Burnt-red tiles and hessian feature inside Dough Pizza restaurant in Perth

Interior design firm Ohlo Studio used materials that evoke the "rustic sophistication" of Italy to create the interiors of Dough Pizza restaurant in Perth.

Dough Pizza takes over a unit of Westfield Whitford City shopping centre which lies just north of central Perth.

Locally based Ohlo Studio was tasked with designing the interiors and set out to create an aesthetic that, like the restaurant's name, is "timeless and no-fuss".

The studio also wanted the space to texturally reflect Italy and the country's "rustic sophistication".

"It needed to evoke a distinct atmosphere and personality reinforcing the cultural heritage behind the food," explained the studio.

On one side of the restaurant, burnt-red tiles have been used to line the lower half of the wall.

Just in front lies a seating banquette upholstered in taupe-coloured fabric, accompanied by wooden tables and white wicker dining chairs. Slim disc-like pendant lights have been suspended from the ceiling directly overhead.

The same red tiles clad the central bar counter. It's surrounded by wooden fold-out high chairs, where customers can sit and eat within view of the open kitchen or grab a quick drink.

A wall on the opposite side of the restaurant has been completely lined in hessian, which extends down to cover a chunky plinth that runs in front.

The plinth serves as a base for a series of tobacco-hued cushioned seats that can be easily pushed together or apart to suit different-sized groups of diners.

Homely decor elements such as ceramic vases, potted plants and tiny lamps have been dotted throughout to evoke the same feel as a "neighbourhood Italian espresso bar".

Large photographic prints that capture scenes from sun-drenched Italian beaches have also been mounted on the walls.

In a bid to contrast the commercial setting of the shopping centre, the studio has applied the same selection of warm materials used inside the restaurant to its exterior.

"The tiled bar puncturing the facade also activates the boundary and creates a playful entry," added the studio.

Ohlo Studio was founded by interior architect Jen Lowe and is based in Perth's South Fremantle suburb.

The studio's Dough Pizza project is one of several trendy Italian eateries across Australia. Others include Glorietta by Alexander & Co, which features wooden furnishings and a caged rattan ceiling.

There's also Pentolina by Biasol, which has worn concrete walls and pink-marble fixtures to emulate the materiality of Ancient Rome.

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Four chocolate trademark battles that were decided in court

Ritter Sport's recent court victory over Milka is the latest in a series of long-running legal battles to trademark the design of chocolate bars. Here we round up four of the tastiest disputes.

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KitKat vs Kvikk Lunsj

KitKat's tearable, four-stick design in the UK was the focus of an almost two-decade-long legal battle between Swiss company Nestlé and Cadbury, which is owned by American confectionary giant Mondelez.

Nestle, which owns the KitKat brand, had been arguing the case against the owners of rival Norwegian four-fingered chocolate bar Kvikk Lunsj since it filed a registration with the European Intellectual Property Office in 2002. This was appealed by Cadbury and a back and forth legal case began in 2007.

A European Union General Court ruling from late 2016 found that that the bar had acquired "distinctive character through use" in the UK, but this was over-ruled by the UK Court of Appeal in 2017.

This decision was confirmed by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in 2018, which deemed that the shape of the chocolate bar was not distinctive enough to amount to a European-wide trademark. Country specific trademarks for KitKat still exist in some European countries including Germany and Italy.

Originally called Rowntree's chocolate crisp, the first KitKat was produced in 1935, while Kvikk Lunsj came to the market in 1937.

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Cadbury vs Nestlé 

Nestlé and Cadbury also entered into another long-running battle over the colour purple. Cadbury trademarked the "predominant" use of its signature Pantone 2685C purple, which it had been using for over 100 years, for "chocolate in bar or tablet form" in 1995.

However, when it attempted to expand this trademark to cover its other products in 2004 it was challenged by Nestlé with the case ending up in the court system for several years.

Cadbury appeared to have won the legal battle with a UK High Court ruling in its favour in 2012. However, this was overturned at appeal in Court of Appeal in 2013 as trademarking a colour was considered too broad.

In 2018, Cadbury unsuccessfully attempted to update the wording of its original trademark for chocolate bars, which it finally dropped in 2019.

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Ritter Sport vs Milka

Mondelēz-owned brand Milka challenged Ritter Sport's monopoly on selling square chocolate bars in Germany.

The result of a 10-year legal battle saw Ritter Sport come out victorious. The back-and-forth dispute began in 2010 after Milka was challenged by Ritter Sport for selling a quadratic chocolate bar.

The Mondelēz-owned brand was initially successful in winning the rights to also sell square bars in 2016, but this was dismissed in 2017.

The case was closed when Germany's highest court upheld this decision earlier this year, declaring that the square chocolate configuration was the sole property of Ritter Sport.

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Poundland vs Toblerone

Mondelez found itself on the winning side of this legal battle UK discount retailer Poundland over Toblerone.

Poundland made a challenge to the trademark of Mondelez-owned Toberlone in 2017 when it was set to release a similarly shaped chocolate bar called Twin Peaks.

Poundland claimed its chocolate bar's Poundland form was taken from the shape of Wrekin Hill in Shropshire, unlike the Toberlone, which has a pyramidal shape said to be a version of the Alps' iconic Matterhorn.

When the case was taken to court, Poundland argued that a savings-driven redesign of the Toblerone bar that had larger gaps between the chocolate pyramids had diluted the trademark.

Eventually, Poundland entered into negotiations with Mondelez and released a modified bar with asymmetrically arranged sloped hills instead of peaked mountains.

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This week, architects criticised Autodesk's BIM software

This week on Dezeen, a group of 17 of the UK's leading architecture studios wrote a letter to American software maker Autodesk criticising the cost and lack of development of its Revit application.

In the letter, the architecture studios, which included Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, stated that the rising cost of Building Information Modelling (BIM) software Revit was damaging their businesses.

"Where once Autodesk Revit was the industry enabler to smarter working, it increasingly finds itself a constraint and bottleneck," it said.

In response to the letter, Autodesk vowed that it would listen to the feedback from its customers and would make addressing their concerns its "top priority".

Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in diamond scales

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro's US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado opened its door this week.

The museum is covered in diamond-shaped scales, while its galleries are arranged around a spiralling ramp to make it one of the most accessible museums in the world.

Seymourpowell designs Virgin Galactic spaceship cabin to maximise views of Earth

In transport news, London-based Seymourpowell revealed its design for a spaceship cabin that will be used by Virgin Galactic within its Virgin Spaceship Unity to six passengers on a sub-orbital flight into space. The cabin is designed to maximise views of Earth during the journey.

Transport designer PriestmanGoode also released its design for a cabin, but this time slightly closer to Earth. It envisioned how aircraft cabin interiors will look following the coronavirus pandemic.

ASICS creates face mask for exercising during the coronavirus pandemic

Also responding to the pandemic, Sportswear brand ASICS released a face mask that contains vents so that people can wear it while working out.

The coronavirus continued to impact events with the organisers of the Consumer Electronics Show making the decision to cancel next year's January event in Las Vegas and replaced it with an online version.

See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

World's tallest prefabricated skyscrapers set to be built in Singapore

In Singapore, local architecture studio ADDP has designed a pair of 56-storey skyscrapers that will be the tallest prefabricated buildings in the world when they complete in 2026.

The towers will be 60 metres taller than the previous tallest modular building, the 140-metre-high Clement Canopy built by Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International, which is also in Singapore.

Zaha Hadid Architects unveils Roatán Próspera housing complex for Honduras

In other architecture news, Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled its design for a modular housing project that will be built on the Caribbean island of Roatán of the coast of Honduras.

In the UK, Twelve Architects designed 60 holiday home that will directly overlook the race track at Silverstone – home of the British Grand Prix.

Frankie Pappas threads skinny house through South African forest

Popular projects on Dezeen this week include a 3.3-metres-wide house that Frankie Pappas threaded through the forest in South Africa, a small studio in rural Ecuador with a straw roof and wood framing designed by architecture student David Guambo and a holiday home in New Zealand by Fearon Hay Architects concealed by black shutters and a concrete wall.

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Ethereal Underwater Photographs by Elinleticia Högabo Glimpse the Subjects Below the Surface

All images © Elinleticia Högabo, shared with permission

As a child, Elinleticia Högabo had a troubled relationship with water. Despite a deep fascination with its dreamy qualities, she avoided swimming below the surface or in any areas of considerable depth after two traumatic experiences in which she almost drowned. When she was chosen for an exhibition that centered on rusalka—a female creature similar to a mermaid that’s found in Slavic folklore—Högabo tried to capture shots of her submerged subjects from above before realizing she had to plunge in. “But in search (of) better and better pictures, I finally got myself an underwater camera and went down in the silent world. The silent world concept is from the fact that under the water surface, it’s a silent world where you, as fully hearing people, hear as little (as) me,” says the photographer, who was born with a hearing impairment.

Today, Högabo gladly dives into lakes and other bodies with her camera in tow. She captures singular subjects or duos as they breach the water’s surface or descend to the algae-laden floor. Through ripples and small bubbles, the water disguises the models and their exact positions and gestures, which blurs any distinct features and perceptions of depth.

Based in southern Sweden, the photographer tells Colossal that she outlines the details of most photographs in advance, although she generally alters her plans in the moment. “The location, the water, the models, the bugs that might crawl by—all create conditions for the creation,” Högabo says. A multi-disciplinary artist, she styles and provides makeup artistry on-site, as well.

To follow Högabo’s shots that explore the perspective-altering abilities of water, head to Instagram. (via aint—bad)

 

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Two-storey bookshelf rises inside renovated Madrid house

Spanish architecture firm Zooco Estudio has covered the walls of this Madrid residence with bookshelves that span two levels.

House 6 is a detached single-family home located in northern Madrid. Local studio Zooco Estudio overhauled the residence contrasting white interiors with pale wood cabinetry and herringbone patterned flooring.

The centrepiece of the design is a white shelving unit that extends two floors and wraps around the walls of the house's living room and dining area.

On the lower level, the volume comprises dozens of rectangular cases for storing books, movies and electronics, including a mounted television. A series of narrow cubbies also occupy the space between a glass dining table and entryway creating storage for hanging apparel.

"As a unifying element, a shelf rises colonising both living and lobby spaces," the studio said. "This way we integrate aesthetic and functionality in one single element."

The shelves continue on the upper level with a rectangular volume along a hallway. Pendant light fixtures hang from the ceiling to illuminate the floor below.

In the kitchen, pale oak fronts the cabinetry and details the base of a white kitchen island. White tiles form the splashback behind the sink and cover the rectangular range hood hanging above the island.

A spiral staircase with black metal steps is carved into the wall to create a sculptural focal point within the space.

Upstairs the bedroom and bathrooms are concealed by a wall of slender wooden slats lacquered white. The narrow strips separate the master bedroom from the bathroom. A section of the millwork is intentionally left open to expose the shower.

"A continuous view was required so you can see through the slats to the shower," the studio added. "However, the private areas of the bathroom are completely hidden."

In the bathroom the studio has covered the walls and floors with white tiles and blue grouting. A geometric counter clad with blue tiles snakes across the ground and up the wall to form a storage closet in the space.

Zooco Estudio is an architecture firm with offices in Madrid and Santander founded by Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito and Sixto Martín Martínez. The studio has also completed an art centre in Verín that comprises several granite buildings and a child play area built out of wood for a co-working office in Santa Monica, California.

Other renovation projects in Madrid include a house with a permeable metal sculpture designed by Beta Ø Architects and an apartment by Lucas y Hernández Gil with sliding wall partitions.

Photography is by Imagen Subliminal.

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Project credits:

Project manager: Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito, Sixto Martín Martínez
Construction: Nimbo Proyectos S L
Lighting: Zooco Estudio
Furniture design: Zooco Estudio

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