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Alison Brooks designs Windward House to intensify the “joy of living with art”

May 1, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Windward House in Gloucestershire by Alison Brooks Architects

Alison Brooks Architects has built an art-filled black house alongside a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire that has been converted into a dedicated gallery space. The studio, led by Canadian architect Alison Brooks, designed Windward House to be a place for the clients to enjoy living with their art collection within the Wye Valley in Gloucestershire.

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Watch talks by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg from Dezeen Day at VDF

April 30, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Dezeen Day conference at VDF

Today we are streaming the entire Dezeen Day conference as part of Virtual Design Festival, including talks by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and more. Dezeen Day was Dezeen’s inaugural international architecture and design conference. Six months after the event took place, we are broadcasting all the talks, panel discussions and conversations from

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Watch all eight episodes of Netflix’s Abstract: The Art of Design series

April 30, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Netflix Abstract series

Netflix has made all eight episodes of its documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design, which features set designer Es Devlin, architect Bjarke Ingels and interior designer Ilse Crawford, available to watch for free during coronavirus lockdown. Streaming company Netflix has made season one of its design series available on Youtube as part of an

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“Our priority is to play our part in society at large” says Ben van Berkel

April 29, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel says the architecture firm is researching “how design can support the sectors that are in need” after the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, in a video message for Virtual Design Festival. “Our priority is, of course, to safeguard our employees, our business and our running projects, but also to play

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Live interview with architect Chris Precht as part of Virtual Design Festival

April 28, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Architect Chris Precht speaks to Dezeen live as part of Virtual Design Festival

Austrian architect Chris Precht speaks to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the conversation live from 2pm UK time. Chris Precht, who founded architecture studio Precht with his wife Fei Precht last year, will discuss his work with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Precht

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“We have a tendency to look at representations of new cities as a kind of pornography” said Michael Sorkin

April 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Michael Sorkin 2015 reSITE lecture

Ahead of Monday’s collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and reSITE , the Prague urbanism conference has shared a video of a lecture by Michael Sorkin, in which the late architect and critic quashes the lure of glamorised future city proposals. In the talk, which took place at the 2015 reSITE conference, Sorkin highlighted problems of

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Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus on spaces across a wide range of different scales. Called The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19, the 13-minute film explores the coronavirus pandemic through a montage of images

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Cameron Sinclair and Facebook’s Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook’s director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations,

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Part two of The World Around’s Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Thomas Thwaites lived as a goat on all fours with prosthetic limbs

Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films

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Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Kunlé Adeyemi's floating school

Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by

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