Architect Matt Nardella has turned an abandoned bodega in Chicago into his home and studio, arranging spaces around a courtyard he created in the centre. Read more
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Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near the English city of Bath for a cost of just £20,000 thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. Read more
Broad wooden steps lead from the living space of this Quebec residence, by local architects Bourgeois Lechasseur, down to the shores of Lac St-François. Read more
Iceland University of the Arts graduate Soley Thrainsdottir has turned leftover materials like pine needles and horse fat into a series of cleaning tools and products. Read more
This recipe is a riff on my favorite vegan oatmeal pancakes, they're accented with blueberries, and boosted with beet juice. The beet juice is what makes the pancakes the beautiful pink color you see. These pancakes are hearty, substantial, delicious, and kid-friendly. especially when you dust them with cinnamon-sugar straight out of the pan, churro style.
I use fresh beet juice, made with a juicer. If you're out of luck on the juicer front, play around with other concentrated juices you might have access to. Wayne has a carrot-turmeric juice he likes to buy on occasion (Trader Joe's, I think?), and that's a great alternative.
Once you have the batter made, you can refrigerate it for up to a few days. The resulting pancakes aren't quite as good as when you cook them immediately, but they are pretty fantastic for a quick mid-week breakfast.
Continue reading Blueberry Beet Pancakes (Vegan)...Japanese practice Hibinosekkei has completed a nursery in Yokohama, which features plywood-lined interiors and house-shaped openings set into its dark facades. Read more
Tech developments that made the news this week on Dezeen included MIT's nimble robotic fish for documenting marine life and Walmart's intentions for a system of drones that could help customers. Read more
Dezeen is giving away sets of Brutalismo posters, which feature black and white photographs of Italian brutalist residential complexes covered with colourful, bold graphics, for our latest competition. Read more
Online startup Floyd has designed a suite of flat-pack furniture to be easily taken apart and moved around, intended for young city dwellers and to offer a long-lasting alternative to IKEA products. Read more
For the Easter weekend, we're rounded up 10 restaurants with designs that suit the spring season, including a plant-filled eatery in Tel-Aviv, a vegan cafe in California and a Vancouver restaurant that pairs plants with floral fabrics. Read more
This edition of Dezeen Weekly includes an interview with the set designer for Wes Anderson's film Isle of Dogs and the conversion of London's Centre Point tower. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›
A stone-filled gabion wall runs along one side of this green-roofed visitors pavilion by architect Anne Carrier, which emerges from a slope at a heritage site in Canada. Read more
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video reveals plans by landscape firm SLA Architects to create the year-round ski slope and park over Copenhagen's new Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant. Read more
The Vatican City will make its debut at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year, by building a series of chapels by architects including Norman Foster, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Teronobu Fujimori. Read more