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Baakenhafen Residential Complex / Max Dudler

November 2, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The two residential buildings with ground-floor commercial utilization, designed by Max Dudler, were conceived as elements of an interconnected development consisting of six individual buildings. The new ensemble faces Lola-Rogge-Platz, the lively heart of the emerging “Quartier der Generationen.”

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Tegnestuen Lokal adds plant-filled blocks to “ugliest building in the neighbourhood”

November 2, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Facade blocks of Ørsted Gardens by Tegnestuen Lokal

Danish studio Tegnestuen Lokal has transformed an apartment block in Copenhagen, by replacing its austere concrete exterior with angular, plant-filled blocks. Built in the 1960s, the six-storey slab block in Frederiksberg featured a typically rationalist facade fronted by linear balcony walkways. Tegnestuen Lokal’s revamp brings more three-dimensionality to the facade, by replacing the long lengths

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Morag Myerscough reveals Clean Power flags at COP26

November 2, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Morag Myerscough reveals COP26 flags and banners

Daily COP26 briefing: today’s COP26 briefing includes Morag Myerscough flags, Passive House tours and a film on the Anthropocene. Throughout COP26, we will be publishing regular updates of what’s happening at the conference and surrounding events. See all our COP26 coverage here. Passive House tours during COP26 The Passive House Institute is arranging a series of tours of Passive

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“What if we create a new layer on the Earth that incorporates growing human habitation and consumption?” asks Winy Maas

November 2, 2021 Winy Maas 0
A visual of From Now to Then: Library of Speculations by The Why Factory

In his manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival, architect Winy Maas of MVRDV proposes covering the planet with a new inhabitable geological layer called The Sponge. Constructed from the detritus of the Anthropocene era, The Sponge would be a giant, multilayered biostructure capable of nurturing both people and planet. The Dezeen 15 festival features

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Make designs central installation for COP26 Build Better Now virtual pavilion

November 2, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Make designs central installation for COP26 Build Better Now virtual pavilion

London studio Make has designed a virtual reality installation that sits at the centre of the Build Better Now pavilion for COP26. Called Fountain of Circular Recovery, Make’s installation is the centrepiece of the virtual pavilion, which was created by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) to showcase 17 “exemplary sustainable projects” during the COP26 climate conference.

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Justinian Khoo envisions networks of floating cities “to provide freedom for nature on land”

November 2, 2021 Benedict Hobson 0
The Whales floating cities by Justinian Khoo

The second finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Justinian Khoo, who has proposed moving humanity into sustainable floating cities so that nature can reclaim the land. Called The Whales, the clusters of cities, which Khoo designed to resemble pods of the large marine mammals, would be powered entirely by renewable

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