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Watch Netflix’s Abstract: The Art of Design For Free

April 22, 2020 Eric Baldwin 0

Netflix released ten of its documentary films, shorts and docuseries free on YouTube for anyone to watch. Included in the set is Abstract: The Art of Design, exploring “the most creative designers” from various fields. The first season of this series goes into the the art, science and philosophy of design. Back in 2017, Netflix launched the documentary series with the aim of demonstrating how design influences all aspects of our lives.

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Parking UCU / MAPA

April 22, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

In first instance, the parking fulfills a specific function: to host as many vehicles as possible in the least number of meters squared, in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Nevertheless, this project seeks to propose a new parking experience by exceeding the traditional program requirements. The architecture is then the result of an equanimous design process that ponders on the optimization of resources in search for more generous spaces than usual.

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Part two of The World Around’s Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Thomas Thwaites lived as a goat on all fours with prosthetic limbs

Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films

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51 Brutalist House Exteriors That Will Make You Love Concrete Architecture

April 22, 2020 HD Staff 0

Brutalist architecture has come a long way since its original peak back in the late 1950s to 60s. Back then, institutional buildings and social housing projects projected a cold and austere nature that became associated with totalitarianism by the late 1970s, and so fell out of favour. Now we’re seeing an exciting comeback of reinforced […]

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51 Brutalist House Exteriors That Will Make You Love Concrete Architecture

April 22, 2020 HD Staff 0

Brutalist architecture has come a long way since its original peak back in the late 1950s to 60s. Back then, institutional buildings and social housing projects projected a cold and austere nature that became associated with totalitarianism by the late 1970s, and so fell out of favour. Now we’re seeing an exciting comeback of reinforced […]

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Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer’s stucco Santa Monica residence

April 22, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Ramar Residence and Studio by Saez Pedraja

California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with large aluminium and cedar shades to the backyard of this remodelled Santa Monica residence. Ramar Residence and Studio is located on a hill in the city’s Sunset Park neighbourhood approximately one mile (1.6 kilometres) from the Pacific Ocean. Saez Pedraja designed the renovation to a

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MCC House / Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados

April 22, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

Within the urban context in which it is inserted, the volume of the residence imposes itself with simplicity. The main body of the house accommodates itself between the lateral boundary walls, neutralizing itself as a volume to function as an element that compartments the internal spaces of the lot.

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Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Kunlé Adeyemi's floating school

Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by

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