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“We were all broke” when we designed Park Road Apartments says Nicholas Grimshaw

February 18, 2020 Siufan Adey 0

British architect Nicholas Grimshaw explains the impact that limited resources had on the housing block he designed with Terry Farrell, in this exclusive video interview created for our high-tech architecture series. Completed in 1970 by Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership – the architecture practice set up by the duo five years earlier – Park Road Apartments is

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HSBC headquarters was “more than just a building” says Norman Foster

February 7, 2020 Siufan Adey 0
HSBC headquarters by Foster Associates

In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech architecture series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the headquarters he designed for HSBC in Hong Kong in the 1980s transformed his architecture firm into a global brand. The 44-storey-high Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters was completed in 1985 by Foster Associates, which

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Watch drone footage of the Super Bowl 2020 stadium

February 1, 2020 Siufan Adey 0

This exclusive drone footage shows the multi-purpose Hard Rock stadium in Florida, US, which is hosting the 54th Super Bowl game. The venue, which serves as a home for the Miami Dolphins, was designed by Populous‎ and HOK and features a shade canopy made from 15,400 tonnes (17,000 tons) of steel measuring roughly 58,000-square-metres (626,000-square-feet).

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Sainsbury Centre had its “crisis” moments says Norman Foster

January 20, 2020 Siufan Adey 0
Sainsbury Centre by Norman Foster

British architect Norman Foster recalls the challenges of designing the UK’s pioneering high-tech art gallery, in this exclusive video interview filmed by Dezeen as part of our high-tech architecture series. Located on the campus of the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, UK, the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts is a 135-metre-long lattice steel

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Reliance Controls “dissolved traditional boundaries” says Norman Foster

December 13, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Reliance Controls by Team 4

British architect Norman Foster reflects on his first high-tech building and how it shaped offices to come in this exclusive Dezeen video interview. Named after the electronics manufacturer that commissioned the building, Reliance Controls was an industrial facility located in Swindon in south west England. Completed in 1967, the building was the last project designed by Team

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“Demolition is sometimes the best option” says Bartlett professor at Net Zero Carbon talk

December 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Net Zero Carbon talk by Kingspan and NLA

Construction experts discuss the ways that the building industry can move towards having zero carbon emissions in this panel discussion filmed by Dezeen for Kingspan at the Building Centre in London. Called Accelerating the Pathway to Net Zero Carbon Buildings, the event was hosted by architectural facade specialist Kingspan and independent research forum New London

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SelgasCano’s sprawling Second Home Hollywood revealed in Dezeen video

December 3, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

Second Home Hollywood, the first US location from the British co-working company, is revealed in this captioned video produced by Dezeen for Second Home. Spanish architecture practice SelgasCano transformed a former Hollywood parking-lot into a sprawling co-working complex that will house 250 companies. It has previously worked with Second Home to create other spaces in

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AHEAD MEA winners create “specific experience without feeling like an amusement park”

November 29, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Gorgeous George Hotel

The best new hotels in the Middle East and Africa take ownership of their unique contexts, say the judges of this year’s AHEAD Middle East and Africa Awards, in this video produced by Dezeen. The AHEAD MEA awards, which had its ceremony earlier this month at Caesars Bluewater in Dubai, celebrated the best in hotel

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Watch our talk about architecture and the circular economy for Dutch Design Week

October 19, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Dutch Design Week 2019 talk

Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will speak to a panel of experts today in Eindhoven about the circular economy and architecture, as part of Dutch Design Week 2019. You can watch our livestream here from 5:00pm Eindhoven time. The panel will include Overtreders W’s co-founder Hester van Dijk, architect and author Thomas Rau and architect

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Watch our livestream of The Architecture of Emergency summit at the Barbican

September 19, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
The Architecture of Emergency talk

Watch Extinction Rebellion, Haworth Tompkins, Maria Smith, Adrian Lahoud deliver presentations on climate change at the Architecture of Emergency summit in London’s Barbican Centre from 7:00pm UK time. The livestream has not started yet. You can watch it here, or on Dezeen’s Youtube channel and Facebook page from 7:00pm UK time on Thursday 19 September. Organised

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