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Wabi-sabi philosophy guides design of accessible coastal home in Australia

Australian studio Dane Taylor Design has completed Butterfly House, an accessible coastal home in New South Wales that is informed by Japanese aesthetics.

Toyo Ito completes "largest wooden building in Asia"

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has completed Gaia, a six-storey business school at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore that is built almost entirely from mass timber.

Keiji Ashizawa designs "home-like" The Conran Shop in Hillside Terrace

Designer Keiji Ashizawa has devised the interiors of The Conran Shop Daikanyama in Tokyo, which is located inside a building by architect Fumihiko Maki and spotlights products from Japan and Asia.

"Why can't we have nice things like this in the US?" says commenter

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a Christ & Gantenbein-designed concrete bridge in Aarau, Switzerland, which features five arches of varying widths.

V&A Dundee exhibition "busts some important myths" about Tartan

Curator Mhairi Maxwell has selected five key items from the V&A Dundee's Tartan exhibition, which aims to "take a radical new look" at the pattern.

BAO Mary draws on "utilitarian design" of Taiwanese dumpling shops

London's latest BAO restaurant is modelled on the liveliness of Taiwan's dumpling shops, with designer MATHs opening up its shopfront to "allow people to spill out".

The Lodge hotel takes over 500-year-old farmhouse in Mallorca

A roughly-hewn stone trough and a traditional mill for pressing olive oil were repurposed by interior designer Pilar García-Nieto within this farmhouse-turned-hotel near Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana mountain range.

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Hawaiian heritage informs Wayfinder Waikiki hotel by The Vanguard Theory

Honolulu design studio The Vanguard Theory has created interiors for a hotel on Waikiki Beach that "embrace the brutalist architecture" of the building, while adding tropical touches to the decor.

Veggro collection by Interesting Times Gang and OBOS

Dezeen Showroom: design studio Interesting Times Gang has collaborated with cooperative homebuilder OBOS to produce Veggro, a range of partitions made from mycelium and orange peel.

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