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China bans copycat architecture and restricts supertall skyscrapers

May 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
CTBUH Skyscraper Report 2018

The Chinese government has issued a decree “strictly prohibiting” the plagiarism of buildings in the country and severely limiting the construction of supertall skyscrapers. The new policy, released on the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s website, sets a wide range of measures designed to strengthen architectural standards in the country. It bans “copycat behaviour”,

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Festival in India offers Morag Myerscough “unequivocal apology” for copying her work

February 6, 2020 India Block 0
Morag Myerscough calls out Sulafest

Sulafest music festival in India has apologised to British designer Morag Myerscough for copying her colourful pavilion design, promising to commission original work in future. Myerscough credited the “power of Instagram” for alerting her to the issue and supporting her campaign to get images of the copied work removed and the theft acknowledged. A representative

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Festival in India offers Morag Myerscough “unequivocal apology” for copying her work

February 6, 2020 India Block 0
Morag Myerscough calls out Sulafest

Sulafest music festival in India has apologised to British designer Morag Myerscough for copying her colourful pavilion design, promising to commission original work in future. Myerscough credited the “power of Instagram” for alerting her to the issue and supporting her campaign to get images of the copied work removed and the theft acknowledged. A representative

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Festival in India offers Morag Myerscough “unequivocal apology” for copying her work

February 6, 2020 India Block 0
Morag Myerscough calls out Sulafest

Sulafest music festival in India has apologised to British designer Morag Myerscough for copying her colourful pavilion design, promising to commission original work in future. Myerscough credited the “power of Instagram” for alerting her to the issue and supporting her campaign to get images of the copied work removed and the theft acknowledged. A representative

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Dubai Frame opens amid claims of copyright infringement

January 11, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

The controversial Dubai Frame has opened to the public, despite an ongoing copyright dispute with architect Fernando Donis, who won a competition to design the observation tower over a decade ago. Comprising a pair of 150-metre-tall towers linked by a 93-metre-wide bridge, the Dubai Frame opened to the public in Za’abeel Park on 1 January 2018.

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Architects are suffering from “originality syndrome” and should copy more, says Winy Maas

October 20, 2017 Marcus Fairs 0

Architects and designers are too obsessed with being original and should get over their aversion to copying others, according to a new book co-written by Winy Maas of MVRDV. Called Copy Paste, the book argues that the cult of uniqueness is slowing down innovation. “Instead of mocking the culture of copycats, design could learn better

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Architects are suffering from “originality syndrome” and should copy more, says Winy Maas

October 20, 2017 Marcus Fairs 0

Architects and designers are too obsessed with being original and should get over their aversion to copying others, according to a new book co-written by Winy Maas of MVRDV. Called Copy Paste, the book argues that the cult of uniqueness is slowing down innovation. “Instead of mocking the culture of copycats, design could learn better

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“Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don’t call us copycats”

July 18, 2017 Phineas Harper 0

Architects shouldn’t be afraid to copy successful ideas like Assemble’s pop-up cinema, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. Dezeen readers, you have a dark obsession. Not an obsession with chic staircase porn, IKEA hacks or the latest gossip engulfing Bjarke Ingels, something more insidious. It is an obsession that clogs the comments section of this

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