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This week we’re counting down the most-pinned home interiors that feature tiled surfaces, from original mosaic floors in Barcelona apartments to a contemporary kitchen in a London house extension (+ slideshow).

10. Apartment in Föhr by Karin Matz and Francesco Di Gregorio

Over 3,000 ceramic tiles create a grid of pale blue polkadots within this apartment on a small German island, renovated by architects Francesco Di Gregorio and Karin Matz. Read more about Apartment in Föhr »

9. Hubert by Septembre

Hexagonal tiles cover the bathroom of this renovated Paris apartment by local studio Septembre, while colourful pieces of broken tile – known as “sol en casson” – define spaces in the study. Read more about Hubert »

8. Apartment S by IFUB

This Vienna apartment located within a 1930s Art Deco-style mansion features original chequered tiles, which Munich studio IFUB kept in place in order to preserve the character of the space. Read more about Apartment S »

7. Apartment in Estrela by Aurora Arquitectos

Original blue and white tiled walls contrast with contemporary white fittings in the kitchen of this Lisbon apartment by Aurora Arquitectos, which opens out to a terrace. Read more about Apartment in Estrela »

6. Casa G by Francesco Librizzi

This old fisherman’s cottage is Sicily was renovated by Milanese architect Francesco Librizzi, who laid hexagonal tiles in a honeycomb pattern below a staircase formed of wooden boxes and platforms. Read more about Casa G »

5. Nook House by Mustard Architects

Local studio Mustard Architects renovated and extended this east London house, adding a concrete window seat and geometric tiles to the kitchen. This project was one of the winners of 2016’s Don’t Move, Improve! awards. Read more about Nook House »

4. Rocha Apartment by CaSA

Terracotta tiles continue from the balcony into the living spaces of this Barcelona holiday apartment, renovated by Colombo and Serboli Architecture. Read more about Rocha Apartment »

3. Apartment Refurbishment in Consell de Cent by Bach Arquitectes

Original mosaic floor tiles reveal the floor plan of the next Barcelona apartment on our list, which Spanish architects Anna and Eugeni Bach left bare to contrast with the contemporary furnishings of the space. Read more about Apartment Refurbishment in Consell de Cent »

2. Carrer Avinyo 34 by David Kohn Architects

Triangular floor tiles create a gradient effect inside this renovated Barcelona apartment by London studio David Kohn Architects, which won World Interior of the Year 2013 at the Inside Festival in Singapore. Read more about Carrer Avinyo 34 »

1. Renovation of an apartment in Barcelona by Laura Bonell Mas

When it comes to tiled home interiors, Barcelona apartments are the clear winner! Designer Laura Bonell Mas reused patterned tiles throughout this 100-square-metre apartment, relaying them in angled blocks to highlight seating areas. Read more about Renovation of an apartment in Barcelona »

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Graduate shows 2016: in this movie, Royal College of Art graduate Meret Vollenweider explains how her interactive installation of human-powered appliances aims to stop people taking electricity for granted.

Vollenweider designed Inefficiency Machines together with fellow graduate Wasabii Ng for the Information Experience Design masters programme at the Royal College of Art. The installation features three electronic devices that visitors must power by exaggerated body movements.

Visitors are invited to turn on a television by jumping up and down repeatedly on a trampoline, light up a bulb by pounding with a pestle in a mortar, or power a hairdryer by screaming into a microphone.

“This project is all about energy and efficiency and how we take electricity for granted,” Vollenweider explains in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at the ShowRCA 2016 graduate show in London.

Each of the installations features sensors, which translate human body movements into electricity.

The faster visitors bounce, the harder they pound, or the longer they scream, the more power will be provided to the appliances.

After each activity, visitors receive a printout stating how much energy they generated and comparing it to the average energy consumption of the particular appliance they were attempting to power.

“The visitor receives their personal efficiency results for them to realise how much it actually takes to power those consumer products that we have,” Vollenweider says.

Vollenweider hopes making people power consumer products with physical human exertion will make them think twice before leaving a light or television on in a room they are not using.

“We just flick a switch and take [electricity] for granted,” she explains. “It’s like an invisible thing in our culture that we wanted to make more tangible.”

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She concludes: “We hope that people will become much more aware and change their relationship to those consumer objects and maybe even consume less in the end.”

This movie was produced by Dezeen for the Royal College of Art.

Inefficiency Machines was on display at the ShowRCA graduate exhibition, which took place from 26 June to 3 July 2016 at the Royal College of Art‘s Kensington campus. Dezeen was media partner for the event.

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In the wake of Will Bourne’s dismissal from The Village Voice, Rolling Stone contributing editor Joe Levy has stepped in this week as the publication’s interim editor in chief. He will continue to contribute to Rolling Stone while he fills in at the Voice.

“We appreciate Joe coming on board to help while we look for a new EIC,” owner Peter Barbey said in a statement to FishbowlNY. “He is one of the best in the business and the Village Voice is lucky to be the recipient of his immense talents.”

One of Levy’s recent pieces for Rolling Stone was a cover story tribute to Prince, anchored around the performer’s final show in Atlanta:

As with so many visionary artists, there was a period in Prince’s career – almost all of the 1980s – when he seemed able to look around corners, when his music seemed to live in the future, and then assemble that future around us.

The Voice says finding a new EIC is a top priority, but that they are not rushing through the process. They are meeting with candidates now.

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