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Architecture of Emergency summit to address industry’s “failure” to tackle climate crisis

August 15, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Architecture of Emergency

Architects will join leading academics and campaigners to consider how the architecture industry should respond to a climate emergency at Architecture Foundation and Barbican’s upcoming summit. Curated by the Architecture Foundation’s deputy director and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper, The Architecture of Emergency summit will take place in the main theatre of the Barbican on 19 September 2019.

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Potemkin Theatre is a “two-faced structure” says Maich Swift Architects

August 7, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Potemkin Theatre by Maich Swift Architects

Paul Maich and Ted Swift of Maich Swift Architects explain how their open-air Potemkin Theatre will act as a space to engage audiences, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. Located atop a flat-roofed warehouse in east London, the Potemkin Theatre is a double-sided structure over three-storeys, with a chequered green facade. The narrow structure

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Block9 reveals “monster” IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019

July 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Block9 IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019

Block9 co-founders Gideon Berger and Steven Gallagher explain how they built the monolithic IICON stage at Glastonbury in this exclusive video shot by Dezeen at the famous music festival. IICON is a vast sculptural stage and outdoor dance arena by London creative partnership Block9, which debuted at Glastonbury festival in Somerset, UK, last weekend. The

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Block9 reveals “monster” IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019

July 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Block9 IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019

Block9 co-founders Gideon Berger and Steven Gallagher explain how they built the monolithic IICON stage at Glastonbury in this exclusive video shot by Dezeen at the famous music festival. IICON is a vast sculptural stage and outdoor dance arena by London creative partnership Block9, which debuted at Glastonbury festival in Somerset, UK, last weekend. The

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Explore The Colour Palace by Yinka Ilori and Pricegore in 360-degree video

June 28, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
The Colour Palace by Yinka Ilori and Pricegore

Take a look inside The Colour Palace, a brightly patterned pavilion by designer Yinka Ilori and architecture studio Pricegore, in this 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen. Ilori teamed up with Pricegore to install the temporary building on the lawn of Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, as part of the London Festival of Architecture. A cafe

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Explore Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion in 360-degree video

June 20, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

Take a look inside the latest Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a low-rising rocky canopy designed by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, in this exclusive 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen. The pavilion features a gently sloping roof comprising 61 tonnes of Cumbrian slate mounted on to a steel mesh that is supported by 106 slender columns. The fourth

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Lianjie Wu designs affordable homes that are deliberately left unfinished

June 3, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Beyond the Shell by Lianjie Wu

The final instalment of our Dezeen x Mini Living video series features a proposal by Bartlett graduate Lianjie Wu for affordable homes that are left unfinished, for residents to complete themselves. Wu’s project, called Beyond the Shell, reimagines the traditional high-rise tower as a modular, multi-storey estate, with public and private spaces of different sizes

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Digital technology adds “layer of understanding” to Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art

May 1, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art by Casson Mann

Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie. Roger Mann, creative director of Casson Mann, told Dezeen that he wanted to explore a connection with

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Michelle Ho proposes retrofitting housing estates to densify cities

April 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Retrofitting the Community Estate by Michelle Ho

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores a vision from Bartlett School of Architecture student Michelle Ho, to replace demolished sections of a London housing estate with adaptable co-living units. Ho’s experimental proposal, called Retrofitting the Community Estate, sees segments of the 1960s-built Central Hill Estate knocked down, leaving a basic concrete shell comprising only a

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La Tallera restores “original public art spirit” of Mexican muralist says Frida Escobedo

March 29, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

Frida Escobedo describes her first public project La Tallera, an art gallery which was once the studio of the late muralist David Alfaros Siqueiros, in this exclusive video interview with Dezeen. The gallery complex, which is located in the small city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, was originally built by Siqueiros in the 1960s as a painting workshop. Frida Escobedo’s

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