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Dezeen Agenda features a playground by NBBJ and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

August 29, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a playground in LA designed by architecture studio NBBJ in collaboration with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. American musician Flea of the Hot Chilli Peppers and architecture studio NBBJ completed the renovation of a playground in the Watts neighbourhood

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“Space that is exclusionary does not live up to its full potential”

August 29, 2023 Annie Jean-Baptiste 0

It’s time for equitable design to become a priority rather than an afterthought, writes Google’s Annie-Jean Baptiste. When you think about equitable design, what does it look like? In my mind, it means everyone being able to move seamlessly throughout spaces without having to think about how their identity might change their approach or reception.

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NBBJ and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers create LA playground

August 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American architecture studio NBBJ has collaborated with American musician Flea to design a playground on a public housing complex in Los Angeles. ESI Design, the east coast experience design studio within NBBJ, worked with Michael Peter Balzary, better known as Flea, on the renovation of Nickerson Gardens Playground in the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles.

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“Not having architectural education makes you find different solutions” says Charlotte Taylor

August 17, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Visualisation artist Charlotte Taylor discusses how she is translating her digital design work into built architecture projects for the first time in this interview. Taylor is the founder of 3D-design studio Maison de Sable, where she collaborates with other 3D designers on renderings of imaginary, fantastical interiors and buildings. Recently Taylor’s designs have become less

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Top 20 A’ Design Award Winners From Past Years

August 15, 2023 Erin 0

This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing winners from 114 countries in 139 different design disciplines. More than 60,000 project submissions are carefully evaluated by an internationally and influential jury […]

Orbital Materials combines ChatGPT with physics to invent “transformational materials”

August 14, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The first materials designed by AI could be less than 18 months away, according to Orbital Materials CEO Jonathan Godwin, who aims to harness the technology to create materials to help with carbon capture. Formerly an engineer at Google’s AI research laboratory DeepMind, Godwin founded Orbital Materials in 2022 with a vision to bring to market

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Ronan Bouroullec creates pared-back furnishings for 17th-century chapel in Brittany

August 11, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Following the wildfires that ravaged Brittany’s Arrée mountains last summer, French designer Ronan Bouroullec has reimagined the interior of the region’s historic Chapelle Saint-Michel de Brasparts as part of a full restoration. Originally built at the end of the 17th century, the chapel is a modest building without lighting or electricity, perched on top of

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ICON launches $1 million affordable housing competition

August 8, 2023 Sonia Singh 0

This exclusive video published by Dezeen reveals the launch of a new global architecture competition to reimagine affordable housing, hosted by construction-scale 3D-printing company ICON. The competition is called Initiative 99 and invites architects and designers to submit home designs that can be built for under $99,000 (USD). View this post on Instagram A post shared

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Forma is a nomadic design gallery popping up around Berlin

August 8, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Contemporary German furniture designs are displayed alongside vintage pieces at this travelling gallery that multidisciplinary designer Vanessa Heepen has launched in Berlin. Rather than having a permanent home, Forma will take over different locations across the German capital. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled The Room I Walk the Line, was recently on show on the ground

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Álvaro Siza unveils square watch informed by his Leça swimming pool

August 8, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Pritzker prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza has designed a square watch, the Lebond Siza, which is based on one of his earliest projects and will now be his “Sunday watch”. The architect referenced his design for the Leça swimming pool complex in Portugal, which he created in 1966 at the age of 28, when creating the

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