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UK Trends/on April 8, 2024/ By DECORWORKS

Saudi Arabia lowers predicted number of residents at The Line…

The Line mega-city, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia’s Neom project, will allegedly house fewer than 300,000 people by 2030, down from an original goal of 1.5 million. News agency Bloomberg has reported that officials expect The Line – a 170-kilometre-long linear city…

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Ae-Architecten layers old and new in Belgian house renovation

Belgian studio Ae-Architecten has used glazed yellow bricks and concrete-lined living spaces to renovate SL House, a detached home in Ghent, Belgium. Ae-Architecten was tasked with converting the home back into a single-family dwelling after it had been subdivided into two flats in the 1980s.…

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Bell Phillips creates Cosway Street housing block with fluted brick…

Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. Named Cosway Street after the road on which the building sits, the design of the 49-home development in the Lisson Grove Conservation area…

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly’s wings. Architects and designers sometimes use butterfly roofs…

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Soniah floor lamps by Faina among new products on Dezeen…

Dezeen Showroom: a collection of statuesque floor lamps designed to resemble Ukraine’s national flower is among 16 new products recently listed on Dezeen Showroom. Soniah floor lamps by Faina Ukrainian architect Victoria Yakusha’s homeware brand Faina has released a floor lamp that draws on the visual…

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Dezeen Debate features a “wonderful little retreat from the world”

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a stone home in Scotland by local practice Izat Arundell. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Izat Arundell has completed a home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides that was finished with blocks of local stone. The house, known as…

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Sungai Watch chair consists of 2,000 plastic bags from Bali’s…

Indonesian non-profit Sungai Watch has unveiled the debut furniture launch from its design studio Sungai Design, aimed at creating useful products from the mountains of plastic waste that it fishes from Bali’s rivers every day. The Ombak lounge chair, created in collaboration with American designer…

UK Trends/on April 8, 2024/ By DECORWORKS

RKTB cantilevers Brooklyn housing block over neighbouring building

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn…

UK Trends/on April 8, 2024/ By DECORWORKS

Alexander Hills Architects converts farmhouse into accessible home

London studio Alexander Hills Architects has transformed Old Rectory Farm, a house in Norfolk, into an accessible residence with level-access living spaces. Old Rectory Farm has been extended and adapted to enable the family’s father, who uses a wheelchair for mobility, to continue living in…

UK Trends/on April 8, 2024/ By DECORWORKS

Halo-shaped skylights illuminate home by Tamara Wibowo Architects

A series of circular voids and “halo” skylights create spaces for trees to grow through this home in Semarang, Indonesia, which has been completed by local studio Tamara Wibowo Architects. Named Halo House, the dwelling comprises two gabled, barn-like forms clad in charred wood flanking…

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