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Armourcoat launches Limewash paints for “environmentally conscious” interiors

September 20, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: surfaces brand Armourcoat has launched a range of textured and eco-friendly paints for interiors, designed to celebrate the distinctive look and feel of traditional limewash. Named Limewash, the collection by Armourcoat is intended as a surface coating suited to both residential and commercial interiors. It has a soft matt appearance in 45 shades of

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Entries open for 2024 Brick in Architecture Awards

September 18, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: this year’s Brick in Architecture Awards has opened for submissions, with competitors encouraged to submit innovative brick projects to showcase “brick’s virtually limitless versatility”. The annual competition, described as “the leading international design competition featuring fired-clay brick,” is open to submissions that use clay brick as their primary building material. Organised by US trade

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Iosa Ghini Associati clads Fiandre office in “decorative skin” of ceramic surfaces

September 12, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: architecture practice Iosa Ghini Associati has renovated the 1980s headquarters of Italian surfacing manufacturer Fiandre in Castellarano, using ceramic to cover almost the entire interior from the walls and floors to the custom furnishings. Set across three floors and 2,400 square metres, the office was originally designed by architect Quintilio Prodi in 1989 and is described

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LABASAD introduces online master in interior design and hospitality

September 4, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: the Barcelona School of Arts & Design has launched a 12-month master programme that will teach students how to design contemporary interiors and give them an “overview of every facet of the craft”. As a design institute, The Barcelona School of Arts & Design (LABASAD) prides itself on having the experience and resources to

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IE University’s new creative campus will be “an enclave” for collaborative learning

July 15, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: Spain’s IE University will open a new creative campus in a refurbished historical building in the centre of the UNESCO World Heritage city Segovia next year. Part of the IE School of Architecture and Design, the new campus is located in the Palacio de los Condes de Mansilla, a heritage building that dates back

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My ArchiSchool launches game design courses for architectural visualisations

July 12, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: educational institute My ArchiSchool has developed game design courses children and architects can use to create visualisations of their spatial designs. The courses enable users to design and explore their own buildings and play games within them, using avatars that can also be created as part of the programme. My ArchiSchool said it is

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JEB Group unveils partitions “optimised for acoustics”

July 2, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: acoustic partition brand JEB Group has enclosed a wood-lined meeting room with a sliding partition system, forming the centrepiece of an office in Hong Kong. Named “Summit Partition Systems”, the set up features a slim frame with a curved design, intended to integrate with the overall interior design. The project also uses the company’s

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The world is “over-branded” says Karim Rashid at Design Doha

June 5, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: the world is under-designed and over-branded, designer Karim Rashid argued on stage at Design Doha Forum. Rashid was speaking as part of a panel titled “Branded Futures: Will Our Lives and Our Cities Become Over-Designed?” that formed part of the Design Doha Forum (DDF). Tackling issues of branding and urbanism and exploring potentially excessive design within

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British Museum launches international competition to find architect to reimagine western galleries

May 29, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: the British Museum in London has launched an international competition to find an architect-led team to work with the institution to develop proposals to redevelop its Western Range. The central London institution is hunting for an architect-led team to lead the largest building project within its Bloomsbury campus since the Robert Smirke-designed quadrangle was

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Brick-wrapped lobby by Merge Architects wins Gold in Brick in Architecture Awards

May 24, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: more than 9,000 red bricks form a curved volume within the interior of this mixed-use building’s lobby, which has been awarded Gold in the Commercial category at the Brick in Architecture Awards. The lobby, which forms the entrance to an office building at Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a brick curtain wall that was

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