This week on Dezeen, we published photos of the inside of Buckingham Palace’s newly refurbished east wing.
Opened to the public for the first time in its 175-year history earlier this month, the chinoiserie interiors contain porcelain lions, nine-tiered pagodas and a lotus-shaped chandelier.
The wing also contains the room with the palace’s famed balcony that overlooks the Mall.
In architecture news, Portuguese studio OODA unveiled the latest eye-catching design set to be built in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
Named Bond Tower, the studio designed a pair of connected skyscrapers that bend away and towards each other.
In France, the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux designed by Dutch studio OMA opened to the public.
Described by the studio as “anti-iconic”, the bridge is overly wide with a 28-metre-wide unprogrammed public space.
“Our design for the Simone Veil Bridge is like a stage but without the theatre,” explained OMA partner Chris van Duijn.
In design news, technology company Dyson unveiled its first audio-only headphones with the aim of disrupting the market.
“At Dyson, we are driven by the opportunity to disrupt established categories,” Dyson principal industrial designer Phil Douglas told Dezeen.
“The Dyson OnTrac is our first standalone pair of headphones,” he continued. “So, our main aim was to create a piece of technology which really serves its primary purpose well – to create a pair of headphones that people want to listen to.”
Ahead of the Olympics starting next week, Swiss running brand On unveiled its latest trainer, which will be worn by athletes at the Games.
Named Cloudboom Strike LS, the trainer is topped with a lightweight, low-carbon upper created by spraying filament using a robotic arm.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a lookout on a Belgium beach, a multi-generational Melbourne home made with pale bricks and a giant bubble added to a century-old Japanese house.
Our latest lookbooks featured interiors with exposed structural ceiling beams and interiors brightened by clerestory windows.
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