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Watch our talk on the digitalisation of architecture with Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw and Viewpoint

April 25, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Dezeen’s deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft will speak to a panel of experts about how digital tools are changing the way we build. Watch the stream from 7pm UK time, live from Knauf’s Clerkenwell showroom. The livestream has not started yet. You can watch it here or on Dezeen Facebook page from 7pm UK time. Held

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Stepping stones lead into house extension over an English lake by Hamish & Lyons

April 23, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Hamish & Lyons has completed Stepping Stone House, an extension to a manor house in Berkshire, England, that is raised on stilts above a lake. Hamish & Lyons, founded by Hamish Herford and Nicholas Lyons, replaced three underused and flood-prone outbuildings to create the new living spaces for a family with five children. Three of

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Approach Design covers convention centre in Hangzhou with a sports park

April 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Center by Approach Design has a green roof with a running track

Chinese architects Approach Design has added a new hall to the Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Centre in China and concealed it under a green roof featuring a running track and sports courts. After originally designing a large latticed structure for the first stage of the convention centre in 2015, demands for more space led to the architects

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Jendretzki Design proposes Rat Island eco-retreat for New York City

April 18, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Rat Island private island boutique resort in New York City by Jendretzki Design

US studio Jendretzki Design has revealed designs for a boutique eco-resort on a tiny island within greater New York City. The local studio has envisioned Rat Island for an isle off the city’s Bronx borough. It is one of the 44 isles that make up the New York archipelago, but the only one that is privately owned.

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Cave-like gift shops created by Koichi Takada Architects inside National Museum of Qatar

April 18, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Interiors of National Museum of Qatar by Koichi Takada Architects

Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects has completed two gift shops inside Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar in Doha, featuring undulating wooden surfaces. The two cave-like gift shops are the first of a number of interior spaces that Koichi Takada Architects is creating inside the new museum, along with three restaurants set to open later this year. Now

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The D*Haus Company to replace derelict petrol station with decorative brick terrace

April 11, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
The Arches by The D*Haus Company

The D*Haus Company has revealed visuals of The Arches, a row terraced houses in London that will be characterised by rounded windows and red brick walls. When built, The Arches will replace an abandoned petrol station in the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area, and comprise six three-storey sunken houses. The D*Haus Company’s design is informed by both the

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Michelle Ho proposes retrofitting housing estates to densify cities

April 5, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Retrofitting the Community Estate by Michelle Ho

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores a vision from Bartlett School of Architecture student Michelle Ho, to replace demolished sections of a London housing estate with adaptable co-living units. Ho’s experimental proposal, called Retrofitting the Community Estate, sees segments of the 1960s-built Central Hill Estate knocked down, leaving a basic concrete shell comprising only a

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AHEAD Asia hotel award winners show “design born out of real heritage”

April 5, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0

The best new hotels in Asia mix contemporary design with attention to heritage, say the judges of this year’s AHEAD Asia awards in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. The third AHEAD Asia awards, which took place at Andaz Singapore on March 7, celebrated the best in hotel and resort design across the continent. Jinou Park,

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Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei’s Louvre Pyramid

April 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR under construction at Musée du Louvre

This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR’s paper trompe l’oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, it imagined the iconic building by Pritzker prize-winner IM Pei extending deep below the ground at the Musée du Louvre, in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Constructed from 2,000 stickers, it

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Snøhetta to build Shanghai Grand Opera House with spiral staircase roof

April 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Renders of Shanghai Grand Opera House by Snøhetta in China

Snøhetta has revealed visuals for a major new opera house in China, featuring a spiralling stepped roof that will connect the upper levels of the building with a riverside plaza. The architecture and design firm, which was founded in Norway, teamed up with Chinese studio ECADI on its competition-winning design for the Shanghai Grand Opera House. Set to be

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