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Video shows pop-up synagogue in Ukraine unfolding like a book

November 7, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

This short film by photographer Iwan Baan shows the Babyn Yar Synagogue designed by Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects opening and closing. Located at Babyn Yar, the pop-up synagogue comprises a pair of 11-metre-high walls that unfold using a manual winch to reveal its decorative and detailed interiors. As the building opens out, a roof pops up to shelter

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Mando Xie proposes green floating cities to enable “human civilization to continue” on the ocean

November 5, 2021 Benedict Hobson 0

Mando Xie imagines humanity moving into ship-like floating cities covered with trees to escape rising sea levels in this proposal, which is a finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Xie imagines converting aircraft carriers to create the floating cities in his proposal, which is called Titan Art 2100. Almost half of

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Gaetano Fornarelli proposes “moving the countryside to the city” by creating car-free garden cities

November 4, 2021 Anna Marks 0

The next finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Gaetano Fornarelli, who has proposed creating car-free cities covered in trees to improve people’s health and reduce humanity’s impact on the environment. Fornarelli’s Life in Nature project aims to bring the benefits of the countryside to the city. Cars would be forbidden,

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Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko envision a world dominated by “superorganism” trees

November 3, 2021 Anna Marks 0

A visualisation of The Word for World is Forest

Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko have proposed covering planet Earth with huge genetically engineered trees, one of 15 finalist projects for Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Titled The Word for World is Forest, Renna and Nenenko’s proposal envisions “superorganism” trees that absorb 50 per cent more carbon dioxide than typical trees. The

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Make designs central installation for COP26 Build Better Now virtual pavilion

November 2, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

London studio Make has designed a virtual reality installation that sits at the centre of the Build Better Now pavilion for COP26. Called Fountain of Circular Recovery, Make’s installation is the centrepiece of the virtual pavilion, which was created by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) to showcase 17 “exemplary sustainable projects” during the COP26 climate conference.

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Justinian Khoo envisions networks of floating cities “to provide freedom for nature on land”

November 2, 2021 Benedict Hobson 0

The Whales floating cities by Justinian Khoo

The second finalist in Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Justinian Khoo, who has proposed moving humanity into sustainable floating cities so that nature can reclaim the land. Called The Whales, the clusters of cities, which Khoo designed to resemble pods of the large marine mammals, would be powered entirely by renewable

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Pawel Rymsza proposes domed cities with algae lakes “to make big reductions in atmospheric carbon”

November 1, 2021 Benedict Hobson 0

Pawel Rymsza’s proposal to house humanity in a network of ring-shaped structures built around huge algae-rich lakes is the first of 15 visionary projects selected as finalists for Dezeen’s Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. Called Carbon Neutral Rings, Rymsza’s proposal is to create a network of enclosed carbon-neutral cities for humanity to live

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House built from 100 different plant-based materials unveiled at Dutch Design Week

October 20, 2021 Amy Frearson 0

The Exploded View Beyond Building, a house made from biomaterials by Biobased Creations

Eco-design studio Biobased Creations has built a showhome almost entirely from biomaterials including wood, mycelium, seaweed, straw and vegetable fibres as well as earth and sewage. Unveiled at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week, the house showcases 100 different plant-based or natural materials that are either commercially available already or coming to market soon.

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Striatus 3D-printed bridge “establishes a new language for concrete” says Holcim CEO

October 12, 2021 Benedict Hobson 0

Holcim CEO Jan Jenisch explains how 3D-printed concrete bridge Striatus aims to showcase how to build with less material without compromising performance in this video Dezeen produced for the building materials company. Striatus is a 16-metre-long 3D-printed concrete footbridge built by Block Research Group at Swiss university ETH Zurich and the Computation and Design Group at Zaha

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Short film offers tour of Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names by Studio Libeskind

October 7, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

This video guides viewers around a memorial by Studio Libeskind in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is dedicated to the Dutch victims of the Holocaust. The Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names was designed by Studio Libeskind with local office Rijnboutt to honour the 102,000 Jews, Sinti and Roma people who were killed by Nazis during the second world war.

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