Airbnb launches Open Homes refugee housing platform
Airbnb has harnessed its vast network of short-term home rentals to create a new platform providing housing for refugees. More
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"The hotel industry is in denial about Airbnb" says Ian Schrager as Public hotel opens in New York
Legendary New York hotelier Ian Schrager has unveiled Public, a hotel concept designed by Herzog & de Meuron to counter the threat of Airbnb. More
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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia designs modular office furniture
Joe Gebbia, who co-founded home rental website Airbnb, has designed a range of adaptable, modular office furniture for American brand Bernhardt Design. More
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Cameron Sinclair to lead Airbnb's humanitarian team
Home-sharing service Airbnb has assembled an in-house humanitarian team headed by designer Cameron Sinclair, to help it achieve its aim of providing temporary housing for 100,000 people within five years. More
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Airbnb fills Leonardo da Vinci's former mansion in Milan with designers' personal curios
Faye Toogood's ethereal stones and Matteo Thun's watercolours are among the personal items that Airbnb has installed inside the 15th-century home of Leonardo da Vinci for this year's Milan design week. More
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Pantone creates Greenery-themed home that can be booked on Airbnb
Colour company Pantone has collaborated with Airbnb to fill a London home with planting and projects that match its verdant 2017 colour of the year. More
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Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects designs pair of contrasting Tokyo apartments for Airbnb guests
Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has overhauled a pair of Airbnb apartments in Tokyo, giving one a suspended table and wood-lined walls, and the other dark plasterwork and plush grey carpet. More
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Airbnb unveils new headquarters in a disused Dublin warehouse
Airbnb has revealed its new headquarters in Dublin, which mark the first time the company has been able to determine the architectural layout of one of its offices. More
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Kristian Knobloch's Ping system is an interactive house manual for Airbnb guests
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Kristian Knobloch has created a system of smartphone touchpoints that help Airbnb hosts give guests extra information about their home (+ movie). More
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Airbnb models Tokyo office on local neighbourhoods
Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). More
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Airbnb launches internal design studio Samara with future house prototype
Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). More
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Airbnb reveals adaptable office spaces in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore
Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating and a reception desk modelled on a front porch (+ slideshow). More
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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia appointed design partner at Y Combinator
Business news: Joe Gebbia, who co-founded home rental website Airbnb, has become a part-time design partner at American tech startup incubator Y Combinator. More
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New Airbnb logo: "someone didn't do their homework"
News: Airbnb has come under fire from designers for the similarity between its new logo and existing branding for other companies, while social media users have been quick to draw comparisons with human genitalia. More
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Airbnb rebrand by DesignStudio aims for visual consistency
News: London branding agency DesignStudio has created a new identity for home-rental website Airbnb, including a logo "that can be drawn by anyone". More
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Airbnb "will change our idea of what design is" says Ilse Crawford
News: home-rental website Airbnb is causing a sea-change in attitudes towards design by allowing people to experience stylish interiors first hand rather than via magazines and websites, according to designer Ilse Crawford. More
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Airbnb hopes for luck of the Irish with pub-like Dublin offices by Heneghan Peng
Home rental website Airbnb has opened an office in Dublin with a reception area modelled on an Irish pub designed by local architects Heneghan Peng (+ slideshow). More
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Snoop collaborates with Airbnb to design pavilion for SXSW
News: the latest celebrity to dip their toes into design is hip-hop artist Snoop, who has teamed up with holiday rental website Airbnb to create a pop-up house during next week's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. More
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Silicon Valley "didn't think a designer could build a company" says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky
Interview: over dinner in an apartment inside a historic clock tower, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky told Dezeen how two young design graduates built the home-stay booking website that is now bigger than most hotel chains. More
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Airbnb removes "knockoff" Navy Chairs from new headquarters
News: online home rental brand Airbnb is to replace a set of aluminium chairs at its new San Francisco headquarters after Emeco, the company that makes the original Navy Chair, pointed out that they were fakes. More