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SCI-arc’s Fiction and Entertainment graduates imagine future worlds

October 3, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0

From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. SCI-Arc’s MS Fiction and Entertainment program is led by Liam Young, a speculative architect who features in Dezeen’s award-winning

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Zaha Hadid Architects’ giant starfish-shaped airport opens in Beijing

September 26, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed its five-pronged terminal building at Beijing Daxing International Airport, which is one of the largest airports in the world. Designed by the late Zaha Hadid and current studio principal Patrik Schumacher, along with airport specialist ADPI, the 700,000-square-metre airport to serve Beijing has been designed to be as compact as

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“We’re not telling people what to do” says Thomas Heatherwick

September 20, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0

Thomas Heatherwick explains his studio’s “human-centred” approach to the design of public spaces in this filmed talk hosted by Dezeen and Second Home in Los Angeles. The British designer, whose studio designed the Coal Drops Yard shopping district in London and the Vessel centrepiece at Hudson Yards in New York, told Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief

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Watch our livestream of The Architecture of Emergency summit at the Barbican

September 19, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
The Architecture of Emergency talk

Watch Extinction Rebellion, Haworth Tompkins, Maria Smith, Adrian Lahoud deliver presentations on climate change at the Architecture of Emergency summit in London’s Barbican Centre from 7:00pm UK time. The livestream has not started yet. You can watch it here, or on Dezeen’s Youtube channel and Facebook page from 7:00pm UK time on Thursday 19 September. Organised

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Movie reveals Neri&Hu’s Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao

September 4, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Movie of Aranya Art Center by Neri & Hu in Qinhuangdao, China

Neri&Hu has released a short movie showing the faceted concrete Aranya Art Center, which recently opened in Qinhuangdao, China. The movie shot by Pedro Pegenaute shows the art gallery, which is built around a circular courtyard, now in use. Drone footage shows the central gathering space from above, as well as the building’s rooftop viewing platform

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Tropical plants cover villas at Wyndham Garden Phú Quốc resort in Vietnam

August 31, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Wyndham Garden Phú Quốc resort by MIA Design Studio

Plant-covered rooms surround private swimming pools at Wyndham Garden Phú Quốc, a holiday resort that MIA Design Studio is building on Vietnam’s largest island. Ho Chi Minh City-based MIA Design Studio has completed the first of more than 150 villas that are being constructed on the seven-hectare site, which is located to the south of

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Casa Bibilioteca by Atelier Branco is a philosopher’s retreat in the Atlantic Rainforest

August 20, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Casa Bibilioteca by Atelier Branco

Brazilian studio Atelier Branco has completed a glass house among a rainforest in São Paulo with a rooftop terrace for the resident “to read and smoke a cigar looking at the stars”. The local architecture practice designed Casa Bibilioteca, which translates as Library House, in São Paulo’s Vinhedo municipality. It was created for a philosopher,

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Potemkin Theatre is a “two-faced structure” says Maich Swift Architects

August 7, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Potemkin Theatre by Maich Swift Architects

Paul Maich and Ted Swift of Maich Swift Architects explain how their open-air Potemkin Theatre will act as a space to engage audiences, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. Located atop a flat-roofed warehouse in east London, the Potemkin Theatre is a double-sided structure over three-storeys, with a chequered green facade. The narrow structure

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Creating the Expo’98 Portuguese National Pavilion was “difficult” says Álvaro Siza

August 2, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Expo'98 Portuguese National Pavilion by Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza Viera explains how he created the swooped concrete roof of the pavilion he designed for the 1998 Expo in Lisbon in this exclusive movie. Located at the mouth of the Tagus River in the Portuguese city, the Expo’98 Portuguese National Pavilion was built to form the main entrance to the World Exposition, which took place

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Cullinan Studio designs “cracked open” house with gaps to let in the light

August 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Push-Pull House by Cullinan Studio

London architecture studio Cullinan Studio has built a house in Amersham, England, that is split it into sections to allow light to flood its interiors through the glazed gaps. Called Push-Pull house, it has an open and light interior while the exterior remains in keeping with the area’s protected 1930s Arts and Crafts residential architecture. This

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