Jennifer Hahn

BIG, Tatiana Bilbao and Norman Foster donate drawings to Architects for Beirut charity auction

November 2, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Tatiana Bilbao's Social Topography collage is for sale as part of the Architects for Beirut charity auction

More than 60 international architecture firms have put artworks and signed drawings up for auction, in a bid to raise funds for rebuilding Beirut after the explosion that rocked the city in August and left at least 300,000 people homeless. Among the items for sale is a lithography by David Adjaye rendered in 24 karat

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Ten architecture and design events this November and December from Dezeen Events Guide

November 2, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Walking by Drawing Architecture Studio for M+ museum

Design Shanghai, Design Miami and Dubai Design Week are among the architecture and design events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place this winter, alongside a host of virtual programmes including an Archigram symposium and the Dezeen Awards ceremonies. Other events taking place in November and December include an Enzo Mari exhibition in Milan curated

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Game On’s neon-filled exhibition design paid homage to 80s video games

October 23, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

LED arches in Game On's exhibition design by Smart & Green Design

Spanish practice Smart & Green Design re-designed the Barbican’s touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s. The retrospective, which is reportedly the largest international exhibition to explore the history of video games, spans more than 400 collector’s

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Designs of the Year 2020 nominees include a Tik Tok dance and the CDC’s coronavirus render

October 21, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Designs of the Year 2020 nominees include the CDC's coronavirus render

Among the 74 projects that have been shortlisted for this year’s Beazley Designs of the Year awards is Tik Tok’s viral Renegade dance, a steak grown from the eater’s own cells and a 3D graphic of the coronavirus particle. The annual awards, organised by London’s Design Museum, highlight projects from the last year that have

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Tom Postma Design suspends 1,400 porcelain plates in gold-gilded room at Fondazione Prada

October 2, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

The Golden Porcelain Room in the Porcelain Room exhibition designed by Tom Postma Design for the Fondazione Prada

A Fondazione Prada exhibition about Chinese export porcelain, designed by Dutch firm Tom Postma Design, is housed within three prefabricated timber volumes clad in velvet and real gold leaf. Until 10 January 2021, The Porcelain Room installation is being staged in one large exhibition space in the OMA-designed Torre annexe. The Porcelain Room has been

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Shma Company designs Bangkok home for family and forest of 120 trees

September 29, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Louvres on the facade of the Forest House by Shma Company

More than 20 different plant species grow in Forest House, designed by landscape architecture practice Shma Company to fit the largest possible amount of greenery into a small urban plot. Over a space of just 300 square metres, including the roof, the family home in the Thai capital of Bangkok accommodates seven people and 120

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“Formidable architect and designer” Cini Boeri dies aged 96

September 11, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

"Formidable architect and designer" Cini Boeri dies aged 93

Italian architect and designer Cini Boeri, who created a series of iconic seating designs and was the founder of Cini Boeri Architetti, has passed away aged 96. Cini Boeri died on Wednesday, 9 September, in her home in Milan – the city in which she was born and lived her whole life. Over the course

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Suzuko Yamada encloses reconfigurable Tokyo home in permanent scaffolding

August 27, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

This Japanese home designed by architect Suzuko Yamada is connected to its garden through a scaffold of steel pipes and platforms that can be adapted according to the owner’s needs. Set in a residential area of Tokyo, the three-storey house and its gabled roof are entirely clad in sheets of corrugated metal, save only for

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Orient Occident Atelier builds community hall in Cambodia that harvests clean drinking water

August 26, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Hong Kong architecture studio Orient Occident Atelier has designed a civic centre that harvests water for the small Cambodian village of Sneung. Called WaterHall, the 60-square-metre complex consists of two structures built in loose, honeycomb brickwork. One building is entirely closed to the public in order to preserve the interior pump, which brings water in

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Atelier XÜK converts disused Chinese primary school into boutique hotel

August 17, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

Shanghai architecture studio Atelier XÜK has created a series of timber interventions to turn a former school in Qinyong, China into a hotel while leaving its original, solid masonry structure intact. The school, which was originally built in the 1970s when Qinyong was demolished and reconstructed as a strictly planned people’s commune, is now the Lostvilla

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