Pared-back bathhouse | Anish Kapoor on Trump | Obama library design

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White Arkitekter's pared-back bathhouse reinterprets Sweden's traditional "gingerbread" architecture

Karlhamn Cold Bath by White Arkitekter

White Arkitekter has completed a bathhouse on the southern coast of Sweden, featuring a timber-clad structure perched on slender legs that extend outwards towards the rear to optimise sea views. More ›

 
 

Drones will bring "profound change" change to architecture and cities, says Mark Dytham

Drones will transform the way buildings are designed, the way they look and the way they are used, according to architect Mark Dytham. More ›

 
 

Jaime Hayon combines Caesarstone with stained glass to create colourful Stone Age Folk pavilion

Jaime Hayon's Stone Age Folk installation for Caesarstone

Spanish designer Jaime Hayon explains how traditional marquetry techniques informed his Stone Age Folk pavilion in this movie Dezeen filmed for Caesarstone during Milan design week. More ›

 
 

Silver & Co transforms London garden shed into multifunctional studio for artist couple

A sunken bed and folding ping-pong table feature in this studio converted from a derelict garden shed for a pair of artists in west London. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: interior designer at Formwerkz Architects

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior interior designer to join Formwerkz Architects in Singapore, whose recent projects include a trio of narrow houses featuring light-filled atriums. More ›

 
 

Lago models eight interiors after successful women and their "kindness"

Lago stand by eight women

Furniture brand Lago has worked with eight prominent Italian women to create a series of rooms in "an ode to women's kindness". More ›

 
 

Gimeno + Guitart creates chevron-patterned concrete for church of Santa Maria Assumpta

Architecture studio Gimeno + Guitart has completed a church and parish centre in Tarragona, Spain, featuring concrete walls patterned with angular etchings. More ›

 
 

Messana O'Rorke Architects extends New York homestead with weathering-steel annex

Ten Broeck Cottage by Ten Broeck Cottage

During the renovation of an 18th-century home in Upstate New York, Manhattan-based Messana O'Rorke Architects has revitalised its original appearance and added modern conveniences in an extension clad in Corten steel. More ›

 
 

Obama Presidential Library concept design unveiled in Chicago

Obama Presidential Library concept design

The first images and models of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' plans for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago have been revealed. More ›

 
 

Egg Collective's Designing Women exhibition unites New York's female designers

Egg Collective's Designing Women Exhibition

New York design company Egg Collective has brought together furniture and homeware by other women designers in the city for an "empowering" exhibition at its West Soho showroom. More ›

 
 

Kengo Kuma burns woods to create crackled glass lighting for Lasvit

Yakisugi by Kengo Kuma

The patterns on this glass lighting by Kengo Kuma & Associates  was created by burning wooden moulds, as in the ancient Japanese technique of charring timber. More ›

 
 

"It is necessary to oppose Trump" says Anish Kapoor

Artist Anish Kapoor has called for artists to not shy aware from "real-world questions", and to engage with issues such as nationalism, Brexit and Donald Trump. More ›

 
 

Modpools repurposes used shipping containers as swimming pools and hot tubs

Modpool - cargo container converted into pool

Canadian company Modpools has converted standard, metal cargo containers into pools and jacuzzis that can be installed above or below ground. More ›