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    AHEAD Asia reveals region's best hotels for 2020

    Dezeen promotion: a wabi-sabi-inspired hotel in a remote Chinese village and a luxury yacht that sails the seas of Indonesia are among the projects to be celebrated in the 2020 edition of the AHEAD Asia awards. The AHEAD awards spotlight outstanding hospitality projects from four different regions of the world: Asia, the Americas, Europe, and […] More

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    Call for entries to AHEAD MEA awards 2020

    Dezeen promotion: architects and designers working across the Middle East and Africa are invited to submit their entries to the 2020 edition of the AHEAD awards. Recognising exceptional hospitality projects from across the globe, the AHEAD awards focuses on four different regions: the Middle East and Africa (MEA), the Americas, Asia and Europe. The Gorgeous […] More

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    Architecture and design events in March 2020 from Dezeen Events Guide

    Melbourne Design Week, Homexpo Israel, DesignMarch in Reykjavik and the Collectible design fair in Brussels are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this March. Other events taking place include the Asia Pacific Architecture Festival, Boston Design Week and the Cambio exhibition by design duo Formafantasma at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery. To mark […] More

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    Double-height extension brings light to Melbourne's Lantern House

    Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to a 19th-century house in Melbourne, illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces. Originally built in 1876, Lantern House formerly had a dark and poky interior that meant its owners – a young couple with two children and a dog – were longing for a […] More

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    Stayner Architects restores modernist Wave House in California

    Los Angeles practice Stayner Architects has restored a 1950s house in Palm Desert, California, which was designed by modernist architect Walter S White to feature a wave-shaped roof. The dwelling was completed in 1955 for artist Miles C Bates and is named Wave House after its roofline. White, who patented the design of the structure, […] More

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    Countryside, The Future exhibit has “nothing to do with architecture” says Rem Koolhaas

    Rem Koolhaas’s exhibition exploring the countryside at New York’s Guggenheim museum aims “to put the countryside on the agenda again”. Koolhaas developed the Countryside, The Future exhibit with his research studio AMO, its director Samir Bantalm and a series of collaborators. The aim is to highlight advancements in rural areas through a series of case studies. “This […] More

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    McLaren Excell discusses preserving a home's history in short film by Vola

    Dezeen promotion: in this short film released by Danish tap manufacturer Vola, architecture practice McLaren Excell explains the importance of paying tribute to a building’s past during its restoration process. The film, titled A Sustained History, sees the two co-directors of McLaren Excell talk through the process of sensitively transforming an 18th-century mill in Wiltshire, […] More

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    “We were all broke” when we designed Park Road Apartments says Nicholas Grimshaw

    British architect Nicholas Grimshaw explains the impact that limited resources had on the housing block he designed with Terry Farrell, in this exclusive video interview created for our high-tech architecture series. Completed in 1970 by Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership – the architecture practice set up by the duo five years earlier – Park Road Apartments is […] More