Articles by Calum Lindsay

Knauf showcases its building products in new London showroom by Mailen Design

June 1, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Architectural products are presented in a variety of ways inside the new Knauf showroom in London, which features in this movie produced by Dezeen during Clerkenwell Design Week. Knauf is a manufacturer of building materials, best known for drywall boards made from gypsum. “We make gypsum products to help architects and designers create better spaces,”

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Watch our talk with Bjarke Ingels and Hans Ulrich Obrist on museum architecture live from Venice

May 24, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels speaks to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about the architecture of museums, in this talk Dezeen is hosting with Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet in Venice. Watch the talk here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page live at 4.25pm UK time. Ahead of the opening of BIG’s Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet in 2020, Ingels

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SLA Architects designs ski park atop BIG’s Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant

March 29, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video reveals plans by landscape firm SLA Architects to create the year-round ski slope and park over Copenhagen’s new Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant. Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG is behind the new power plant, which completes this year in the Danish capital. The firm asked SLA Architects to design the large park that will

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Parasitic extensions to Paris apartment building could reduce energy consumption

March 14, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video features a proposal by Malka Architecture to improve the energy efficiency of a Parisian apartment building, by attaching boxy, parasitic extensions to its exterior. Titled Plug-in City 75, the proposal would see parasitic cubes mounted onto the facade of a building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, extending the floor plates

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Matt Lucraft proposes modular building system to tackle housing scarcity

March 7, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Matt Lucraft’s concept for a modular building system designed to address London’s housing crisis. Matt Lucraft’s proposal, titled the Dagenham Breach Housing Co-operative, is a plan for a settlement of self-built and customisable homes that seeks to tackle the scarcity of

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Watch our talk with Dulux Trade live from the RIBA in London

February 27, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen has teamed up with Dulux Trade to host a breakfast conversation with architects Mark Dytham and Dara Huang on the theme of future-proofing design. Tune in from 9:30am UK time to watch it live. The stream is now live. You can watch it here on Dezeen, or on our Facebook page. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus

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Ice-skating trail transforms unused space beneath Toronto highway

February 7, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an unused space beneath a highway in Toronto, which is being overhauled to create a new park complete with an ice-skating track. Developed by urban designer Ken Greenberg and Toronto landscape architecture firm Public Work, the Bentway will be a linear park that occupies a

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Movie shows experimental musicians recording inside Philip Johnson’s Glass House

January 10, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

This captioned movie shows experimental musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto recording their latest album inside Philip Johnson’s Glass House, which at the time was housing an installation by artist Yayoi Kusama. More on Yayoi Kusuma’s installation at the Glass House › Movie is by Derrick Belcham.

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Nobody wants to talk about style anymore, says Rosanna Hu

December 6, 2017 Calum Lindsay 0

Architects and designers no longer want to associate themselves with particular styles or trends, argued Neri&Hu founder Rosanna Hu during a talk with Dezeen and Dornbracht in Berlin last month. Although architects and designers have often been associated with particular movements or stylistic approaches in the past, Hu said that today – many take an eclectic approach to their

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Nobody wants to talk about style anymore, says Rossana Hu

December 6, 2017 Calum Lindsay 0

Architects and designers no longer want to associate themselves with particular styles or trends, argued Neri&Hu founder Rossana Hu during a talk with Dezeen and Dornbracht in Berlin last month. Although architects and designers have often been associated with particular movements or stylistic approaches in the past, Hu said that today – many take an eclectic approach to their

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