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Dezeen to live-stream daily talks during Velux Build for Life conference

November 11, 2021 Anna Marks 0
A picture of a building with Velux windows

Dezeen has teamed up with window and skylight brand Velux to host and broadcast a series of panel discussions as part of its Build for Life online conference from 15 to 17 November. Build for Life is a free digital conference that will see more than 90 experts from around the world discuss climate-related challenges

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Enzo Lara-Hamilton, Anne Wagner and Morgan Heenan imagine a world in which people live in “self-contained micro-habitats”

November 9, 2021 Anna Marks 0
A visualisation of Called Post-Ecology Pods

The next finalists in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion​​ are Enzo Lara-Hamilton, Anne Wagner and Morgan Heenan, who have proposed a world in which humans live in self-contained spherical pods. Called Post-Ecology Pods, the proposal imagines humanity living in pods supplied by an organisation called the Intergovernmental Producer of Closed Climate Containers

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BPAS Architects envisions rain-collecting skyscrapers to “reverse desertification”

November 8, 2021 Anna Marks 0
Redesign the World competition, The Desert Faction

BPAS Architects imagines building huge water-harvesting skyscrapers for humanity to survive in the desert, one of the 15 finalist projects for Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Titled A New World: The Desert Faction, the project imagines a future where the Sahara Desert has expanded significantly and humans have been forced to build

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Gaetano Fornarelli proposes “moving the countryside to the city” by creating car-free garden cities

November 4, 2021 Anna Marks 0
A visualisation of Life In Nature

The next finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Gaetano Fornarelli, who has proposed creating car-free cities covered in trees to improve people’s health and reduce humanity’s impact on the environment. Fornarelli’s Life in Nature project aims to bring the benefits of the countryside to the city. Cars would be forbidden,

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Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko envision a world dominated by “superorganism” trees

November 3, 2021 Anna Marks 0
A visualisation of The Word for World is Forest

Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko have proposed covering planet Earth with huge genetically engineered trees, one of 15 finalist projects for Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Titled The Word for World is Forest, Renna and Nenenko’s proposal envisions “superorganism” trees that absorb 50 per cent more carbon dioxide than typical trees. The

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New How nestles CLT holiday home into Czech Republic mountains

May 9, 2021 Anna Marks 0
Weekend House is made from CLT timber panels

Architecture studio New How has created an angular holiday home called Weekend House in Nové Hamry, Czech Republic. The house sits within a forest in the Ore Mountains and is constructed from cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels clad in black aluminium. New How designed the three-storey house to act as a lookout tower, with a square window on

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