Nat Barker

Eight home interiors where full-length curtains add a touch of drama

March 16, 2024 Nat Barker 0

From a glitzy Parisian apartment to a converted garage in Buffalo, New York, our latest lookbook collects eight residential interiors where floor-to-ceiling curtains inject a theatrical feel. Curtains aren’t just for covering windows. A set of statement drapes can be an easy way to significantly change the mood of a room, particularly in apartment renovations.

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“I really hate the word ‘social’ housing” says Annalie Riches

March 8, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Architects are often wrongly blamed for past failures in social housing, Mikhail Riches co-founder Annalie Riches says in this Social Housing Revival interview. Riches set out in her career to design great social housing, in a bid to challenge what she saw as a prevailing notion that architects “can’t do housing”. However, she confesses to

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Stirling Prize-winning council homes set for Right to Buy selloff

March 7, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Several council homes on the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich could be sold at a discount just five years after they were built, Dezeen can reveal as part of our Social Housing Revival series. A Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Dezeen to Norwich City Council found that seven of the homes in

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It’s time for the Social Housing Revival

March 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

The world is suffering from a housing-affordability crisis. Dezeen’s new series will explore the Social Housing Revival, and celebrate the best contemporary social housing around the globe. Last week, the UK Government revealed that at the last count, 109,000 households in England were legally homeless – a 10 per cent rise on a year before

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Ukrainian studios “doing what we can, and sometimes what we can’t” after two years of war

February 23, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, architecture and design studios in Ukraine are adapting to support the war effort while also ensuring they stay in business. Casualties in the war now number around 500,000, including more than 10,000 civilian deaths. With Saturday marking two years since Russia’s troops crossed the Ukraine border, Dezeen spoke to

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Ten buildings in China that interact with dramatic landscapes

February 2, 2024 Nat Barker 0

After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake, Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese architect Ishigami said he wanted his project to address a tendency for buildings in China to be “closed off” from their environment. But he is not the

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Central Europe “becoming a hotspot for contemporary architecture” says Ondřej Chybík

January 19, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Architecture studios in Central Europe have been chronically overlooked, claims Chybik + Kristof co-founder Ondřej Chybík in this interview. Chybík, who says his own studio is the largest in the Czech Republic, is on a mission to put architecture from his home country – as well as Slovakia, Poland and Hungary – firmly on the

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Ten homes with net floors for relaxation and play

January 7, 2024 Nat Barker 0

In this lookbook, we collect 10 residential interiors where net floors provide an unusual place to sit, recline or jump about. Nets can be a fun way to link two storeys in the home. Featured below are examples from a New York apartment, a skinny house in Rotterdam and a small family residence in rural

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Dezeen’s top 10 hotels of 2023

December 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Already thinking about your next getaway post-Christmas? Here is Dezeen’s pick of 2023’s top 10 hotels, put together as part of our review of the year. Our selection of the most popular and noteworthy hotels featured on Dezeen this year includes what is possibly the world’s skinniest in Indonesia, the grand conversion of a 1940s

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Dezeen’s top 10 quotes of 2023

December 23, 2023 Nat Barker 0

From the incisive to the intemperate, here are Dezeen’s top 10 quotes of 2023, taken from the interviews and opinion pieces we have published this year. Dezeen has published more than 100 interviews and over 50 opinion pieces this year, featuring some of the best-known voices in architecture and design. Our interviewees and writers have

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