Movies

Amin Taha explains thinking behind controversial 15 Clerkenwell Close in new movie

October 22, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architect Amin Taha explains his aim to capture the “inane beauty” of natural stone with his 15 Clerkenwell Close housing project, in this movie produced by his studio. The stone-framed London building contains eight apartments, including Taha’s own home, and the office for his studio Amin Taha + Groupwork. But the building, which is shortlisted for a Dezeen Award,

The post Amin Taha explains thinking behind controversial 15 Clerkenwell Close in new movie appeared first on Dezeen.

Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing

October 19, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a prefabricated homeless housing concept for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation. Homes for Hope, which Los Angeles studio Madworkshop developed in collaboration with the USC School of Architecture’s Homeless Studio, is a modular system of prefabricated units that

The post Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Barclay & Crousse’s award-winning Edificio E captured in movie by Cristobal Palma

October 16, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has created a film showing Peruvian firm Barclay & Crousse’s concrete university building in Piura, which was awarded the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2018. Edificio E beat five other shortlisted projects to win the biennial prize, and was praised by the jury for its “deceptive simplicity and modesty”, as well

The post Barclay & Crousse’s award-winning Edificio E captured in movie by Cristobal Palma appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Watch walk-through footage of Foster + Partners’ Stirling Prize winning Bloomberg HQ

October 11, 2018 India Block 0

See inside the Foster + Partners Bloomberg HQ, which won the 2018 Stirling Prize, in this movie created by RIBA. In the third win for the practice, Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg HQ saw off competition from the five other shortlisted projects to win the award for the UK’s best new building. The judging panel praised the vast office

The post Watch walk-through footage of Foster + Partners’ Stirling Prize winning Bloomberg HQ appeared first on Dezeen.

Plugin House built in Boston to demonstrate potential for use in US backyards

October 10, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Chinese studio People’s Architecture Office is using a pop-up pavilion to show how a prefabricated home designed for China’s hutongs could be used by cities in the US to help tackle the housing crisis. A Plugin House prototype was first installed at Harvard University and then moved to Boston City Hall to engage local residents through a series of in-situ

The post Plugin House built in Boston to demonstrate potential for use in US backyards appeared first on Dezeen.

Watch our discussion on smart design and wellbeing live from Barcelona

October 10, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. The stream is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. In the talk, Dezeen’s

The post Watch our discussion on smart design and wellbeing live from Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

Carme Pinós unveils origami-inspired MPavilion raised up on grass mounds

October 8, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Latticed timber triangles are raised up over three landscape mounds to form this year’s MPavilion, installed in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens by Barcelona-based office Estudio Carme Pinós. The studio, led by architect Carme Pinós, becomes the fifth designer of the annual commission, known as Australia’s answer to the Serpentine Pavilion. Unveiled today, the pavilion is

The post Carme Pinós unveils origami-inspired MPavilion raised up on grass mounds appeared first on Dezeen.

Carme Pinós unveils origami-inspired MPavilion raised up on grass mounds

October 8, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Latticed timber triangles are raised up over three landscape mounds to form this year’s MPavilion, installed in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens by Barcelona-based office Estudio Carme Pinós. The studio, led by architect Carme Pinós, becomes the fifth designer of the annual commission, known as Australia’s answer to the Serpentine Pavilion. Unveiled today, the pavilion is

The post Carme Pinós unveils origami-inspired MPavilion raised up on grass mounds appeared first on Dezeen.

Zaha Hadid Architects to design concert hall for Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

October 2, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Designed as a new home for the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, the venue will contain a 1,600-seat concert hall and a smaller 400-seat chamber-music hall. The two concert halls will be suspended within the steel structure of the building’s roof, which takes its

The post Zaha Hadid Architects to design concert hall for Ural Philharmonic Orchestra appeared first on Dezeen.

New York’s Waterline Square skyscrapers climb in time-lapse movie

September 27, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Watch towers by Rafael Viñoly, Richard Meier and KPF rise in this time-lapse video, which shows that the Waterline Square development on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is almost complete. The new movie – given exclusively to Dezeen – condenses the project’s three-year construction process into just 45 seconds of footage, so the cluster of residential

The post New York’s Waterline Square skyscrapers climb in time-lapse movie appeared first on Dezeen.