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Dezeen announces plans for digital guide to Milan design week 2020

February 12, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Milan design week 2020 events guide illustration by Rima Sabina Aouf

Are you exhibiting or holding an event in Milan this April? If so, get your event listed in Dezeen Events Guide, which is launching a special section dedicated to the world’s biggest design fair. Dezeen’s guide to Milan 2020 will go live one month before Milan design week, which this year takes place from 21

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Achieving zero-carbon architecture is “the biggest challenge we have” says Alexandra Hagen of White Arkitekter

February 7, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Portrait of White Arkitekter's Alexandra Hagen

Swedish architecture firm White Arkitekter has pledged that every building it designs will be carbon neutral by 2030. Alexandra Hagen, the firm’s CEO, made the pledge at a panel discussion organised by Dezeen in Stockholm earlier this week. “At White Arkitekter have made the promise that by the end of the decade all of our

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Dezeen Events Guide lists the key architecture and design events around the world

January 14, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Dezeen Events Guide

Dezeen has launched Dezeen Events Guide, a new listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world this year. The guide, which can be found at www.dezeen.com/eventsguide, lists over 100 events for 2020, including conferences, trade fairs, major exhibitions and design weeks. It includes events in 30 countries. Key events for 2020,

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10 architecture and design projects that feature faceted surfaces

December 2, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
Ramon Airport by Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects and Moshe Zur Architects in Negev desert, Israel

The body of Tesla’s radical Cybertruck is made up of straight-edged facets. Here are some other examples of faceted architecture and design. Designed by Tesla’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen, the radical pickup truck has a body that resembles a computer wireframe model or a polygon mesh. These are three-dimensional forms made up of flat

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Snøhetta aims to make all its buildings carbon negative within 20 years

November 27, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
Snøhetta carbon negative pledge

Architect Snøhetta has pledged to only design carbon-negative buildings, meaning their projects will generate more energy than they consume over their lifetime. The firm plans to make the shift over the next twenty years. Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Thorsen said the firm was making the move because the need to respond to climate change “feels so

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Setting fire to artworks in the desert “creates atmospheric pollution” says Burning Man festival

November 12, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0

Burning Man has acknowledged the carbon emissions it causes and called on attendees to consider alternatives to burning, as part of a plan to become carbon negative by 2030. The festival, which sees 80,000 people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert each summer, has drawn up a draft sustainability plan after calculating that its carbon

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Five ways we’ve tried to ensure Dezeen Day has a low environmental impact

October 28, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0

Coming to our Dezeen Day conference on 30 October? Here’s what we’re doing to lessen its impact on the environment, and ways you can help. Dezeen Day will explore topics including the circular economy and new materials that could replace plastic. We hope delegates will leave feeling inspired about how they can make a difference

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Switching to timber could solve Dutch housing shortage and be “a chance for our climate”

October 24, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
Marco Vermeulen Dutch housing timber

The Netherlands could build a million new homes from sustainably harvested local wood and save 100 megatons of carbon in the process, according to architect Marco Vermeulen. The Dutch architect has calculated that the country’s 140,000 hectares of harvestable woodlands could provide enough timber for 22,000 houses each year. This means the country’s entire shortfall

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Rise of artificial intelligence means architects are “doomed” says Sebastian Errazuriz

October 22, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
Wallgren Arkitekter and BOX Bygg create parametric tool Finch that generates adaptive plans

Ninety per cent of architects will lose their jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the design process, according to designer Sebastian Errazuriz. The New York-based designer made the controversial claim in a series of movies posted on his Instagram account. “I think it’s important that architects are warned as soon as possible that 90 per

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Huge rise in number of schools causes “big crisis” in Indian architecture education

October 18, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
India architecture education crisis

Architecture education in India is in crisis with a shortage of teachers, overcrowded classes and widespread cheating by students, according to architects in the country. A huge expansion of architecture courses over the last few years has led to overstretched and under-qualified staff teaching classes of up to eighty students, Dezeen has been told. Students

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