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Shigeru Ban’s timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers “incredulous”

March 17, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland’s first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss publishing group Tamedia, the office takes over a prominent site on the banks

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“Timber is being abused” says architect Hermann Kaufmann

March 3, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Sloppiness and misinformation are threatening to prevent large-scale wood construction from reaching its full potential, argues Hermann Kaufmann – the “grandfather of mass timber” – in this interview as part of our Timber Revolution series. “Now is a really dangerous time for wood as a resource,” the Austrian architect told Dezeen. “You can say it’s

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Six Barbie Dreamhouses that chart the evolution of the American home

February 22, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Toymaker Mattel and architecture magazine Pin-Up have released a book celebrating Barbie’s Dreamhouse to mark its 60th anniversary. Here, the editors pick six emblematic examples that show how the dollhouse has evolved. The monograph, which the publishers say is “the first architectural survey of the world’s best-selling dollhouse”, features glossy images of the houses captured by fashion

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Smith Mordak named CEO of UK Green Building Council at “critical period” for sector

February 21, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

The UK Green Building Council has announced that architect and Dezeen columnist Smith Mordak will become the charity’s chief executive officer. Mordak will be leaving their current role as the director of sustainability and physics at British engineering firm Buro Happold to take up the full-time advocacy role and help the UK’s built environment sector to

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This week we created an explainer to Saudi mega-project Neom

February 18, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

This week on Dezeen, we compiled an explainer of all the key facts you need to know about the Neom development in Saudi Arabia and its megacity The Line, which is proving to be the most controversial architecture project in recent history. Set to occupy around as much space as the entire country of Albania,

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Christoffer Jansson passes off virtual apartment as Insatgram home renovation project

February 16, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Swedish designer Christoffer Jansson created a virtual apartment and pretended to live in it as he renovated as part of a social experiment he exhibited at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair. Over a series of 12 rendered images shared on Instagram, the Uncanny Spaces project saw Jansson spin a story about purchasing and renovating a

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Eight neutral home interiors that prove beige doesn’t have to be boring

February 12, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A residence for retirees in Tel Aviv and a stripped-back Barbican apartment by minimalist architect John Pawson feature in this lookbook of beige interiors designed to bring a sense of calm into the home. To compensate for their desaturated colour palette, these spaces rely on a varied material palette – ranging from pale timbers and

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Recompose human composting facility “transforms your loved one’s body into soil”

February 7, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

American startup Recompose has opened a funeral home in Seattle designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig, where human remains are composted and turned into a nutrient-rich soil that can nurture new plant life. Set in a converted warehouse in the city’s SoDo district, the facility is one of the first to make use of a

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Seven alternative bricks made of reclaimed waste and biomaterials

January 30, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine feature in this roundup of brick alternatives, designed to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of the masonry units. After concrete and steel, brick has become the latest focus for architects, designers and material researchers hoping to slash the emissions associated with building materials. That’s because bricks are generally

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Energy savings from home insulation “vanishing” after four years

January 20, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Adding insulation to UK homes only provides short-term energy savings that are cancelled out within a few years by an increase in energy use, according to a study by the University of Cambridge. The study, which analysed the gas-use patterns of more than 55,000 homes across England and Wales, found that any fall in gas

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