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Block9 reveals “monster” IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019

July 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Block9 IICON stage at Glastonbury 2019

Block9 co-founders Gideon Berger and Steven Gallagher explain how they built the monolithic IICON stage at Glastonbury in this exclusive video shot by Dezeen at the famous music festival. IICON is a vast sculptural stage and outdoor dance arena by London creative partnership Block9, which debuted at Glastonbury festival in Somerset, UK, last weekend. The

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Explore The Colour Palace by Yinka Ilori and Pricegore in 360-degree video

June 28, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
The Colour Palace by Yinka Ilori and Pricegore

Take a look inside The Colour Palace, a brightly patterned pavilion by designer Yinka Ilori and architecture studio Pricegore, in this 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen. Ilori teamed up with Pricegore to install the temporary building on the lawn of Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, as part of the London Festival of Architecture. A cafe

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Explore Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion in 360-degree video

June 20, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

Take a look inside the latest Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a low-rising rocky canopy designed by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, in this exclusive 360-degree video filmed by Dezeen. The pavilion features a gently sloping roof comprising 61 tonnes of Cumbrian slate mounted on to a steel mesh that is supported by 106 slender columns. The fourth

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Lianjie Wu designs affordable homes that are deliberately left unfinished

June 3, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Beyond the Shell by Lianjie Wu

The final instalment of our Dezeen x Mini Living video series features a proposal by Bartlett graduate Lianjie Wu for affordable homes that are left unfinished, for residents to complete themselves. Wu’s project, called Beyond the Shell, reimagines the traditional high-rise tower as a modular, multi-storey estate, with public and private spaces of different sizes

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Digital technology adds “layer of understanding” to Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art

May 1, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art by Casson Mann

Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie. Roger Mann, creative director of Casson Mann, told Dezeen that he wanted to explore a connection with

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Michelle Ho proposes retrofitting housing estates to densify cities

April 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Retrofitting the Community Estate by Michelle Ho

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores a vision from Bartlett School of Architecture student Michelle Ho, to replace demolished sections of a London housing estate with adaptable co-living units. Ho’s experimental proposal, called Retrofitting the Community Estate, sees segments of the 1960s-built Central Hill Estate knocked down, leaving a basic concrete shell comprising only a

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La Tallera restores “original public art spirit” of Mexican muralist says Frida Escobedo

March 29, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

Frida Escobedo describes her first public project La Tallera, an art gallery which was once the studio of the late muralist David Alfaros Siqueiros, in this exclusive video interview with Dezeen. The gallery complex, which is located in the small city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, was originally built by Siqueiros in the 1960s as a painting workshop. Frida Escobedo’s

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Boca Chica Hotel was “like an archaeology project” says Frida Escobedo

March 28, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Boca Chica Hotel by Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo explains how she renovated the 1950s Boca Chica Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, in this exclusive interview with Dezeen. Situated on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the beach town of Acapulco, Boca Chica Hotel is a renovation project born of a collaboration between Escobedo and her friend José Rojas. The hotel was originally constructed

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Boca Chica Hotel was “like an archaeology project” says Frida Escobedo

March 28, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Boca Chica Hotel by Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo explains how she renovated the 1950s Boca Chica Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, in this exclusive interview with Dezeen. Situated on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the beach town of Acapulco, Boca Chica Hotel is a renovation project born of a collaboration between Escobedo and her friend José Rojas. The hotel was originally constructed

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Cocoon BioFloss would enable people to grow their own micro homes

February 8, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

The latest movie in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores architect Maria Vergopoulou’s concept for self-build micro homes made of bioplastic, which came third in the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition.  The proposal, called Cocoon BioFloss, features clusters of pod-like homes made from thin bioplastic fibres, which resemble strands of candy floss. The

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