater listening bar and restaurant in Athens. Located in Athens’ inner-city Koukaki neighbourhood, the bar and restaurant took its name from the building’s former use. “The space and location of the current bar was previously a tyre-fixing,

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Eight compact bedrooms that make the most of small spaces

November 29, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we have collected small bedrooms in homes from remote western Iceland to Okinawa, Japan, that show how to create smart and stylish designs even when there’s limited space. Raised beds that provide storage underneath and a mirrored ceiling were among the tricks used to create more storage and give the illusion

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Plastic Box store is “a brutalist art gallery disguised as a supermarket”

November 28, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture practice Minimal Studio has unveiled Plastic Box, a supermarket in Mallorca with a minimalist exposed-concrete interior and a ceiling of 1,200 plastic crates. The fully functioning store, located in Mallorca’s Port of Pollensa, was conceived by the studio as a “raw concrete envelope”. “We reduced the structure to its essence, removing all previous finishes

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Amateur Architecture Studio’s Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2027

November 26, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Amateur Architecture Studio founders Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been chosen as the curators of the 2027 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, with aims to combat “the death of architecture”. The two Chinese architects, who have won numerous awards, established their own studio in 1997 and also founded the architecture department at the China

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Osaka Castle’s Golden Tea Room informs interiors of Blue Bottle Coffee Shinsaibashi

November 26, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio Keiji Ashizawa Design looked to Osaka Castle’s triangular forms and the shape of the city’s Tsutenkaku Tower when designing the latest Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Osaka, Japan. Located in Osaka’s busy Shinsaibashi area, the studio aimed to offer visitors a peaceful place to visit when it designed the cafe. “Blue Bottle Coffee

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This week we begun our architecture and design Performance Review

November 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series, Performance Review, which will explore the multitude of issues plaguing the architecture and design industry. To kick off the serious architecture critic Edwin Heathcote set out 12 things wrong with architecture, which created a fervent debate in the comment section. We also looked at how architecture

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This week we begun our architecture and design Performance Review

November 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series, Performance Review, which will explore the multitude of issues plaguing the architecture and design industry. To kick off the serious architecture critic Edwin Heathcote set out 12 things wrong with architecture, which created a fervent debate in the comment section. We also looked at how architecture

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Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that “show how cities and buildings grow together”

November 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio SANAA’s co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. The tour, which will take place during this year’s Art Week Tokyo (AWT), aims to help people discover the city’s rich history of houses built in the city after the second

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Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that “show how cities and buildings grow together”

November 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio SANAA’s co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. The tour, which will take place during this year’s Art Week Tokyo (AWT), aims to help people discover the city’s rich history of houses built in the city after the second

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I IN uses glossy surfaces and Edo purple to create “new form of Japanese luxury” for Ginza Lounge

November 3, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Shiny aluminium, washi paper details and a reflective ceiling decorate this colour-saturated lounge in Tokyo, which local studio I IN designed at department store Matsuya Ginza. The VIP lounge has a white colour palette with details picked out in Edo purple – a deep purple hue that holds historical significance in Japan and used to

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