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Herman Miller Factory was a flexible, non-monumental high-tech factory

December 4, 2019 Semi Han 0
Herman Miller Factory in Bath by Grimshaw Farrell Partnership

We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the highly flexible and adaptable Herman Miller Factory in Bath, which was designed by Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw in 1976. The factory for the furniture company was one of many high-tech buildings, including the Park Road Apartments completed by Farrell Grimshaw Partnership six years earlier, which was designed

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Restored plasterwork and paintings adorn Aires Mateus’ self-designed studio

December 1, 2019 Semi Han 0
Atelier Cecílio de Sousa, Aires Mateus' self-designed studio

Ornate paintings and decorative stucco ceilings appear inside the self-designed studio of architecture practice Aires Mateus, which occupies an 18th-century building in Lisbon, Portugal. Aires Mateus’ four-storey studio, which has been named Atelier Cecílio de Sousa after the street it’s located on, contains working and meeting spaces, two model-making areas and a multipurpose room. Existing

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Explore contemporary architecture in Beijing’s hutongs on our new Pinterest board

December 1, 2019 Semi Han 0
Hutong Bubble 218 by MAD

Our latest Pinterest board features innovative architecture in Beijing’s historic hutongs, including radical transformations of traditional courtyard houses such as this one by Chinese architect MAD. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our hutongs board to see more examples. Once common in Beijing and other northern Chinese cities, hutongs are narrow streets or alleys formed

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Competition: win a three-night stay with five friends at Cabü by the Sea in Kent

November 28, 2019 Semi Han 0
Cabü cabins by the sea in Dymchurch, Kent, England

In our latest competition, we’re offering one reader and five friends a three-night stay in the Boat House cabin at Cabü by the Sea in Kent. Located in St Mary’s Bay, near Romney Marsh wetlands on the Kent coastline, the timber-frame cabins offer a chance to relax outdoors by the English coast. The winner and

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Discover our readers’ top five images from our Pinterest boards in November

November 24, 2019 Semi Han 0
House for a Daughter by Khuon Studio

Over 10 million users browse our Pinterest boards every month, but what are they looking at? We round up the top five most-popular pins in November. House for a Daughter, Vietnam, by Khuôn Studio House for a Daughter in Vietnam was the subject of our most popular pin this month. Designed by Khuôn Studio, a

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Hilltop concrete house frames views of the sea and a shrine in Japan

November 23, 2019 Semi Han 0
House in Ajina by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates

Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates used corner windows for a concrete house with views of the sea and Itsukushima Shrine in Japan’s Hiroshima prefecture. House in Ajina is built atop a steep slope, resulting in uninterrupted vistas to the Seto Inland Sea with an internal layout that accommodates the change in levels. Bedrooms are on

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Competition: win a copy of London’s Great Theatres by Simon Callow and Derry Moore

November 20, 2019 Semi Han 0
London's Great Theatres book by Simon Callow and Derry Moore for Prestel

In our latest competition, we’re offering five readers the chance to win a copy of London’s Great Theatres by Simon Callow with photography by Derry Moore. Published by Prestel, the book offers a glimpse behind the curtain of the city’s renowned stages and to see the spaces without crowds. From the West End to east

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See interior makeovers of Barbican flats on our new Pinterest board

November 17, 2019 Semi Han 0
Room for One More by Studio Ben Allen at the Barbican estate

We’re inviting you to step inside renovated Barbican flats with our new Pinterest board, including pale minimalist aesthetics and colourful walls that feature inside homes within the brutalist estate. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Notice how the colourful volume in Room for One More at the Barbican creates a fold-out workspace but also hides a

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ASWA wraps own architecture studio around internal courtyard

November 14, 2019 Semi Han 0
Self-designed ASWA Studio by ASWA

ASWA Studio has designed as its architecture studio in Bangkok around a fully glazed internal courtyard that brings daylight into the building. Thai studio ASWA built its office, which contains working spaces for up to eight staff members, a meeting area and a model-display zone, on a 100-square-metre plot that was previously used for car parking. The office is built around

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