Movies

Amanyangyun resort by Kerry Hill Architects designed to be “a living museum”

May 17, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Amanyangyun hotel is designed to celebrate Chinese culture says Tanuj Goenka, director of Kerry Hill Architects, in this movie produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards. Part of the Aman Resorts collection of hotels, Amanyangyun was named Hotel of the Year at the AHEAD Asia Awards 2019, which celebrated the best in hotel and resort design

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Watch a fly-through animation showing Notre-Dame rebuilt with a replica spire and a glass roof

May 16, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Notre-Dame animation

Miysis Studio has created an animation showing its vision of a rebuilt Notre-Dame that combines a reconstruction of Viollet-le-Duc’s spire with a modern glass roof. The Belgium visualisation studio created the movie to show how the cathedral, which was devastated by fire last month, could be rebuilt using modern and traditional materials. “We also wanted to mix traditional wood

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Al Wakrah Stadium built by Zaha Hadid Architects for World Cup in Qatar

May 16, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Zaha Hadid Architects' Al Wakrah stadium for the Qatar World Cup 2022 opens

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Al Wakrah Stadium, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and it hosts its inaugural match today. Located in the city of Al Wakrah, around 10 miles south of Doha, the 40,000-seat stadium opens with the Amir Cup final between Al Sadd and Al Duhail tonight.

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Yves Béhar designs “world’s first 3D-printed community” for Latin America

May 13, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
3D-printed community by Yves Béhar, New Story and ICON

Designer Yves Béhar has revealed plans to build 3D-printed houses for an impoverished farming community in Latin America. Béhar, founder of design studio Fuseproject, developed the project with New Story, a non-profit dedicated to finding solutions to homelessness, along with homebuilding technology company ICON. The trio teamed up last year to use 3D printing quickly build an affordable, high-quality

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The Storefront Theater is successful because “the community takes it and makes it their own”

May 7, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In this movie, artist Matthew Mazzotta says the success of The Storefront Theater, which won him Architecture Project of the Year at the inaugural Dezeen Awards, comes down to the way the local community has made use of it. The Storefront Theater is a retractable theatre disguised as a shop. It was built to re-invigorate the main street in the town

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Take a video tour of A-CH’s tiny Keperra House in Australia

May 7, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Keperra House by A-CH

This architecture movie shows A-CH’s compact Keperra House, located in a post-war suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Completed in 2013, the house was designed by Australian studio A-CH for a single occupant, and is positioned at the end of the garden of an existing property. It is characterised by a central sheltered deck that separates the bedroom from

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Neri&Hu looked to “traditional courtyard house typology” for Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat

May 3, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Neri&Hu cofounder Lyndon Neri explains how the studio referenced traditional Chinese courtyard homes in its design for a hotel, in this interview Dezeen filmed at the AHEAD Asia awards ceremony. Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat won awards in two categories – New Concept of the Year, and Landscaping and Outdoor Spaces – at the third AHEAD Asia awards in March,

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Neri&Hu looked to “traditional courtyard house typology” for Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat

May 3, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Neri&Hu cofounder Lyndon Neri explains how the studio referenced traditional Chinese courtyard homes in its design for a hotel, in this interview Dezeen filmed at the AHEAD Asia awards ceremony. Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat won awards in two categories – New Concept of the Year, and Landscaping and Outdoor Spaces – at the third AHEAD Asia awards in March,

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Digital technology adds “layer of understanding” to Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art

May 1, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art by Casson Mann

Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie. Roger Mann, creative director of Casson Mann, told Dezeen that he wanted to explore a connection with

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360-degree video captures creation of Assemble’s Granby Winter Garden

April 29, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Granby Winter Garden by Assemble

This 360-degree movie documents the three-year process of creating Assemble’s Granby Winter Garden from two derelict houses in Liverpool, UK.  Created by London collective Assemble with producer Popla Media and director David Betteridge, the video explores the garden and the Granby neighbourhood throughout the course of the project. The 360-degree footage is teamed with the audio of local people

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