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Design Museum pushes for stone construction in the UK with Stone Demonstrator

November 11, 2025 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Stone makes up the facade, frame, foundations and floor slabs in the Stone Demonstrator, a project by London’s Design Museum aimed at getting the British construction industry to embrace the “ultra-low-carbon” material. A traditional but these days sometimes overlooked structural material, stone is given centre stage in the Stone Demonstrator, a 1:1 scale prototype of

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Watch part one of Uchronia’s Design Workshop with SketchUp about form in design

November 1, 2024 Calum Lindsay 0

In the first instalment of Dezeen and SketchUp’s Design Workshops, Uchronia founder Julien Sebban explains how he used SketchUp’s software to create a fictional bar interior characterised by amorphous forms and soft edges. Sebban designed the 3D model of the bar especially for the workshop, which is the first video in Dezeen and SketchUp’s filmed

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Tavs Jorgensen develops cob bricks for low-carbon construction

October 29, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Researcher Tavs Jorgensen has created a method of extruding cob into brick shapes, in an effort to make the low-carbon biomaterial more accessible. Used to create bricks that can be stacked in interlocking patterns, the process involves pushing different samples of cob – a construction material made from earth and straw – through 3D-printed extrusion

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Dezeen and SketchUp are launching Design Workshops with Uchronia and Tola Ojuolape

October 18, 2024 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen is teaming up with SketchUp to launch the Design Workshops video series in which leading designers describe how they created especially commissioned interior environments. The series will launch in two weeks with the first of two videos hosted by Uchronia founder Julien Sebban, who will explain how he used SketchUp’s design software to create a

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Space architects are preparing for humanity’s return to the moon

October 15, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

This week, leading figures in space architecture will descend on Milan to formally establish the discipline for the first time. Ellen Eberhardt explores what’s at stake. Space-related architecture has seen an explosion in activity over the past few years, with the development of off-earth construction methods, zero-gravity interior design and even a dedicated masters’ programme.

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ETH Zurich explores novel fabrication method for light and reusable concrete staircase

October 14, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Material-saving and reversible construction approaches are showcased in the spine-like Cadenza concrete spiral staircase, created by researchers at technology university ETH Zurich working with ROK Architects. The Cadenza staircase is the latest contribution to the NEST building, a laboratory for experimental fabrication techniques that ETH Zurich shares with other research institutes in the Swiss city

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Wood waste and bioplastic floor panel boasts the strength of steel

September 30, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

US researchers working with SHoP Architects have created a potential alternative to steel and concrete as a structural floor material: recyclable panels made entirely from bioplastic and wood flour. The prefabricated panel was made using 3D printing by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine

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Wood waste and bioplastic floor panel boasts the strength of steel

September 30, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

US researchers working with SHoP Architects have created a potential alternative to steel and concrete as a structural floor material: recyclable panels made entirely from bioplastic and wood flour. The prefabricated panel was made using 3D printing by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine

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Zaha Hadid Architects creates parametric London for Fortnite game

September 23, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has collaborated with software developer Epic Games to create a parametric-style version of London that players can build on in the video game Fortnite. In the Re:Imagine London game, Fortnite players are dropped into a creator-made island on London’s waterfront, which has been populated with curved buildings in keeping with Zaha Hadid

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Dezeen Agenda features the “first-ever” triple-foldable phone

September 19, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the “first-ever” triple foldable phone. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Chinese tech company Huawei unveiled the Mate XT Ultimate Design, a foldable smartphone that expands into a 10.2-inch tablet, earlier this week. Hailed as “the first commercial triple foldable phone,” the Mate XT Ultimate Design features a

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