Mecanoo’s performing arts centre nears completion in Taiwan

April 17, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Dutch practice Mecanoo is putting the finishing touches to an arts centre in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, which plays host to a selection of opera houses, concert halls and an open-air theatre set into its bulging roof. Situated on a former military training base, The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts will be the

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Zaha Hadid’s only house finally completes in Russian forest

April 12, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

New photographs and a movie reveal Zaha Hadid’s only completed private residence – a house in the Barvikha Forest near Moscow, for a man she called the “Russian James Bond”. The late Iraqi-British architect designed Capital Hill Residence for businessman and philanthropist Vladislav Doronin, who runs property companies Capital Group and OKO Group, and is also the owner of luxury hotel and resort

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Drone footage shows progress on Ennead Architects’ Shanghai Planetarium

April 6, 2018 Fiona Hartley 0

Our latest captioned movie shows drone footage of Ennead Architects’ Shanghai Planetarium as construction progresses.  The planetarium in Lingang near Shanghai, China, will include a 78 foot-high solar telescope as well as a youth observation camp and observatory.  Installation of the exterior aluminium cladding will commence later this year, with the project on track to open to

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Singapore’s The Warehouse Hotel creates a “distinctly local experience”

April 6, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

The Warehouse Hotel in Singapore was designed to create a unique local experience, says Chris Lee of design firm Asylum, in this movie Dezeen filmed for the AHEAD Asia 2018 awards. Local design firms Asylum and Zarch Collaboratives, converted a 19th-century former spice warehouse on the Singapore River into the boutique hotel. The property was named Hotel of

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Robots used to build wooden architectural structures

April 4, 2018 Fiona Hartley 0

This captioned movie shows a new digital construction method that allows robots to build timber structures.  Called Spatial Timber Assemblies, the project aims to merge robotics and craftsmanship. It was developed as a collaboration between research labs Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich and ERNE AG Holzbau. Find out more about ETH Zurich’s research units ›

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Monochrome exhibition in Brooklyn comprises seven single-coloured rooms

April 3, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Every room at this house-like installation in a Brooklyn warehouse is entirely one colour, from a green kitchen with grassy surfaces to a pink bedroom where a tub is overflowing with teddy bears. New York artist CJ Hendry created the series of seven single-coloured rooms for her Monochrome exhibition, to display new images she created

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Monochrome exhibition in Brooklyn comprises seven single-coloured rooms

April 3, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Every room at this house-like installation in a Brooklyn warehouse is entirely one colour, from a green kitchen with grassy surfaces to a pink bedroom where a tub is overflowing with teddy bears. New York artist CJ Hendry created the series of seven single-coloured rooms for her Monochrome exhibition, to display new images she created

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Monochrome exhibition in Brooklyn comprises seven single-coloured rooms

April 3, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Every room at this house-like installation in a Brooklyn warehouse is entirely one colour, from a green kitchen with grassy surfaces to a pink bedroom where a tub is overflowing with teddy bears. New York artist CJ Hendry created the series of seven single-coloured rooms for her Monochrome exhibition, to display new images she created

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SLA Architects designs ski park atop BIG’s Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant

March 29, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video reveals plans by landscape firm SLA Architects to create the year-round ski slope and park over Copenhagen’s new Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant. Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG is behind the new power plant, which completes this year in the Danish capital. The firm asked SLA Architects to design the large park that will

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A great hotel experience is “much more than just design” say AHEAD Asia awards judges

March 29, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

The best hotels offer guests unique local experiences, says jury members for the AHEAD Asia hospitality awards, in this movie produced by Dezeen. Now in their second year, the AHEAD Asia 2018 awards were presented in a ceremony at the Andaz hotel in Singapore earlier this month, celebrating the best in hospitality design from across the continent.

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