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Lazzarini Design wants to build a city of floating pyramids

Architect Pierpaolo Lazzarini is trying to crowdfund the creation of a self-sufficient floating city-hotel of modular pyramids. More ›

 
 

Eight of the best new designs for minimalist bathrooms

Eight of the best new designs for minimalist bathrooms

Dezeen editor Amy Frearson reveals her pick of the best new bathroom products launched at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, including a marble sink inspired by a wicker basket and a bathtub with a tapered edge. More ›

 
 

Niall McLaughlin Architects updates Cambridge college using historically appropriate materials

Niall McLaughlin Architects has refurbished a 1970s building at Jesus College, Cambridge, adding a new facade with a vertical composition of stone and timber elements. More ›

 
 

Neri&Hu's Xi lamps are designed to emulate early morning sunlight

Neri&Hu's Xi lamps are designed to emulate the early morning sunlight

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has used frosted, blown glass to create a series of lamps for Italian brand Poltrona Frau, designed to recreate the softness of early morning sunlight. More ›

 
 

TV presenter George Clarke and TDO unveil terrace of prefabricated Fab Houses

Fab House utilises prefabricated construction to offer affordable modular housing typology

London studio TDO has teamed up with architect and television presenter George Clarke to build a terrace of prefabricated houses in North Shields, England. More ›

 
 

A+I designs New York City school with colourful panels and tiered seating

Alt School by A+I

New York studio Architecture + Information aimed to create an environment that is "playful, not childish" for this school in Manhattan. More ›

 
 

Luciano Kruk combines blackened wood with concrete for Equestrian House in Argentina

Equestrian House by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos

Architect Luciano Kruk's latest board-marked concrete holiday home on the Argentinian coast has walls wrapped in glazing and blackened wood. More ›

 
 

4D-printing method could allow flat-pack furniture to be assembled with heat alone

Researchers have created a series of 4D-printed plastic objects that fold themselves into predetermined shapes when heated, which they believe could be scaled up to create flat-pack furniture. More ›