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Osaka Castle’s Golden Tea Room informs interiors of Blue Bottle Coffee Shinsaibashi

November 26, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio Keiji Ashizawa Design looked to Osaka Castle’s triangular forms and the shape of the city’s Tsutenkaku Tower when designing the latest Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Osaka, Japan. Located in Osaka’s busy Shinsaibashi area, the studio aimed to offer visitors a peaceful place to visit when it designed the cafe. “Blue Bottle Coffee

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This week we begun our architecture and design Performance Review

November 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series, Performance Review, which will explore the multitude of issues plaguing the architecture and design industry. To kick off the serious architecture critic Edwin Heathcote set out 12 things wrong with architecture, which created a fervent debate in the comment section. We also looked at how architecture

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Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that “show how cities and buildings grow together”

November 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio SANAA’s co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. The tour, which will take place during this year’s Art Week Tokyo (AWT), aims to help people discover the city’s rich history of houses built in the city after the second

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Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that “show how cities and buildings grow together”

November 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio SANAA’s co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. The tour, which will take place during this year’s Art Week Tokyo (AWT), aims to help people discover the city’s rich history of houses built in the city after the second

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I IN uses glossy surfaces and Edo purple to create “new form of Japanese luxury” for Ginza Lounge

November 3, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Shiny aluminium, washi paper details and a reflective ceiling decorate this colour-saturated lounge in Tokyo, which local studio I IN designed at department store Matsuya Ginza. The VIP lounge has a white colour palette with details picked out in Edo purple – a deep purple hue that holds historical significance in Japan and used to

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Malte Schütt creates prefabricated Kassette House sauna

October 30, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Malte Schütt has created a modular wooden sauna with a gridded facade and a planted roof that connects it to its green, garden setting. The recent graduate built the sauna, named Kassette House, using “an ecological modular, prefab system made from softwood,” he said. “The design consists of four-by-four pillars and frames, which form

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Luke Edward Hall blends British and French interior design at Deux Gares Express

October 28, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Luke Edward Hall used antique and custom-made furniture, trompe l’oeil marble and hessian wallpaper to make visitors “feel very at home” at the Deux Gares Express restaurant in Paris. Located next to the Les Deux Gares hotel, also designed by Hall, the space was intended to have a different feel from the hotel’s existing

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Cometa Architects designs Barcelona apartment with “hand fan” layout

October 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio Cometa Architects has added a custom-made central staircase and created circular cutouts to showcase a historic brick ceiling at Éventail, a Barcelona home filled with tactile details. The project takes its name from the layout of the 162-square-metre apartment, which resembles a traditional handheld ribbed fan. “The project unfolds around the metaphor of

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Eight hair salons that are a cut above

October 19, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected hair salons that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional, including a salon with a galvanised-steel sound wall and one with a “dripping shampoo” ceiling. Located all over the world, from Stockholm to Beijing, these salons have all been decorated in striking colours or materials. Their designs range

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Uchronia designs celadon-hued suite at Mandarin Oriental hotel as “weird underwater world”

October 17, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone. It

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