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A ceramic mural by Álvaro Siza is at the heart of this rustic restaurant interior in Porto, Portugal, designed by Space Copenhagen. Located in a renovated 16th-century building in Porto’s Largo de São Domingos area, the Cozinha das Flores restaurant features a mural designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Portuguese architect. Pritzker Prize-winner Álvaro Siza designed the mural”Whilst
Are you driving near a road construction area? Whether you’re in transit or a daily…
New York designer Krista Ninivaggi has completed the lobby design of the Brooklyn Tower, a supertall skyscraper that is the tallest in the New York City borough. Ninivaggi was commissioned for the interior spaces – including lobbies, amenities spaces and furniture – for the SHoP Architects-designed skyscraper, which is completing this year. So far, it has
Having the perfect patio can take your outdoor experience to the next level. Whether you…
Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio designed a store for kitchenware brand Our Place that features colourful tile displays and expressive drapery that hangs from the ceiling. The Our Place Melrose store is the brand’s second location in Los Angeles, following the inaugural shop in Venice, and is situated in West Hollywood’s busy shopping district. The Our Place
As new technologies and gadgets pop up all around us at a breakneck pace, the transportation sector and how humans travel is also changing, but far less rapidly. Yet this is bound to change due to climate concerns, as new generations crave connectivity and convenience, and with the rise of micromobility and shared mobility. One company
Patio covers come in different shapes, materials, and sizes, making it easier than ever to…
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released the first-ever design standards for hurricane-resistant buildings…
Longitudinal skin stiffeners are deformed bars, wires or prestressed stiffeners uniformly placed on both sides…
In the lead-up to Milan design week, we have rounded up eight residential and hotel interiors in the Italian city that are united by their use of muted colours and diverse materials. As the Salone del Mobile furniture fair is set to kick off next week, alongside its surrounding Fuorisalone events programme, these interiors provide
Los Angeles architecture studio Formation Association has turned an assemblage of buildings in West Hollywood into a new home for London-based auction house Phillips. The West Coast headquarters for Phillips opened in October 2022 and includes three showrooms, a patio and offices created from a set of disparate structures on Santa Monica Boulevard. The new
Yusca Studio is an innovative design studio founded in 2021 by Yu-Ying and Dorian Tosca, selected among the ten winners of the DesignWanted Award 2023 edition. Both hailing from different parts of the world, Taiwan and Switzerland, they found common ground in their shared concerns about the environment.Their goal is to deliver unique and creative
“We believe design is an instrument to improve people’s lives and we work with strong dedication to make it accessible to a wide audience,” says Damiano Latini. That’s the mantra of the former criminal lawyer, and founder of his namesake brand, which took its first steps in the world of kitchens back in 2000—an unusual background
What’s the old proverb? “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. Solaris Community certainly abides by this adage. Founded by Zehao Liu in 2020, the one-stop-shop B2B circular-solution platform is exploring innovative solutions to solve the problem of waste around the world by seeing that waste precisely as a valuable resource. Because it’s no secret: sustainability
In the arty Paris district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Stockholm design studio Halleroed has designed a new boutique for French bag and luggage brand L/Uniform. Taking cues from the brand’s simple, rational approach to design, Halleroed design lead Ruxandra Halleröd created a series of backdrops that allow the products to “pop out in a beautiful way”. Halleroed has
At DesignWanted we enjoy a good play on words, especially when it comes to design. That’s why we’re fans of the moniker of Stockholm-based design studio Form Us With Love (FUWL), which playfully swaps out “From” with “Form”, underscoring the importance of form as an essential pillar of design. And while we’ve already featured past articles
Furniture designMarcus Engman, Creative Director at Ingka Group (IKEA Retail), provides an inside look into the brand’s “Assembling the Future Together” exhibit that marks the company’s 80th anniversary, as well as where the company is headedMilan isn’t just the business, financial and fashion capital of Italy: it’s also home to Milan Design Week (MDW), the
How to identify concrete distress in a visual inspection report, Concrete distress refers to the…
Today, in our final round-up (see parts one + two) related to the Slow Hand Design exhibition, we meet several design duos whose mutual passion for sustainability has transformed their perspective on production, and the artist Wishulada Panthanuvong who transforms single-use plastics and other waste into magnificent art works, all with the aim of changing
For the renovation of a house in Toronto’s West End, local firm Studio Vaaro added minimally detailed millwork to form kitchen cabinetry, the staircase and a feature bookcase in the living room. Studio Vaaro’s overhaul of House M, a three-storey detached property that had been renovated and extended multiple times over the years, involved reconfiguring
Translucent concrete provides a revolutionary way to bring in natural light while providing structural and…
