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Kengo Kuma’s Japan National Stadium is “definitely not iconic” says Martin van der Linden

April 19, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

National Stadium by Kengo Kuma one minute architecture video

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden visits Kengo Kuma’s new Olympic stadium in Tokyo in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. “Here behind me is the new Olympic Stadium designed by Kengo Kuma,” says van der Linden. “The project was rather controversial, as the international competition was initially won by Zaha Hadid.” Officially

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Kyoto Station designed as “geographical valley” says video blogger Martin van der Linden

April 18, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Kyoto Station one minute architecture video

Hiroshi Hara’s monumental Kyoto Station features in the latest short movie by architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden, as part of his contribution to Virtual Design Festival. Dutch architect Van der Linden came to Japan from Europe to work on the huge complex, which was completed in 1997 and is the second-largest station in

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This week’s VDF highlights include a live interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from 35 designers

April 18, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Virtual Design Festival launched this week! Here’s a roundup of everything that happened in week one including live interviews, collaborations with cultural organisations and video messages from designers around the world. Pre-launch Video messages: we built up towards the launch day by releasing a few of the many video messages we’ve received from creatives around

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Beeline installation by SO-IL creates a “clandestine” shortcut through Amanda Levete’s MAAT museum

April 17, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Architecture studio SO-IL has designed a major installation for Lisbon’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology that creates a new public route through the middle of the Amanda Levete-designed building via a secret rear entrance. Called Beeline, the intervention allows pedestrians to walk from the city to the waterfront through the centre of the museum’s ovoid

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SunnyHills cake shop shows how “Kuma is Japan’s Walt Disney” says video blogger Martin van der Linden

April 16, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Kengo Kuma’s SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival. Van der Lindin, who produces the One Minute Architecture channel on YouTube, made a short film about the basket-like building

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VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin van der Linden to explore Tokyo’s “mysterious urbanity”

April 16, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin Vermeulen

Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin van der Linden of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies. Van der Linden, founder of Tokyo-based Van Der Architects, has lived in Japan since 1995 when he moved to the country to work on Hiroshi Hara’s

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35 architects and designers contribute video messages to help launch Virtual Design Festival

April 15, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Virtual Design Festival has launched with a video featuring self-recorded messages from 35 architects, designers and artists around the world including Stefano Giovannoni, Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, Ben van Berkel and Bec Brittain. Each contributor delivers a video message to the world, explaining how they are faring during lockdown and offering their thoughts on the

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“This is how I cope with the current situation” says Maarten Baas

April 14, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Maarten Baas video message for Dezeen Virtual Design Festival

Dutch designer Maarten Baas has explained how he has adapted to coronavirus lockdown in a short video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. “Hello, this is Maarten Baas from my studio in the Netherlands,” says Baas. “And this is how I cope with the current situation”. Baas shot to fame in 2002 with his graduation

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Virtual Design Festival cultural programme includes collaborations with partners around the world

April 14, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Virtual Design Festival starts tomorrow! Here is the schedule of the cultural programme of talks, interviews, movies and collaborations that have been confirmed so far. In addition to the events listed below, we’re aiming to include a VDF video message and a live interview each workday during the festival. We’ll be adding more events and

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Coronavirus “feels like a disaster and an opportunity at the same time” says Hella Jongerius

April 14, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Hella Jongerius video message for Dezeen Virtual Design Festival

The Covid-19 pandemic gives designers the chance to address global challenges instead of making “more meaningless stuff,” designer Hella Jongerius says in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. “From now on, a concerned approach to design will not simply mean returning to past ideas and making more meaningless stuff,” says Jongerius in an

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