BIG ski slope hotel | COS Milan installation | Cecilie Manz IKEA hack

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

BIG reveals plans for Swiss hotel with zigzagging ski slope on its roof

Guests will be able to ski down the zigzagging roof of this hotel by Danish practice Bjarke Ingels Group and onto the slopes of the Vallée de Joux in western Switzerland. More ›

 
 

Dezeen teams up with Instagram to launch its new @design account in Milan

Dezeen partners with Instagram to launch new @design account

Dezeen has teamed up with Instagram to help launch its new @design account, which is now live. More ›

 
 

Five key projects by artist Phillip K Smith III

Phillip K Smith III is the architect-turned-artist behind this year's COS installation at Milan design week. Here, he sums up five of his most career-defining projects – from a house in the desert to a display at Coachella. More ›

 
 

Phillip K Smith III and COS create wall of mirrors in historic Italian palazzo

American artist Phillip K Smith III has worked with fashion brand COS to install a faceted mirror structure in the courtyard of a 16th-century palazzo, as part of Milan design week 2018. More ›

 
 

Hem's new furniture range included a sofa that can be packed into boxes

Hem's new furniture launches include a sofa that can be packed into boxes

Hem is continuing to explore how high-end design can flat-packed, with the launch of a sofa and a conference table that can be shipped in standard boxes. More ›

 
 

Cecilie Manz hacks IKEA kitchen using steel and warm-toned wood

Cecilie Manz positioned pine slabs at 45-degree angles to match the cut-out door handles of this IKEA kitchen, customised for Danish brand Reform. More ›

 
 

Atelier Tao+C inserts lightwell to brighten interiors of traditional Shanghai lane house

The House With A Tiny Patio by Atelier Tao+C

Beijing practice Atelier Tao+C has inserted a narrow light shaft into the centre of this 1930s home in Shanghai to illuminate its light-starved rooms. More ›

 
 

Alonso & Crippa renovates compact urban dwelling in Buenos Aires

Ph Thames by Alonso & Crippa

New apertures and an all-white stairwell are among the modifications made by Argentine studio Alonso & Crippa to a two-storey, century-old brick building in a gentrifying district in Buenos Aires. More ›

 
 

Alain Carle Architecte completes minimalist home in Ontario

True North by Alain Carle Architecte

Board-formed concrete and black metal cladding characterise this house in rural Ontario by Alain Carle Architecte, which was designed to complement its man-made landscape. More ›

 
 

Matthew McCormick's Mila lights are "a study of reductionism"

Matthew McCormick's Mila pendant lights are "a study of reductionism"

Canadian designer Matthew McCormick will present a collection of pendant lamps that feature pearl-like glass spheres balanced inside of oval metal frames during Milan design week. More ›