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The Climber’s Refuge is a sustainable update of the traditional Alpine chalet

by Dezeen | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized

This house in the Italian village of Valtournenche was designed by LCA Architetti using mostly natural materials and features a double-pitched roof that evokes the surrounding mountain peaks. Varese-based architect Luca Compri’s studio designed the...

Office S&M injects bold colours into renovated Mo-tel House in London

by Dezeen | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized

An abundance of bright hues and recycled materials were used by London studio Office S&M to renovate a Georgian townhouse in Islington. Mo-tel House now has a kitchen at the frontThe Mo-tel House project involved remodelling the lower ground floor of a home owned...

New Dezeen Lookbooks section presents curated picks of home interiors from Dezeen’s archive

by Dezeen | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized

Dezeen has launched Dezeen Lookbooks, a new section featuring roundups of home interiors and decor trends to help designers and design lovers plan their projects. Published each Saturday, the visually driven Dezeen Lookbooks present roundups of images of contemporary...

AHEAD Global ultimate winner offers “meaningful luxury” in a converted wine factory

by Dezeen | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized

In this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards, K-studio co-founder Dimitris Karampatakis explains how his firm’s transformation of an abandoned wine factory into the Dexamenes Seaside Hotel offers guests a more meaningful experience. Located on...

Ýrúrarí uses knitted body parts to give clothes a character of their own

by Dezeen | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized

Textile designer Ýrúrarí, who is nominated for this year’s Icelandic Design Award, gives new life to worn-out clothes by adding playful knitted details such as eyes, tongues and fingers. The Icelandic designer, whose real name is Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, likes to give...
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“A bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her honeycomb cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”
–
Karl Marx – Das Kapital

Refugio bee shelters by MaliArts – source: Dezeen

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