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Dezeen readers name Brooklyn Tower world’s best skyscraper

September 3, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

To mark World Skyscraper Day today, Dezeen readers have voted the Brooklyn Tower by SHoP Architects as the best skyscraper from the past year. After over 1,000 votes, the Brooklyn Tower in New York City was the clear winner, with over 30 per cent of people picking it from the poll. Designed by SHoP Architects,

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Wallmakers founder defends “rigorous” learning process of unpaid internships

August 30, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Indian architect and Wallmakers founder Vinu Daniel has defended the use of unpaid internships, which he claims have an important educational benefit, following criticism on social media. Daniel defended his position following several comments on a post on his Instagram account, which has since been deleted, which criticised the practice. Daniel confirmed to Dezeen that

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Transparency “one of the biggest beasts that we battle” says Apple retail sustainability lead

August 29, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Apple is pushing for carbon transparency in the supply chain as it aims to reduce the impact of its stores, claims the tech company’s retail sustainability lead Rebecca Cully in this interview. Created as the latest “evolution of the Apple Store”, Apple’s recently opened location in Battersea includes several material innovations aimed at reducing the shop’s carbon

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Álvaro Siza creates wooden figures for Holy See pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale

August 24, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has designed a series of timber figures alongside a garden by Studio Albori for the Vatican City’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Named O Encontro, which translates as the encounter, the figures occupy a series of galleries at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore adjacent to the Andrea Palladio-designed San

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Working on The Line a “tricky argument” for studios boycotting Russia says Wolf Prix

August 24, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Austrian architect Wolf Prix, who designed a section of The Line, hints at the hypocrisy of studios working on the Saudi mega-project and criticises the “main idea of the whole thing” in this exclusive interview. Speaking to Dezeen from his office in Vienna, Prix praised the starting point of rethinking the layout of cities but

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Rashid Ali Architects creates chequered garden tea room in Somaliland

August 21, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Somaliland- and London-based Rashid Ali Architects has created a chequered timber garden pavilion that can be illuminated as a “glowing lantern” in Hargeisa. Set within the paved garden of a house in the capital of Somaliland, the simple pavilion is constructed from a timber frame to create a chequered appearance. “The idea of the chequered facade

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This week we revealed this year’s Burning Man temple

August 19, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we revealed renderings of the temple that will form the centrepiece of this year’s annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, USA. Currently under construction at the Burning Man site, the timber structure conceived by designers Ela Madej and Reed Finlay will be called Temple of Heart. According to the designers, the twelve-pointed star-shaped structure topped by a spire

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Most Architecture creates micro factory with “everything on display” for Charge Cars

August 18, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK studio Most Architecture has converted an industrial shed in west London into an all-black-and-white showroom and production facility for electric car start-up Charge Cars. Created to manufacture Charge Cars’ first vehicle the ’67 – an all-electric version of the 1960s Ford Mustang Fastback built using components from electric vehicle brand Arrival – the facility also acts as

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Campaign launched to save Marcel Breuer’s Cape Cod holiday home from demolition

August 17, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust has launched a campaign to raise $1.2 million to purchase modernist architect Marcel Breuer’s holiday home in Cape Cod, USA, to save it from likely demolition. Non-profit Cape Cod Modern House Trust is aiming to raise the money to purchase the house, which was designed by the Hungarian-American architect as

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