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Ten sleek co-working spaces that provide an escape from home working

March 20, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Fosbury & Sons Boitsfort offices designed by Going East

As the world starts emerging from coronavirus lockdowns and many people begin returning to offices and shared workplaces, we have rounded up 10 co-working spaces for our latest lookbook. Whether a freelancer, small start-up or larger business, co-working offices can be a convenient and flexible solution for those looking to work in a collaborative environment.

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Inventing Anna interiors “richer” versions of their real New York counterparts

March 16, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Interior of a location on the set of Inventing Anna

Production designer Henry Dunn drew on locations across New York to create a set that reflects the different social classes that the protagonist of the Netflix series Inventing Anna traverses. The head office of media publication New York Magazine, Rikers Island jail and the 11 Howard hotel in Soho all appear as exaggerated versions on

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs virtual Liberland Metaverse city

March 11, 2022 Alice Finney 0
An aerial view of Liberland city renderings

British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a “cyber-urban” city in the metaverse where people can buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar. Named Liberland Metaverse, the virtual city is a based on the Free Republic of Liberland – a micronation claimed by Czech politician Vít Jedlička that straddles disputed land between Croatia and

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BIG designs virtual office in the metaverse for Vice Media Group

March 2, 2022 Alice Finney 0
A white virtual office builing and employees

Danish architecture studio BIG has designed its first building in the metaverse, a virtual office for employees at media company Vice Media Group called Viceverse. The recently opened Viceverse office is located on the Decentraland platform, where it will serve as the agency’s virtual innovation lab and allow employees to work in the metaverse on

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This week Kim Kardashian revealed Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma were designing her holiday homes

February 26, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma designing holiday homes for Kim Kardashian

This week on Dezeen, we covered the news that leading Japanese architects Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma are designing holiday homes for the American reality star Kim Kardashian. In a recent Vogue interview, Kardashian explained how she commissioned the architects to create a “zen” mansion in Palm Springs and a lakeside lodge for celebrating the

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Architecture education needs “decolonisation and decarbonisation” says London School of Architecture head Neal Shasore

February 24, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Neal Shasore in a blue shirt

At just 32, the self-proclaimed “outspoken” historian Neal Shasore has become the head of the London School of Architecture. In this exclusive interview, he told Dezeen of his plans to make the school a beacon of inclusivity. “Decarbonisation goes hand-in-hand with decolonising,” said Shasore. “It means encouraging students to think about their projects in terms

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Rotative Studio brightens Swiss town square with modular wooden pavilions

February 22, 2022 Alice Finney 0
A green cubed structure with a red roof

Architecture firm Rotative Studio has created three colourful temporary pavilions for reading and socialising in the Place du Marché square in Aigle, Switzerland. Called Three Pavilions, the structures are designed to be “a playful intervention that could help revitalise the Place du Marché”, a square in the middle of the historic town. “This square will undergo

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Eleven buildings that prove Palm Springs is a modernist oasis

February 17, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Twin Palms by E Stewart Williams

To mark this year’s Modernism Week in Palm Springs, which starts today, we’ve rounded up 11 standout buildings located in the Californian desert city often referred to as the mecca of mid-century modernist architecture. Abernathy House by William F Cody Sprawled across a plot of land in the middle of Palm Springs, this house by

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This week MVRDV defended its role in Marble Arch Mound fiasco

February 12, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Marble Arch Mound by MVRDV

This week on Dezeen we launched Dezeen Awards 2022 while Dutch architecture studio MVRDV told its side of the Marble Arch Mound fiasco. MVRDV defended its design for the Marble Arch Mound and placed the blame for the debacle on Westminster City Council’s “nonchalance and laxity”. “We have rarely seen such a loveless execution of our

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