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Takenosuke Sakakura imprints trees on frosted glass toilet in Tokyo

September 15, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Takenosuke Sakakura creates lantern toilet in Tokyo's Nishihara Itchome Park

Japanese architect Takenosuke Sakakura has created three unisex toilets that glow like a lantern at night in Tokyo’s Nishihara Itchome Park as part of the Tokyo Toilet project. Named Andon, which translates as the lantern, Sakakura’s contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project will be illuminated at night to make the park a more inviting space. “By

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Tadao Ando creates circular public toilet surrounded by cherry trees in Tokyo

September 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Circular toilet by Tadao Ando in Jingu-Dori Park as part of Tokyo Toilet project

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has completed a circular toilet in a Tokyo park as his contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project. Built in Jingu-Dori Park, the toilet was created as part of a scheme run by non-profit Nippon Foundation to upgrade public facilities in the city’s downtown Shibuya district. The initiative has already seen by toilets built

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Studio Weave fills Hothouse with tropical plants to highlight London’s rising temperatures

September 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Hothouse by Studio Weave in Stratford as part of London Design Festival

Studio Weave has built an arched greenhouse as part of London Design Festival, which is filled with plants that it predicts will soon be able to grow outdoors in the UK due to climate change. Named Hothouse, the pavilion was created to draw attention to rising temperatures caused by climate change, which will allow many tropical fruits

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This week, we unveiled the Dezeen Awards 2020 shortlists

September 12, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we revealed the architecture, interiors and design projects shortlisted for Dezeen Awards, as well as the studio shortlists. In total, we shortlisted 64 architecture projects, 61 interiors projects and 62 design projects as well as 33 studios that will be competing in the studio and emerging studio categories. All shortlisted projects and studios are featured on a

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Christ & Gantenbein unwraps Lindt Home of Chocolate on Lake Zurich

September 11, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein has completed a museum for chocolate brand Lindt alongside its headquarters in the Swiss town of Kilchberg on Lake Zurich. Built alongside Lindt’s factories and corporate headquarters, Lindt Home of Chocolate contains a museum dedicated to the history of chocolate and the brand. Basel-based architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein designed the museum

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Groupwork to “resurrect” Victorian facades of Clerkenwell shops

September 10, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Groupwork is set to reinstate the facades of a group of 19th-century shops in Clerkenwell, London, as part of its renovation of a 1970s office block. The architecture studio plans to clad the office block’s facade with a perforated brass structure that takes it shape from a group of eight Victorian and Edwardian-era

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Apple unwraps spherical glass Apple Store in Singapore by Foster + Partners

September 9, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Apple Marina Bay Sands store in Singapore by Foster + Partners

Technology manufacturer Apple has revealed its spherical Apple Marina Bay Sands store in Singapore designed by architecture studio Foster + Partners, which it describes as its “most ambitious retail project”. Built in Singapore’s Marina Bay alongside the Moshe Safdie-designed Marina Bay Sands hotel, the Apple Store is completely surrounded by water. The transparent glass sphere designed by

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Cobe unveils pair of tree-like timber charging stations for electric cars in Denmark

September 9, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Electric car charging stations in Fredericia and Knudshove by Cobe

Architecture studio Cobe has revealed two charging stations for electric cars in Denmark, which have timber structures designed to create a “restful and Zen-like feel”. Completed as the first of a network of 48 charging stations being built along Scandinavian highways, the structures were designed from natural materials to create a different experience than in

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Surman Weston creates modern mock-Tudor home in Surbiton

September 7, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Ditton Hill House by Surman Weston in Surbiton

Surman Weston has built a house in Surbiton, south-west London, with a facade that riffs of the mock-Tudor facades of the surrounding suburban homes. Named Ditton Hill House, the home was designed to combine the client’s desire for a contemporary house that had an industrial aesthetic with an acknowledgement of its location in a London suburb.

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Surman Weston creates modern mock-Tudor home in Surbiton

September 7, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Surman Weston has built a house in Surbiton, south-west London, with a facade that riffs of the mock-Tudor facades of the surrounding suburban homes. Named Ditton Hill House, the home was designed to combine the client’s desire for a contemporary house that had an industrial aesthetic with an acknowledgement of its location in a London suburb.

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