This week on Dezeen, we featured a micro home built within a decommissioned wind turbine.
Designed by Dutch studio Blade-Made, the wood-lined house was created as a prototype to demonstrate how wind turbines could be reused at the end of their working life.
It was one of four concepts created to investigate the reuse of wind turbines for a project led by Swedish energy provider Vattenfall and the Dutch Design Foundation.
In design news, a pair of major brands unveiled subtle rebrands to their extremely well-known logos.
Google updated its G logo for the first time in 10 years, with the formerly distinct colours now blurred with a smooth gradient.
Meanwhile, Amazon simplified its distinct smile logo in the first update for 20 years.
We continued to report from the Venice Architecture Biennale, where Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Canal Cafe and the Bahrain national pavilion (pictured) won Golden Lions.
We also looked at the key themes from the main exhibition, took a look at the robots featured at the biennale and spoke to Norman Foster about touchscreens in cars.
In other architecture news, the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam opened to the public.
Set within a 16,000-square-metre warehouse in Rotterdam’s City Harbour that was converted by restoration consultants Bureau Polderman, the museum is topped with a viewpoint by MAD.
The viewpoint is accessed by a pair of giant helical staircases that wind up from the ground floor of the building and out from its roof.
We also took a look at some of the most extraordinary homes on Dezeen in a round-up of houses that it’s hard to believe are actually houses.
The house ranged from the startlingly industrial-looking to the downright surreal.
Popular projects this week included a group of holiday cabins in Kazakhstan, an “unfussy and honest” home in New Zealand and the renovation of Ray Kappe’s Glass Ridge House in LA.
Our latest lookbook featured homes where poured resin floors provide a colourful backdrop.
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