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Bernardo Richter arranges his brickwork house in Brazil around a courtyard

04-01-2020 19:00

Architect Bernardo Richter took cues from a holiday home by Alvar Aalto when designing this brick house in Curitiba, Brazil.
Courtyard House is located in a residential condominium in the Brazilian city. Richter, the founder of Brazilian studio Arquea Arquitetos built the one storey, 250 square-metre residence for himself.
Richter designed the property to reference Alvar Aalto's experimental Muuratsalo house, which the Finnish architect also completed for himself in 1953 as a summer holiday home

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Black pavilion filled with glass yams examines colonisation in Australia

04-01-2020 13:00

Hundreds of black glass yams line the interior of this cylindrical pavilion in Victoria, Australia, designed by architecture studio Edition Office - Dezeen's Emerging architect of the year - and artist Yhonnie Scarce.
Titled In Absence, the pavilion explores the physical legacy of Aboriginal people's dispossession as a result of colonial land theft in the 18th century.
It's the winner of the National Gallery of Victoria's (NGV) fifth architecture competition, which invites practices to propose a

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Studio Holmberg designs pine-clad holiday home to blends into Swedish seaside setting

04-01-2020 11:00

This pine-clad summer house on a rocky outcrop on a small island in Sweden's archipelago of Gothenburg features minimal plywood interiors designed to highlight the island's dramatic landscape.
Created as a holiday home for a retired couple, Villa Vassdal was designed by Gothenburg-based Studio Holmberg to blend with its coastal surrounds.The house is built on an island with historical connections to Gothenburg's fishing and shipping industries. Today the island consists of family houses that are

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Studio Holmberg designs pine-clad holiday home to blend into Swedish seaside setting

04-01-2020 11:00

This pine-clad summer house on a rocky outcrop on a small island in Sweden's archipelago of Gothenburg features minimal plywood interiors designed to highlight the island's dramatic landscape.
Created as a holiday home for a retired couple, Villa Vassdal was designed by Gothenburg-based Studio Holmberg to blend with its coastal surrounds.The house is built on an island with historical connections to Gothenburg's fishing and shipping industries. Today the island consists of family houses that are

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This week, we looked back on 2019 and forward to 2020

04-01-2020 09:00

This week on Dezeen, we looked back at the biggest architecture and design stories of 2019, and looked forward to the upcoming projects of the new year.
To bring 2019 to a close, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft rounded up the most popular stories of the past 12 months, which included architects and designers' alternative proposals for rebuilding the Notre-Dame Cathedral after the fire in April.
The list also included Elon Musk's Neuralink project, which saw the entrepreneur reveal plans to build i

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