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    MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library

    US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Koning Eizenberg Architecture (KEA) designed the transformation of the damaged library into MuseumLab for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. It forms an extension of its campus […] More

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    Woorak House in Sydney offers peeks of nearby nature reserve

    Airy pavilion-like structures make up this holiday home in Sydney, which CM Studio has designed to optimise views of its luscious green surroundings. Woorak House is situated in Sydney’s Palm Beach suburb. It perches on the tip of a peninsula that’s bordered on one side by the Pacific ocean and on the other by a […] More

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    Preview The Met's postponed About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition

    New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a virtual version of its About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met’s Costume Institute has made a short Youtube video of the museum’s annual major spring exhibition to coincide with its original opening date this week. The […] More

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    Casa Plenaire is an imaginary holiday home for lockdown escapism

    As the coronavirus pandemic puts a halt on all travel plans, Child Studio has collaborated with Plenaire to envision an idyllic seaside villa for the “perfect holiday”. Designed as a “hideaway for the lockdown world”, Casa Plenaire is seen through a series of dreamy renderings created using 3D modelling programmes. The project takes its name […] More

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    Shortlist unveiled for AHEAD Americas 2020 hospitality awards

    Dezeen promotion: a conversion of New York’s JFK terminal building and a brutalist boutique in the historical centre of Oaxaca, Mexico, are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year’s AHEAD Americas awards. The AHEAD Americas awards honour exceptional hospitality projects that have been launched, opened or reopened on the continents between November 2018 and […] More

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    Halleroed creates moody New York office with wood panelled walls

    Stockholm studio Halleroed has paired carpet floors, dropped ceilings and wood panelling for a New York office evocative of a David Lynch movie. Located in Manhattan’s Garment District, the office is for a company in the creative industry that has almost all of the floors in the 17th-storey building. Halleroed, led by Swedish designer Christian Halleröd, […] More

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    Studio Natalie researching local materials for interiors projects after being stranded on coral island

    [embedded content] In the most exotic VDF video message we received, interior designer Natalie Papageorgiadis explains how she found herself stranded in the Maldives as the world went into lockdown due to coronavirus. Papageorgiadis is the founder of London-based interior design studio Studio Natalie and appears in the video with its managing director Stuart Trevor […] More

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    Live conversation with Dezeen Awards judges and winners including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Sevil Peach as part of VDF

    [embedded content] Dezeen Awards winners and judges including Studio Drift, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sevil Peach will take part in a live drop-in conversation from 1:00pm UK time as part of today’s VDF x Dezeen Awards collaboration. The special edition of our Screentime interview series also features Nelly Ben Hayoun, Sarah Izod and Talenia […] More