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Eight kitchens with striking material palettes of contrasting colours and textures

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The kitchens in this roundup exemplify how a combination of seemingly clashing materials can create a rich and interesting palette. Here are eight kitchens with eye-catching material palettes made up of contrasting colours and textures. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Important Portals: 6 Residential Designs Where Traditional Arches Meet Contemporary Concepts

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Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. To reflect on these questions, this collection examines a diverse array of residential buildings from around the globe that integrate arches as integral elements of both their exteriors and interiors. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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UNStudio completes Shanghai flagship store for Huawei behind ‘petal’ facade

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Designed in collaboration with Huawei’s internal design team, the store seeks to create an “experience-rich concept that brings people, nature, and technology together and caters to consumer preferences.”

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Lefteris Tsikandilakis Designs Luxurious Elysium Caved Villas Concept

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Project Status: Concept. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? Lefteris Tsikandilakis: Crete with its natural topography, its intense contrasts, the wild nature, and the sun have been the main inspiration for this study. What drove the selection of materials used in the project?

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The Future of Materials: 7 Quirky Buildings Clad in Cork

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For over 5000 years humans have understood the material benefits of cork. The material is sourced from the bark of cork oaks — found mainly along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea — and for centuries has been used to make floating devices, seals for containers and sandals. Register here ! 042_Corkscrew House. The Hill Cork House.

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Future Materials: Kengo Kuma’s Shingle, Scale and Stone Façades

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Architecture is defined by materials. One of the most significant designers in contemporary architecture, Kengo Kuma ’s work builds upon a legacy of Japanese craftsmanship while rethinking how we use materials. The exterior walls include 2,500 cast stone panels hung on gently sloped walls curving vertically and horizontally.

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A Net-Zero Mountain Retreat Looks to the Past for Inspiration

Dwell

Photo by Mikel Amias For Barber, the English picturesque informed the home’s design and siting—he found himself particularly inspired by period drawings of ruined castles and abbeys in the landscape. "We The house was to be our ‘ruin in the landscape.’"