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Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham say lack of “huggy-kissy stuff” in Japan may help slow coronavirus

April 16, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture explain how Japan’s culture of bowing instead of hand-shaking may have helped in the fight against coronavirus, in their video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. “Luckily the virus hasn’t hit too hard here,” Mark Dytham explained in the video. “I think one of the reasons

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Live video interview with Klein Dytham Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival

April 16, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein of Klein Dytham Architecture speak to Dezeen as part of Virtual Design Festival

Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture spoke to Dezeen live from Tokyo today at 2pm UK time as part of Virtual Design Festival. Klein and Dytham are also founders of the PechaKucha presentation format, and the interview follows the live streaming of last night’s PechaKucha Inspire The World event. In the live interview

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VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin van der Linden to explore Tokyo’s “mysterious urbanity”

April 16, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin Vermeulen

Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin van der Linden of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies. Van der Linden, founder of Tokyo-based Van Der Architects, has lived in Japan since 1995 when he moved to the country to work on Hiroshi Hara’s

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35 architects and designers contribute video messages to help launch Virtual Design Festival

April 15, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Virtual Design Festival launch movie

Virtual Design Festival has launched with a video featuring self-recorded messages from 35 architects, designers and artists around the world including Stefano Giovannoni, Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, Ben van Berkel and Bec Brittain. Each contributor delivers a video message to the world, explaining how they are faring during lockdown and offering their thoughts on the

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Los Angeles “is now a live-action dystopia playing out in real time” says Liam Young

April 13, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Liam Young Virtual Design Festival video interview

With Tinseltown under lockdown due to coronavirus, a new genre of “virus fiction” or “ViFi” could emerge, says speculative architect and director Liam Young in the first of a series of video messages from creatives around the world recorded as part of our Virtual Design Festival. “So welcome to the American apocalypse,” Young says in

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“I hope this offers a glimmer of hope that things are getting better” says Aric Chen

April 13, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Aric Chen Virtual Design Festival video message

Life in Shanghai is slowly getting back to normal, reports curator Aric Chen in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival on his first day in the fresh air after 14 days of home quarantine. Chen, the curatorial director of the Design Miami fair, recorded the message from the street on Sunday 12 April

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10 films with amazing architecture to stream during isolation

April 3, 2020 India Block 0
10 architecture films to watch in coronavirus isolation

With hundreds of millions of people currently in isolation or lockdown, Dezeen’s India Block has selected 10 feature films that use architecture in exciting ways to watch as a distraction from coronavirus-induced boredom. Parasite, 2019 The rich family’s house in Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning dark comedy about society practically steal’s the show. Sleek modernist

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John Pardey Architects raises house on stilts over River Thames flood plain

March 28, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Narula House by John Pardey Architects

Steel stilts elevate Narula House, a British dwelling on banks of a River Thames tributary that has been designed by John Pardey Architects to endure flooding. The wood-clad Narula House is intended to evoke an abstract object beside the river Loddon near Wargrave, which is identified as a flood zone. John Pardey Architects (JPA) completed

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Watch the video of our future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day

March 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day

Architecture professor Rachel Armstrong, brand consultant Suzanne Livingston and transportation designer Paul Priestman discussed how people will deal with the increasing complexity of future cities at the Dezeen Day conference last year. The panel of experts discussed the positive and negative impacts technology will have on cities and the difficulties in navigating these increasingly complex urban

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