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Live interview with architect Stefan Behnisch

May 11, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Architect Stefan Behnisch established Behnisch Architekten with his father in 1989

German architect Stefan Behnisch speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 2:00pm UK time. Behnisch established Behnisch Architekten in Stuttgart in 1989 with his late father Günter Behnisch. The firm now has additional offices in Los Angeles, Boston and Munich. Behnisch

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“At first, almost nobody took any notice of Archigram” says Peter Cook in exclusive Dezeen interview

May 11, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
VDF x Archigram

In the first of a series of video interviews with former members of Archigram for VDF, architect Peter Cook recounts how the influential avant-garde architecture group rose to prominence in the 1960s. Archigram was an experimental collective of architects that became famous for its radical architecture concepts drawing from the emerging technologies and consumer culture

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VDF’s top 10 videos include Chris Precht and Alison Brooks plus Studio Drift’s drone performance

May 8, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
VDF's top 10 videos

We’re roughly one-third of the way through Virtual Design Festival, having completed 24 days of the 77-day marathon! With the VDF team taking a break today as its a holiday in the UK, here are the ten most popular VDF video posts so far. VDF movies, including live interviews, performances and documentaries, have been streamed

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Live interview with architect Jimenez Lai as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 6, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Jimenez Lai is founder of architecture studio Bureau Spectacular

Los Angeles architect Jimenez Lai speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 5:00pm UK time. Lai, founder of architecture studio Bureau Spectacular, will speak to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from Los Angeles. Bureau Spectacular was named Emerging Architect of

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Preview The Met’s postponed About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition

May 5, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Preview The Met's postponed About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a virtual version of its About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met’s Costume Institute has made a short Youtube video of the museum’s annual major spring exhibition to coincide with its original opening date this week. The

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KPF’s Scalpel skyscraper adds to the “urban drama” of the City of London

May 5, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
52 Lime Street – Scalpel skyscraper, City of London by KPF

Architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed the 190-metre-tall Scalpel skyscraper alongside the Lloyd’s building at 52 Lime Street in the City of London. The Scalpel is the latest skyscraper to be built in the City of London cluster, which also includes RSH+P’s Leadenhall Building, Foster + Partners’ Stirling Prize-winning 30 St Mary Axe and the Foggo Associates-designed 70 St

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Cities “are swamped by the exotic shapes you can make with a computer,” says James Wines

May 5, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Best store by SITE and James Wines

Pioneering architect James Wines laments the predominance of digitally created forms in architecture and calls for more buildings that “reach out to people” in the first of a series of talks VDF is broadcasting in partnership with Friedman Benda. “All cities are becoming exactly alike,” Wines told curator and historian Glenn Adamson in New York

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Live interview with architect Carlo Ratti as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 4, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
VDF Screentime Carlo Ratti

Architect Carlo Ratti speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 4:00pm UK time. Italian architect Ratti is the founder of international design and architecture studio Carlo Ratti Associati and is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the

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Studio Natalie researching local materials for interiors projects after being stranded on coral island

May 4, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In the most exotic VDF video message we received, interior designer Natalie Papageorgiadis explains how she found herself stranded in the Maldives as the world went into lockdown due to coronavirus. Papageorgiadis is the founder of London-based interior design studio Studio Natalie and appears in the video with its managing director Stuart Trevor on an

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Live interview with architect Alison Brooks as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 1, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Screentime Enscape: Alison Brooks

Architect Alison Brooks speaks to Dezeen in this live discussion with Marcus Fairs, as part of our Screentime interview series sponsored by Enscape. Watch the conversation live from 4pm UK time. Alison Brooks is the principal and creative director of Alison Brooks Architects, which she founded in 1996. The studio works on both commercial and

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