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Five video games where architecture creates a “lifelike and immersive experience”

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0

Architectural drawing of a path in a video game

Panoramic maps, playful diagrams and layered illustrations feature in Videogame Atlas, a book by architectural design research studio You + Pea that highlights 12 video games and their use of architecture and architectural theory. Videogame Atlas provides detailed and playful insights into the virtual environments through the style of drawings typically found in 20th-century architecture

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Five video games where architecture creates a “lifelike and immersive experience”

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0

Panoramic maps, playful diagrams and layered illustrations feature in Videogame Atlas, a book by architectural design research studio You + Pea that highlights 12 video games and their use of architecture and architectural theory. Videogame Atlas provides detailed and playful insights into the virtual environments through the style of drawings typically found in 20th-century architecture

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Twisting bamboo installation weaves through Barcelona’s Casa Loewe

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0

Spanish fashion brand Loewe has reopened its Barcelona flagship, which it has transformed into a gallery-like space with an undulating bamboo installation that winds across its surfaces. Casa Loewe is set inside Casa Lléo Morera, a modernist building created by Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner off one of the Spanish city’s major shopping streets.

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Twisting bamboo installation weaves through Barcelona’s Casa Loewe

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0

Spanish fashion brand Loewe has reopened its Barcelona flagship, which it has transformed into a gallery-like space with an undulating bamboo installation that winds across its surfaces. Casa Loewe is set inside Casa Lléo Morera, a modernist building created by Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner off one of the Spanish city’s major shopping streets.

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Twisting bamboo installation weaves through Barcelona’s Casa Loewe

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0

Spanish fashion brand Loewe has reopened its Barcelona flagship, which it has transformed into a gallery-like space with an undulating bamboo installation that winds across its surfaces. Casa Loewe is set inside Casa Lléo Morera, a modernist building created by Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner off one of the Spanish city’s major shopping streets.

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MVRDV reveals plans to convert Centraal Beheer into housing district

June 20, 2022 James Parkes 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled its plans to transform Herman Hertzberger’s 1970s Centraal Beheer building in the Netherlands into a residential district with over 650 homes. MVRDV will aim to preserve the structure, which was designed by Dutch architect Hertzberger and completed in 1972, while adding timber additions to create the homes. Located in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands,

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Ten homes filled with pottery and decorative ceramics

June 12, 2022 James Parkes 0

Image of a home with shelving filled with ceramics

A mid-century home renovation in Canada and an oversized thatched-roof home in Ukraine feature in our latest lookbook highlighting 10 homes with interiors that make use of pottery and decorative ceramics. Ceramics were a focus at this year’s Milan design week, where French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec created an installation that featured pastel-hued ceramic

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This week we highlighted projects and installations at Milan design week

June 11, 2022 James Parkes 0

This week on Dezeen, we showcased installations and exhibitions at this year’s Milan design week, which marked a return to its pre-pandemic size following the coronavirus pandemic. Among the highlights was luxury brand Hermès’ “monumental” water tower installation that was constructed from sheets of translucent paper and ash wood. Also in Milan, French designers Ronan

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Stufish creates “world’s largest demountable venue” for ABBA virtual show in London

June 9, 2022 James Parkes 0

British architecture studio Stufish’s hexagonal ABBA Arena in east London has opened as the venue for Swedish pop group ABBA’s virtual reunion tour. Named ABBA Arena, the 3,000-capacity venue near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was built as the home of the ABBA virtual reality reunion tour, which began on 27 May 2022. According to Stufish it is the

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MVRDV creates 600-metre-long orange walkway that bridges Rotterdam roofs

May 30, 2022 James Parkes 0

Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a 600 metre orange walkway

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has opened Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, a temporary bright orange rooftop installation in Rotterdam that crosses the rooflines of two adjacent buildings. Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a temporary walkable installation that extends up the side of Rotterdam’s World Trade Centre and creates a bridge across to the city’s Bijenkorf department store. The

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