House in a car park by Alts Design Office hides a covered passage behind its walls
A secluded passage extends along one edge of this house in Japan by Alts Design Office, bringing natural light into the interior (+ slideshow). More
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Frosted glass and dark marble walls partition Sendagrup Medical Centre by Pauzarq
This medical centre in San Sebastian, designed by Spanish studio Pauzarq, has consultation rooms with translucent glass walls (+ slideshow). More
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Tom Dixon's Design Research Studio completes Mondrian Hotel interior
British designer Tom Dixon's interiors outfit Design Research Studio used a 1920s cruise liner as a visual reference for interiors at the Mondrian London hotel, which opens today in the Sea Containers House building (+ slideshow). More
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London's latest canal bridge rises and falls like the opening and closing of a fan
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT II have completed a moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that opens and closes like the blades of a traditional hand-held fan. More
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Vitra Design Museum hosts Alvar Aalto retrospective
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is hosting a major retrospective exhibition of work by late Finnish Modernist architect and designer Alvar Aalto, a year after Vitra's acquisition of Aalto's furniture company Artek (+ slideshow). More
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Big-Game's Hammer Lamp combines traditional and contemporary metalwork
This lamp by Swiss design studio Big-Game couples a hammered metal shade with a modern aluminium stand. More
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Remix Studio outlines hutong house renovation plans with UV installation
Beijing architecture firm Remix Studio has literally outlined its plans for the renovation of an ancient hutong residence by marking proposed structures with illuminated white strings (+ slideshow). More
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CF Møller completes red brick facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute
Prefabricated brick panels create decorative cladding that complements the existing 1970s buildings surrounding this new facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute designed by CF Møller for a campus near Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More
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AIM Architecture designs "back to the future" interiors for Shanghai shopping centre
AIM Architecture has designed a lobby featuring a light tunnel and a white "gallery-style" shopping centre for a retail and office complex in Shanghai (+ slideshow). More
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OODA's multifunctional modules combine bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms in one unit
Porto studio OODA has renovated two 19th-century buildings in the city to create apartments that contain monolithic freestanding units housing the kitchens, beds, bathrooms and other furniture (+ slideshow). More
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Penda creates snowdrift-inspired interiors for a Chinese ski retreat
A warren of interconnecting spaces moulded to resemble melting snow form an après-ski apartment in China's Hebei province by Vienna and Beijing-based studio Penda (+ slideshow). More
