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Demolition Is Dead. The Future of Sustainable Architecture Lies in Deconstruction

Architizer

This ritual of demolition and construction, whether at the scale of an entire building or an interior renovation, perpetuates a cycle of unsustainable material renewal that heavily contributes to the built environment’s carbon emissions — up to 50% of the annual global total.

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Miniview: Mondrian Singapore Duxton deconstructs the shophouse

Hotel Designs

Carter was taken with the big idea of the deconstructed shophouse. Rather than a direct translation, we took its parts and deconstructed it into contemporary forms,” she explained. Helping provide sparkle to the space are psychedelic, kaleidoscopic artworks, visual cocktails composed of photos of exotic blooms.

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Birmingham City University spotlights 10 interior architecture and design projects

Deezen

Course: Interior Architecture and Design. School statement: "The Interior Architecture and Design course's mission is to develop autonomous agents of positive change – graduates capable and eager to define their own career path, equipped with capabilities to challenge the status quo and able to thrive in ever-changing contexts.

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Cantilevered Serra Residence in Brazil includes stair-side slides

Deezen

Brazilian architect Marcelo Couto and landscape designer Rodrigo Oliveira have created a cantilevering house with multiple courtyards and an interior staircase with a slide attached in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo. The concrete house with delicate wooden screens and heavy weathering steel elements is known as the Serra Residence.

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Product watch: introducing Earth Collection from Red Dog Glass Design

Hotel Designs

Featuring earthy tones and patterns that are inspired by nature, the Earth Collection offers a visually exciting way to bring the outdoors inside. Deep Forest transports any interior into a world of towering trees, lush green foliage and an ever-changing palette of colours and textures.

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Eight pared-back kitchens with minimalist storage solutions

Deezen

Sometimes the simple solutions are the best, as seen in this lookbook featuring tidy kitchen interiors where minimalist closed cabinets are combined with decorative materials. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Wexner Center for the Arts is "a building that is waiting to be a building"

Deezen

As we continue our deconstructivist series , we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman , which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.". I never had heard the term deconstruction when I did the Wexner centre," Eisenman told Dezeen. "I It's just not.

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