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Six architecture and design events in November from Dezeen Events Guide

October 31, 2022 Sophie Chapman 0

Design Korea, World Architecture Festival and Dubai Design Week are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in October include Design Canberra Festival, Design Miami and Salon Art + Design. Read on for this month’s highlights and see Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around

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American Society of Architectural Illustrators to explore “Cause and Effect” at London conference

October 27, 2022 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: the American Society of Architectural Illustrators is set to host its annual conference in London for the first time, which promises a crossdisciplinary event that will look at how the future of cities is imagined and communicated. Taking place over one day at Shoreditch venue Village Underground on 17 November, the 37th annual conference

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Six material innovations aimed at slashing concrete’s outsized carbon footprint

October 21, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

After Seratech’s carbon-neutral cement won the 2022 Obel Award, Dezeen has rounded up six ways in which researchers are working to decarbonise concrete – the single most polluting building material in the world. Currently, concrete’s key ingredient cement is responsible for around eight per cent of global emissions, surpassing all other materials except oil, gas

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Seratech carbon-neutral concrete wins Obel Award 2022

October 17, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

British company Seratech has won the architecture-focused Obel Award with its prototype carbon-neutral concrete, which it says is low-cost and easy to scale. Founded by PhD students Sam Draper and Barney Shanks to commercialise their research at the Imperial College London, Seratech replaces part of the cement content of concrete with a type of silica

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Kate Byron designs modernist Don’t Worry Darling set as “a playful and debaucherous take on the 1950s”

October 10, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Production designer Kate Byron used vintage “treasures” and referenced key modernist architecture to create the set of psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, which was shot in California’s Palm Springs. Byron drew on the architecture and interior style of the many modernist buildings that dominate the landscape in the desert city to create Victory – a

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Mixed Seats aims to show “what a chair could be”

October 7, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Designer Ali Shah Gallefoss invited 15 creatives to design their own interpretation of a chair that is suitable for a public space, all of which were presented as a recent exhibition in Oslo, Norway. Called Mixed Seats, the exhibition was curated by Shah Gallefoss and exhibition platform Pyton. It featured an installation of concrete chairs

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See who’s ahead in the Dezeen Awards 2022 studio public vote

September 30, 2022 Elisa Barkan 0

After 6,000 votes, practices Robert Gutowski Architects, Zooco Estudio and Objects Of Common Interest are ahead in the Dezeen Awards 2022 public vote studio categories. Vote now for your favourite! Other studios in the lead include Poar, Raúl Sánchez Architects and We+. The public vote, which closes on 10 October, gives Dezeen readers the opportunity

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Agrivoltaic solar farms offer “shocking” benefits beyond producing energy

September 30, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Next-gen solar parks that enable energy and food production as well as water conservation to work in synergy on the same plot can help to solve solar’s growing land-use issue, according to the researchers making them a reality. “There is this big debate around using land for solar versus using it for agriculture,” said Colorado

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London Fire Brigade “celebrates bravery” with exhibition marking launch of updated typeface

September 30, 2022 Amy Peacock 0

The London Fire Brigade has unveiled its updated typeface designed by Studio Sutherl& and The Foundry Types at the Running Towards exhibition of graphic artworks informed by the organisation’s design heritage. The Running Towards exhibition took place at the Shoreditch Fire Station during the London Design Festival, with visitors entering through the building’s big red shutters

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Six architecture and design events in October from Dezeen Events Guide

September 30, 2022 Sophie Chapman 0

Dutch Design Week, Utopian Hours and Light + Building are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in October include Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Seoul Design and Orgatec. Read on for this month’s highlights and see Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around

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