Articles by Dezeen staff

Singapore Institute of Architects launches competition to design Founders’ Memorial

February 12, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
The Singapore Institute of Architects Founders' Memorial design competition

Dezeen promotion: architects are being invited to design a new waterfront memorial building commemorating the founding of independent Singapore. The competition to design the Founders’ Memorial, which is being organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects, will see architects from across the globe go head-to-head to create a space dedicated to celebrating the values of Singapore’s founding

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Architect@Work to explore future-proofing at 2019 event in London

January 11, 2019 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: future-proofing is the theme for this year’s Architect@Work event, which features talks on reimagining heritage, zero carbon cities and modern methods of construction. Architect@Work is a two-day trade show for architects, interior designers and specifiers. This year it will take place from the 30 – 31 January 2019 at a new location, the Old Truman

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The Met’s A Year of Architecture in Day symposium returns with MAD, OMA and more

January 9, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
Qatar National Library by OMA

Dezeen promotion: a day of architecture talks will take place Saturday 19 January 2019 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman and OMA’s Ellen van Loon on the roster of speakers. Dezeen is media partner for the third edition of In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in Day, which will

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Toyo Ito and Ron Arad headline Business of Design Week 2018 in Hong Kong

November 27, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: architects Ben van Berkel, Ron Arad and Toyo Ito are among the line-up of speakers announced for this year’s Business of Design Week conference – and Dezeen readers get 30 per cent off tickets. The annual event returns to Hong Kong from 3 to 8 December, 2018, and will explore the theme “Think, Collaborate, Create”. These ideas will

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Velux skylights illuminate copper double spiral staircase in CEBRA’s Experimentarium

November 14, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: the 10-tonne copper spiral staircase rising through an atrium of CEBRA’s Experimentarium in Denmark is lit from above by Velux skylights. Danish studio CEBRA refurbished the popular science attraction in Copenhagen, doubling the centre’s exhibition spaces and adding two large atriums with centrepiece staircases. Shaped like the double helix strands of DNA, the spiralling

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Otis’ self-climbing lifts used in construction of City of London’s tallest skyscraper

November 1, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Otis’ Sky Build lifts, which climb up a building as it is built, are enabling the efficient construction of the 278-metre-tall Twentytwo skyscraper in London’s financial district. Designed by London-based PLP Architecture, the tower formerly known as 22 Bishopsgate will be the tallest building in the City of London when it completes in 2019. Two of

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Superyacht designer Philippe Briand brings nautical flair to Hong Kong homes

October 31, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: French designer Philippe Briand has applied superyacht styling to a residential project in Hong Kong for New World Development. The Pavilia Bay is the first residential project designed by Briand, a yacht racer who has designed thousands of vessels for his marine architecture company Vitruvius Yachts. Connected by a podium, the two towers of the

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Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights

October 30, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux’s modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases – abbreviated to DZNE – is situated in the city of Bonn. It is one of ten centres spread across Germany, where scientists

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