Sebastian Jordahn

Watch our talk with MAD Architects about social housing around the world

September 14, 2022 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects on a live talk exploring social housing in different regions around the world. Watch the talk live today at 3:00pm UK time. Moderated by Dezeen’s editor Tom Ravenscroft, the talk will hear from three architecture studios that have designed social housing schemes – MAD, Peter Barber Architects and

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Chart Art Fair pavilion aims to investigate the potential of mycelium

September 1, 2022 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Architects Nikolaj Emil Svenningsen, Sean Lyon and Søs Christine Heiselbæk have created a pavilion wrapped in textiles embedded with mycelium at Chart Art Fair, which was captured in this short video produced as part of the Dezeen x Chart Art Fair 2022 collaboration. Called Inhabiting Ecologies, the structure is one of five temporary pavilions installed in

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Softspace Digital surrounds Chart Art Fair pavilion with bioplastic revolving doors

August 28, 2022 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Design collective Softspace Digital has built a pavilion at Chart Art Fair from natural materials including gelatin-based bioplastic and timber, which has been captured in this video produced as part of our Dezeen x Chart Art Fair 2022 collaboration. Called A Music Box, the structure is one of five pavilions installed in the courtyards of

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“I am careful never to call myself an architect” says Theaster Gates in exclusive video interview

August 17, 2022 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Serpentine Pavilion designer Theaster Gates explains the role of architecture in his artistic practice in this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery. Chicago-based Gates, who is the first solo artist to be commissioned to design the pavilion, spoke to Dezeen at the cylindrical structure called Black Chapel, which was unveiled earlier this

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Dezeen video reveals Theaster Gates’ 2022 Serpentine Pavilion

June 7, 2022 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Theaster Gates’ design for the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion was unveiled today in London’s Kensington Gardens as revealed in this exclusive video by Dezeen. Together with Adjaye Associates, the Chicago-based artist created a cylindrical, chapel-like structure for this year’s commission as a peaceful space “where one could rest from the pressures of the day and spend

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TP Bennett’s Haus on the Ridge informed by vintage camera

January 25, 2022 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for architecture firm TP Bennett, the studio’s principal director explains how its latest residential project was designed to meet Passivhaus energy standards. Designed by the studio’s principal director Doug Smith and project architect Sam Clarke, the house in Kent, UK, belongs to Smith and his family. Called Haus on

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Chart Art Fair installs five “social architecture” pavilions in Copenhagen

August 27, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

This Dezeen video showcases the five architecture pavilions at this year’s Chart art fair in Copenhagen, including a restaurant covered with microgreens and a structure made out of inflatable bags. Each of the pavilions, which are installed in the courtyards of Charlottenborg in the centre of Copenhagen, are intended to be examples of “social architecture” and

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Counterspace’s Children’s Courtroom installation “teaches children about the justice system”

July 1, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In the third of our series of exclusive video interviews with Sumayya Vally, the architect discusses how her studio Counterspace’s Children’s Courtroom project aimed to teach kids about the law, rights and equality. The installation comprises a set of kids-sized furniture elements imitating furniture found in standard courtrooms. It is used as an educational tool

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Serpentine Pavilion celebrates “places with a history significant to migration” says Sumayya Vally

June 8, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, Sumayya Vally of Counterspace explains how her design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion references the architecture of London’s migrant communities. She described the pavilion as “a puzzle of many different elements” informed by buildings used by migrant groups across London. In addition, five architectural “fragments” have been dotted around

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EightyFen by TP Bennett is a “refreshing alternative” to traditional city towers

May 5, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In this video produced by Dezeen for TP Bennett, the architecture firm explains how its design for a new office building in London’s Square Mile “sets a new benchmark” for the area. Called EightyFen, the mixed-use office building features a limestone facade punctuated by an irregular pattern of projecting and recessing windows and was developed by

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