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Scrunch Workspace / KIN Architects

April 22, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

KIN Architects has completed the transformation of a West End Nightclub into a workplace “jungle” for a technology company, Scrunch. The fit-out introduces pocket parks to the open plan warehouse allowing Scrunch to accommodate daily office activities and after-dark events in the same multi-purpose space. KIN Directors Marjorie Dixon and Leah Gallagher, as well as their clients, were determined to acknowledge the history of the HiFi live music venue. “The venue was known for a long time so we wanted to harness that history,” Leah says. “We thought that introducing natural landscape would amplify the sense of theatre that once existed.”

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Live video interview with The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Beatrice Galilee Screentime video interview

In this live interview, Beatrice Galilee speaks to Dezeen about the online symposium she has curated as part of Virtual Design Festival’s partnership with The World Around for Earth Day. From 2:00pm (UK time) today, Virtual Design Festival will host a series of online talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could “shape

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Elisabeth Polzella creates structural-stone covered market in Lamure-Sur-Azergues

April 22, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Lamure-Sur-Azergues covered market by Elisabeth Polzella

French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France. Built alongside Lamure-Sur-Azergues’ town hall, the open-sided building is designed to host the weekly market and to be a gathering place for the people of the town. The simple market

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“The current crisis had exposed the structural shortcomings of our healthcare systems”

April 22, 2020 Reinier de Graaf 0
Coronavirus hospital NHS Nightingale at London's ExCel Centre by BDP

The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future. How will we look back on today once the current crisis has panned out? How “new” will the new normal be? While the

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How to Recycle Your Kitchen Cabinets (8 photos)

April 22, 2020 Nicole Jacobs 0

This story is part of a series on recycling your kitchen.Kitchen renovations are widely popular, and they’re also often the largest, most expensive remodeling projects you’ll tackle in your home. Unfortunately, the process typically produces a large a…

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Architects, not Architecture: Daniel Libeskind

April 22, 2020 Diego Hernández 0

Architects, not Architecture decided to open their archive to help us cope with the current situation of not being able to go out as usual and create a source of inspiration and entertainment through sharing one of the unique talks from their previous 35 events, which have never been published before – including, Tatiana Bilbao, Peter Cook, Richard Rogers, Massimiliano Fuksas, Kim Herforth Nielsen, Ben van Berkel, Benedetta Tagliabue, Anupama Kundoo, Sadie Morgan, Dan Stubbergaard, Manuelle Gautrand and Kjetil Thorsen.

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Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 22 April

April 22, 2020 India Block 0
Notre-Dame restoration bill

Daily coronavirus briefing: today’s architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes delays to work on Notre-Dame Cathedral and an intensive care unit in a shipping container. Vivviene Westwood and Christopher Kane create hopeful coronavirus posters Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media (via Dezeen). Notre Dame restoration delayed

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Kunlé Adeyemi, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Cameron Sinclair feature in VDF’s collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
VDF collaborates with The World Around to host online design symposium for Earth Day

Today is Earth Day! To mark the occasion, VDF has collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could “shape the future of our relationship with the planet”. Today’s programme features designers Nelly Ben Hayoun and Thomas Thwaites and architects Kunlé Adeyemi, Cameron Sinclair

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