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350 Bird Houses Cover This Suspended Hotel Room In A Swedish Forest

June 28, 2022 Erin 0

Architecture firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in close collaboration with Treehotel and Swedish ornithologist Ulf Öhman, has designed ‘Biosphere’, a hotel room in Harads, Sweden. The new hotel room is suspended in the Harads pines, with BIG’s experiential design being the eighth hotel room on the property. Key to the design of the hotel room […]

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Ten scientific inventions to reduce design and architecture’s impact on the planet

June 27, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Carbon-capturing slogan T-shirt by EgonLab and Post Carbon Lab in collaboration with DS Automobiles

Following a proposal by MIT to create climate-change-fighting bubbles, here is a roundup of 10 inventions aimed at limiting the impact of architecture and design on our environment. Creatives and scientists alike have come up with various innovations that seek to fight the ongoing climate crisis in which construction and manufacturing play a large part.

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Artist Anouska Samms crafts “dysfunctional” pots from human hair

June 23, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Anouska Samms This Myth We Make

Artist Anouska Samms created pots from clay and donated human hair to playfully explore her family’s matrilineal relationship, which were recently on show as part of an exhibition in London. Called This Myth We Make, the exhibition by Samms included a collection of pots displayed on rugged wood and plaster plinths as well as an

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Seven courses that prepare students for architecture and interior design degrees

June 22, 2022 Amy Peacock 0
A render of a large white building designed by tutors at the Unit XV course at Softbiome

Dezeen Courses: interested in improving your design skills before starting an architecture or interior design degree? Check out seven courses featured on Dezeen Courses taking place in London, Hong Kong and online. The selection includes summer schools designed to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate study, in which students partake in design tasks that

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Ten designs for the global refugee crisis including shelters and female hygiene inventions

June 21, 2022 Alice Finney 0
Aire de Repos shelter

To mark this year’s Refugee Week, we’ve rounded up 10 designs that aim to make a positive difference in the lives of refugees. The current global refugee crisis has seen more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since the second world war. Refugee Week began in the UK in 1998 and

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Five video games where architecture creates a “lifelike and immersive experience”

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0
Architectural drawing of a path in a video game

Panoramic maps, playful diagrams and layered illustrations feature in Videogame Atlas, a book by architectural design research studio You + Pea that highlights 12 video games and their use of architecture and architectural theory. Videogame Atlas provides detailed and playful insights into the virtual environments through the style of drawings typically found in 20th-century architecture

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IKEA designs “safe spaces” for children and at-risk refugees fleeing Ukraine

June 21, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
IKEA Blue Dot shelters

Furniture company IKEA has donated its furnishings and design services to create a series of temporary refugee shelters in Eastern Europe, set up by the United Nations to offer support and sanctuary to the most vulnerable groups displaced by Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Swedish furniture brand created spaces with a homely, comforting atmosphere inside several

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A’ Design Awards & Competition – Early Call for Entries

June 20, 2022 Erin 0

This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 2022 winners in 110 different design disciplines. A’ Design Award winning works are translated to all major languages in order to connect design […]

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Dimore Studio gives historical Milan palazzo “celestial” makeover

June 20, 2022 Alice Finney 0
The interior of Dimore Studio gallery

Over the course of Milan design week, architecture and design studio Dimore Studio transformed its gallery into “a dreamlike space” filled with lighting, furniture and textiles shrouded in plumes of smoke. Dimore Studio founders Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci wanted the interiors to help visitors forget the difficult years of the coronavirus pandemic and instead evoke

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