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Charmaine Chan has highlighted 25 recently completed courtyard houses for her book Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific. Here she picks five of the most interesting. As the book’s title suggests, Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific is a compilation of houses completed in the past 10 years across Asia and Oceania that are focused […] More
Interior design students from the New Design University in Austria explore visual communication design and adaptive reuse in this school show for Virtual Design Festival. A total of 10 projects feature in the digital exhibition. They were completed by pupils enrolled on the MA Interior Design and Visual Communication and BA Interior Design and 3D […] More
Atelier Ace’s Kelly Sawdon and Studio Shamshiri co-founder Pamela Shamshiri explain their opulent design for New Orleans luxury guesthouse Maison De La Luz in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards Atelier Ace, the Ace Hotel’s in-house creative team, collaborated with Los Angeles design firm Studio Shamshiri to convert a historic New Orleans […] More
A shiny brass wardrobe that’s meant to resemble a precious jewellery box features in this apartment near Barcelona designed by Raúl Sánchez Architects. The Magic Box Apartment is set within a two-storey home in the town of Viladecans and is occupied by a married couple and their two young daughters. The husband’s parents live on […] More
Founders of 2LG Studio Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe have written a book to empower people to embrace colour in their interiors. Here they pick their top five projects. Called Making Living Lovely, the book lays out the 2LG Studio – short for Two Lovely Gays – design philosophy and takes the reader through the […] More
Gabriel Chipperfield has created an “Alice in Wonderland”-style warren of luxurious rooms behind Shreeji newsagents in central London. Shreeji newsagent and tobacconist is located on Chiltern Street in London’s affluent Marylebone neighbourhood, just a stone’s throw from the notable hotel Chiltern Firehouse. The shop was set up by Sandeep Garg in 1982, and has since […] More
Films from the 1970s informed the aesthetic of Basehall, an upscale food court in Hong Kong designed by studio Linehouse. Basehall is a food hall set within Jardine House, a 52-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong that’s punctuated by rows of circular windows. Following its completion in 1972, the distinctive building was featured in a number […] More
VDF studio profile: 4Space is a Dubai-based design studio, which specialises in interior architecture with a decidedly human-centred approach. “We seek to integrate the design of an interior seamlessly into the daily lives of its occupants, regardless of style preferences,” said co-founder Firas Alsahin. “This creates tangible, long-term relationships between them and the spaces they […] More
