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La Tallera restores “original public art spirit” of Mexican muralist says Frida Escobedo

March 29, 2019 Siufan Adey 0

Frida Escobedo describes her first public project La Tallera, an art gallery which was once the studio of the late muralist David Alfaros Siqueiros, in this exclusive video interview with Dezeen. The gallery complex, which is located in the small city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, was originally built by Siqueiros in the 1960s as a painting workshop. Frida Escobedo’s

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Boca Chica Hotel was “like an archaeology project” says Frida Escobedo

March 28, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Boca Chica Hotel by Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo explains how she renovated the 1950s Boca Chica Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, in this exclusive interview with Dezeen. Situated on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the beach town of Acapulco, Boca Chica Hotel is a renovation project born of a collaboration between Escobedo and her friend José Rojas. The hotel was originally constructed

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Boca Chica Hotel was “like an archaeology project” says Frida Escobedo

March 28, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Boca Chica Hotel by Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo explains how she renovated the 1950s Boca Chica Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, in this exclusive interview with Dezeen. Situated on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the beach town of Acapulco, Boca Chica Hotel is a renovation project born of a collaboration between Escobedo and her friend José Rojas. The hotel was originally constructed

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Watch our talk on creating office spaces people want to work in live from London

March 28, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Watch our talk with Coalesse about designing office spaces that people want to work in, rather than have to work in, live from Steelcase’s WorkLife Center in London.  The livestream has not started yet. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page from 6:30pm UK time. Dezeen’s editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will speak to office

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Casa Negra is designed to “be like a camera obscura” says Frida Escobedo

March 27, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Frida Escobedo explains how one of her first residential projects, Casa Negra, was influenced by the function of a camera obscura, in the third instalment of a series of short movies about the Mexican architect.  In an exclusive interview, Escobedo tells Dezeen that the house she designed for a photographer acts like a camera obscura –

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Time-lapse movie shows submersion of Snøhetta’s underwater restaurant

March 26, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Construction photo of underwater restaurant Under by Snøhetta in Båly, Norway

This movie shows the completion of Europe’s first underwater restaurant, designed by Snøhetta, as it is submerged off the coast of Båly, Norway. Snøhetta constructed Under on a barge 20 metres from its final site over the course of six months, before it was manoeuvred and sunk in July 2018. The time-lapse footage condenses the

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Mexican architecture “more like a spirit than a style” says Frida Escobedo

March 26, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0
Mexican Architecture Scene Frida Escobedo Interview Video

In the second of a series of short movies about Frida Escobedo, the Mexican architect describes the architecture scene in her home country. Speaking exclusively to Dezeen in London, Escobedo said that contemporary Mexican architecture is united more by the way in which it responds to challenges than by  a common aesthetic. “Mexican architecture is

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“I didn’t know I was going to be an architect” says Frida Escobedo

March 25, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0
Frida Escobedo Interview

In the first of a series of short movies about Frida Escobedo, the Mexican architect describes how she fell into the profession and why she’s never worked for anybody else. Speaking exclusively to Dezeen in London the architect, who in 2018 became the youngest person to design the prestigious Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, explained that she

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White Arkitekter proposes building ribbon of housing around London estates

March 22, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0
Narrow House by White Arkitekten

White Arkitekter has designed a hedge-like band of housing that could be built around existing London estates, to add homes without the need for demolition, in the latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living series. Swedish architecture firm White Arkitekter has proposed building the narrow apartment blocks to increase the density of London’s housing estates. Named

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Thomas Heatherwick designed the Vessel to “bring people together”

March 22, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Thomas Heatherwick speaking on Vessel in Hudson Yards

Thomas Heatherwick explains his desire for the recently opened Vessel, at the Hudson Yards development, to become a unique public destination in this video. Designed by his London practice Heatherwick Studio, the giant honeycomb-like sculpture that comprises a mile of publicly accessible walkways. Temporarily called Vessel, the viewpoint forms the centrepiece of the new Hudson Yards development

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