Movies

Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes

September 25, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. The technique, which is being developed by Cleveland studio Redhouse Architecture, is intended as both an answer to the housing crisis and

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Watch our talk with Yoo on designing communities live from London Design Festival

September 20, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen speaks to designers Kelly Hoppen and Marcel Wanders about how designers can create thriving communities in this talk with Yoo. Watch the talk live at 100% Design from 11:00am UK time. The talk is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. Yoo is a residential and hotel design brand known for creating idiosyncratic

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Students build giant speaker and human-scale bird’s nest in Studio in the Woods workshops

September 20, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

This movie by photographer Jim Stephenson offers a look behind the scenes at this year’s Studio in the Woods, an annual architecture workshop that invites students to design and build wooden structures in a forest. This year saw six teams of students experiment with timber construction in the Wyre Forest, in the English county of Worcestershire.

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Explore Amos Rex and its inaugural exhibition by TeamLab in 360-degree videos

September 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Take a tour of the recently opened Amos Rex art museum by JKMM Architects and the opening exhibition by Japanese art collective TeamLab in this pair of 360-degree videos filmed by Dezeen in Helsinki. Amos Rex, which opened last month, is a renovation of the Lasipalatsi, a functionalist building from the 1930s. JKMM Architects upgraded the structure and added a set of

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Los Angeles studios design five radical building concepts for P.O.D.System Architecture

September 18, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

From a spherical live-work complex to a high-rise cat tower, we look back at the five conceptual buildings created for adidas and Dezeen’s P.O.D.System Architecture project. P.O.D.System Architecture is a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals, which called on architects to create a series of unique conceptual buildings based on the story behind the P.O.D.System shoe. Launched in

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V&A Dundee is “a conversation between nature and artefact” says Kengo Kuma

September 15, 2018 India Block 0

In this exclusive video interview, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma reflects on the relationship between his V&A Dundee museum building and the sea. Part of a £1 billion renovation scheme for Dundee’s waterfront, the dark, ridged concrete form of the V&A Dundee looms out over the Firth of Tay like a craggy rock face. “The location for this

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3D-printing could enable people to build their own houses “at the touch of a button”

September 11, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a plan to build multi-storey housing with 3D-printers, a technique that the project’s architects claim will enable people to design and build their own houses quickly and easily. The Eindhoven University of Technology, together with local architecture studio Houben & Van Mierlo Architecten,

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Safdie Architects’ Qorner tower for Quito to feature “hillside of terraces”

September 11, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Volumes stagger in and out to create planted balconies and overhangs at the edges of this residential tower that Moshe Safdie’s architecture firm has revealed for Quito, Ecuador. Safdie Architects has designed the 24-storey Qorner for a small corner plot along Avenida Portugal – a busy shopping street in the Ecuadorian capital. Floors will comprise a

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Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades

September 3, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. On all four sides of the three-storey Ballet Mécanique, the walls on the two lowest levels are opened using hydraulics to form colourful balconies and sunshades. The largest moveable elements are balconies framed by fold-out railings, which

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Bureau Spectacular creates high-rise architecture model that doubles as a cat tower

August 31, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

In our final P.O.D.System Architecture movie, architects Joanna Grant and Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular explain their playful high-rise architecture concept that also functions as furniture or a cat tower at different scales. Los Angeles studio Bureau Spectacular’s design for P.O.D.System Architecture – a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals – is a 1:100 scale

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