Articles by Cajsa Carlson

As part of today’s collaboration with CAMP, VDF is showing this lecture where Danish architecture studio COBE explains how it helped make Copenhagen one of the most liveable cities in the world. COBE, which was founded in 2006, primarily works in three fields: urbanism, architecture and public space, the studio’s project director Thomas Krarup explained

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In this lecture, part of Virtual Design Festival’s collaboration with CAMP, Snøhetta partner Jenny B Osuldsen discusses the architecture studio’s core values and projects, including Times Square and the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture. Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta is named after a mountain in one of the hilly country’s national parks, and every year,

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Today, Virtual Design Festival has teamed up with CAMP, Prague’s centre for architecture and urban planning, to present a day of talks, starting with a live lecture by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma from 10:00am UK time.  We will be publishing lectures from Prague’s Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning’s (CAMP) Urban Talks series all day. We

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In the first lecture from today’s collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Norwegian architect Reiulf Ramstad discusses his background and how he originally wanted to become a dancer, not an architect. Ramstad, founder of Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, spoke of how growing up with an architect made him want to chose a different career for

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Moxon Architects has restored and converted a listed building and a former police station in Fraserburgh, Scotland, adding a contemporary extension clad in weathering steel. Two civic buildings – the Category B-listed Fraserburgh Town House and a derelict police station – have been turned into one facility that serves as the headquarters for Aberdeenshire Council.

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