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Muji offers first look inside its “anti-cheap” hotel in Shenzhen

January 9, 2018 Alice Morby 0

Wood-lined bedrooms, a minimal diner and a shop all feature inside the Muji Hotel in Shenzhen, which is due to open to the public later this month. The Muji Hotel, located in the city’s Futian district, is the first hospitality project initiated by the Japanese retailer, which is best-known for its minimalist homeware products. Kitted-out

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Vladimir Radutny honours Mies’ minimalism at renovated Lake Shore Drive apartment

December 17, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Architect Vladimir Radutny has renovated an apartment in the iconic 860-880 Lake Shore Drive complex by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, using a restrained palette to show off the architecture and the views. The 750-square-foot pied-à-terre is the second renovation that Vladimir Radutny Architects has completed in the modernist towers, which were completed

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Dezeen’s top 10 staircases of 2017

December 1, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Kicking off our review of 2017, editorial assistant Natasha Levy picks the best staircase designs from the past year, including a huge spiral stair lined with copper and set of steps made from 2,000 pieces of plywood. Experimentarium, Denmark, by CEBRA The form of a DNA strand provided the cues for this helical staircase, created by Danish

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1908 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman and her

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10 residential spaces designed for reading books

September 22, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

Influenced by Sam Jacob’s micro cabin for MINI, we’ve rounded up homes that contain libraries for this week’s Pinterest roundup. Examples range from tiny reading nooks to sprawling rooms stuffed floor-to-ceiling with books. Urban Cabin, UK, by Sam Jacob Sam Jacob teamed up with MINI to build a tiny home with an adjoined library for this year’s

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Smoked oak and terrazzo steps feature in renovated Copenhagen apartment

September 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A smoked-oak staircase suspended from steel poles joins a flight of tapered terrazzo steps in this Copenhagen apartment, which has been overhauled by local practice Jac Studios. Jac Studios’ renovation of the Sturlasgade apartment in the Islands Brygge area on the city’s harbourfront aimed to create a brighter and more open interior. With this in mind,

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Smoked oak and terrazzo steps feature in renovated Copenhagen apartment

September 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A smoked-oak staircase suspended from steel poles joins a flight of tapered terrazzo steps in this Copenhagen apartment, which has been overhauled by local practice Jac Studios. Jac Studios’ renovation of the Sturlasgade apartment in the Islands Brygge area on the city’s harbourfront aimed to create a brighter and more open interior. With this in mind,

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Smoked oak and terrazzo steps feature in renovated Copenhagen apartment

September 17, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A smoked-oak staircase suspended from steel poles joins a flight of tapered terrazzo steps in this Copenhagen apartment, which has been overhauled by local practice Jac Studios. Jac Studios’ renovation of the Sturlasgade apartment in the Islands Brygge area on the city’s harbourfront aimed to create a brighter and more open interior. With this in mind,

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