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BAAS Arquitectura’s Faculty of Radio and Television wins top prize at Brick Award 20

September 24, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Brick Awards 20 winners

Dezeen promotion: an Indian library and a prototype house in Rwanda are among the winners at this year’s Brick Award, with a university building in Poland taking the top prize. Organised by brick company Wienerberger, the biennial award aims to celebrate “outstanding brick architecture from all around the world,” with a record 644 projects entered

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Rieder’s sculptural concrete cladding wraps Berlin office block

September 23, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Lichtfabrik office block in Berlin is wrapped in formparts.fab 3D concrete cladding by Rieder

Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has created a three-dimensional facade from tailor-made, precast concrete panels for the Lichtfabrik office block in Berlin. The office block, designed by German architecture practices Bollinger+Fehlig and Stoeckert Architects, has a distinctive facade made using Rieder’s formparts.fab cladding system. Located on Kottbusser Strasse in Berlin’s Luisenstadt district, the block was

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Last chance to enter The William Sutton Prize for Placemaking and Affordable Housing Design

September 22, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Radial Routes by Jas Bhalla Architects

Dezeen promotion: Clarion Housing Group is calling on architects and designers to enter this year’s William Sutton Prize for Placemaking and Affordable Housing Design, ahead of the 30 September deadline. The William Sutton Prize is staged by affordable housing provider Clarion Housing Group to celebrate the work of those improving the quality of homes and

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Horticus creates modular indoor living wall

September 21, 2020 Dezeen staff 0

Horticus is showcasing its indoor living wall system as part of the Dezeen x Planted collaboration during this year’s London Design Festival. Designed by Horticus to bring plants into small indoor spaces, the system combines a hexagonal metal trellis frame that is screwed to a wall with hexagonal terracotta plant pots. “By focusing on our desire to nurture

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Biotecture’s living walls reconnect urban landscapes with nature

September 19, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Millbrook Roundabout green wall by Biotecture

Biotecture is spotlighting its portfolio of green walls that “integrate natural features into urban spaces” during the Dezeen x Planted collaboration for London Design Festival. Green infrastructure company Biotecture describes itself as the UK’s leading provider of living wall design, installation and maintenance. Its designs are intended to contribute to cleaner air in public spaces

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10 futuristic architecture projects from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students

September 8, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
10 futuristic buildings from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students

This school show by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute features speculative designs from current and former students, including a “shrine to science fiction” made from mechanical debris and a replacement for Steven Holl’s Hunter’s Point Library. The projects were created as part of the students’ undergraduate degrees at the Rensselaer School of Architecture in Troy, New

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Thomas Heatherwick and Ab Rogers to speak at virtual Workplace Wellbeing by Design conference

September 3, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Thomas Heatherwick and Ab Rogers to speak at virtual Workplace Wellbeing by Design conference

Dezeen promotion: Workplace Wellbeing by Design is a week-long online event taking place during this year’s London Design Festival, which explores the complex relationship between design and wellbeing in the workplace. The event, which will take place from 14 to 18 September 2020, includes talks by leaders in the architecture and design industry, including Thomas Heatherwick,

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Technical University Munich presents award-winning projects from architecture students

August 21, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Technical University Munich presents award-winning projects from architecture students

A church extension and a residential building for women based on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own feature in this school show of work by architecture students from Technical University Munich. The six proposals below were developed by both graduates and undergraduates, including the recipients of TUM’s annual architecture awards alongside three highly commended

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Technical University Munich architecture students share adaptive reuse projects

August 13, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Technical University Munich students share adaptive reuse projects

Defunct tower silos, car parks and Soviet cultural centres are given a renewed purpose in this VDF school show, featuring student projects from the Technical University Munich’s Department of Architecture. The ten designs below were taken from the school’s AJA 2020 end-of-year exhibition, which features work created as part of the school’s graduate and undergraduate

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Technical University Munich architecture students share adaptive reuse projects

August 13, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Technical University Munich students share adaptive reuse projects

Defunct tower silos, car parks and Soviet cultural centres are given a renewed purpose in this VDF school show, featuring student projects from the Technical University Munich’s Department of Architecture. The ten designs below were taken from the school’s AJA 2020 end-of-year exhibition, which features work created as part of the school’s graduate and undergraduate

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