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Ministry of Design creates The Standard Singapore as a "quirky tropical oasis"

Local studio Ministry of Design has completed the interiors for The Standard in Singapore, which features a reception counter with a built-in terrarium and plenty of plants to give the impression of an urban oasis. Located in the retail district, close to the popular Orchard Road boulevard, the Singapore hotel is the latest from The […]

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Stellar Works launches website spotlighting its bespoke furniture

Promotion: furniture brand Stellar Works has unveiled a website highlighting its bespoke projects, including its custom-made furniture designed for Nuri Steakhouse in Dallas, Texas. Stellar Works’ website introduces the brand’s bespoke arm. It features a digital archive of past and recent, custom-manufactured projects, ranging from steakhouses and lobbies to terraces and hotel rooms. The site

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Price Harrison designs Nashville house to act as an art gallery

Architect Price Harrison has designed a stucco-clad home for himself in Tennessee called Green Hills Residence, which features an open-air courtyard and interior spaces that prioritise the display of artwork. Located in Nashville’s Green Hills neighbourhood, the house sits on a sloped, one-acre site bordered by woodlands. Deer, foxes, hawks and other creatures regularly venture

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Office building made of "interlocking prisms" by Foster + Partners tops out in Miami

A geometric structure that widens as it rises and is covered in louvres by British architecture studio Foster + Partners has topped out in Miami. The 210-foot (64 metre), 12-storey structure is located at the corner lot 3050 Aventura Boulevard in Aventura at the site of the 2021 demolition of the previous Safra National Bank

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Photos of Thailand's first international contemporary art museum revealed

International studio WHY Architecture has released images of the Dib Bangkok museum, which it claims will be “Thailand’s first museum dedicated to international contemporary art”. Set to open in Bangkok in December 2025, the 71,000-square-foot (6,596-square-metres) museum will be housed in a 1980s warehouse renovated by WHY Architecture. WHY Architecture has released images of the

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Amelia Tavella Architectes completes granite-clad school on craggy Corsican coast

French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes has used irregular blocks of granite to clad the Edmond Simeoni School and Cultural Space, referencing its craggy surroundings in Corsica. Located in the coastal village of Lumio, the 2,300-square-metre kindergarten, primary school and cultural centre steps down its sloping site with a series of rectilinear volumes, topped with playground

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Fifteen of America's most significant art deco buildings

As part of our ongoing Art Deco Centenary series, Dezeen rounds up 15 of the most noteworthy US examples of art deco architecture, from New York skyscrapers to an Oklahoma church. After fully emerging in Paris in the early 1920s, art deco design was taken up enthusiastically by American architects, particularly during the 1930s. In

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"When we place people on a pedestal, we only diminish ourselves"

Statuemania is back, but the political weaponisation of memorials will not end happily, writes Robert Bevan. There’s a short, cobbled street in Munich still known as Shirkers’ Alley. It was the route locals took during the Third Reich to avoid passing a Nazi war memorial around the corner. Performing a respectful Hitler salute at the

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SoBA draws on "curves and rhythm" of music for The Orchestra Park in China

Yellow accents enliven the viewing platforms, performance areas and play spaces at this urban park in Kunshan, China, completed by local studio SoBA. Named The Orchestra Park, the project has transformed a vacant urban lot in the Huaqiao Economic Development Zone into an 8,500-square-metre park, designed to preserve an existing area of wetland and trees

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Japanese carpentry highlights "deep relationships between humans and trees"

Earthquake-proof joinery, 10-micrometre-thin wood shavings and a scale model of Kyoto’s Sa-an Teahouse are on display at Japan House London’s exhibition The Craft of Carpentry. Opening today, the show explores over 1,000 years of Japanese woodworking through a collection of tools, installations and videos. The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests was curated

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