Competition: win a Tolomeo desk lamp by Artemide

In our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with David Village Lighting to give away an Artemide Tolomeo Micro Bicolor desk lamp in one of four colours options.

David Village Lighting is a furniture and lighting dealer that is an authorised stockists of over 70 designer brands including Milan's Artemide.

This includes the Tolomeo Micro Bicolour, a limited-edition version of the Italian company's Tolomeo Micro desk lamp, which was first designed in 1986 by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina.

The name bicolor was chosen because of the product's black body and base, which is contrasted by a lamp head available in four colours: yellow, blue, white and coral.

One reader based in Europe will receive one lamp in the colour of their choice.

"Designed for Artemide, the Tolomeo's design reflects their philosophy of 'the human light' – which refers to their objective to redesign lighting to improve quality of life by illuminating spaces to the requirement of the people," said David Village Lighting.

Tolomeo Micro Bicolour has an articulated arm that allows the user to adjust the lamp to a desirable angle. The lamp head is also connected with joints so that light can be directed in any direction.

There is a small opening at the top of the lampshade that diffuses light upwards. Other details of the design include strings that extend over the arm joints and cylindrical silver pulls that can be used to adjust the position.

As part of Artemide's #GreenActionArtemide campaign – the brand's endeavour to be more environmentally conscious – 99 per cent of the paint residue used on the lamp is recovered minimising the release of chemicals into the environment.

Additionally, each fixture is equipped with a low-energy LED light bulb.

Artemide was founded in 1960 by Ernesto Gismondi. It has 55 showrooms around the world and distributes its products in 98 countries.

Following the success of the original Tolomeo lamp design, Artemide expanded the collection of fixtures to comprise floor lamps, wall lights, table lamps and outdoor lights in a number of finishes.

The Tolomeo lamp is part of the permanent museum collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art.

Competition closes 30 March 2020. One winner will be selected at random and notified by email. The competition is only open to readers in Europe due to the compatibility with the lamp.

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Kenoteq launches brick made almost entirely of construction waste

Scottish startup Kenoteq has launched the K-Briq – a more sustainable building brick that is unfired and made of 90 per cent construction waste.

Invented by engineering professor Gabriela Medero at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University, the K-Briq generates less than a tenth of the carbon emissions in its manufacture than a regular brick.

Medero spent over 10 years developing the product at the Scottish university, driven by the desire to reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry.

"I have spent many years researching building materials and have been concerned that modern construction techniques exploit raw materials without considering that they are amongst the largest contributors to carbon emissions," she said. "The amount of waste they produce is not sustainable long-term."

Medero co-founded Kenoteq to put the bricks into commercial production, which is now underway.

According to Medero, the K-Briq looks like a normal brick, weighs the same and behaves like a clay brick, but offers better insulation properties. Kenoteq can produce it in any colour.

As well as saving energy in the manufacturing process, Kenoteq cuts emissions by producing the bricks locally. It points out that currently up to 85 per cent of bricks used in Scotland are imported from England or Europe, which is not sustainable in the long-term.

Kenoteq is producing its bricks on-site at Hamilton's Waste and Recycling in Edinburgh, minimising the amount of transport required in the process.

"We are proud to be scaling it up to meet both the needs of the construction industry and to support the sustainability targets of both the Scottish and UK governments," said Medero.

Several materials researchers have come up with ways to improve the brick in recent years to make it more environmentally friendly, although the results have rarely made it into mass production.

One of the most interesting examples is from Suzanne Lambert at the University of Cape Town, who created a zero-waste brick that hardens at room temperature, thanks to human urine.

Another is from the Indian School of Design and Innovation's Shreyas More and Meenal Sutaria, who used loofah to make a brick that encourages plant and insect life to live on its surface.

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Arches puncture floors and walls of Glebe House by Chenchow Little Architects

Chenchow Little Architects has completed a house in the Glebe suburb of Sydney featuring upside-down arches in the walls and curved openings in the floors.

Glebe House is designed to playfully reference its neighbour – a Victorian terrace with decorative arched windows.

Instead of matching these arches, Chenchow Little Architects chose to use them in various other ways.

On the facades, the shapes are turned upside-down to create large, high-level windows with views of the Sydney skyline.

Arched openings also create voids between the house's two floor levels, emphasised by an accompanying spiral staircase.

"Unlike traditional Victorian houses, the arched openings in the Glebe House occur in both elevation and on plan," explained the studio, which is led by architects Tony Chenchow and Stephanie Little.

"The arched windows on the elevation align with arched cutouts in the floor-plate to create three-dimensional internal voids within the space."

Glebe House is the residence of a family of five. Previously, the site was home to an old cottage, but this was demolished to make room.

The shape of the house was dictated by surrounding buildings, which also include a 1980s housing block.

To respect setbacks from these existing properties, as well as the sight lines from their windows, only one volume was possible on the site.

This shape is roughly four-sided in plan, but the northeast end is significantly wider than the southwest end, and there are some angular setbacks at the building's corners.

Inside the building the layout is kept fairly simple, to allow the geometry of the arches to be fully expressed.

The ground floor is largely open-plan, containing a kitchen, dining area and living space, and a connecting sheltered terrace. This terrace is fronted by the only arched window with a traditional orientation.

Upstairs, rooms are organised either side of a central corridor, which is punctured by curved openings in three places. There are four bedrooms on this floor, including a master suite with an additional two floor openings.

"The double-height voids maximise light penetration into the centre of the dwelling and add to the sense of space," added the studio.

Textural material finishes were chosen both inside and out. White-painted timber boards are arranged vertically across the facade, as well as in the living space and bedrooms, while the bathrooms feature hexagonal mosaic tiles.

Timber also features often, on flooring, partition walls and kitchen cabinets. Vertical timber mullions also provide the necessary support to the upside-down arched windows.

"The vertical mullions of the windows reinforce the verticality and rhythm of the cladding and help to abstract the facades of the dwelling," said the architects.

Chenchow Little Architects often works on quirky residential projects. The studio was longlisted for a Dezeen Award in 2018 for its Darling Point Apartment.

Photography is by Peter Bennetts.

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Jeffrey Dungan Architects builds Harrison Residence on Florida waterfront

Alabama practice Jeffrey Dungan Architects has modelled this white-rendered concrete house in Florida's Panhandle on a range of architectural styles.

Harrison Residence is in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, a small town on the Gulf of Mexico known for its white sandy beaches and clear water. It forms part of a greater area in the northwest of the state called the Panhandle after its shape.

Jeffrey Dungan Architects built the three-storey home next to a nature preserve and a coastal dune lake, Draper Lake, which Dungan notes is a unique natural occurrence.

"They are extremely rare and only occur in about four other places in the world: Madagascar, New Zealand, Australia and Oregon," Jeffrey Dungan told Dezeen. "These are unique ecosystems."

"The dunes are all that separate the lakes from the Gulf of Mexico and during storms the dunes are breached and the fresh and saltwater mix," he added.

The architect created the waterfront home in an L-shape with cast-in-place concrete, used to withstand the region's hurricanes and storms. White stucco covers the facade and makes the project stand out against its dense pine and shrub surrounds.

Dungan created the house for clients who enjoy travelling but who also wanted a beach home to relax in.

It features a fusion Mediterranean and more historic European architectural styles as seen in the arched doorways, dark gridded windows, curved lines and wood details.

"The clients love to travel all over the world and in some ways they have a bohemian kind of bent, so intuitively I wanted the house to speak in a European accent, but also it's a beach house, so there should be something playful about it," Dungan said.

The layout comprises a living room, two bedrooms with ensuites, and a covered outdoor sitting area on the ground floor.

The ground level is elevated to take cues from an element of Renaissance architecture known as a piano nobile. It was chosen by the architect "to make the most of views and also to take advantage of breezes coming up from the ocean."

A staircase in the entry leads to an open-plan kitchen and dining room upstairs, as well as a living room, master suite and office. Also located on the first floor are a screened-in outdoor area, a terrace and an outdoor shower.

The top floor contains a sitting nook and a bathroom. Rounding out the residence is a two-car garage, located below the master bedroom.

The interior design features contemporary designs that contrast with the classical architectural elements of the building.

A monochrome colour palette of whites and creams drives the decor with black accents for contrast, including window trim. Pale wood covers most of the floors and ceilings.

"I am always trying to have a sense of history in my homes, and yet 'historical' is the last thing I would ever want to be said about my work," Dungan said.

"I'm always after something that feels organic and alive," he continued. "I love movement in architecture in lieu of stiff and rigid places that suck the life out of you."

Harrison Residence is located in the Florida Panhandle, a region that is closer to Alabama and Mississippi than it is to more well-known Florida cities such as Miami and Orlando.

Dungan's studio, which he founded in 1999, is based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Florida is home to many waterfront properties, including San Marino Residence by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, a concrete home by Studio MK27  and a villa by filmmaker Alejandro Landes, and all of which are in Miami.

Photography is by William Abranowicz.

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