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X-ray images of flowers by researcher and designer Mathew Schwartz form the identity of this year's Dezeen Awards.
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In a city characterized by fast population growth, Amsterdam residents are beginning to entertain alternative living situations. Enter Schoonschip, a sustainable floating neighborhood located on the Johan van Hasselt Canal in a former industrial area. Local architecture firm i29 has created a striking floating home with a small footprint inside the community.
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For decades Antarctica hosted only the simplest huts as human shelters – but architecture in the coldest, driest, windiest continent is getting snazzier.
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Canadian architect Natalie Dionne has completed a forest retreat in southeastern Quebec, which is raised up on stilts to meet the level of the rocky landscape.
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Contemporary craft fair Collect was founded by the British Crafts Council in 2004 as a pioneering fair for collectible craft, presenting recent work by living craftsmen, artists and designers (with some pieces created especially for the fair). The latest edition, previewed digitally in collaboration with the global online art platform Artsy, offers a glimpse into the diversity and eclectic richness of today’s craft panorama.
‘Collect has introduced and represented the very best global galleries for contemporary craft to design buyers and collectors for 17 years. Creating opportunity in the disruption of this past year has been so important, ensuring we maintain visibility for this global moment for craft in the cultural calendar. This online version of the fair will provide rich content as well as helping collectors to discover, view and purchase exceptional work from highly talented international artists,’ said the fair director, Isobel Dennis.
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To save the medieval town of Olot, Spain, architects revive its demolished buildings.
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Up until the mid-19th century, the only way to cross the Vltava River in Prague was to head over the gothic stone arches of the Charles Bridge. The project of King Charles IV, construction of the now iconic structure began in 1357 after a flood damaged the existing walkway. A short animation by
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The Hothouse installation will grow tropical plants and flowers that otherwise would not be suitable for London’s climate. Learn more about how it works.
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to avoid introducing a large asphalt field to the scenic route, rever & drage architects' 'farstadsanden' parking area is made of reinforced grass paving.
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Powerhouse Company has created a reception building topped with a circular walking trail as part of a development in Chengdu, China.
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Ciaran McCrickard’s pictures of playgrounds during lockdown are like snapshots from a post-apocalyptic world
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The colourful bedrooms that Note Design Studio has slotted under the roof of The Mantelpiece Loft are meant to resemble “life-sized building blocks”.
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IN studio has built this japanese house with a diagonal façade, which ensures great views of the valley and hills that extend in front of the property.
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AMAA has installed eight shipping containers in an Italian factory as a permanent installation that aims to investigate what architecture is.
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The Berliner Ensemble theatre group has removed around 500 of its 700 seats to prepare for reopening in alignment with Germany's social-distancing policies in September.
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teetering over a rocky cliff edge, this concept by yakusha design imagines an exposed and minimal holiday home for a surfer.
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Architecture office Al-Jawad Pike used precast stone blocks that take their colour from Glamis Castle in Scotland to create a “refuge” for Aesop in a London shopping centre.
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In its magazine format it lasted 37 years, criticising architecture and design with true energy. Now it is online only
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Architecture studio Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes has built a curving wood and steel bridge over railway tracks in Angers, France.
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Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has picked 10 projects representing the New London Fabulous movement of “beauty, complexity and joy”.
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