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Zero Energy Design Lab creates Girls’ Hostel Block with hollow concrete facade

January 12, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Girls Hostel Block by Zero Energy Design Lab

New Delhi-based design studio Zero Energy Design Lab has completed a girls’ hostel building with a perforated concrete facade and an exterior staircase in Gurugram, India. The design for the Girls’ Hostel Block, part of the St. Andrews Institute of Technology and Management, took its cues from the adjacent boys’ hostel block and features the

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MAD unveils Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

January 8, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Train Station in the Forest

Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing, China, which will see the studio rebuild a historical railway station and complement it with a new underground terminal. MAD’s development will see to sunken waiting halls lit through skylights and glass curtain walls built on either side of

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Danielle Brustman decorates children’s centre in Melbourne with pastel hues and rainbow murals

January 7, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Interior of Brighton Street Early Learning Centre by Danielle Brustman

Designer Danielle Brustman used pastel colours, marmoleum flooring and playful hand-painted murals to create the interior of the Brighton Street Early Learning Centre in a brutalist building in Melbourne. Each playroom in the concrete building, which was converted by Perkins Architects into a childcare centre, was allocated its own motif, which includes a river, meadow,

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Jean Verville Architecte creates “luminous” white triplex in Montreal

January 5, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
NMBDH triplex by Jean Verville in Montreal

Canadian architect Jean Verville Architecte has completed NMBHD, a white triplex in Montreal adorned with gold windows that incorporates apartments as well as a ceramic workshop. NMBHD was built on the site of an old garage, which was torn down and replaced with the four-storey building designed by Jean Verville Architecte. The studio clad the

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Lesley Lokko wins 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award

January 4, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Architect Lesley Lokko

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko has won the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award for her contribution to architectural education. Lokko was named the 11th winner of the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, which is awarded every two years by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to a person who has “made an outstanding

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Remembering the great architects and designers we lost in 2020

December 31, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Sir Terence Conran, founder of Habitat, portrait

To round off our review of 2020, Dezeen looks back at the designers and architects who passed away this year, including Italian designer Enzo Mari, British entrepreneur Terence Conran and Bulgarian artist Christo. A number of the people we lost in 2020 were victims of coronavirus. They include fashion brand Kenzo’s founder Kenzo Takada, architect and

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H&P Architects designs white corrugated-metal house in Hai Duong

December 27, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
HOUSE by H&P Architects at night

Vietnamese studio H&P Architects has completed a corrugated metal-clad house in the An Lai hamlet in Hai Duong, Vietnam, which features an open-plan interior and playful net floors. The two-storey house, named HOUSE by the studio, was built for a new family on a plot of land opposite an existing building. To keep it as

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Artist Alicja Biała decorates MVRDV project in Wrocław with floor-to-ceiling murals

December 23, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Alicja Biala mural for Concordia Design by MVRDV

Polish visual artist Alicja Biała has painted a set of colourful large-scale murals inside the Concordia Design building in Wrocław, Poland, as part of its renovation and extension by architecture firm MVRDV. The murals cover 500 square metres of the office building and rise as high as ten metres. The art was informed by the

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Kamp C completes two-storey house 3D-printed in one piece in situ

December 22, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Exterior of 3D-printed house Kamp C, Westerlo, Belgium

Kamp C, a centre for sustainability and innovation in construction, has built what it claims is the first house to be 3D-printed in one piece in Westerlo, Belgium. The house, which was printed on the largest 3D concrete printer in Europe, has two floors and was printed on-site in just three weeks. “What makes this

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Kengo Kuma designs tessellated Botanical Pavilion as “tridimensional puzzle”

December 19, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Botanical Pavilion, NGV Triennial, by Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Australian artist Geoff Nees have created a tactile, circular pavilion using timber collected from Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Botanical Pavilion slots together like a puzzle without the need for metal supports. Kuma and Nees’s design was commissioned for the NGV Triennial in response to Korean artist Lee Ufan’s 2017 painting named

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