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Nine Black designers who left their mark on the past 100 years

October 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Charlene Prempeh’s Now You See Me book celebrates the work of Black designers during the past century – from the lauded to the chronically overlooked. Here, she selects nine that have had a particularly significant impact. Titled Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design, the book features architects, fashion designers and

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“I don’t want to make crazy buildings” says Junya Ishigami

October 24, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Known for a string of boundary-pushing projects, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami discusses his unusual approach to designing buildings in this exclusive interview. Ishigami’s surreal work often challenges fundamental ideas of what a building is – such as his mud-covered underground house and restaurant in Ube, which was one of the most popular projects published on

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Giant novelty structures at Disney hotel captured in Arnau Rovira Vidal photos

October 16, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Disney’s weird and nostalgic Pop Century Resort hotel in Florida has been captured by Arnau Rovira Vidal in this photography series. Rovira’s Fantasia Resorts photography project pictures holidaymakers and workers among the fantastical, retro-themed structures at the entertainment conglomerate’s Walt Disney World near Orlando. Opened in 2003, the 2,880-room hotel is themed on American pop

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Le Corbusier responsible for architecture’s “global blandemic” says Thomas Heatherwick

October 11, 2023 Nat Barker 0

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has taken aim at the “cult of modernist architecture” in a new BBC radio series. Heatherwick, whose numerous high-profile projects include Little Island in New York and Google’s headquarters in London and Silicon Valley, made the comments in a three-part series on BBC Radio 4 called Building Soul with Thomas Heatherwick. “I

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RIBA Royal Gold Medal award was “brave move” says Yasmeen Lari

October 11, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has said the RIBA was “brave” to award her the Royal Gold Medal earlier this year. The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal is the UK’s highest individual honour for architecture and is personally approved by the British monarch, King Charles III. In her keynote address at the recent In

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Ten buried buildings that hide their forms below ground

October 6, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Subterranean museums, houses sunken beneath the earth and a wine cellar dug into a Texas hillside all feature in this roundup of buildings buried underground. Tirpitz Bunker, Denmark, by BIG Danish studio BIG cut linear passageways into a sand dune to form an “invisible museum” next to a Nazi bunker on the headland of Blåvand. The four

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Global South delegates blocked from attending UIA World Congress of Architects

September 22, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Delegates from the Global South were denied visas to attend Copenhagen’s UIA World Congress of Architects this summer by the Danish government, despite the event’s stated goal being “leave no one behind”. Kabage Karanja, co-founder of Kenyan architecture studio Cave Bureau, told Dezeen that one of the team members behind its Louisiana exhibition shown at

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Pritzker “has given me courage” says Diébédo Francis Kéré

September 20, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Diébédo Francis Kéré may be known for his resource-light community buildings but would be open to designing a skyscraper when the time is right, he tells Dezeen in this interview. Burkinabè architect Kéré has risen to become one of the profession’s biggest stars in recent years, becoming the first African to win

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Eight basement apartments that are subterranean sanctuaries

September 10, 2023 Nat Barker 0

In this lookbook, we select eight apartments that prove basements are the new penthouses, from an art deco flat in Paris to a sci-fi-style hideaway in Madrid. Often associated with limited space and poor natural light, basement homes have not always been particularly coveted. But as the world’s cities get more expensive, busier and hotter,

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Architecture bodies responding to “real risks” of AI

August 15, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Architecture bodies including RIBA and AIA are putting together guidance and policy requests to governments to help the profession deal with the potential risks and benefits of AI. Artificial-intelligence (AI) technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, with the emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney raising serious questions for the creative

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