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Caspar Schols develops Cabin ANNA from the garden shed he built for his mother

October 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architectural designer Caspar Schols has developed the design for a garden shed with moving walls that he built for his parents into a flat-pack cabin for living and for working. Schols drew on the Garden House pavilion he completed before architecture school in 2016 to create two commercially available cabins: the ANNA Stay home and the ANNA Meet workplace.

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Jean Nouvel reveals cave hotel in Saudi Arabia’s AlUla desert

October 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
The Sharaan by Jean Nouvel Resort in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia

French architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled the design for a subterranean hotel that will be carved into a sandstone hill in the AlUla desert in Saudi Arabia. Named Sharaan by Jean Nouvel, the resort will be cut into the sandstone hills in the AlUla area of Saudi Arabia, which is around 220 miles north of

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Biomimicry enables architects to make “positive impact” on the environment says Michael Pawlyn

October 22, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0

In the second video of our Design for Life collaboration with Dassault Systèmes, Exploration Architecture founder Michael Pawlyn explains how computational design tools allow architects to mimic the natural world. Pawlyn is the second designer to feature in the Design for Life collaboration between Dezeen and Dassault Systèmes, which highlights designers who are using technology and research to

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Piers Taylor retrofits his own off-grid home “to banish the demons” of his youth

October 20, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Moonshine by Piers Taylor

Invisible Studio founder Piers Taylor has carried out an extensive retrofit of Moonshine – his own off-grid home near Bath in southwest England. Taylor remodelled Moonshine, which was named by UK architecture magazine Architects’ Journal as Small Project of the year when it completed, to make it a more sustainable home. “I wanted to banish the

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BIG designs Virgin Hyperloop Certification Center for West Virginia

October 15, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
BIG design Virgin Hyperloop Certification Center for West Virginia

Virgin Hyperloop is building a centre for testing and certifying its high-speed transportation system in West Virginia, designed by architecture firm BIG. The Hyperloop Certification Center (HCC) facility will include a six-mile-long tube for testing Virgin Hyperloop for mass transportation use. The aim is to achieve safety certification for the new mode of transport – intended

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Third talk in Exhibit Columbus series to explore community and the arts in the American Midwest

October 13, 2020 Siufan Adey 0

In this live conversation by Exhibit Columbus and Dezeen, a panel of experts will discuss how cultural organisations and communities can work toward creating equitable civic spaces across the US. Watch here from 7:00pm UK time (2:00pm EST) on 13 October 2020. Chaired by Exhibit Columbus director Anne Surak, the discussion will feature artist and

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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize in video ceremony

October 6, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Grafton Architects founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in a video ceremony held because the physical event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Replacing the regular in-person ceremony, the video features a virtual ceremony along with Farrell and McNamara talking about their approach to architecture and messages

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Dassault Systèmes partners with Dezeen for a live talk with Arthur Mamou-Mani

October 1, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0

Arthur Mamou-Mani and Anne Asensio discuss the potential of computational design in this live talk which launches Dezeen’s collaboration with French design software brand Dassault Systèmes. Mamou-Mani, founder of London-based studio Mamou-Mani Architects, and Asensio, vice president of design experience at Dassault Systèmes, spoke to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how science and

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Walters Way houses can be easily adapted to their owners needs

September 27, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Interior of a house on Walters Way

The final video tour published in collaboration with this year’s Open House London festival spotlights Walters Way, a collection of 13 adaptable houses in Lewisham that were self-built by their owners with the help of architect Walter Segal. Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the documentary is one of a series of video tours of rarely-published places in the

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The brutalist Salters’ Hall is enclosed by white fluted concrete

September 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Inside the brutalist Salters' Hall by Basil Spence

The penultimate video tour published in collaboration with Open House London documents Salters’ Hall, the white brutalist livery hall near the Barbican Estate. Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the video is one of a series of short documentaries being published on Dezeen during the festival to spotlight unusual and overlooked places in London. Salters’ Hall was

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