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Founders of Public Records to open event space in historic Brooklyn building

December 4, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The creative studio arm of Brooklyn community hub Public Records, Public Service, has announced a partnership with a New York City development agency to open an event space along the Brooklyn waterfront, designed by nArchitects. Public Service has partnered with the non-profit New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) to create a ground-level, 1,000-capacity venue

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EFFEKT wraps student housing in Denmark with red accordion-like facade

December 4, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A zigzagging facade of sit-in bay windows defines Harmonikahusene, a pair of curved housing blocks for students and young professionals in Frederiksberg, Denmark, by architecture studio EFFEKT. Named Harmonikahusene, or The Accordion Houses, after their concertinaed exteriors, the blocks were created for developer Nrep to provide 519 student flats and 158 apartments alongside communal facilities

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The best architecture of 2025

December 4, 2025 Dezeen team 0

Continuing our Review of 2025, Dezeen’s editorial team members have each picked their favourite buildings of the year, including new cultural institutions, homes, hotels, skyscrapers and even an architecture school. The Grand Ring, Japan, by Sou Fujimoto chosen by Cajsa Carlson, deputy editor “Standing in front of The Grand Ring, architect Sou Fujimoto’s immense wooden

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Ichio Matsuzawa creates “one-of-a-kind” Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass

December 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets that were heated and turned into three-dimensional walls. The bar, located in Tokyo’s central Aoyama area, featured see-through walls that resembled sheets of water cascading down from the ceiling. Matsuzawa chose to work with the transparent

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SoBA designs cafe in China as “a living container” with dynamic facades

December 4, 2025 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio SoBA Architects has completed a cafe and florist shop in Kunshan, China, within a foldable box. Named The Bloom Box, the 40-square-metre building sits on a lakeside platform, previously used as a sunshade pavilion in an urban park in Kunshan. The studio designed a bright yellow, box-like structure that can easily open

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Open Concept Zoning: How to Define Spaces Without Walls

December 3, 2025 Tahira 0

Open-concept living has transformed the way we experience our homes, inviting in more light, more movement, and a greater sense of togetherness. But as freeing as an open layout can be, it also brings a unique design challenge: without walls to shape the space, rooms can easily blur together, making the home feel undefined or . . .

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Nick Kent Design designs Bondi House as steel-framed “kit of parts”

December 3, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Translucent polycarbonate screens and metal louvres create a play of light and shadow throughout this minimalist house in Sydney, Australia, designed by local studio Nick Kent Design. Named Bondi House after its location close to Bondi Beach, the two-storey, two-bedroom dwelling replaces a derelict building on a long and narrow plot. The home has a

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