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10 films with amazing architecture to stream during isolation

April 3, 2020 India Block 0
10 architecture films to watch in coronavirus isolation

With hundreds of millions of people currently in isolation or lockdown, Dezeen’s India Block has selected 10 feature films that use architecture in exciting ways to watch as a distraction from coronavirus-induced boredom. Parasite, 2019 The rich family’s house in Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning dark comedy about society practically steal’s the show. Sleek modernist

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John Pardey Architects raises house on stilts over River Thames flood plain

March 28, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Narula House by John Pardey Architects

Steel stilts elevate Narula House, a British dwelling on banks of a River Thames tributary that has been designed by John Pardey Architects to endure flooding. The wood-clad Narula House is intended to evoke an abstract object beside the river Loddon near Wargrave, which is identified as a flood zone. John Pardey Architects (JPA) completed

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Watch the video of our future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day

March 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day

Architecture professor Rachel Armstrong, brand consultant Suzanne Livingston and transportation designer Paul Priestman discussed how people will deal with the increasing complexity of future cities at the Dezeen Day conference last year. The panel of experts discussed the positive and negative impacts technology will have on cities and the difficulties in navigating these increasingly complex urban

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Watch the video of our future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day

March 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day

Architecture professor Rachel Armstrong, brand consultant Suzanne Livingston and transportation designer Paul Priestman discussed how people will deal with the increasing complexity of future cities at the Dezeen Day conference last year. The panel of experts discussed the positive and negative impacts technology will have on cities and the difficulties in navigating these increasingly complex urban

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Carlo Ratti Associati designs shipping-container intensive care units for coronavirus treatment

March 24, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Shipping-container intensive care units – Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments (CURA) by Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Named Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments – or CURA, which is the latin word for cure – the intensive care unit (ICU) pods have been designed to increase the country’s

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AHEAD Asia 2020 awards winners announced in video ceremony

March 12, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Rosewood Hong Kong was named Hotel Newbuild of the year at the AHEAD Asia Awards

The AHEAD Asia awards is announcing its winners today in a video ceremony broadcast on Dezeen, after its Singapore awards ceremony was postponed due to coronavirus outbreak. The AHEAD awards celebrates striking hospitality projects from across the world, and is split into four different regions: Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Africa. AHEAD

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Edge sky deck protrudes from supertall Hudson Yards skyscraper

March 11, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

An angular platform protruding from the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Hudson Yards skyscraper is the “highest outdoor sky deck” in the western hemisphere. The 345-metre-high Edge observation deck has opened at the supertall skyscraper Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) designed at New York’s Hudson Yards complex. The shape of the pointed platform mirrors an

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Assembledge+ founder designs Laurel Hills Residence in Los Angeles for himself

March 10, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Laurel Hills Residence by Assembledge

The founder of architecture firm Assembledge+ has completed a house for himself in Los Angeles featuring walls that seem to completely disappear to open up to a garden. David Thompson and his practice Assembledge+ designed the residence in the foothills of Laurel Canyon, a neighbourhood in a ravine in the Hollywood Hills region. Because of

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Common Accounts designs an eco-friendly funeral for the digital age

February 29, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Three Ordinary Funerals by Common Accounts proposal for eco-friendly funeral

Design studio Common Accounts imagines the funeral of the future, where liquefied bodies are used to fertilise plants and flowers, and social media accounts generate a virtual afterlife. Death needs a redesign, said Common Accounts founders Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler, to respond to global concerns about the environment, as well as the rise of

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