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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
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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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
Liam Young at Dezeen Day

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
Watch the education panel at Dezeen Day

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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Mikhail Riches will “aim for zero carbon” in all projects after Stirling Prize win

October 18, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Mikhail Riches zero carbon

Stirling Prize-winner Mikhail Riches will only work on zero-carbon projects from now on, the studio told Dezeen. Co-founder Annalie Riches said the practice was committed to improving the environmental performance of its projects, after winning the UK’s top architecture prize for the low-energy Goldsmith Street development. “As a practice, we don’t want to do anything

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“We fooled ourselves that sustainability was getting us where we needed to go” says Michael Pawlyn of Architects Declare

October 7, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Michael Pawlyn portrait

Architects must urgently go beyond creating sustainable architecture that minimises damage to the planet and design buildings that help repair it, says Michael Pawlyn from Architects Declare. Biomimetic architect Pawyln, who has played a key role in promoting Architects Declare, believes that architecture that “just mitigates negatives” is not going far enough. “We all fooled

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Mary Gaudin photographs little-known Werry/Francis Houses by New Zealand modernist John Scott

February 22, 2019 Claire Carponen 0
Mary Gaudin photography of Werry/Francis Houses by John Scott

The sunlit spaces of a mid-century modern family home in New Zealand, designed by the late architect John Scott, are captured in these new images by photographer Mary Gaudin. Gaudin took the photos for new book Werry/Francis Houses, a photo-essay booklet she created with architect Giles Reid. Comprising 36 pages, it offers an intimate portrait of a property

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Biggest challenge of relocating Swedish town Kiruna is “moving the minds of citizens”

February 18, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Kiruna climate change

Human impact on the planet is forcing Sweden to relocate the town of Kiruna. The urban planners and architects behind the project say the biggest challenge isn’t moving the buildings, it’s bringing the community with them. Sweden’s northernmost town and its 18,000 inhabitants are moving two miles east, to prevent being slowly being swallowed by an underground mine.

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