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Global South delegates blocked from attending UIA World Congress of Architects

September 22, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Delegates from the Global South were denied visas to attend Copenhagen’s UIA World Congress of Architects this summer by the Danish government, despite the event’s stated goal being “leave no one behind”. Kabage Karanja, co-founder of Kenyan architecture studio Cave Bureau, told Dezeen that one of the team members behind its Louisiana exhibition shown at

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Pritzker “has given me courage” says Diébédo Francis Kéré

September 20, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Diébédo Francis Kéré may be known for his resource-light community buildings but would be open to designing a skyscraper when the time is right, he tells Dezeen in this interview. Burkinabè architect Kéré has risen to become one of the profession’s biggest stars in recent years, becoming the first African to win

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Eight basement apartments that are subterranean sanctuaries

September 10, 2023 Nat Barker 0

In this lookbook, we select eight apartments that prove basements are the new penthouses, from an art deco flat in Paris to a sci-fi-style hideaway in Madrid. Often associated with limited space and poor natural light, basement homes have not always been particularly coveted. But as the world’s cities get more expensive, busier and hotter,

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Architecture bodies responding to “real risks” of AI

August 15, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Architecture bodies including RIBA and AIA are putting together guidance and policy requests to governments to help the profession deal with the potential risks and benefits of AI. Artificial-intelligence (AI) technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, with the emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney raising serious questions for the creative

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Ten AI companies that architects and designers need to know

August 3, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Dozens of AI tools are emerging that could dramatically alter how architects and designers work. As part of our AItopia series, Dezeen rounds up 10 of the most significant. Architects and designers are used to working with new technologies, but the rapid progress of artificial intelligence promises to usher in a wave of products that

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Will architects really lose their jobs to AI?

July 27, 2023 Nat Barker 0

As part of our AItopia series exploring how AI will impact architecture and design, Dezeen examines whether the technology will end up taking architects’ jobs. In 2019, New York-based designer Sebastian Errazuriz caused a stir with his claim that 90 per cent of architects could lose their jobs to machines. Four years on, following the

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Eight interiors that embrace the principles of wabi-sabi

July 22, 2023 Nat Barker 0

In this lookbook, we collect eight interiors informed by the Japanese design philosophy of wabi-sabi, which celebrates imperfection and impermanence. Notoriously difficult to define, wabi-sabi is a concept rooted in Zen Buddhism that author Beth Kempton describes as helping us “to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity and accept the transient nature of all things”.

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RIBA names best reuse architecture projects of 2023

July 20, 2023 Nat Barker 0

The RIBA has named the four UK projects shortlisted for its inaugural Reinvention Award, including a school in Warwickshire and a museum in east London. Projects by Van Heyningen and Haward Architects (vHH), Wright & Wright Architects, 6a Architects and Associated Architects with Rodney Melville and Partners are in the running for the inaugural Royal Institute

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Ten architecture studios that designed their own office buildings

July 17, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Following photos of BIG’s soon-to-be-completed HQ in Copenhagen harbour being released last week, Dezeen rounds up 10 architecture studios that designed their own office buildings. Sangath, India, by Balkrishna Doshi Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Balkrishna Doshi, who passed away in January, created the Sangath in Ahmedabad in 1981 to be his own studio. The distinctive sunken barrel

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Fame “forces you to constantly reflect on your impact and motivation” says Bjarke Ingels

July 12, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels discusses what it’s like to be one of the world’s best-known architects and the current limitations of AI in this interview. Ingels sat down with Dezeen at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen after delivering a keynote address to delegates. As the session ended, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

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