Design

Dezeen named Best Small Digital Publisher of the Year at Digital Publishing Awards

June 29, 2018 Marcus Fairs 0

Dezeen has won the award for Best Small Digital Publisher of the Year at the Association of Online Publishers’ annual awards, with judges praising our “stand-out editorial focus” and our “change-inducing campaigns”. The award was presented at a ceremony in London on Wednesday night, where Dezeen was also highly commended in the Best Online Media

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Olson Kundig reveals plans for Bob Dylan Center in Oklahoma

June 28, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Seattle architecture firm Olson Kundig has unveiled a proposal for a museum dedicated to American musician Bob Dylan in Tulsa, close to a substantial archive of his belongings. Olson Kundig will act as lead architect for The Bob Dylan Center, after the firm was selected in an international competition for the project spearheaded by George

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“We face identical problems to people building a skyscraper,” says Christo

June 27, 2018 Marcus Fairs 0

Artist Christo has compared the creation of his work to building a skyscraper, or a highway, in an exclusive interview with Dezeen, following the unveiling of his floating London Mastaba installation. The 83-year-old artist compared the often painful and lengthy process of getting permission for his giant artworks to the fraught process experienced by architects.

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VTN Architects Used Bamboo To Create A Cave-Like Experience Inside The Nocenco Cafe

June 26, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Trieu Chien   Vo Trong Nghia Architects have recently completed the renovation of a cafe in Vietnam, that’s housed on the top floor and rooftop of a concrete building with a colonial style facade.   Photography by Trieu Chien After the designers studied several local materials such as brick, stone, etc, the decided to work with bamboo, […]

Oliver Wainwright’s highlights from Inside North Korea

June 25, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Guardian architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright explains seven highlights from his recently published book Inside North Korea to Dezeen. Wainwright’s book, published by Taschen and released on 22 June 2018, offers a glimpse inside the notoriously secretive nation. The 200 photos in the book, which are available to purchase, document the strange and colourful architecture of

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Stalled! initiative provides open-source prototypes for inclusive public restrooms

June 22, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A set of guidelines for designing inclusive bathrooms for public buildings, created to address an “urgent social justice issue”, is now available online. Architect Joel Sanders, transgender historian Susan Stryker and legal scholar Terry Kogan launched the Stalled! initiative at the AIA Conference on Architecture in New York City yesterday, 21 June 2018. Three years

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Stalled! initiative provides open-source prototypes for inclusive public restrooms

June 22, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A set of guidelines for designing inclusive bathrooms for public buildings, created to address an “urgent social justice issue”, is now available online. Architect Joel Sanders, transgender historian Susan Stryker and legal scholar Terry Kogan launched the Stalled! initiative at the AIA Conference on Architecture in New York City yesterday, 21 June 2018. Three years

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Eight key projects by Christo and Jeanne Claude

June 21, 2018 India Block 0

We round up eight of Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude’s most arresting temporary art interventions from the past 50 years, as their first major UK sculpture is unveiled. The art duo are famous for their large scale pieces that involve wrapping landmark buildings and landscapes in huge amounts of fabric, or creating temporary structures from

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Eight key projects by Christo and Jeanne Claude

June 21, 2018 India Block 0

We round up eight of Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude’s most arresting temporary art interventions from the past 50 years, as their first major UK sculpture is unveiled. The art duo are famous for their large scale pieces that involve wrapping landmark buildings and landscapes in huge amounts of fabric, or creating temporary structures from

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