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Vote for Dezeen’s movie Elevation to win a Lovie Award!

September 24, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Elevation, Dezeen’s documentary about how drones will transform cities, is a finalist at the Lovie Awards 2018. Vote now to help us win! The 18-minute film, which explores how drones could change how people travel, how goods are delivered and how buildings look and are constructed, is up for the honour in the Technology category.

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Los Angeles studios design five radical building concepts for P.O.D.System Architecture

September 18, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

From a spherical live-work complex to a high-rise cat tower, we look back at the five conceptual buildings created for adidas and Dezeen’s P.O.D.System Architecture project. P.O.D.System Architecture is a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals, which called on architects to create a series of unique conceptual buildings based on the story behind the P.O.D.System shoe. Launched in

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Bureau Spectacular creates high-rise architecture model that doubles as a cat tower

August 31, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

In our final P.O.D.System Architecture movie, architects Joanna Grant and Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular explain their playful high-rise architecture concept that also functions as furniture or a cat tower at different scales. Los Angeles studio Bureau Spectacular’s design for P.O.D.System Architecture – a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals – is a 1:100 scale

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Brooks + Scarpa’s inflatable pavilion concept captures energy from lightning storms

August 23, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Brooks + Scarpa principals Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa explain their concept for a public pavilion that could harness energy from lightning in our penultimate P.O.D.System Architecture movie. Los Angeles- and Florida-based architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a conceptual energy-harvesting pavilion for P.O.D.System Architecture – a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals. Called

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Design, Bitches envisions assortment of pavilions for new park concept

August 9, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Design, Bitches co-founders Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph explain their idea to create a park that brings different activities together in unusual ways in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. Los Angeles architecture studio Design, Bitches has created a park called Stomping Grounds for the P.O.D.System Architecture project – a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals.

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Latest MINI Living Urban Cabin references “dynamic construction of Los Angeles”

July 20, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and architect David Freeland explain how the micro home they built on a Los Angeles rooftop responds to the city in our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie. MINI Living collaborated with local architecture firm FreelandBuck to create the tiny home, which was installed on the roof

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Latest MINI Living Urban Cabin references “dynamic construction of Los Angeles”

July 20, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and architect David Freeland explain how the micro home they built on a Los Angeles rooftop responds to the city in our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie. MINI Living collaborated with local architecture firm FreelandBuck to create the tiny home, which was installed on the roof

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Dezeen and MINI Living launch £10,000 contest to design a home for 100 years in the future

July 16, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

How will we live in cities in 100 years’ time? To find out, Dezeen has teamed up with MINI Living to invite readers to design an urban home of the future, with £10,000 to be won. The Future Urban Home Competition is an extension of the ongoing Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative, a collaboration between Dezeen

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Serpentine Pavilion 2018 shows “what you can create with simple things” says Frida Escobedo

June 13, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

In this exclusive Dezeen movie, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo explains why she used stacks of roofing tiles to create this year’s Serpentine Pavilion. Escobedo’s pavilion, which was unveiled outside the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London, this week, is a secluded courtyard framed by latticed walls made from grey concrete roofing tiles. “We wanted to

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The secret to creating a great hotel is “one plus one equals three” says Ian Schrager

June 8, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

In this movie, New York hotelier Ian Schrager says the success of his hotel Public lies in creating a guest experience that is greater than the sum of its parts. Located at 215 Chrystie Street in New York’s Bowery district, Public is a new hotel designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Schrager chose

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