KAI x ANTA

FWA of the day 14 September 2025:

KAI x ANTA

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"ANTA, Burrell and Kyrie Irving came to us with a challenge: launch Kyrie’s second signature shoe in a way that felt personal, mythic, and unlike anything else in sport or culture."

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Community space for neurodivergent people among projects from Cardiff University

Dezeen School Shows: a community space designed to support neurodivergent people as they transition out of education is among the student projects from Cardiff University.

Also included is a proposal featuring housing and offices in response to Italy's migrant crisis and a reservoir created for river preservation.

Institution: Cardiff University
School: Welsh School of Architecture
Courses: Architectural Studies (BSc)
Tutors: Michael Corr, Will Beeston, Hugo Keane, Aled Davis, Tim Burton, Charles Chambers, Phillipa Smith, Benjamin Wells, Hannah Summers, Matt Hudspith, Hayden Thomas, Ross Hartland, Caitlin Mullard and Lui Tam

School statement:

"The BSc in Architectural Studies is a three-year undergraduate degree course Accredited by RIBA, ARB...

Rooms Studio creates brutalist installation to display satin pumps for NYFW

As part of New York Fashion Week, Georgian design practice Rooms Studio created an installation made of aluminium plinths and a pink steel dancefloor to display a shoe collection by Mach & Mach.

Rooms Studio collaborated with Georgian footwear brand Mach & Mach to showcase pastel-hued versions of leather mules and satin pumps topped with pearls and crystals for a Spring 2026 collection.

Located in one of the upper stories of the 180 Maiden Lane skyscraper of Water Street Associates (WSA), Rooms Studio used the bare-bones, industrial style of the...

Abstract Botany Series (In progress)

Personal explorations around botanical shapes. Illustrations are ink drawings remastered and colored in Adobe Photoshop

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Suyian Lodge safari resort in Kenya "feels deeply integrated" with site

Domed roofs and stone cladding lend an organic look to Suyian Lodge, a safari resort in Kenya by British firms Michaelis Boyd and South African studios Nicholas Plewman Architects and Fox Browne Creative.

Located within the 17,806-hectare Suyian Conservancy nature reserve in Laikipia, the resort provides 15 standalone villas for the luxury safari company &Beyond.

Alongside the villas, Michaelis Boyd, Nicholas Plewman Architects and Fox Browne Creative have also created a wellness centre, bar, restaurant and photo-editing suite for the resort.

The structures are all designed to function off-grid and built with natural materials, with the...

Eight buildings enveloped in rustic rough-sawn timber cladding

From a British school to a secluded house in the Hudson Valley, here is an eclectic mix of buildings from the Dezeen archives with rustic yet refined facades of rough-sawn timber.

Rough-sawn timber is the term for wood that has been cut to size and deliberately left unfinished and untreated, leaving its irregularities and natural qualities exposed.

While being a cheaper option to planed or dressed timber, which has its surfaces smoothed down, the material can also help add texture and depth to a facade.

The examples in this lookbook include facades of rough-sawn boards that are narrow, blackened and left with waney...

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