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Eba opens London showroom featuring its "timeless" kitchens and furniture

Promotion: kitchen and furniture brand Eba has opened its first London showroom, exhibiting its own kitchen and living room designs alongside furniture from other boutique brands. Situated in Marylebone, on a street featuring other distinguished design brands, Eba’s new showroom serves as a destination for those seeking refined, bespoke interiors, said the brand. Eba has […]

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Squid-bone sponge found to soak up 99.8 per cent of microplastics

A sponge made from a fusion of cotton fibre and squid bone could help to clear some of the world’s microplastic pollution after a team of Chinese researchers found it can soak up as much as 99.8 per cent of the particles from water samples. Researchers from the University of Wuhan and Guangxi University produced the

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Agnes Denes installs Living Pyramid in California for Desert X

A tiered, pyramidal installation by Hungarian-American artist Agnes Denes has been installed in the Coachella Valley for the fifth edition of the Desert X exhibition. The Living Pyramid installation is the first piece to be debuted for art festival Desert X 2025, a biennial event that sees a host of large-scale installations set up throughout

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Dezeen Debate features "out of place" infill housing in Wisconsin

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a slender home in Wisconsin by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Johnsen Schmaling Architects designed Curtain House, a slender home in Wisconsin, with wood and metal louvres, to reimagine the “typological conventions” of infill architecture. It received mixed reactions from readers with one commenter

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"We almost got kicked out of Design Miami" say the Haas Brothers

This year’s Design Miami was characterised by experimental work, but that wasn’t always the case at the fair, art-design duo the Haas Brothers tell Dezeen in this exclusive interview. By embracing the avant-garde, galleries and designers at Design Miami have begun to carve out a style that blurs the boundaries between design and art, according

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Aidia Studio lofts lightweight metal roof over Mexican grandstand

International design practice Aidia Studio has revitalised a sports complex in Oaxaca, Mexico, by constructing a new grandstand and locker room for a soccer field. The 14-acre Deportivo Zanatepec was completed for a federal Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (SEDATU) project in the municipality of Santo Domingo Zanatepec in Mexico’s Tehuantepec Isthmus. Aidia Studio

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My ArchiSchool launches AI design competition for kids

Promotion: Hong Kong-based school My ArchiSchool has announced a competition calling for children to use artificial intelligence tools to design a school village. For My ArchiSchool’s annual Youth ArchiDesign Competition, this year’s edition is tasking children ages six to 17 to design a school village that facilitates learning and social interaction, containing two schools, a canteen and

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Hat-shaped metal roof shelters Hee House by Studio Ellsinger

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden’s west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to “trigger curiosity” and offer protection from its wild surroundings. Called Hee House after its location near the beach at Heestrand, the cabin was designed as a second home for a young family willing to experiment

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Dubai to be transformed into pedestrian-friendly city with two-kilometre elevated walkway

Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has approved the Dubai Walk masterplan to add 6,500 kilometres of pedestrian walkways to the city, including an elevated air-conditioned looped path. Aiming to transform Dubai into a pedestrian-friendly city by 2040, the masterplan will include a network of continuous paths designed to prioritise accessibility, safety and comfortable

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