Jennifer Hahn

Casa Etérea is a mirrored off-grid cabin on the slopes of the Palo Huérfano volcano

January 24, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Exterior of Casa Eterea by Prashant Ashoka

Solar panels and harvested rainwater power this mirrored holiday home by first-time architect Prashant Ashoka, which was designed to be self-sufficient and in harmony with its surroundings. Casa Etérea is nestled into the slopes of an extinct volcano in the Los Picachos highlands, near the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende, and surrounded by 10,000

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Pink seesaws that straddled US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020

January 19, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Us-Mexico border seesaws by Rael San Fratello is Design of the Year 2020

An installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries’ border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year. Dubbed the Teeter-Totter Wall, the project was in place for only around 40 minutes in July of 2019 and hoped

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Asylum in Ratched designed to look like “a beautiful person with a really dark secret”

January 12, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Dr Hanover's office from Netflix's Ratched

Production designer Judy Becker treated Lucia State Hospital like a character in its own right to ensure that the gruesome psychiatric institution takes centre stage in Netflix thriller Ratched. The asylum is rich with unexpected architectural details – undulating glass-block walls or vast panoramic windows hidden behind floor-to-ceiling curtains – that are begging to be noticed. This

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Five architecture and design events this January from Dezeen Events Guide

January 4, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

The World Around and Ryue Nishizawa feature in Dezeen Events Guide January roundup

A virtual version of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) plus remote site visits with SO-IL and David Adjaye as part of The World Around summit are among the events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place in January. Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 11 to 14 January The world’s most influential technology fair is taking place

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V&A curator picks five highlights from Bags: Inside Out exhibition

December 21, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

The 19th-century equivalent of an activist’s slogan tote and a portmanteau made from repurposed fire hoses feature in this roundup of V&A curator Lucia Savi’s favourite pieces from the Bags: Inside Out exhibition. On show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum until September of next year, the exhibition traces the evolution of bags from the

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Stefano Boeri designs prefab vaccination pavilions for 1,500 Italian squares

December 14, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Stefano Boeri coronavirus vaccine pavilion

Architect Stefano Boeri has designed prefabricated timber and fabric pavilions, which are set to house Covid-19 vaccination stations in piazzas across Italy from the first half of January. Around 1,500 of the structures will be set up over the following months at the direction of Domenico Arcuri, the country’s special commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency.

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Tamás Bene creates Hungarian houseboat to be “in harmony with its surroundings”

December 14, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Birdseye view of Sneci houseboat by Tamás Bene

Hungarian architect Tamás Bene has designed a houseboat, which was informed by local fishing boats, as a holiday home on Lake Tisza for a young couple from Budapest. Called Sneci, the floating summer home was designed specifically for its home on Lake Tisza – a 7,000-hectare artificial reservoir and nature reserve that is home to a menagerie

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Dezeen’s top 10 student and graduate projects of 2020

December 8, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

University of Colorado students share architecture projects in the Rockies

Continuing our review of 2020, we’ve rounded up 10 standout projects created by design and architecture students this year, from a high-altitude lavatory to ramen packaging that dissolves to flavour the broth. Longs Peak Privies by students of the Colorado Building Workshop Architecture students from the University of Colorado Denver have designed a series of backcountry

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Ten opinions on how the pandemic will change the world

December 7, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

As part of our 2020 review, we’ve rounded up this year’s most incisive opinions on how the coronavirus pandemic will impact our lives, courtesy of everyone from Norman Foster to Li Edelkoort and Rem Koolhas. Life after coronavirus: how will the pandemic affect our homes? Ukrainian architect Sergey Makhno penned an op-ed for Dezeen, outlining seven

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AI-generated brutalist buildings feature in hypnotic Moullinex music videos

November 18, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Brutal machine learning music video by Moullinex

Lisbon musician Moullinex has shared an exclusive short music video showing an endlessly changing landscape of brutalist buildings drawn up by a generative design algorithm with Dezeen. Moullinex, whose real name is Luís Clara Gomes, created two videos that use artificial intelligence (AI) to imagine a series of brutalist buildings. The first video, which the artist

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