Articles by Calum Lindsay

Watch our discussion on smart design and wellbeing live from Barcelona

October 10, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. The stream is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. In the talk, Dezeen’s

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Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes

September 25, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. The technique, which is being developed by Cleveland studio Redhouse Architecture, is intended as both an answer to the housing crisis and

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Watch our talk with Yoo on designing communities live from London Design Festival

September 20, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen speaks to designers Kelly Hoppen and Marcel Wanders about how designers can create thriving communities in this talk with Yoo. Watch the talk live at 100% Design from 11:00am UK time. The talk is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. Yoo is a residential and hotel design brand known for creating idiosyncratic

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Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA

August 21, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. Architecture and engineering firm NIKA proposes building rows of single-storey houses, as well as a linear public park, above the existing streets of the Australian city. Led by NIKA’s vice president

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Standard Architecture proposes modular megastructure “for any context”

August 16, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Standard Architecture co-founders Silvia Kuhle and Jeffrey Allsbrook explain their proposal for a modular megastructure comprising pathways and vaulted pods in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. Los Angeles studio Standard Architecture has created a conceptual modular building system called P.O.D.Plexus for P.O.D.System Architecture – a collaboration between Dezeen and adidas Originals. The brief calls on

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“Every interpretation is legitimate, even the most critical” says Christo of his artworks

August 16, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

In our second exclusive video interview with Christo, the artist looks back at some of his most ambitious projects and claims that all critical responses to them are valid. Working with his late partner Jeanne-Claude, Christo has been producing large-scale installations since the 1960s, provoking a variety of interpretations and critical reactions. “Many people have

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Neil Denari designs spherical complex for adidas and Dezeen’s P.O.D.System Architecture project

August 2, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

In this Dezeen movie, architect Neil Denari reveals the spherical building concept he developed for P.O.D.System Architecture, our new collaboration with adidas Originals. For the P.O.D.System Architecture project, Dezeen and adidas commissioned five Los Angeles-based architecture firms to create a series of conceptual structures drawing from the sports brand’s recently launched P.O.D.System sneakers. The first

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Atsuko Mochida creates revolving floor and walls in abandoned house

July 6, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

This captioned movie shows an installation by Japanese artist Atsuko Mochida, who has cut a volume out of an abandoned house and rebuilt it on top of a revolving platform. The piece, titled ‘The Revolving House of T’, is located in Mito city in Ibaraki prefecture in central Japan. To create the installation Mochida cut a

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Motels are making a comeback, say AHEAD Americas awards judges

June 15, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Nostalgia for the open road has led to a renewed interest in motels in the American hospitality industry, say AHEAD Americas jury members in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. The AHEAD Americas awards, which took place in Miami on Tuesday, celebrate the best in hotel and resort design across North, Central and South

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1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge designed “to be part of the park,” says Jonathan Marvel

June 11, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge in New York was designed to bring the surrounding park into the building, says architect Jonathan Marvel in this movie Dezeen filmed for the AHEAD hospitality awards. Designed by Marvel Architects, the hotel stands alongside the Brooklyn Bridge Park, with views of the bridge and across the East River to Manhattan. The

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