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Daylight Robbery photography documents bricked-up windows across London

June 24, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

A facade with bricked-up windows in London

Photographer Andy Billman is exhibiting a photography series at the London Festival of Architecture that captures bricked-up windows of homes throughout the UK capital. The series, which is named Daylight Robbery, aims to comment on the important role that air and natural light play in architecture and wellbeing. Billman was invited to exhibit it at

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“We’re taking CO2 out of the system” says carbon-capturing concrete maker Carbicrete

June 15, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Montreal company Carbicrete has developed a method for sequestering carbon in concrete, claiming its product captures more carbon than it emits. The technology cuts out the need for calcium-based cement, a key ingredient in traditional concrete that is responsible for around eight per cent of all global CO2 emissions. “It’s negative emissions,” Carbicrete CEO Chris

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Ma Yansong creates lantern-like artwork in rural Chinese tea field

June 11, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

MAD architecture studio-founder Ma Yansong’s Light artwork stands in a rural tea field. In this interview, he tells Dezeen his thoughts about the connection between art and architecture. Yansong’s latest work, Light, is on a smaller scale than the ambitious architecture projects that his studio is well-known for. The installation is an undulating lightweight steel structure clad

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Seven clever co-living projects featured in All Together Now book

June 10, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

The facade of the Three-Generation House

“Co-space is here to stay”, says Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson, who has co-authored a design guide to shared living spaces called All Together Now. Here she selects her top seven projects from the book. All Together Now was written by Frearson in collaboration with interior designer Naomi Cleaver for RIBA Publishing to document the trend

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Curators Collective overcomes “barriers of borders and politics” at Venice Architecture Biennale

June 2, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Curators of fifty national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale have come together to collaborate and share resources as part of the Curators Collective. The newly-founded Curators Collective challenges the usual approach to the Venice Architecture Biennale, where participants develop pavilions in isolation in response to a shared theme. Instead, the fifty members are working

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The pandemic has “re-imagined how we can exhibit” says Venice Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis

May 19, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Installing the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens 22 May, during the pandemic has forced participating architects to work in a more collaborative and sustainable way, according to curator Hashim Sarkis. “It has definitely affected, in a creative way, the question of efficiency and how we can reduce our carbon footprint,” he told Dezeen. “Many teams

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3D textiles could “replace concrete and cement” in construction says Hella Jongerius

April 30, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Woven bricks by Hella Jongerius, exhibited as part of Woven Cosmos exhibition at Berlin Gropius Bau

New three-dimensional weaving technologies could revolutionise architecture and lead to lighter, more flexible buildings according to Dutch designer Hella Jongerius. Computerised looms that can produce 3D fabrics could lead to a new type of “pliable architecture”, the designer said. “Textile is the lightest and strongest construct that you can have,” she said. “So with this,

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Flughafen Tegel book bids farewell to Berlin’s brutalist “drive-in airport”

April 15, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

Airport terminal from Berlin Tegel photo book by Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann

Photographers Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann have released a book that pays homage to the recently closed Tegel airport and captures its distinctive hexagonal terminal that once served as a bastion of freedom for walled-in West Berlin. Called Flughafen Tegel, the book contains a series of photographs captured during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020 before the airport

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Specifying tropical timber can “play a key role in the climate change battle” says Timber Trade Federation

March 19, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

An aerial view of a tropical forest in Indonesia

Architects can help fight climate change by specifying tropical timber, according to Timber Trade Federation CEO David Hopkins. Speaking in a live Dezeen talk, Hopkins said that the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) wants to challenge negative associations surrounding tropical wood and promote it as “valuable feedstocks for the design world”. By specifying responsibly-sourced tropical timber,

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Life Meets Art book offers glimpse inside homes of leading creatives

February 12, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Norman Foster’s lofty dining room and the tactile living space of Faye Toogood are among the home interiors revealed in author Sam Lubell’s new book, Life Meets Art. Life Meets Art was curated by Lubell to “reveal a new side” to over 200 of the world’s best-loved creatives by offering a glimpse inside their private spaces.

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