Adidas has partnered with Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat to release an edition of its iconic Stan Smith sneakers covered in dotted fabric. Read more
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Friday, June 30, 2017
Adidas unveils special-edition Stan Smith trainers with Kvadrat fabric
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Schwartz and Architecture overhauls San Francisco home with three-level extension
San Francisco firm Schwartz and Architecture has overhauled a single-family home on a steep and narrow site, lifting the existing building to add a storey beneath it, and creating an extension at the back over three levels. Read more
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Serra cannabis dispensary in Portland features greenhouse-like display cases
Abraham Cota Paredes' inward-looking Cave House features huge window to tree-planted atrium
Behind the white walls of this house in Mexico, architect Abraham Cota Paredes has carved out a courtyard and added a huge window to offer views of a tree planted inside. Read more
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The best hotels respond intelligently to their context, say AHEAD Americas awards judges
In this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD Americas hospitality awards, jury members reveal that the way a hotel relates to its location was a crucial factor in choosing the winning projects. Read more
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10 plant-covered buildings that point to a greener future
Architects are touting plant-covered tower blocks as a way to tackle air pollution and improve the quality of urban life. From one of the world's tallest living walls to an entire "vertical forest" city in China, here are 10 examples showing the rise of verdant architecture. Read more
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Hella Jongerius asks designers and consumers to embrace "unstable" colour in new exhibition
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius rails against industrially produced paints and dyes in the Breathing Colour exhibition at London's Design Museum, which draws on her last 15 years of research. Read more
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Competition: win a limited-edition Tokyobike and Ally Capellino backpack
Dezeen has teamed up with Tokyobike and Ally Capellino to give one reader a limited-edition bike and a rucksack. Read more
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Innauer-Matt Architekten's tiny Alpine chapel features a steep shingle-clad roof
Five years after an avalanche destroyed a chapel belonging to a group of farmers in the Austrian alps, local firm Innauer-Matt Architekten has completed a replacement featuring a steeply pitched roof and concrete walls inset with flat stones. Read more
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Grenfell Tower disaster exposes UK's "dangerous, ugly, cruel and uncaring" approach to social housing, say architects
Architects have attacked the culture of cost-cutting and "value-stripping" in UK construction, which they believe contributed to the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. Read more
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Last chance to buy Dezeen Book of Interviews for only £5
There are only three days left to buy Dezeen Book of Interviews for just £5! Order your copy now before the sale ends on Sunday 2 July. Read more
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Gianni Botsford Architects' Corten steel extension hosts private art collection in central London
Rust-toned frames cover the facade of this extension to a central London home, which Gianni Botsford Architects designed to house its owner's private collection of photographs, prints and lithographs.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Wearable pods let musicians compose and perform tracks as vibrations on your skin
Royal College of Art graduate Marie Tricaud has designed a set of wearable modules that let live music be performed as "vibration loops and temperature melodies" on your skin. Read more
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Job of the day: business development manager at OMA
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a business development manager to join OMA in Rotterdam, which recently designed an adaptable amphitheatre for this year's MPavilion in Melbourne. More ›
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North Arrow Studio's Texas woodland residence takes cues from Mies van der Rohe
Austin-based North Arrow Studio has raised this glazed house on stilts to offer its residents elevated views over tree tops in rural Texas, using the iconic Farnsworth House as a reference. Read more
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Tacklebox creates Aesop Upper West Side in former dry cleaners
A dry cleaners on Manhattan's Upper West Side has been converted into a store for cosmetics brand Aesop, for which Tacklebox Architecture has created display shelves with profiles of upside-down clothes hangers. Read more
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Dezeen named best editorial and video team at online publishing awards
Dezeen has won two more awards for online journalism, scooping the Editorial Team of the Year and the Best Use of Video categories at the Association of Online Publishers Awards in London last night. Read more
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Andre Mestre questions how office chairs should look and feel with rattan frame
Influenced by the blurring of home and work environments, RCA graduate Andre Mestre has designed an office chair made from rattan. Read more
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LA officials unanimously approve George Lucas museum in "slam dunk" decision
The museum proposed by filmmaker George Lucas could finally come to fruition now Los Angeles city officials have given it the go-ahead. Read more
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ETH Zurich unveils plans for robot-built house in Dübendorf
Researchers from Switzerland's ETH Zurich university will use robots and 3D printers to design and build a pioneering three-storey house at a local research and innovation campus. Read more
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Marazzi launches new porcelain tiles based on natural stone
Latest Dezeen Mail includes Kengo Kuma's plant-covered hotel and Amanda Levete's V&A extension
Kengo Kuma's planned Eco-Luxury Hotel in Paris and AL_A's expansion of London's V&A museum feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›
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High living costs and Brexit are driving design graduates away from London
More than two thirds of UK design graduates are leaving London due to the cost of living and uncertainly over the impact of Brexit on the creative industries, according to a survey conducted at this week's New Designers showcase.
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Terracotta-tinged walls match the surrounding mountains in Bernardes Arquitetura's Casa Terra
This house in a mountainous district near Rio de Janeiro features pigmented concrete walls and a broad overhanging roof that enclose a sequence of living spaces opening directly onto the landscaped grounds. Read more
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AHEAD Americas hospitality awards announces 2017 winners
Dezeen promotion: a cylindrical cultural centre designed by OMA, an old Mexican residence renovated with huge slatted wooden walls, and a boutique "micro hotel" with tiny rooms are among the winners of this year's Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design Americas. Read more
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