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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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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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“Tokyo has turned its back on its rivers” says Martin van der Linden

April 20, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden reveals some of Tokyo’s “invisible” waterways, which flow beneath the city’s roads and pavements. “As many as 2,500 people cross each time the light turns green,” van der Linden says in the video, while standing at Tokyo’s busy Shibuya Crossing.

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Virtual Design Festival week two includes SO-IL, Ron Arad and Beatie Wolfe

April 20, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Ron Arad presents digital version of DFWTM in week two of VDF

Week two of Virtual Design Festival features an architecture photography festival, a celebration of Earth Day, interviews with SO-IL and Ron Arad and a live music performance by Beatie Wolfe. Here’s what’s coming up this week. Further details will be added as we confirm them. Click here for the full schedule of everything taking place

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Kenzo Tange’s Kuwait Embassy “looks like a person carrying two water buckets” says YouTuber Martin van der Linden

April 17, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Kuwait Embassy by Kenzo Tange One Minute Architecture video

In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange’s Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo. Van der Linden has produced a host of short videos about Tokyo architecture for his One Minute Architecture channel on

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Put on a digital student show with Virtual Design Festival

April 14, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Unable to put on a graduate or end-of-year show this year? Partner with Virtual Design Festival to host a digital showcase of student work. A digital show at VDF could expose your student group’s work to Dezeen’s three million monthly website visitors. Digital student shows will be posted on Virtual Design Festival in a dedicated

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Watch The World Around architecture conference live from New York

January 25, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Architects including Junya Ishigami, Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu are speaking at the inaugural The World Around architecture forum today. Watch the conference live from 10:30am New York time. The livestream has not started yet. You can watch it here or on our Facebook channel from 10:30am New York time. The World Around is an

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Dezeen’s top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2019

December 28, 2019 Benedict Hobson 0

Jishou Art Museum, Jishou, by Atelier FCJZ

Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world. Jishou Art Museum, Jishou, by Atelier FCJZ Beijing architecture studio Atelier FCJZ created the Jishou Art Museum over the Wanrong river

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Guests “enter into an Archigram world” at Design Trust gala in Hong Kong

December 17, 2019 Benedict Hobson 0

Design Trust gala 2019 designed by Archigram

In this Dezeen movie, architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton explain how they drew from the Archigram archive to create the concept for the 2019 Design Trust gala in Hong Kong. The former Archigram members were appointed as creative directors of the fundraising event for the Design Trust, a charity that supports creative projects in

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Archigram to “look at the future of the built environment” with Hong Kong installation

September 18, 2019 Benedict Hobson 0

Archigram to create installation for Design Trust Gala in Hong Kong

Founding Archigram members Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton will create a digital installation exploring the future of cities at the Design Trust Gala 2019 in Hong Kong. The installation will draw from the influential British architecture collective’s extensive archive investigating urban design, which was acquired by M+ Museum in Hong Kong in March 2019. Cook

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