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Matt Lucraft proposes modular building system to tackle housing scarcity

March 7, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Matt Lucraft’s concept for a modular building system designed to address London’s housing crisis. Matt Lucraft’s proposal, titled the Dagenham Breach Housing Co-operative, is a plan for a settlement of self-built and customisable homes that seeks to tackle the scarcity of

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Watch our talk with Dulux Trade live from the RIBA in London

February 27, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen has teamed up with Dulux Trade to host a breakfast conversation with architects Mark Dytham and Dara Huang on the theme of future-proofing design. Tune in from 9:30am UK time to watch it live. The stream is now live. You can watch it here on Dezeen, or on our Facebook page. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus

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Henning Larsen Architects reveals £400 million Belfast waterfront masterplan

February 26, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Scandinavian practice Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled plans to transform the east bank of the River Lagan in Belfast, Northern Ireland, using the redevelopment of Copenhagen harbour as a model. The 6.5-hectare Belfast Waterside masterplan aims to make use of the outdoor spaces along the river in the winter months – looking towards the redevelopment of

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Reconfigurable apartment allows residents to transform their living spaces

February 15, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

The next instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an experimental apartment by Swedish firm White Arkitekter, which can be reconfigured according to the needs of its residents. Called Drömlägenheten, which means “dream home” in Swedish, the prototype apartment in Linköping, Sweden, features interior walls that can be moved into different positions. This

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Reconfigurable apartment allows residents to transform their living spaces

February 15, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

The next instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an experimental apartment by Swedish firm White Arkitekter, which can be reconfigured according to the needs of its residents. Called Drömlägenheten, which means “dream home” in Swedish, the prototype apartment in Linköping, Sweden, features interior walls that can be moved into different positions. This

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Reconfigurable apartment allows residents to transform their living spaces

February 15, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

The next instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an experimental apartment by Swedish firm White Arkitekter, which can be reconfigured according to the needs of its residents. Called Drömlägenheten, which means “dream home” in Swedish, the prototype apartment in Linköping, Sweden, features interior walls that can be moved into different positions. This

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“Under-recognised” Itsuko Hasegawa wins inaugural Royal Academy Architecture Prize

February 8, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Little-known Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa has been announced as the first laureate of the Royal Academy of Arts’ architecture prize. Described as one of Japan’s most important architects by the award’s jurors, Itsuko Hasegawa founded her Tokyo-based practice in 1979 but remains relatively unknown. “What I find most interesting about the architecture of Itsuko Hasegawa is the

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Staggered glass walls front visitor centre at Louisiana plantation house

February 7, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside “like an impressionist painting”. Trahan Architects’ building provides a gift shop, and exhibition and events space for the Magnolia Mound Plantation House – located in Baton Rouge, near the Mississippi

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Ice-skating trail transforms unused space beneath Toronto highway

February 7, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an unused space beneath a highway in Toronto, which is being overhauled to create a new park complete with an ice-skating track. Developed by urban designer Ken Greenberg and Toronto landscape architecture firm Public Work, the Bentway will be a linear park that occupies a

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