Thirty architect-designed kitchens to fantasise about

Looking for inspiration for your dream kitchen during lockdown? We've rounded up 30 of the most amazing examples to pore over while stuck at home.

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Home Farm by John Pawson

British architect  John Pawson designed three kitchens for his own retreat, Home Farm, including this minimal kitchen with pale lime plaster walls.

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Paris Apartment by Atelier Sagitta

An emerald-green apartment is the focal point of this apartment in Paris overhauled by Atelier Sagitta, which features grooved cupboards made of oak by a local cabinet maker.

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Makers House by Liddicoat & Goldhill

Deep blue cabinets provide a contrast to the exposed brick walls,  steel beams and polished concrete floor of this London home.

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Stine Goya's House by Reform 

Danish brand Reform gave a standard IKEA kitchen set a glitzy golden makeover for the house of a Copenhagen-based fashion designer.

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Caroline Place by Amin Taha

Cherrywood cabinets and a kitchen island topped by dark brass surfaces feature in this 1950s house in London updated by Amin Taha Architects.

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Shelter by Vipp

An all-black kitchen sits underneath a light chimney in this steel-framed prefabricated cabin with floor-to-ceiling glazing.

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Slab House by Bureau de Change Architects

Every surface of this kitchen designed for a London house extension by Bureau de Change Architects is blue, including the ceiling and the resin floor.

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Oscar Freire Apartment by Claudia Bresciani and Júlia Risi

Bright white square tiles and baby pink cabinets define this kitchen in São Paulo, which has a walk-in pantry that's painted turquoise.

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The Olive Houses by Mar Plus Ask 

The sink and stovetop of this off-grid house in Mallorca, Spain, overlook an ancient olive grove framed by pink-stucco walls.

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House in Los Velos by Ryue Nishizawa

A jaw-dropping view of the ocean provides the backdrop to this kitchen made of wood in a house built on a spit of land jutting into the Pacific Ocean in Chile. All the kitchen elements are housed in three central islands, leaving the windows unobstructed.

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The Parchment Works by Will Gamble Architects

This kitchen built in the ruins of a cattle shed and a 17th-century parchment factory in England features exposed timber beams.

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Glyn House by Yellow Cloud Studio

Yellow Cloud Studio created a kitchen island using black terrazzo with oversized chunks as a counterpoint to the pale oak cupboards and splashback of terracotta tiles in this London extension.

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Kew Residence by John Wardle Architects

The founder of John Wardle Architects used specially sourced Japanese ceramic tiles for the kitchen while remodelling his house in Melbourne, Australia.

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Cabin at Rones by Sanden+Hodnekvam Arkitekter 

Big windows make the most of the views from this kitchen in a cabin on a rocky outcrop in Norway, featuring simple birch plywood furniture and a concrete floor.

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House P by MDDM Studio

Chunky terrazzo used for the island and the splashback contrasts with the bright yellow walls and teal cupboards of this kitchen for an apartment in Beijing by MDDM Studio.

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Hood Cliff Retreat by Wittman Estes

The kitchen opens right out onto the deck of this cabin in the Pacific Northwest designed by Wittman Estes. A pass-through window allows the outdoor grill to become a seamless culinary extension.

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Parisian Apartment by SABO Project

SABO Project designed this apartment in Paris to be as kid-friendly as possible with a birch plywood kitchen complete with a cosy nook for the family's pet cat to retreat to.

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Z House by Geza

Z House is a gabled house set into the slopes of an Alpine village in Italy. The dark kitchen of steel and wood is designed as a backdrop to the sweeping views of the mountains.

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Mixtape Apartment by Azab

Architecture studio Azab gave a 1960s apartment in Bilbao a fun makeover centred on a baby-pink kitchen with wood-trimmed cupboards and a mosaic-style herringbone tiled floor.

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The Mantelpiece Loft by Note Design Studio

The sage-green kitchen of this reconfigured apartment in Stockholm, Sweden, has contrasting countertops of terrazzo flecked with orange stone.

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Edinburgh Apartment by Luke and Joanne McClelland

This refurbished Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, has an open plan kitchen with herringbone floors made of oak and affordable kitchen units from IKEA.

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Flat House by Practice Architecture

The hemp walls of this house on a farm in Cambridgeshire are a feature in the kitchen, which has sunshine-yellow cupboards below floating wooden shelves.

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Marine Extension by David Barr Architects

David Barr Architects used pale birch plywood for this bright kitchen in Perth, Australia, which displays a crockery collection on open shelves hanging from the ceiling.

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Duplex in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi by Arquitectura-G

Bright yellow is a theme in this Barcelona apartment designed by Arquitectura-G. The kitchen is no exception, with lemon-coloured square tiles to contrast the brushed steel worktop.

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Casa Mille by Fabio Fantolino

Copper handles accent the blue-green cabinets of the kitchen with herringbone floors in this Turin flat renovation by Italian architect Fabio Fantolino.

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Hygge Studio by Melina Romano

Brazilian designer Melina Romano used terracotta flooring and vertical brick walls in the kitchen of an apartment in São Paulo themed around the Danish concept of cosiness.

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Apartment XVII by Studio Razavi

Studio Razavi overhauled an abandoned apartment in Lyon, France, plastering the walls and creating a serene kitchen with sea-green coloured MDF cabinets and a patterened splashback to match.

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Belgium Apartment by Carmine Van Der Linden and Thomas Geldof

This duplex in the dunes of the Belgian coast has a kitchen with seaweed-coloured birch cabinetry and a marble-topped steel island.

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Paris Apartment by Sophie Dries

French architect Sophie Dries renovated a 19th-century flat in Paris, France, using bold colour blocking of dark grey cabinets against rusty-orange floors, walls and countertops for the kitchen.

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Apartment on a Mint Floor by Fala Atelier

As the name suggests, this two-bedroom apartment in Porto, Portugal, by Fala Atelier has a mint-green epoxy resin floor complimented in the kitchen by the two shades of turquoise used for the kitchen cabinets.

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This week Virgin Hyperloop welcomed its first human passengers

This week on Dezeen, passengers travelled in Virgin's levitating Hyperloop capsules for the first time, as the company carried out a 15-second-long test trip in the Nevada desert.

Josh Giegel, CTO and co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, and Sara Luchian, Virgin Hyperloop's director of passenger experience, were the first to experience a journey in the capsule, which travelled through an airless tunnel at 100 miles per hour.

The newly released two-seater XP-2 hyperloop vehicle was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Danish studio Kilo Design and tested at Virgin Hyperloop's DevLoop site 35 miles north of Las Vegas in Nevada.

Edel Rodriguez creates "You're fired" graphic after Donald Trump loses 2020 US presidential election

As Joe Biden emerged as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election, Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez created graphics that lampooned outgoing president Donald Trump.

The illustrations depicted Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee. Rodriguez has been a critic of Trump since his election and drawn him for a number of Time magazine covers as well as in satirical designs for German magazine Der Spiegel.

MAD tops Beijing kindergarten with red rooftop playground

Also this week, Chinese studio MAD unveiled the design for its YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten, a converted 18th-century courtyard building topped with an undulating roof that functions as a children's playspace.

"While preserving the cultural heritage of the site, it forms a multi-layered urban narrative, where old and new co-exist," said MAD.

Dezeen showed the site from more angles in a video from architectural photographer Hufton + Crow, paired with an interview with Allan Crow, one half of the photographic duo.

"The things that I'm impressed by is the boldness of them – the ambition – it's not safe and easy architecture," Crow said of MAD's approach to architecture. "It is trying to sort of push the boundaries a little bit."

Photographs capture OMA's Jewish temple extension taking shape in LA

Architect Alessandra Cianchetta captured the exterior of OMA's Jewish temple extension, which is currently under construction in Los Angeles, California.

Called the Audrey Irmas Pavilion, the project will provide a series of multi-functional gathering spaces alongside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which is home to one of the largest Jewish congregations in the city.

It is Dutch studio OMA's first cultural building in California.

Photos reveal Tadao Ando's completed He Art Museum in China

In China, architect Tadao Ando's cylindrical He Art Museum reached completion. The building, which was shortlisted for cultural building of the year for Dezeen Awards 2020, was revealed in a series of photos.

Ando designed it as a landmark for the region, using a stack of staggered, concrete disks that wrap around a pair of sweeping helical staircases at the art museum's centre.

"I hope HEM will become a new cultural landmark in the Canton region, at the same time, a meeting point and a harmonious space for all," said Ando.

Elon Musk launches $250 Teslaquila following April Fools' Day joke

Tesla founder Elon Musk revealed the company's "Teslaquila" this week, a $250 tequila that comes in a lightning-shaped bottle.

Musk originally suggested launching the tequila in 2018 as an April Fools' Day joke in a tweet.

The tequila, which is only available in select retailers in the US, has been aged for 15 months in French oak barrels and features a "dry fruit and light vanilla nose with a balanced cinnamon pepper finish".

RIBA warns of housing emissions crisis from surge in home working

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned of a potential housing emissions crisis related to the increase in people working from home during the pandemic.

It called for the UK government to bring forward a National Retrofit Strategy – a long-term policy and investment programme that would help upgrade the energy efficiency of UK housing.

RIBA also announced that Hugh Pearman, longtime editor of its architecture magazine RIBA Journal, is stepping down from the role in December.

London's Belsize Fire Station converted into apartments by Tate Harmer

Popular projects on Dezeen this week include a London fire station converted into apartments, an art-filled penthouse with a custom-made bookshelf and a park in Taichung built on the site of an old airport.

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Shaped Using Precisely Cut Maps, Nikki Rosato’s Busts and Portraits Connect Place, Memory, and Identity

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Through mesh busts and delicate portraits, Nikki Rosato visualizes the connections between place and identity. The Washington, D.C.-based artist carves out the multi-colored highways and back roads from common maps, leaving the distances and spatial markings intact. She then shapes the cut paper into figurative sculptures and 2D artworks that vary in density and color depending on the original city or region.

Rosat utilizes the precise markings of cartography to highlight the complex, inner-workings of memory and belonging. “As we move through life, the places we inhabit and the people that we meet alter and shape us into the person that we are in the present day. I am interested in the idea that a place I visited as a child has affected the outcome of the person that I am today,” she says.

In a note to Colossal, the artist shares that she shifted her practice after her grandmother died in 2018. “I’ve taken the last few years to do a lot of research into my strong matriarchal lineage (my great grandmother literally walked hundreds of miles on foot with a 2-year-old to escape Lithuania in the early 1900s and then built our family in a small town in Pennsylvania),” she says, adding that her current projects consider the trajectory of these two figures’ lives.

Some of Rosato’s intricate works are available from Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, and you can follow her pieces on Artsy.

 

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