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Natural Material Studio crafts lighting from seaweed at Sticks n Sushi restaurant
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (510+ words) Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio has created speckled pendant lighting out of kelp waste, salvaged from miso soup that would otherwise be thrown away at Sticks n Sushi in Lyngby, Denmark. The lighting is made from layers of bespoke biotextiles, crafted…...
Sibylla Hartel and Charlot Magayi revealed as Dezeen Awards 2026 judges
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (544+ words) Architect Sibylla Hartel, interior designers Alexy Kos and Che Huang and designers Charlot Magayi and Todd Bracher have joined the judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2026. Dezeen Awards, in partnership with Trimble, is searching for the world's best architecture, interiors and…...
House of EM adds light-filled "loggia" to north-London home
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (562+ words) Architecture office House of EM has modernised a terraced house in north London, adding a sunken rear extension that can be opened up to create a flexible indoor-outdoor living space. The studio, headed by former Michaelis Boyd directors Emma Bodie…...
Snoc unveiled latest outdoor collection at Salone del Mobile and Maison & Objet 2026
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (347+ words) Promotion: furniture brand Snoc's architectural and material-driven outdoor furniture has featured at two design fairs this year: Salone del Mobile and Maison & Objet. Presented at this year's edition of Paris's Maison & Objet in January and Milan's Salone del Mobile in…...
Centre for dance and wellbeing among projects from IE University
10+ hour, 16+ min ago (1201+ words) Dezeen School Shows: a mixed-use building with spaces for dance and leisure is among the projects from IE University. Also featured is a proposal for a workspace built in an unused train station, and a speculative office space in Amsterdam,…...
Norm Architects completes Audo House showroom in New York's Tribeca
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (511+ words) Danish design brand Audo Copenhagen has opened its first showroom outside Scandinavia inside a landmarked New York City building, to coincide with NYCx Design 2026. With interiors by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects, Audo House occupies a ground-floor space on Laight…...
Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into reconfigurable hair salon
18+ hour, 37+ min ago (417+ words) Japanese studio Atelier Write has transformed a warehouse in Tokyo into a hair salon, suspending mirrors, shelves and curtains from a series of industrial rails that allow the entire space to be reconfigured. Named Unravel, the salon is located in…...
Studio Aluc renovates 100-year old townhouse in Kyoto
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (181+ words) Japanese firm Studio Aluc "deliberately retained traces of past craftsmanship" to transform a historic machiya residence into a short-stay hotel in Kyoto....
Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (363+ words) Kyoto's historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasing being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here, we collect five of the best examples. Nazuna Kyoto Higashihonganji by Studio Aluc This 100-year-old machiya house was turned into a short-stay…...
Studio Hagen Hall explores Japanese and modernist design ideas
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (939+ words) Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including smoked-oak joinery to create atmospheric spaces informed by Japanese architecture. Heion House is located within a conservation area in Islington and was…...