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“Forests could be at the heart of our society again” says Joe Giddings

March 21, 2023 Nat Barker 0

We should be aiming for the future depicted in the Timber Revolution logo with a combination of mid- and high-rise mass-timber buildings interspersed with trees, argues ACAN co-founder Joe Giddings in this interview. “My vision is in some ways aligned to that illustration,” Giddings said of the artwork produced for the series by Yo Hosoyamada (top).

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BTZ laboratory at TU Graz was the early home of mass-timber research

March 14, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Next in our Timber Revolution series, we profile a university laboratory by Austrian studio Nussmüller Architekten that was conceived as both an advert and a testing centre for the capabilities of mass timber. Built at the turn of the millennium, the Bau Technik Zentrum (BTZ), which translates as the Construction Technology Centre, was commissioned to

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Eight residential interiors with sociable split-level living areas

February 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Our latest lookbook collects eight homes that feature split-level living areas, from a humble apartment in Mexico to a vast brutalist-style house in Bali. Split-level areas are often seen in residential homes, where architects separate different spaces using short flights of steps to make interiors feel expansive and interesting, whatever their size. Listed below are

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“Rebuilding under missiles is bold but we can’t afford to wait” say Ukrainian architects

February 23, 2023 Nat Barker 0

As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, Dezeen spoke to the architects and designers already working to rebuild their homeland. In a demonstration of remarkable Ukrainian resilience, several rebuilding initiatives are taking place across the country despite continued Russian attacks on civilian areas. “Life doesn’t wait for anyone, and it will not wait

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“Architects may become a thing of the past” says ChatGPT

February 13, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Powerful new chatbot ChatGPT has delivered a stark warning to architects about the existential threat that AI poses to the profession. ChatGPT, which has generated huge attention since being launched by US company OpenAI two months ago, claimed that architects who ignore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) “risk sleepwalking into oblivion”. It made the

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“An architect who only designs buildings is like a doctor who only prescribes paracetamol” says ProxyAddress founder

February 1, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Architects have a duty to use their skills to help solve societal problems even if it means thinking beyond designing buildings, ProxyAddress founder Chris Hildrey tells Dezeen in this interview. British architect Hildrey founded ProxyAddress, a social enterprise that gives people experiencing homelessness a fixed address, in 2018. “It’s about removing potential obstacles” The system

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Ten residential interiors that make the most of narrow spaces

January 29, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Including tight living areas, kitchens wedged into corridors and interiors in skinny Japanese houses, this lookbook features 10 homes that make clever use of narrow spaces. Projects on constricted urban sites or working within historical buildings often must contend with long-and-narrow interior layouts. Here are 10 examples of interiors where narrow spaces have been utilised

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Dezeen survey finds 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse Brexit “catastrophe”

January 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Nine in 10 UK architecture studios feel Brexit has had a negative impact on them, exclusive Dezeen research has found. Three years on from the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, Dezeen conducted a survey of 50 architecture studios asking about their experiences of working post-Brexit. Respondents ranged from small

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Piers Taylor’s Invisible Studio moving out of UK over Brexit “havoc”

January 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Somerset-founded architecture practice Invisible Studio is moving its operations outside of the UK as a response to Brexit, Dezeen has learned. The studio, which was founded by British architect and television presenter Piers Taylor, told Dezeen it is “actively investing in a future outside of the UK”. “We feel little interest in working in the

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Police raid on Antepavilion building ruled unlawful by High Court

January 23, 2023 Nat Barker 0

A police raid on the Hackney premises of architecture and arts charity Antepavilion in 2021 was unlawful, the High Court has ruled. The Metropolitan Police, whose Territorial Support Group carried out the raid, has now been ordered to pay compensation to Antepavilion for damage caused by the forced entry. They have also been ordered to

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