Movies

Kwong von Glinow designs Hong Kong high-rises containing multi-storey homes

December 4, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. Titled Tower within a Tower, the scheme tries to solve an issue that is typical in traditional “pancake stacks” of

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Movie shows BIG and Heatherwick’s Google HQ taking shape

November 30, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Google’s new California headquarters, designed by the studios of Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick, is captured in this aerial footage that shows its “circus tent” roof well underway. Photography company The 111th shot the footage of Google’s new campus under construction on a site in California’s Mountain View, after happening upon the giant structure on a during

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“Everybody thinks about the Instagrammable moment” say Dezeen Awards interiors judges

November 22, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

With the Dezeen Awards ceremony just five days away, the master jury discusses how this year’s interiors shortlist shows how social media is affecting the spaces designers create. “When I started design school, there was barely internet,” said Brittney Hart, co-founder and principal of New York-based practice Husband Wife. Speaking at the master jury day in London

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“Hotel experiences are becoming more sensory” say AHEAD Europe awards judges

November 22, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The best new hotels are stimulating all of their guests’ senses, say AHEAD Europe jury members in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. The AHEAD Europe awards, which took place in London on Monday, celebrate the best in hotel and resort design across the continent. Hans Meyer, AHEAD jury member and founder of hotel brand

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Shigeru Ban proposes trio of pyramids for Kentucky Owl whiskey distillery

November 21, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is overhauling a quarry in Kentucky into a campus built from mass timber, for a local whiskey distillery. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect was chosen to transform the 420-acre (170-hectare) Cedar Creek Quarry in Kentucky’s Bardstown into a campus dedicated to the production of bourbon. Across a landscaped setting, called Kentucky Owl

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“Architecture has the power to give something back to communities” say Dezeen Awards judges

November 20, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

With one week to go until the Dezeen Awards winners are announced, members of the architecture master jury discuss how this year’s entries reveal a newfound spirit of concern for both communities and the environment. Architect and Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob stressed the potential of architecture being politically and emotionally engaged, rather than being purely about construction. “Thinking

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Hotel Sanders by Lind + Almond revives “old-world, glamorous side of travel”

November 20, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Interior designer Pernille Lind and architect Richy Almond describe their design for Hotel Sanders in Copenhagen, which has been named best new hotel in Europe, in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD awards. Hotel Sanders, which opened last November in Copenhagen’s historic centre, won the Hotel of the Year prize at the AHEAD Europe awards in London on Monday. It

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Arup and CLS Architetti’s 3D-printed house was built in a week

November 19, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a 3D-printed house, which was built in a week, onsite in a Milan square, using recycled concrete. Engineering firm Arup and architecture studio CLS Architetti collaborated on the project, which was exhibited during Milan design week this year. Named 3D Housing 05, the structure was printed within Milan’s

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David Beckham’s Miami football stadium backed by public vote

November 16, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Football star David Beckham has made a major step towards building a home for his professional soccer team in Miami, after the public voted to approve the project. The vote – which took place on 6 November 2018 to coincide with US midterm elections – invited the Miami public to decide whether city officials can negotiate

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Making “the healthy choice the default choice” will encourage wellbeing in the workplace

November 16, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Companies can gain a competitive advantage by designing workplaces that make wellbeing a default choice, argue the authors of The Healthy Workplace Nudge book in a talk Dezeen hosted with Haworth in Chicago. Architects and interior designers should be creating workplaces that nudge people into having healthy behaviour, says Dr Michael O’Neill, an expert on the

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