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  • Point Supreme Architects uses colour to define different functions in Athens apartment

    A previously hidden central lightwell funnels light into this formerly dark and enclosed apartment in Athens designed by local architects Point Supreme Architects. More

    Ali Morris | 20 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Jean Verville Architecte inserts gridded steel lightwell into Montreal home

    Canadian studio Jean Verville Architecte has created a theatrical interior inside a Montreal house by adding a large steel structure capped by a skylight that casts dramatic shadows. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 1 March 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Wutopia inserts inverted triangular lightwell into book shop

    Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has renovated the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, China, inserting a shard-like glass lightwell that pierces through six stories. More

    Jon Astbury | 24 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Flow Architecture lines stairwell of London house conversion with timber slats

    Flow Architecture and Maria Grazia Savito Architects have wrapped timber slats around the lightwell of a Victorian house conversion in Kensington, London. More

    Jon Astbury | 26 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Look on the bright side with our light-filled Pinterest boards

    Daylight Saving Time has ended in the northern hemisphere, but this week's featured Pinterest boards are here to bring some light into your day. Lighten up with impressive installations and flood your room with skylights and lightwells so you're never left in the dark. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More

    Semi Han | 3 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Atelier Tao+C inserts lightwell to brighten interiors of traditional Shanghai lane house

    Beijing practice Atelier Tao+C has inserted a narrow light shaft into the centre of this 1930s home in Shanghai to illuminate its light-starved rooms. More

    Natasha Levy | 16 April 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Pivoting louvres conceal windows set into brick facade of mews house by Belsize Architects

    A lightwell, a glass staircase and large windows set behind wooden louvres help to bring natural light into this four-bedroom house, which Belsize Architects squeezed onto a small plot in a traditional mews near London's Hyde Park. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 12 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Kientruc O carves elliptical lightwell between Vietnamese house and its extension

    An elongated lightwell has been cut through this 1940s house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which has been renovated by locally based architecture studio Kientruc O. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 11 September 2017 | Leave a comment
  • 10 homes that make clever use of lightwells to bring daylight in

    We've selected 10 popular projects from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that show how lightwells can be used to channel daylight down into parts of the home where windows are limited. More

    Trudie Carter | 14 July 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Welsh + Major slots lightwell between Sydney cottage and its brick extension

    A tree grows up through a lightwell that Australian studio Welsh + Major has added to this house in Sydney, and topped with an opening glass roof. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 30 May 2017 | 4 comments
  • Lightwell House by Kimizuka Architects

    Lightwell House is a recently completed residence in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Tokyo-based Kimizuka Architects. More

    Rose Etherington | 19 August 2008 | 11 comments
  • DVF Studio by Work Architecture Company

    Work Architecture Company have completed the headquarters for fashion label Diane von Furstenberg Studio in New York's Meatpacking District. More

    Rob Ong | 4 August 2008 | 10 comments

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    Colourful Stockholm apartment

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    Colourful Stockholm apartment

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    Sculptural Mangiarotti works

  • Kalba Ice Factory arts venue in Sharjah, UAE, by 51-1 Arquitectos

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    Converted ice factory

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    Heatherwick Saudi museum

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    Brutalist cube-shaped home

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    Ma Yansong installation

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    Arched London townhouses

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    Arched London townhouses

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    Architecture


    Colourful preschool

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    Timber Revolution


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    Energy-saving Barcelona flat

  • Concrete columns, Ceramic Art Avenue Taoxichuan by David Chipperfield Architects

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    Chipperfield's work "bland"

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    Chipperfield's work "bland"

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    Mosque pavilion

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    Chilean beach house

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    Chilean beach house

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    Parisian brutalist buildings

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    Parisian brutalist buildings

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