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Arthur Mamou-Mani seeks game designers to help create virtual version of timber amphitheatre for cancelled Burning Man

April 29, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis

Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has called for help to turn an installation designed for this year’s Burning Man into a virtual experience after the desert festival was cancelled due to coronavirus. Sharing the design exclusively with Dezeen, he called on people with expertise of working with gaming engines to help him realise the project in a

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Toni Yli-Suvanto Architects creates angular Arctic Sauna Pavilion

April 25, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Arctic Sauna Pavilion by Toni Ily-Suvanto Architects

Finnish studio Toni Yli-Suvanto Architects has created a timber pavilion that functions both as a sauna and a hub for social activities. The Arctic Sauna Pavilion, located by a lake in Lapland, Finland, has a distinctive geometric shape with walls that have been tilted outwards. This is a traditional way of making storage buildings in

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Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage saved by Art Fund campaign

April 3, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

UK charity Art Fund’s crowdfunding campaign to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s cottage in Dungeness from being sold to a private owner has been successful. The Art Fund has raised £3,624,087 to purchase Prospect Cottage in Kent, which was at risk of being sold to a private individual, from the Keith Collins Will Trust.

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Working from home “the new normal” for architects and designers

April 1, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Working from home "the new normal" for architects and designers

Coronavirus lockdowns will have a profound impact on how creative businesses work in future, according to architects and designers including Carlo Ratti Associati, BIG, Snøhetta and Pearson Lloyd. Over the past couple of weeks a huge shift in office culture has occurred, with teams spread across multiple houses instead of one studio. This has forced

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MVRDV designs “urban living room” with stacked plateaus for Shenzhen

March 30, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV’s mixed-use Shenzhen Terraces development will be built at the Shimao ShenKong International Centre in Shenzhen. The development will contain a conference centre, bus terminal and theatre in organic-shaped buildings around curved landscaped outdoor spaces. MVRDV designed Shenzhen Terraces’ irregularly shaped low-rises to contrast with the vertical skyscrapers surrounding the development. The buildings’ irregular

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Baerbel Mueller and Juergen Strohmayer create concrete gallery in Accra

March 27, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Baerbel Mueller and architectural designer Juergen Strohmayer have created a multi-use gallery for the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana. Named Nubuke Extended, the one-room rectangular building is an extension to the arts and culture institution’s headquarters in Accra. Built by the entrance to the Nubuke Foundation grounds, the elevated concrete gallery is raised above the

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Photographer Roberto Conte captures Chandigarh’s iconic modernist buildings

March 25, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Chandigarh photographed by Roberto Conte

Photographer Roberto Conte has captured the geometric shapes of Le Corbusier’s weathered concrete buildings at Chandigarh’s in his latest series. Conte’s images showcase the clean silhouettes of the buildings found in the modernist utopia, from the UNESCO-recognised World Heritage site of the Capitol Complex to lesser-known examples of Le Corbusier’s design. “With this project I want

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Tectoniques sets ochre-coloured concrete house into French hillside

March 20, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
P House by Tectoniques Architetectes in Lyon

Architecture studio Tectoniques has built a house from concrete dyed with ochre that emerges from the ground in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, France. Called P House, the semi-hidden structure has a rough, rugged exterior designed to blend into the slope of the land. Tectoniques fabricated the house from a specially developed concrete, created together with materials supplier Lafarge.

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“Glimmer of hope” as studios in China reopen after coronavirus shutdown

March 19, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

As China recorded its first day with no new coronavirus cases, architecture and design studios in the country have said they are gradually returning to normality. “It’s a tough and challenging time, however, our colleagues in Hong Kong are back in the office and our stores in Hangzhou and Hong Kong have reopened,” said London-based

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Henning Larsen designs Cockle Bay Park skyscraper on Sydney waterfront

March 18, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Cockle Bay Park by Henning Larsen for Sydney, Australia

Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen has designed a 183-metre-tall skyscraper as part of its development of Cockle Bay Park on the Sydney waterfront. The development will be built on two distinct scales: close to the waterfront, the low-rise “village scale” buildings  will house public and retail spaces alongside a public park. Above it, the “city scale” part

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