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MORE Architecture creates Ginkgo Gallery as “antidote to the museum boom” in China

July 23, 2024 Tian Lin 0

Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China. Named Ginkgo Gallery after the ginkgo trees that cover the island, the contemporary art museum comprises exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a reading room and a workshop space. Designed as a small-scale museum and constructed with a

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Seven Chinese architecture and design events in June

June 18, 2024 Tian Lin 0

The Dezeen x Studio 9 talk and Danish furniture exhibition Just One Good Chair (curated by Design Republic) are among the Chinese architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Also featured in the guide are I M Pei’s retrospective at M+ and the Campana brothers’ exhibition at the Power Station of

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Babnimnim Design Studio encloses Kuwait mosque within rotated square forms

March 27, 2024 Tian Lin 0

Kuwait-based Babnimnim Design Studio has created a geometric mosque in Kuwait City that combines classical Islamic motifs with contemporary forms. Situated in Kuwait City’s residential Al-Masayel district, the Mamluki Lancet Mosque is contained within five rotated and stacked square forms that are topped by a half dome. “The Mamluki Lancet Mosque, Adlah Mohammed Abdulrahman AlBahar,

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Eight homes with light-filled kitchens from Australia to Slovenia

November 12, 2023 Tian Lin 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve chosen eight kitchens in contemporary homes where strategically placed windows and glazing create well-lit spaces for cooking and spending quality time with family and friends. These light-filled kitchens feature different finishes, including marble, concrete, wood and glass, but are joined together by the sunlight that streams through their large windows, glazed

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Greenaway Architecture adds glazed extension to thatched cottage in shadow of castle

November 8, 2023 Tian Lin 0

British studio Greenaway Architecture has added a minimalist glass extension to a 15th-century thatched cottage alongside Farleigh Hungerford Castle near Bath, UK. The architecture studio was informed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin for the design of the glass and steel addition of the mediaeval Watercress Cottage. Within a conservation area, the Watercress

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Eight interiors that feature reclaimed and recycled materials

August 20, 2023 Tian Lin 0

For our latest lookbook, Dezeen has selected eight examples of interiors that were created with reclaimed and recycled materials, including a restaurant in Bangalore and a brick house in Ghent. Recent decades have seen more awareness and reflection on environmental and sustainable issues both inside and outside the design world, leading a number of designers

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Overtreders W constructs hotel cabin from locally sourced materials secured with straps

August 17, 2023 Tian Lin 0

Dutch architecture studio Overtreders W has created Stable Stack, a temporary cabin hotel built using straps and borrowed materials, in Veenhuizen, the Netherlands. The studio found the materials for the cabin in the village of Veenhuizen, sourcing concrete gutters and wood from carpenter Peter Kroes and roof tiles and paving slabs from Riedstra farm. Instead

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Mitsubishi Jisho Design creates food-waste teahouse in Venice

July 16, 2023 Tian Lin 0

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Jisho Design has made a teahouse from food-waste-based materials at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Architects Takaaki Fuji, Hiroya Inage and De Yuan Kang from Mitsubishi Jisho Design designed the teahouse for the Time Space Existence exhibition held by the European Cultural Center during this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The teahouse was named Veneti-An – a combination

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ConForm adds “restrained yet rich” all-marble extension to Victorian house

July 12, 2023 Tian Lin 0

London studio ConForm has added a marble side extension to a Victorian terraced house in Hampstead, London. ConForm added the distinctive side extension to the house and used marble to contrast the addition with the existing house. “We approach all projects regardless of typology with a meticulous research phase to find opportunities to create lasting, impactful and

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