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Mondrian Doha hotel is “a place of fantasy” says Marcel Wanders

November 1, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders describes the eccentric and theatrical spaces he created for the Mondrian Doha hotel, in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards. The Mondrian Doha hotel opened in October 2017 in the city’s West Bay Lagoon neighbourhood. Designed by local firm South West Architecture for the hospitality company SBE, the five-star

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Mondrian Doha hotel is “a place of fantasy” says Marcel Wanders

November 1, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders describes the eccentric and theatrical spaces he created for the Mondrian Doha hotel, in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards. The Mondrian Doha hotel opened in October 2017 in the city’s West Bay Lagoon neighbourhood. Designed by local firm South West Architecture for the hospitality company SBE, the five-star

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Explore the Coal Drops Yard by Heatherwick Studio in 360-degree movie

November 1, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen offers a tour of Coal Drops Yard, the new shopping centre that Thomas Heatherwick’s studio has completed in London, in a pair of distorted warehouses. Heatherwick Studio converted two converted Victorian coal warehouses in King’s Cross to create 9,290 square metres of shops and restaurants. The roofs of the two buildings have been

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Urban Cabin by MINI Living and Penda takes cues from Beijing’s hutong homes

October 31, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and Penda co-founder Dayong Sun explain how the micro home they built in Beijing references the city’s hutong neighbourhoods. Penda designed the tiny structure with MINI Living, as one of 10 conceptual homes that went on show for the China House Vision

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Park House envisions converting multi-storey car parks into apartment blocks

October 30, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Our latest MINI Living video features a conceptual housing project, with houses made from shipping containers placed within repurposed multi-storey parking garages. Park House is a proposal by American firm KTGY Architecture + Planning to transform unused parking garages into the framework for housing units that would be built from industrial shipping containers. Each unit would combine three shipping

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Thomas Heatherwick hopes Coal Drops Yard will be “new heart” for King’s Cross

October 30, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Thomas Heatherwick explains his desire to create a new public space for London in this exclusive video interview Dezeen filmed at the recently opened Coal Drops Yard shopping centre in King’s Cross. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the Coal Drops Yard contains shops arranged in two converted 19th-century coal warehouses, connected by roofs that curve out to touch each other. Between the two

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John Wardle Architects restores and extends Captain Kelly’s forgotten Tasmanian cottage

October 28, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Australian studio John Wardle Architects has painstakingly restored an original weatherboard cottage in a remote bay on Bruny Island in Tasmania. The 320-sqaure-metre cottage dates back to the 1840s when it was built by its namesake, Captain Kelly – a harbourmaster who was noted for his voyage around Tasmania in a whaleboat and for being the first Australian to

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Grimshaw’s Airport Metro Connector will link LAX directly to public transport

October 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Architecture firm Grimshaw’s station that will connect Los Angeles International Airport to the city’s light rail network is shown in these new renderings. Scheduled to open in 2023, the $500 million (£390 million) Airport Metro Connector (AMC) transit hub will connect LAX to the public transport system, as part of the car-centric city’s wider transit

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World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge unveiled at Dutch Design Week

October 22, 2018 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Dutch robotics company MX3D has completed the 3D printing of a steel bridge, which will be installed across a canal in Amsterdam next year. Designer Joris Laarman worked with the robotic manufacturing technology start-up to build the 12-metre-long pedestrian bridge, which is being previewed at Dutch Design Week between 20 and 28 October. First proposed in 2015, the structure has been

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