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Toyo Ito and Ron Arad headline Business of Design Week 2018 in Hong Kong

November 27, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: architects Ben van Berkel, Ron Arad and Toyo Ito are among the line-up of speakers announced for this year’s Business of Design Week conference – and Dezeen readers get 30 per cent off tickets. The annual event returns to Hong Kong from 3 to 8 December, 2018, and will explore the theme “Think, Collaborate, Create”. These ideas will

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Velux skylights illuminate copper double spiral staircase in CEBRA’s Experimentarium

November 14, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: the 10-tonne copper spiral staircase rising through an atrium of CEBRA’s Experimentarium in Denmark is lit from above by Velux skylights. Danish studio CEBRA refurbished the popular science attraction in Copenhagen, doubling the centre’s exhibition spaces and adding two large atriums with centrepiece staircases. Shaped like the double helix strands of DNA, the spiralling

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Otis’ self-climbing lifts used in construction of City of London’s tallest skyscraper

November 1, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Otis’ Sky Build lifts, which climb up a building as it is built, are enabling the efficient construction of the 278-metre-tall Twentytwo skyscraper in London’s financial district. Designed by London-based PLP Architecture, the tower formerly known as 22 Bishopsgate will be the tallest building in the City of London when it completes in 2019. Two of

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Superyacht designer Philippe Briand brings nautical flair to Hong Kong homes

October 31, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: French designer Philippe Briand has applied superyacht styling to a residential project in Hong Kong for New World Development. The Pavilia Bay is the first residential project designed by Briand, a yacht racer who has designed thousands of vessels for his marine architecture company Vitruvius Yachts. Connected by a podium, the two towers of the

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Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights

October 30, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux’s modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases – abbreviated to DZNE – is situated in the city of Bonn. It is one of ten centres spread across Germany, where scientists

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Office of 21st century is “wherever people happen to be” says Vitra

October 24, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: designers Barber and Osgerby, Konstantin Grcic and Sevil Peach explore what the office of today looks like in an exhibition for furniture brand Vitra. WORK, which is on show at the Orgatec office furniture fair in Cologne, features three fictional offices that showcase the diversity of today’s workplaces. They include a co-working space

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Dezeen joins Assembly 2018 architecture and design forum in Beijing

October 24, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen is co-hosting a programme of talks and panel discussions exploring China’s burgeoning architecture and design scene in Beijing from 25 to 27 October. Read on for more details and to register to attend. Dezeen director Ben Hobson will present the story of Dezeen at the Assembly 2018 event on 26 October, before hosting a

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Architecture & Design Film Festival New York includes world and US premieres

October 2, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: movies about famous architects and Dezeen’s drone documentary Elevation will be shown during the Architecture & Design Film Festival in New York, 16-21 October 2018, and readers receive a discount on tickets. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the New York edition of the Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF:NY) will include world and US

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Archtober combines architecture events across New York City all month

October 1, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: building-centric activities will take place throughout October in New York City, as part of a celebration organised by the Center for Architecture. For the eighth year running, Archtober will bring together a variety of events including building tours, design lectures, competitions and parties for members of the public to get involved with. “Archtober

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NLA launches Don’t Move, Improve! 2019 awards to find London’s best house extensions

September 19, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: New London Architecture is now accepting entries for Don’t Move, Improve! 2019, a competition that seeks the most innovative residential extensions in London. Don’t Move, Improve! is open to practices and homeowners that have carried out house extensions anywhere in London since 1 September 2016. Organised by New London Architecture (NLA), an independent forum for issues surrounding London’s built

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