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Watch the video of Paola Antonelli’s keynote lecture at Dezeen Day

November 13, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Paola Antonelli Dezeen Day video

Our natural world is “fixable, but it will never be the same” said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design’s response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. Antonelli, MoMA’s senior curator of architecture and design, kicked off Dezeen’s inaugural conference on 30 October with a keynote that

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Watch the video of Paola Antonelli’s keynote lecture at Dezeen Day

November 13, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Paola Antonelli Dezeen Day video

Our natural world is “fixable, but it will never be the same” said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design’s response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. Antonelli, MoMA’s senior curator of architecture and design, kicked off Dezeen’s inaugural conference on 30 October with a keynote that

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Max Hattler turns Hong Kong’s high-rise housing into repetitive animations

November 8, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Max Hattler turns Hong Kong's high-rise housing into repetitive animations

Director Max Hattler has turned a series of photos of housing estates in Hong Kong into repetitive animations to create his film Serial Parallels. Hattler created the film to draw attention to the density and repetitiveness of the numerous housing blocks on Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula and in the New Territories. “What struck me most about

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ArchitectsTM cuts copper-clad “light scoop” through Dublin home

October 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
K House by ArchitectsTM

A copper-clad “light scoop” sweeps through the interior of this home in Dublin, wrapping back on itself to cover a rooftop room overlooking a terrace. Designed by local practice ArchitectsTM, K House sits behind a period house overlooking a cul-de-sac, with views out to the nearby grand canal and Rathmines church. Coated in a cream

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Vans launches exhibition space in Covent Garden concept store

October 22, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0

Dave Bell, creative partner at KK Outlet, explains how an exhibition space in Vans’ London store is used as a platform for emerging artists in this video produced by Dezeen for the streetwear brand. Vans’ newly-opened Covent Garden concept store features a creative space in its basement. The space was launched last week with the opening of

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Watch our talk about architecture and the circular economy for Dutch Design Week

October 19, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Dutch Design Week 2019 talk

Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will speak to a panel of experts today in Eindhoven about the circular economy and architecture, as part of Dutch Design Week 2019. You can watch our livestream here from 5:00pm Eindhoven time. The panel will include Overtreders W’s co-founder Hester van Dijk, architect and author Thomas Rau and architect

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Shipwreck tower set to become Czech Republic’s tallest building

October 9, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Top Tower by Black n' Arch and David Černý in Prague

A red shipwreck crashes into this high-rise, which Black n’ Arch and sculptor David Černý have designed for developer Trigema on the outskirts of Prague. The shipwreck will envelop the 135-metre-high building, named Top Tower, which is expected to become the tallest building in Czech Republic and contain a mix of housing and office spaces. Its

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Five movies not to miss at New York’s Architecture and Design Film Festival

October 7, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
City Dreamers, directed by Joseph Hillel

New York’s Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event’s opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff. Forming part of month-long event Archtober, the 11th

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Skylights create rainbow patterns inside cedar-covered Cocoon House by Nina Edwards Anker

October 4, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0

Coloured skylights offer rainbow-hued illuminations on one side of this holiday cottage that Nina Edwards Anker has designed in Long Island, while the other is covered in cedar shingles. Architect and designer Anker, who runs New York’s Nea Studio, completed the Cocoon House in Southampton, a seaside town on the South Fork of Long Island.

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Rael San Fratello 3D prints earth structures to demonstrate potential of mud architecture

October 3, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Mud Frontiers by Rael San Fratello

To explore the possibilities of mud architecture, Rael San Fratello has created 3D-printed prototypes that take cues from historical earthen construction built along the Rio Grande river. Led by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Rael San Fratello created four mud structures as part of its Emerging Objects investigative series into 3D printing. The

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