Friday, June 30, 2017

Adidas unveils special-edition Stan Smith trainers with Kvadrat fabric

Kvadrat and adidas Originals pays homage to Copenhagen with special edition Stan Smith

Adidas has partnered with Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat to release an edition of its iconic Stan Smith sneakers covered in dotted fabric. Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2taM62n

Schwartz and Architecture overhauls San Francisco home with three-level extension

29th Street Residence by Schwartz and Architecture

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2ut0imP

Serra cannabis dispensary in Portland features greenhouse-like display cases

Serra weed dispensary in Portland, Oregon

Portland studios OMFGCo and JHL Design have designed a minimal interior for this store that sells recreational marijuana. Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2t0szDd

Abraham Cota Paredes' inward-looking Cave House features huge window to tree-planted atrium

The Cave House, Mexico, by Abraham Cota Paredes Arquitectos

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2sZZNTn

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2tyoPue

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2u7ethX

Hella Jongerius asks designers and consumers to embrace "unstable" colour in new exhibition

Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius at the Design Museum

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2t8K82h

Competition: win a limited-edition Tokyobike and Ally Capellino backpack

tokyobike x Ally Capellino

Dezeen has teamed up with Tokyobike and Ally Capellino to give one reader a limited-edition bike and a rucksack. Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2trVLE2

Innauer-Matt Architekten's tiny Alpine chapel features a steep shingle-clad roof

Alpine chapel by IMA, perched along a scenic Austrian meadow

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2txgeYy

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2u60SY6

Last chance to buy Dezeen Book of Interviews for only £5

Dezeen Book of Interviews 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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2sYhP8h

Gianni Botsford Architects' Corten steel extension hosts private art collection in central London

Residential extension: The Layered Gallery, London, by Gianni Botsford Architects

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.

Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2s8xYoQ

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Wearable pods let musicians compose and perform tracks as vibrations on your skin

Royal College of Art graduate Marie Tricaud's Touché

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2sXwRvh

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 ›



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2tvUwUP

North Arrow Studio's Texas woodland residence takes cues from Mies van der Rohe

Road Runner Residence by North Arrow Studio

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2sWSX0K

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2tpJxft

Dezeen named best editorial and video team at online publishing awards

Dezeen's AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2017

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2sW7jyo

Andre Mestre questions how office chairs should look and feel with rattan frame

Andrea Mestre's Gandia chair explores the properties of the rattan cane.

Influenced by the blurring of home and work environments, RCA graduate Andre Mestre has designed an office chair made from rattan. Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2t5wxJm

LA officials unanimously approve George Lucas museum in "slam dunk" decision

LA unanimously approves 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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2tpb9kP

ETH Zurich unveils plans for robot-built house in Dübendorf

DFAB House by Empa NEST

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2ttXaKH

Marazzi launches new porcelain tiles based on natural stone

Marazzi showroom opening

Dezeen promotion: the darkest known form of slate and prized Belgian rock Pierre Blue are among the inspirations for the latest tiles in Marazzi's Mystone range. Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2slBxMM

Latest Dezeen Mail includes Kengo Kuma's plant-covered hotel and Amanda Levete's V&A extension

Eco-luxury 1hotel by Kengo Kuma

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 ›



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2ttvVjq

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.

Read more



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2tt58DS

The Last Day of School

Terracotta-tinged walls match the surrounding mountains in Bernardes Arquitetura's Casa Terra

Casa Terra in Itaipava, Brazil by Bernardes Arquitetura

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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2s5aiS8

AHEAD Americas hospitality awards announces 2017 winners

Faane Forum, Miami by Faena Group and OMA

Dezeen promotion: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



from Dezeen http://ift.tt/2tnyG5v