Новости за 04.03.2024

Mexican architect María José Gutiérrez has placed a series of round, pine-clad cabins connected by suspended bridges onto a vineyard in Mexico to serve as vacation rentals. Located in Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada on the Baja Peninsula, Zeuhary Hospedaje Campestre includes a community lounge and four vacation rental cabins. "Beyond creating spaces we aim to

Promotion: the Norman Foster Foundation has collaborated with building materials company Holcim to develop the Essential Homes Project, a concrete-wrapped modular housing concept for displaced people. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: made by Spanish bathroom brand Acquabella, the Noon Slate bathtub is designed to deliver maximum style and comfort in a choice of over 2,000 colours. Deep, wide and elegantly detailed, the Noon Slate tub is meant to emphasise the act of bathing as a ritualistic form of self-care. It has a textured exterior that

Architecture studio Hutch Design has created The Maker's Barn, a holiday home on the outskirts of London that is finished with a palette of "natural and honest" materials. Set among wild grassland bordered by a forest, the 65-square-metre holiday rental was originally a concrete pig shed and has been transformed with materials that are hoped

UK studio Foster + Partners is reportedly designing a two-kilometre-high skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which if completed would be the world's tallest building. According to a report in UK architecture magazine Architects' Journal (AJ), the UK studio is designing the megatall skyscraper for a site to the north of the Saudi capital. The AJ

Dutch studio OMA has transformed a modernist building in Singapore into the Air Circular Campus and Cooking Club, adding a cylindrical orange steel frame encompassing a bar and kitchen. Aiming to create a dining experience that encourages visitors to think about food and its connection to the environment, OMA altered the 1970s building and added outdoor

American interior designer, fashion influencer and "geriatric starlet" Iris Apfel has passed away at the age of 102. The death of the multidisciplinary creative, who was recognised for her flamboyant personal style, was announced on her account on Instagram with an image of Apfel in her trademark oversized glasses. Apfel, who worked in the interiors

Over the past month, Pinterest users have consistently sought out handbags in their searches. We round up 10 creative handbag designs from our Pinterest. With fashion taking centre stage over the past fortnight on Pinterest, in tandem with this year's Autumn Winter 2024 fashion shows, we've selected 10 innovative and unusual bag designs showcased on

Dezeen Showroom: Italian stone brand Antolini has developed an original surface texture for its stone that it calls Bamboo, named for its pattern of dense rods. The Bamboo finish is part of Antolini's Textures+ Collection, for which the stone producer took inspiration from nature and used the latest technology to create textures not seen before on

To help kick off our Social Housing Revival series, Peter Apps calls for a return to mass public house-building in cities around the world. What does the future hold for our major cities? Urbanisation has been one of the most important trends of the modern era. More than half of the world's population now lives

The world is suffering from a housing-affordability crisis. Dezeen's new series will explore the Social Housing Revival, and celebrate the best contemporary social housing around the globe. Last week, the UK Government revealed that at the last count, 109,000 households in England were legally homeless – a 10 per cent rise on a year before

Three design students from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have created a chair that is primarily used for cultivating plant life. Alice Hultqvist, Emelie Sjöberg and Linnea Nilsson created the Chia-Chair on the basis that it should accommodate nature first and humans second. Instead of traditional cushions or upholstery, the chair's seat and backrest

Architects Keiji Ashizawa and Arjun Malik, artist Justina Blakeney, interior designer Claudia Afshar and graphic designer Ian Cartlidge have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. Read more

British design studio Layer has devised prototypes of three futuristic internet routers, including one with the ability to host Star Wars-style holographic video chats, in a project with Deutsche Telekom. Layer worked with Deutsche Telekom's Design and Customer Experience team on the project, titled Concept T, to explore the future of communications and connectivity. The

A renovated 1970s bungalow with "kitsch character" and a greenhouse that doubles as a living room feature in Casamontesa – a weekend home designed by Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández Gil. The project began when a couple asked the studio to overhaul a single-storey house that was once part of a hotel complex on the