Month: January 2019

“Be more positive and less paranoid” about technology says Patrik Schumacher

January 30, 2019 India Block 0
Patrick Schumacher at the NLA's Campari Talks debate on factory-made housing

Digital platforms and AI could be the future of customising prefabricated modular housing if we are less wary of technology, says Patrik Schumacher. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to help customise mass-produced housing would eventually make it cheaper, argued Schumacher principal of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Speaking at debate on factory-made housing at the New London Architecture’s

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Safdie Architects design a Series of Treehouse-Like Pavilions for Surbana Jurong Headquarters

January 30, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

Safdie Architects have unveiled details of their proposed corporate headquarters for Surbana Jurong in Singapore. The scheme seeks to reflect the mission of Surbana Jurong (Singapore’s leading architecture, urban design, and infrastructure firm) of characterizing Singapore as the “Garden City.” Located on a previously undeveloped site, the campus will “integrate harmoniously with its natural landscape” while also offering over 740,000 square feet of space for the firm’s 4000 employees.

The D*Haus Company designs flood-resistant homage to Georgian architecture

January 30, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
The Kentish Classic by The D*Haus Company

The latest instalment in our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores The D*Haus Company’s vision for flood-resistant Georgian-style housing, which claimed first prize in our Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition. The London architecture studio’s contest submission, called The Kentish Classic, depicts pre-fabricated timber homes that are elevated above water level by 3D-printed

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Nett Winery / Architects Collective

January 30, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

The Nett Winery, located in the Pfalz wine region of Germany, can be described as a light, modern, generous and representative building. Comprised of two long-stretched halls as well as a covered passage, it looks like a geometric ray ready to unfold across the landscape. Inside the building, the wine ripens on a vast space of nearly 4,500 m². Claiming the highest quality of wine production, the challenge was to design a completely new building that ambitiously combines the entire production as well as a shop, tasting room, storage, office and living spaces – and which meets the family’s expectations, too.

Ceramic surfaces define Kengo Kuma-designed Camper store in Barcelona

January 30, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Camper store in Barcelona, designed by Kengo Kuma

Concave tiles form a scallop pattern across the walls of this Barcelona shop, which Kengo Kuma has designed for footwear brand Camper. Decked out almost entirely in ceramics, this is the second Camper retail space to be designed Kengo Kuma & Associates. Back in 2015 the Japanese architect’s studio developed the interiors of the footwear brand’s Milan

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Moira Gemmill Prize Shortlist Announced for Emerging Female Architects

January 30, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

The shortlist has been announced for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture, recognizing excellence in design with an emphasis on achievements and completed projects. Part of the Women in Architecture Awards organized by The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal, the prize is named in memory of the late Moira Gemmill (former V&A director of design and director of capital programmes at the Royal Collection Trust), and offers a £10,000 prize fund to support the professional development of the winner(s).

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Alpha House / Rubén Muedra Estudio de Arquitectura

January 30, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

The home designed by Rubén Muedra Estudio de Arquitectura is located in a small inner town of 1,000 inhabitants, to the south of Valencia, with a natural environment of great interest that gives rise to spectacular views from the house in medium and long distance.