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Open House London responds to “fiendish challenge” of coronavirus with video tours, cycle rides and model kits

September 18, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

With Open House London starting tomorrow, Dezeen has teamed up with the festival to present a video tour of a different building or space each day from 19 to 27 September. The films are part of the festival’s move to “massively diversify” its programme in the light of the coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted the

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Less exclusive buildings “are actually some of the most interesting” says Devs production designer

June 12, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Devs television series directed by Alex Garland

Production designer Mark Digby explains why he selected an inconspicuous 1960s university library as the location for sci-fi series Devs, which was created by Ex Machina and 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, instead of ultra-futuristic buildings in Silicon Valley like the Apple Park. Devs explores the sinister goings-on at a fictional quantum computing company

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10 significant concrete buildings featured in Chinese Brutalism Today

April 10, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Gymnasium of New Campus of Tianjin University by Atelier Li Xinggang

Alberto Bologna spotlights 10 key buildings from his book Chinese Brutalism Today, which examines the enduring trend of concrete architecture in China. Chinese Brutalism Today was curated by architect Bologna to offer a snapshot of the last two decades of architecture in the country, during which it has become the world’s largest concrete consumer. The

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Tom Hegen photographs the Netherlands’ glowing greenhouses

March 9, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Greenhouses photography series by Tom Hegen

Aerial photographer Tom Hegen has captured large greenhouses throughout the Netherlands from the air to raise questions about how “we feed the ever-growing world population”. Named the Greenhouse Series, the photographs documents the vast number of the LED-lit agricultural buildings in the country, which are used to feed more people while using less land than traditional farming. Each

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Beautified China book celebrates the country’s “architectural revolution”

March 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Beautified China book by Kris Provoost for Lannoo

Detailed photos of 80 Chinese buildings feature in Kris Provoost’s book Beautified China, which spotlights the country’s current architectural boom. The book is an expansion of the Beautified China photography series that Provoost revealed in 2017, in which “iconic architecture” by the likes of Zaha Hadid, MAD and Foster + Partners is depicted as abstract

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Beautified China book celebrates the country’s “architectural revolution”

March 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Detailed photos of 80 Chinese buildings feature in Kris Provoost’s book Beautified China, which spotlights the country’s current architectural boom. The book is an expansion of the Beautified China photography series that Provoost revealed in 2017, in which “iconic architecture” by the likes of Zaha Hadid, MAD and Foster + Partners is depicted as abstract

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Less is a Bore book celebrates “postmodern architecture in all its forms”

February 14, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Kindergarten Wolfartsweier, Germany, 2002, by Jurgen Mayer H, WORKac, Clavel Arquitectos, Nicolas Buffe and K/R

Less is a Bore by Dezeen columnist Owen Hopkins reveals the diversity of postmodern architecture from around the world. Here, he spotlights 10 significant structures from the book that come in all shapes, sizes and colours. Named after the anti-minimalist maxim coined by American architect Robert Venturi, Less is a Bore is a global survey of

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Watch the video of Liam Young’s keynote lecture at Dezeen Day

February 5, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Director Liam Young explains why “we must all actively shape and define” the future with architecture and film-making in this video of his keynote at Dezeen Day. Young, a film director who calls himself a “speculative architect”, was one of three keynote speakers at Dezeen’s inaugural conference on 30 October. At the event he explained his

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Watch Patrik Schumacher and Harriet Harriss argue about architecture education at Dezeen Day

December 4, 2019 India Block 0

Patrik Schumacher and Harriet Harriss clashed over architecture’s long-hours culture at the Dezeen Day conference in October. The movie of the discussion shows Schumacher arguing that protecting students from working too hard would lead to “a kind of socialist world of stagnation”. The panel discussion featured a group of experts and innovators debating whether architecture

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Architecture is overdue its own sexual revolution say Cruising Pavilion curators

November 4, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Architects should embrace ideas of cruising and sex in public places in their designs, say the curators of an exhibition at ArkDes in Stockholm. Cruising – the practice of looking for casual and anonymous sex in semi-public places – can be relevant to architecture if architects can be less squeamish about it, said Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus

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