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Surman Weston builds cork-covered studio for sewing and music-making

Cork Study by Surman Weston

This cork-clad studio provides a shared workspace for a musician and a seamstress in the back garden of their north-London home.

 
 

This week, Herzog & de Meuron completed a concert hall and started on a Mies extension

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Herzog & de Meuron dominated the headlines this week. The Swiss firm revealed its plans to extend Mies van der Rohe's seminal Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, while its long-delayed Hamburg concert hall finally completed.

 
 

G2TP melts rock from Chilean volcanoes to create Remolten furniture

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Chilean studio Gt2P has designed a set of boulder-like stools using re-melted volcanic rock.

 
 

Atelier Pierre Thibault reorganises Quebec home around central plywood stairs

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Quebec firm Atelier Pierre Thibault has overhauled a home built in the 1970s, removing interior partitions and locating a sculptural plywood staircase at its core.

 
 

John Hix designs off-grid concrete guesthouse for Caribbean island

Casa Solaris by John Hix Architect

Six apartments stacked in pairs of rectangular concrete blocks make up this Caribbean guesthouse, designed by architect John Hix to be completely self sufficient.

 
 

Besler​ ​&​ ​Sons launches speckled home accessories

Props by Besler & Sons

Flecks of coloured glass and marble chips pattern these terrazzo objects for the home by Los Angeles studio Besler​ ​&​ ​Sons.

 
 

Germany welcomes world's first zero-emissions hydrogen trains

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A fleet of the world's first zero-emissions passenger trains are set to go into service in Germany.

 
 

Rasem Kamal proposes warren of subterranean services for Jordan's Wadi Rum

Wadi Rum Excavated Sanctuaries by Rasem Kamal

Architect Rasem Kamal has proposed a network of burrow-like spaces that would sprawl out beneath a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordanian desert.

 
 

10 popular concrete home interiors from Dezeen's Pinterest boards

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Textured surfaces and sculptural staircases are some of the ways that concrete can be used to create contemporary home interiors. See 10 of the most popular examples in this week's roundup from Pinterest.

 
 

3D-printed back brace offers "fashionable" solution for scoliosis sufferers

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Young girls that suffer from spinal curvature will soon be able to wear lighter and more stylish 3D-printed braces to treat their condition.

 
 
 
   
 
 

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