The past 18 months has seen a flurry of skyscrapers unveiled by luxury car brands including Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and Aston Martin. Nat Barker reports on the growing phenomenon of car-branded skyscrapers. “Fans of the brand should not just be able to drive a Porsche, they should be able to live in one,” said Porsche Lifestyle
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From a standing start, Taiwan has embarked on one of the world’s most ambitious social-housing programmes. Dezeen finds out more as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Having only become government policy in 2016, Taiwan expects to have amassed a social-housing stock of 200,000 units by the end of 2024 – and has already
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As part of Dezeen’s Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Montgomery is a growing county on the outskirts of the Washington DC metropolitan area that has come up with a method
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For our Social Housing Revival series, we look at how the fate of UK social-housing estates has become an urgent topic as councils grapple with the housing crisis and challenges of preservation. Regeneration of social housing estates – which typically involves demolishing post-war estates and replacing them with new housing that increases the overall number
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As part of our Social Housing Revival series, we spotlight the city of Barcelona, which is shrugging off the legacy of fascism by rapidly ramping up its supply of social housing. In June 2015, veteran housing activist Ada Colau became the first female mayor of Barcelona. She had risen to prominence clashing with police as
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Dezeen speaks to residents of new council housing in London about what their homes mean to them as part of our Social Housing Revival series. “When I got here, I was just really in shock because it is absolutely beautiful,” said Amanda Bennett*, a mother-of-three who recently moved into a new council house near south London’s
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Two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, architecture and design studios in Ukraine are adapting to support the war effort while also ensuring they stay in business. Casualties in the war now number around 500,000, including more than 10,000 civilian deaths. With Saturday marking two years since Russia’s troops crossed the Ukraine border, Dezeen spoke to
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Stone has the potential to become a go-to, low-carbon structural material, but barriers around quarrying and a lack of awareness must be overcome to make this a reality, experts tell Dezeen in this Stone Age 2.0 feature. Arup geologist Paola Blasi, who advises architects on how to use stone, said the material is finally reappearing
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The Sims has been allowing players to act out their architecture and interior design fantasies for more than two decades. Jane Englefield finds out how the makers of the iconic life-simulation video game keep up with shifting trends. “People laugh when I mention playing The Sims, but it was hugely significant in terms of spatial
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Interior design in 2024 will have a focus on individualism and see a backlash to the rise in AI design while colours will be informed by global warming, interior designers across the globe told Dezeen. While the trend for locally sourced materials and sustainable biomaterials looks set to become more pronounced, designers also believe that
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