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I am loving Paul Cocksedge’s play of materials with the Compressed Marble Sofa. Stunning.

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.” – Henry Miller

Local studio LaRue Architects and interior designer Kelle Contine have renovated a home in the Rollingwood neighbourhood of Austin, adding a bedroom that cantilevers over the back terrace. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: American brand Carnegie Fabrics has released its Hygeia collection of performance textiles, designed to meet the high resilience and hygiene requirements of healthcare environments. Read more

London studio Oliver Leech Architects used a palette of weathered stone and larch to complete Cotswolds House, a timber-framed home in rural Warwickshire. Read more

Architects Thom Mayne, Peter Cook, Reinier de Graaf and others explain the thinking behind the planned mega-city The Line in a recently released, 45-minute-long documentary. Read more

The brutalist Mäusebunker laboratory has been saved from demolition in Berlin after the local authorities listed it as a historical monument. Read more

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has dismissed scepticism of The Line and claimed personal involvement in the design of the mega city in a recent documentary. Read more

It is not something we would like to admit, but a lot of modern websites are simply terrible. The level of intrusive advertisements, pop-ups, and interruptions to the user’s browsing experience has reached ridiculous levels.  All this for what purpose? Some believe that digital ads are not even worth the hype. An analysis of Facebook …

Today, cloud computing is everywhere – it’s changing the way businesses store and access information, reducing costs while increasing flexibility. To ensure you harness this technology to your advantage, it’s important to understand the different deployment models available: public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. These three distinct options offer varying pros and cons across …