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Architecture and design events in February 2020 from Dezeen Events Guide

January 31, 2020 Augusta Pownall 0
Dezeen Events Guide February

Modernism Week in Palm Springs, Stockholm Design Week and the Collect crafts fair and Surface Design Show in London are among the architecture and design events taking place this month and listed on Dezeen Events Guide. Other events taking place in February include Madrid Design Festival, Nomad St Moritz and Object Rotterdam. Stockholm Design Week

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Art Fund campaigns to save Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage from private sale

January 29, 2020 Augusta Pownall 0
Prospect Cottage campaign Derek Jarman

UK charity Art Fund has released photos of filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, England as part of its fundraising campaign to prevent the renowned house and garden from being sold. Art Fund’s campaign is seeking £3.5 million to save the deceased filmmaker and gardener’s former home for the public. If the money is

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Julia Lohmann brings seaweed pavilion to Davos as climate change warning

January 24, 2020 Augusta Pownall 0
Hidaka Ohmu Julia Lohmann seaweed pavilion

Designer Julia Lohmann’s Department of Seaweed is showing a pavilion made of kelp and rattan at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, where world leaders have met this week. Called Hidaka Ohmu, the organically shaped pavilion is formed from semi-translucent panels of a large seaweed – or macroalgae – called kelp, laid over a

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PriestmanGoode to design interiors of vast Indian co-living spaces

January 24, 2020 Augusta Pownall 0
Olive co-living India PriestmanGoode

PriestmanGoode has unveiled designs for the interiors and branding of Indian co-living venture Olive, which will launch with a 15,000-bed community in Bangalore. Launched by Indian real-estate group Embassy Group, the first phase of the Olive co-living project will be a 15,000-bed development in Bangalore. This will be joined by 2,500-bed spaces in Pune and

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This week, we rounded up the year’s best stories

December 21, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Doug Aitken Gstaad mirrored house installation

This week on Dezeen, we rounded up the best architecture, design and interiors posts of the year, taking in the most controversial stories, the best quotes from Dezeen’s many interviews and a slew of interesting interiors. The biggest trends in architecture this year ranged from the serious to the playful. Responses to big topics, such

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Dezeen’s top 10 architecture and design quotes of 2019

December 18, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Dezeen's top 10 design and architecture quotes of 2019: &Walsh creative agency by Jesssica Walsh

Dezeen has spoken to a huge number of architects, designers and activists this year. For our review of 2019, deputy editor Augusta Pownall picks 10 quotes that sum up what’s been going on in the architecture and design community. Lena Pripp-Kovac: “We’re looking at a change of our total business” Lena Pripp-Kovac, head of sustainability

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Serpentine Galleries appoints Frieze Los Angeles’s Bettina Korek as CEO

December 10, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Bettina Korek Serpentine CEO

American arts administrator Bettina Korek has been appointed CEO of London’s Serpentine Galleries following Yana Peel’s resignation earlier this year. Korek, who is currently executive director of Frieze Los Angeles, will move to the UK capital to take up the position in March 2020. She succeeds Peel, who resigned in June after three years in

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Watch the video of Paola Antonelli’s keynote lecture at Dezeen Day

November 13, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Paola Antonelli Dezeen Day video

Our natural world is “fixable, but it will never be the same” said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design’s response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. Antonelli, MoMA’s senior curator of architecture and design, kicked off Dezeen’s inaugural conference on 30 October with a keynote that

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Watch the video of Paola Antonelli’s keynote lecture at Dezeen Day

November 13, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Paola Antonelli Dezeen Day video

Our natural world is “fixable, but it will never be the same” said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design’s response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. Antonelli, MoMA’s senior curator of architecture and design, kicked off Dezeen’s inaugural conference on 30 October with a keynote that

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Biobasecamp pavilion aims to demonstrate the potential of timber in architecture

November 6, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Biobasecamp Marco Vermeulen Dutch Design Week

A timber pavilion called Biobasecamp at Dutch Design Week brought together projects that demonstrate the potential of the “concrete of the future” to fight against climate change. Studio Marco Vermeulen built the wooden pavilion as a covered exhibition-space for a series of displays highlighting how timber can be used in bio-based architecture projects. Called Biobasecamp, the

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