Vladimir Radutny Architects wraps Chicago housing block in corrugated steel
Vladimir Radutny Architects has created an apartment block at 2016 W Rice in Chicago that is clad in corrugated steel cladding broken by terraces. More
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Dezeen Weekly
Dezeen Weekly
A supertall New York skyscraper features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the problematic 432 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York. More
The ten best modernist buildings in North America are "sculptures that you can live in"
Nonprofit organisation USModernist documents, promotes and preserves North America's modernist architecture. Here, director George Smart names his ten favourites including an airport terminal by Eero Saarinen and a beach house by John Lautner. More
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RIBA "frankly shocked" by limit of £3.5 billion cladding-removal plan
The Royal Institute of Britsh Architects has criticised the British government for its "naive" decision to only fund the removal of Grenfell-style cladding on housing over a certain height. More
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Cobra Scorpius light by Martinelli Luce
Dezeen Showroom: Italian lighting brand Martinelli Luce has released Cobra Scorpius, a star-strewn, updated version of its Cobra table lamp that was designed by the brand's founder Elio Martinelli in 1968. More
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Cyborg light by Karim Rashid for Martinelli Luce
Dezeen Showroom: designer Karim Rashid's Cyborg table lamp for Italian lighting brand Martinelli Luce has a sinuous silhouette reminiscent of a friendly alien creature. More
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Nomos Glashütte offers complimentary watch engravings for Valentine's Day
Dezeen promotion: German watchmaker Nomos Glashütte is offering free, personalised engravings on its watches including the pared-back Orion 33 duo in celebration of Valentine's Day. More
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Folkform and Roland Hjort launch Plissé table lamps informed by pleated fashion garments
Swedish design studio Folkform has teamed up with fashion designer Roland Hjort on L'Art Plissé, a lighting design exhibition of table lamps based on traditional pleating techniques used in fashion. More
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Foster + Partners designs Coral Bloom resort on Saudi Arabian island
The Red Sea Project has revealed images of a resort designed by Foster + Partners to "blend in with the natural environment" of a Saudi Arabian island within the Red Sea. More
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Stockholm Design Week
Stockholm Design Week
Tom Dixon finds "more inventive ways of reaching people" by visiting Stockholm Design Week as a hologram
Digital technologies will revolutionise the way that new designs are presented says Tom Dixon, who has sent a hologram of himself to Stockholm to launch a range of accessories due to coronavirus restrictions. More
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Stockholm Design Week
Stockholm Design Week
Misschiefs exhibition presents "a more punk side of Swedish design"
Sweden needs more avant-garde design, according to curator Paola Bjäringer who has brought together eight women designers for an experimental Stockholm Design Week exhibition. More
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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners sets up Paris office as "direct result" of Brexit
Architecture studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has announced it is setting up a European office in Paris to win work in the EU following Brexit. More
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Climate Crisis Font visualises melting of polar ice based on real-world data
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font that hopes to make the urgency of climate change tangible by mirroring the declining amount of Arctic sea ice in its disappearing letterforms. More
