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Ma Yansong creates maze-like performance space for Chinese festival

June 27, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong has unveiled The City of Time installation and events space on the beach in Aranya, northern China. Created for the Aranya Theater Festival, which takes place on a beach near Qinhuangdao, the maze-like structure was designed to host a series of art installations and events during the festival. Made from recylecd metal

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Researchers propose Saudis turn The Line into The Circle to improve mobility

June 27, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Complexity Science Hub Vienna researchers Rafael Prieto-Curiel and Daniel Kondor have calculated the mobility issues that The Line linear city in Saudi Arabia is likely to experience. In a piece titled Arguments for building The Circle and not The Line in Saudi Arabia published in journal NPJ Urban Sustainability, Prieto-Curiel and Kondor argued that a line was

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Lamborghini unveils luxury villas “directly inspired by the brand’s supercars”

June 22, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Sports car brand Lamborghini and developer Dar Global have unveiled 53 villas that will overlook the Mediterranean near Marbella on the south coast of Spain. Named Tierra Viva, the development will consist of 53 two-storey villas on a hillside in the town of Behanavís near Marbella. Announced as the car brand’s first residential project in Europe,

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Resolve Collective removes Barbican exhibition following “hostile experiences”

June 22, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Interdisciplinary design studio Resolve Collective is disassembling its exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre and withdrawing its events program in response to a series of negative encounters with staff and the censorship of a Palestinian speaker. In an Instagram post detailing their experiences at the institution, the collective announced that the Resolve Collective: them’s the breaks exhibition, which

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Ten key projects by high-tech pioneer Micheal Hopkins

June 20, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Following the news that high-tech pioneer, and RIBA Royal Gold Medalist, Micheal Hopkins has died, we take a look at the key projects that defined his 50 year career. One of the most influential British architects of the past century, Micheal Hopkins was a key figure leading the development of the high-tech style in the 1970s,

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High-tech pioneer Michael Hopkins dies aged 88

June 19, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Breaking news: RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winning architect Michael Hopkins, who was one of the early pioneers of high-tech architecture, has died aged 88. Hopkins, who was one of the UK’s most influential architects, “died peacefully at the age of 88 surrounded by his family”, his wife Patty Hopkins told the Guardian. A pioneer of high-tech architecture in

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This week we revealed a treetop walkway in Norway

June 17, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we revealed a treetop walkway in Norway and reflected on the 3 Days of Design festival by examining the key trends from the event. Winding through the Hamaren Activity Park in Fyresdal to end at a circular viewpoint, the one-kilometre-long walkway was designed by Danish studio EFFEKT. “The treetop walk in Hamaren Activity

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Apple reveals Battersea Power Station shop as latest “evolution of the store”

June 15, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Technology company Apple has unveiled its latest Foster + Partners-designed store in the recently revamped Battersea Power Station in London, which features an updated fixture set. Set to open later today, Apple Battersea is the brand’s 40th UK store and represents an evolution in its retail design thinking with more of an emphasis placed on

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