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Rex Skov Arkitekter tops Chart Art Fair pavilion with seaweed roof

August 26, 2022 Amina Amber 0

Danish studio Rex Skov Arkitekter aims to explore the potential of seaweed as a sustainable building material with its Biosack pavilion at Copenhagen’s Chart Art Fair, which was captured in this video produced for the Dezeen x ChartArt Fair 2022 collaboration. Called Biosack, the structure is one of five temporary pavilions installed in the courtyards of

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Greenhouse-like pavilion encloses Danish sand and plants to create “dynamic ecosystem”

August 25, 2022 Amina Amber 0

Architecture collective Barila has aimed to highlight how architecture should interact with nature with its Dune pavilion at Copenhagen’s Chart art fair, which was captured in this video produced as part of the Dezeen x Chart 2022 collaboration. Called Dune, the structure is one of five temporary pavilions installed in the courtyards of the Charlottenborg mansion as part

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Watch a talk exploring sustainability and longevity in design with Gaggenau at Milan design week

June 7, 2022 Amina Amber 0
Portraits of Mike Holland, Francesca Portesine and Soren Rose

Dezeen has teamed up with luxury kitchen appliances brand Gaggenau to host a talk about sustainability with BIG, Søren Rose and Foster + Partners during Milan design week 2022. Tune in at 10:00am Milan time on Tuesday 7 June. Called Sustainability and Longevity in Design, the talk will debate whether products and objects should be

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Watch our live talk exploring the role of designers in environmental activism

November 26, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Collage of Rex Weyler, Nina-Marie Lister and Michael Green

To coincide with Greenpeace’s 50th anniversary, Dezeen has teamed up with Michael Green Architecture and Greenpeace to host a live talk to discuss the relationship between design and activism. Watch live from 4:00pm London time. The talk, titled Design, Activism and Impact, will be moderated by Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, and will explore

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Matthew Pratt’s vision to elevate humanity “high above the ground” wins joint third place in the Redesign the World contest

November 17, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Matthew Pratt's Higher Ground proposal of slender, towering structures built high above ground

Matthew Pratt’s proposal to raise all human activities onto elevated cities built on slender stilts has been awarded joint third place in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Pratt’s proposal imagines an alternative reality where humans’ ancestors never left the forest canopy and people live a quieter life in harmony with nature. Named

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Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh propose giant fog-harvesting buildings to create “a healthier and more nourished world”

November 12, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh's proposal of giant fog-harvesting buildings

Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh’s proposal to create “water-positive” buildings that harvest water from the air is the next finalist project in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Called Aquatech, Takulia and Ghosh’s project imagines a future where there is an acute water shortage in many parts of the world. Their proposed solution

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Dennis Christian Schmidt proposes underground cities to protect humanity from “the hardships our future holds”

November 11, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Dennis Christian Schmidt's Cave City proposal

The next finalist project in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Dennis Christian Schmidt’s proposal to create a network of underground cities built around climate-regulating lakes. Called Cave City, Schmidt’s proposal is to create cities deep below the earth’s surface in a bid to protect against climate change and natural disasters such

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Watch our Good Design for a Bad World talk about carbon at Dutch Design Week 2021

October 13, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Good Design for a Bad World: carbon

Dezeen has teamed up with Dutch Design Week to host a live talk about how designers and architects can help remove carbon from the atmosphere. Tune in from 11:00am Eindhoven time on Saturday 16 October. This special edition of Dezeen’s Good Design for a Bad World talks series looks at ways of tackling climate change

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Only one week left to enter Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition with Epic Games

September 8, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Redesign the World logo

There is just one week left to enter our Redesign the World competition with Epic Games, which closes at midnight on Wednesday 15 September. Enter now! Dezeen teamed up with Epic Games, creator of architectural visualisation tool Twinmotion, to launch the Redesign the World competition at the end of July. Competition seeks radical proposals for

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Two weeks left to enter Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition with Epic Games

September 1, 2021 Amina Amber 0
Redesign the World logo

There are just two weeks left to enter our Redesign the World competition, which calls for new ideas to rethink planet Earth. Enter now before the contest closes for entries on 15 September. Launched at the end of July, Redesign the World is the ultimate design competition that calls for new ideas to reimagine the

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