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Local gallery Verso has exhibited one-off and limited edition designs by 23 designers in various rooms of a newly built Brooklyn condominium building during NYCxDesign 2024. Called Verso&Friends, the showcase included a wide variety of designs including furniture, lighting, home accessories, textiles, and semi-functional sculptures, spread throughout the three condominiums in the structure. Exhibitors included

A mezzanine and rooftop lounge are among the enhancements by Robert Hutchinson Architecture to a former warehouse that has been reborn as a multipurpose venue called Stone Way Auto. The building is situated in Seattle's Fremont neighbourhood, known for its bohemian character. The venue's name stems from the owner's love of automobiles, along with its location

Dezeen School Shows: a side table composed of upcycled materials that explores minimalism is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of East London. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Foster + Partners Industrial Design aimed to create relaxed outdoor areas with Gather, its ultra-thin concrete seating solution for Spanish street furniture brand Escofet. Gather outdoor seating is a modular system made from Escofet's own ultra-high-performance concrete, called Slimconcrete, which is finished by hand. Using Slimconcrete enabled Foster + Partners Industrial Design to

Dezeen Showroom: architecture firm Foster + Partners aimed to create relaxed outdoor areas with Gather, its ultra-thin concrete seating solution for Spanish street furniture brand Escofet. Gather outdoor seating is a modular system made from Escofet's own ultra-high-performance concrete, called Slimconcrete, which is finished by hand. Using Slimconcrete enabled Foster + Partners to achieve a

Dezeen Showroom: Swedish brand Asko has created a smart alternative to a traditional wine cellar, which the company has described as a "personal sommelier". Asko designed four different variations of the Wine Climate Cabinet – the freestanding Wine Climate Cabinet, the Wine Ageing Cabinet, the Asko Compact Undercounter iteration and the one-zone Undercounter Wine Climate

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. Pott House occupies half of a garden plot characterised by loose black cotton soil, leading Kiron Cheerla Architecture to design a lightweight gridded structure with pile foundations. It

Swedish furniture brand IKEA has partnered with rehoming centre Woodgreen Pets Charity to launch its first product range for pets, which includes rattan beds and patterned soft toys. Comprising 29 pieces, the Utsådd collection is based on the "four most common activities that cats and dogs do in the home – eating, sleeping, playing and

Architect Peter Morris has unveiled The Possible Impossible Pavilion, which is made of multiple connected arches and constructed from a polystyrene-based imitation stone, at Clerkenwell Design Week. The pink pavilion, located outside the St James Church in Clerkenwell, is a smaller model of Morris's upcoming project The Cloud House, which is being constructed in Gospel

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the news that Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is developing a master's degree at Loughborough University. The degree aims to challenge conventional architecture education and to foster a generation of architects who will "inspire joyful architecture", in line with the goals of the movement. "A potentially noble, mostly

Dezeen Showroom: designer Simon Pengelly drew on "subtle Scandinavian influence" when creating Uku, a smooth timber lounge chair made for furniture brand Allermuir. Uku features a slender timber frame, which cradles soft upholstery in a selection of neutral hues. Available in mid- or high-back variations, the chair comes in either natural oak or black-stained oak.

Designer Paul Crofts and furniture brand Isomi aimed to make sofas less wasteful with Tejo, a recyclable system created from natural cork and latex that is launching at Clerkenwell Design Week. The Tejo system uses cork for the base and backrest of the sofa in place of a typical plywood or metal frame, and latex

Earlier this week Dezeen co-hosted dinners in New York City and London to celebrate NYCxDesign and Clerkenwell Design Week respectively ahead of the Dezeen Awards 2024 entry deadline. Read more

This year's Davidson Prize shortlist includes three conceptual projects that propose adapting existing buildings with sustainable materials to tackle climate change and housing shortage. The annual prize, which explores the concept of home, was launched in 2021 in memory of architectural visualiser Alan Davidson. Entrants this year were asked to respond to the theme Rethinking Home

Portuguese studio Alarquitectos has used walls of pink and blue to brighten São Sebastião 123, an apartment converted from a 20th-century office in Lisbon. Tasked with revitalising the old workspace's dark and poorly ventilated interiors, Alarquitectos opened it up by removing the existing partitions and adding a courtyard. Along with an existing outdoor space that has

Promotion: bathroom brand Kohler teamed up with designer Samuel Ross and design studio Yabu Pushelberg to create two installations that display the brand's latest products at this year's Milan Design Week. A Kohler product booth designed by Yabu Pushelberg and an installation named Terminal 02, created by Ross' industrial design studio SR_A, both featured elements informed by flowing

Irish furniture workshop Joseph Walsh Studio has created a conductor's rail for Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, featuring a dynamic bentwood form that reflects the "energy of live music". Joseph Walsh designed and produced the unique stage piece as a gift to the Kentucky orchestra after bonding with Abrams, who is also a