Abandoned building turned into mesh-covered forest events space in Taiwan
Divooe Zein Architects has turned an abandoned house in a wooded area of a park in Taiwan into a net-covered educational events space called The Forest BIG. More
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Robitaille Curtis stretches trapeze net across void at Atrium Townhome in Montreal
An atrium ringed with wooden slats and topped with netting is the focal point of this slender Montreal dwelling, which has been overhauled by Canadian studio Robitaille Curtis. More
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CF Møller's hybrid flood defences will create new nature park in Denmark
A flood defence system devised by CF Møller in central Denmark will combine urban planning, climate change adaption and nature conservation. More
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Climbing nets surround tree extending through balcony of Osaka nursery school
The balcony play-area of this Osaka kindergarten by Hibinosekkei and Youji no Shiro provides children with an obstacle course of ramps, benches, monkey bars, and climbing nets around a tree. More
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Ortraum Architects builds forest home in Finland with a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock
This angular house in a forest near Helsinki is host to a number a child-friendly features including a climbing wall, gymnastic apparatus and a net covering a cut-out in one of the floors. More
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Sinèrgics co-working spaces in Barcelona showcase low-budget furniture solutions
A hammock suspended in midair and tables with integrated storage systems are some of the space-saving details that Colombo and Serboli Architecture have added inside this series of low-budget community co-working spaces in Barcelona. More
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Ruetemple suspends netted areas in suburban Moscow home
Russian architecture studio Ruetemple has renovated a family home in Moscow, creating an open living space using suspended nets for children to play in and bedrooms that overhang the central communal area. More
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10 homes from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that use hammocks, nets and swings as furniture
This week's roundup from Pinterest focuses on playful ways to relax at home, featuring a Mexican guesthouse with hammocks instead of beds and a Taiwan home with a swing in the family kitchen. More
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Skinny Rotterdam house for two architects features black brickwork and concealed windows
Dutch architects Gwendolyn Huisman and Marijn Boterman designed this skinny house in Rotterdam for themselves, incorporating hidden windows into the black brick walls and adding a large indoor hammock. More
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MVRDV and Adept team up on community centre that invites grownups to play
Mazes, slides, nets, fireman's poles and climbing walls all feature inside this Copenhagen community centre, designed by architecture studios MVRDV and Adept to encourage adults to be more active (+ slideshow). More
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Six homes that use nets to create suspended play spaces for children
Architects are increasingly using nets to make the most out of spare space in houses, creating giant hammocks that children can use for work, rest or play. Here are six of the best examples (+ slideshow). More
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Ruetemple adds children's playhouse to bedroom in Russian summer house
To allow parents more time in bed, Russian architecture studio Ruetemple has added a play area above the master bedroom at this summer house to keep the children occupied (+ slideshow). More
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Saigon House by a21studio is filled with house-shaped rooms at different levels
House-shaped rooms are connected by staircases and bridges inside this three-metre-wide house in Ho Chi Minh City, which was named House of the Year at the World Architecture Festival last month (+ slideshow). More
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Tube net installation by Numen/For Use designed as a "giant convulsing centipede"
Visitors to an Innsbruck gallery can crawl from room to room via a series of bouncy net tunnels installed by design collective Numen/For Use. More
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Numen/For Use combines "height and wobbliness" in net staircase for Linz gallery
Visitors to an Austrian museum transcend the exhibition space on a steep black staircase constructed from layers of net by design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More
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Jerry House by Onion is built around an indoor playground
Layers of springy nets stretched across an atrium at the centre of this beach house in Thailand by Bangkok studio Onion create a vertical playground that can be used to travel from the top floor to the bottom (+ slideshow). More
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Slides, nets and drawbridges feature in Townhouse B14 by XTH-Berlin
This Berlin townhouse by architecture office XTH-Berlin features doors that open like drawbridges, sloping floors that function as slides and nets that cover holes in the floors (+ slideshow). More
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Sustainable fishing net wins James Dyson Award
News: a trawler fishing net that filters out young and endangered fish from the catch has won this year's James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. More
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227 Flat by OODA
A suspended net provides a hammock over the staircase of this apartment in Porto by architects OODA. More
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NET by Numen/For Use
Visitors can clamber inside a stretchy web of netting installed by Numen/For Use at Belgian gallery Z33 this summer. More
