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Seven double-height living rooms with a sense of high drama

October 26, 2025 Jennifer Hahn 0

From a Japanese book lover’s house to a brutalist holiday home in Mexico, the living rooms compiled in this lookbook feature lofty ceilings and interiors to match. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides curated visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring homes with built-in sofas, secret rooms and

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Five Dubai Design Week pavilions translating Arab vernacular through sustainable materials

November 12, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

A shelter for Gaza and a traditional Ahwari reed house are among the pavilions at this year’s Dubai Design Week, which explored using natural and circular materials to expresses their context. The festival’s landmark 10th edition featured work by more than a thousand designers from over 50 countries including more or less “every single country

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Off The Shelf pavilion is made from standardised components that can go back on the shelf

September 20, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Rio Kobayashi has collaborated with engineering firm Webb Yates on the designer’s first-ever pavilion, an abstraction of his childhood home in Japan, as part of the London Design Festival. As the name suggests, the Off The Shelf pavilion is made using off-the-shelf materials – standard-sized Douglas fir planks, sheets of polycarbonate and PVC – that

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Cake Architecture “exposes the guts” of Rally festival with demountable fibreglass stage

September 4, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Panels of translucent fibreglass envelop this multi-level stage designed by Cake Architecture for London arts and music festival Rally, revealing the reusable scaffolding structure at its heart. Named Agnes after American abstract painter Agnes Martin, the stage was designed to resemble a giant canvas and is surrounded by 40-metre-long, seven-metre-high walls on two sides. As

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Hallmarks of British pubs and French brasseries meet in Henri restaurant interior

August 6, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

French interior designer Dorothée Meilichzon has converted the restaurant of London’s Henrietta Hotel into an homage to Parisian bistros for chef Jackson Boxer. Set on the ground floor of the hotel’s 19th-century townhouse in Covent Garden, Henri serves classic French dishes with a British twist – and British produce – from grilled snails on skewers

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Eight offbeat red-and-green home interiors that prove opposites attract

August 3, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Interior designers are finding interesting ways to pair red and green – a combination more typically associated with Christmas – to create quirky colour-block interiors. This lookbook brings together recent examples of how it can be done. Set on opposite sides of the colour wheel, red and green are inherently compatible, each helping to offset

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Paris 2024 Olympics sustainability efforts “not enough” says carbon expert

August 1, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Although the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have taken an exemplary approach to construction, reusing venues is not enough to make the games truly sustainable, argues Carbon Market Watch’s Benja Faecks as part of our Olympic Impact series. By relying mainly on existing infrastructure and setting ambitious carbon budgets for any new builds, this year’s Olympics

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NG Architects prototypes demountable healthcare clinic for Gaza

July 17, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

London studio NG Architects has unveiled prototype sections of a medical clinic at the London Festival of Architecture, which the studio plans to build in Gaza “as soon as there is a gap” in Israeli strikes. On show at the University of Westminster, the full-scale segments were designed to demonstrate how structures could be built

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Natural Material Studio crafts entire home interior from bioplastic

June 20, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

As part of 3 Days of Design, Danish practice Natural Material Studio has created a futuristic fossil-free home interior where all the elements, from the curtains to the sofa, are made from the same bioplastic. White Utopia is Natural Material Studio’s most ambitious installation to date, adapting the studio’s Procel bioplastic to form massive functioning

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Palestinian architects are “banging on the door” to get into Gaza

June 13, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

As the majority of Gaza’s buildings lie in ruins due to ongoing Israeli strikes, architects from across Palestine are trying to gain access to the blockaded territory to support Gazans in starting to rebuild their homes and neighbourhoods. “We have been banging on the door to get in since November,” said Nasser Golzari and Yara

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