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Davidson Prize winner HomeForest uses smart tech to recreate “forest bathing” in your home

June 16, 2021 Amy Frearson 0

HomeForest, an app that uses smart devices to bring the restorative effects of nature into the home, has been named as the winner of the inaugural Davidson Prize. The contest called for ideas for how the home can adapt in response to the rise of home-working, following the Covid-19 pandemic. Selected for the £10,000 prize

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Serpentine Pavilion celebrates “places with a history significant to migration” says Sumayya Vally

June 8, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, Sumayya Vally of Counterspace explains how her design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion references the architecture of London’s migrant communities. She described the pavilion as “a puzzle of many different elements” informed by buildings used by migrant groups across London. In addition, five architectural “fragments” have been dotted around

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Watch a swimmer in London’s fully transparent Sky Pool

June 7, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video shows a swimmer in a transparent swimming pool made entirely from acrylic panels that was recently built between two buildings in London. Spanning two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Battersea, the 25-metre-long transparent pool allows swimmers to see the ground 35 metres below. Named Sky Pool, the swimmable bridge was designed by architecture

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Watch our live talk with Amos Rex about the role of art museums in cities

May 25, 2021 Siufan Adey 0

Dezeen has teamed up with Amos Rex and JKMM Architects on a live talk to mark the launch of a new book about the Helsinki museum. Watch here from 5:00pm London time. Titled Amos Rex Art Museum – JKMM Architects, the publication explores the design of the museum’s building, a 1930s structure refurbished by Finnish

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Sunken concrete floor expands Victorian terrace house in London

May 20, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Concrete Plinth House has a brutalist look

DGN Studio has extended and renovated a Victorian semi-detached terraced house in East London, introducing a sunken concrete floor to maximise the ground floor ceiling height. Called Concrete Plinth House, the original brief – to transform a disconnected and dark north-facing kitchen into a bright and open space for gatherings – expanded to include lighter-touch

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Sunken concrete floor expands Victorian terrace house in London

May 20, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

DGN Studio has extended and renovated a Victorian semi-detached terraced house in East London, introducing a sunken concrete floor to maximise the ground floor ceiling height. Called Concrete Plinth House, the original brief – to transform a disconnected and dark north-facing kitchen into a bright and open space for gatherings – expanded to include lighter-touch

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Colombian construction company creates affordable homes using coffee waste

May 14, 2021 Francesca Tesler 0

This one-minute video shows how a local construction company is using waste coffee husks to build affordable and eco-friendly housing for communities in Colombia. Woodpecker WPC creates sustainable, low-income housing using recycled coffee waste. Husks and other waste from the coffee production process are turned into prefabricated blocks used for construction, which can then be

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Plans revealed for Colosseum amphitheatre’s retractable floor

May 11, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Colosseum's retractable floor by Milan Ingegneria

The Italian government has approved plans designed by engineering firm Milan Ingegneria to create a remote-controlled, retractable floor within the Colosseum arena in Rome. The retractable floor will replace the arena’s original floor, which was removed in the 19th century to restore the vision of “ancient times”. “Realisation of the arena resumes the thread of time,

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EightyFen by TP Bennett is a “refreshing alternative” to traditional city towers

May 5, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In this video produced by Dezeen for TP Bennett, the architecture firm explains how its design for a new office building in London’s Square Mile “sets a new benchmark” for the area. Called EightyFen, the mixed-use office building features a limestone facade punctuated by an irregular pattern of projecting and recessing windows and was developed by

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NFT artwork being sold with physical house in California

April 23, 2021 India Block 0

American graphic designer Kii Arens has created an artwork that is being sold as an NFT and includes a physical house in Thousand Oaks, California, that the piece is based on. Arens created a 45-second video depicting a gabled house rendered in bright colours, which he is selling as an NFT-backed artwork. The American pop artist

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