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The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, designed by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, has been crowned the winner of this year's EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Revealed by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission, the German project is being rewarded for its innovative approach to sustainability and for creating a welcoming and interactive space for study, collaboration, and community gatherings. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition for the study centre in 2015, are the youn...
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Since its inception in 1988, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, also known as the Mies van der Rohe Award, has celebrated excellence in architectural works built across Europe. Co-organised by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the prize is set to announce its winner for its 2024 edition on 14 May at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. A jury have whittled down 362 nominees to a shortlist of 40, competing for the main €60,000 prize. The award also includes the Emerging Architect Prize (€30 000). The awarded projects are not only judged on their aesthe...
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The world’s largest design festival, Milan Design Week, opens its doors to the public from Tuesday 16 until Sunday 21 April. Hailed as one of the world’s premier showcases of cutting-edge design and creative thinking, Milan Design Week, or Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano, has become a byword for style and substance - a riot of creativity and culture spread across the historic Italian city. More than 1,900 exhibitors, including 600 young talents under 35 and 22 design schools will take part in the 62nd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano. The world famous furniture fair, which is...
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It’s a win for the living over the dead in British sculpture. While most minds will jump to long past political and military characters like Nelson and Churchill when it comes to the UK’s statues, a new report revealed more statues of living people were erected last year. Art UK published an annual review of public sculptures and this year’s report had a few interesting details. 94 new installations were made in the UK in 2023, including sculptures of beloved writer Agatha Christie, national treasure Lenny Henry, and commemorations to Windrush and the victims of Covid-19. Taste vs freedom of e...
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In the far reaches of Dongguan, a city in south-eastern China known for its huge production factories of export goods, is a mini-city perfectly replicating historic sites from around Europe. The area is called the Ox Horn Campus and is owned by Huawei, the Chinese tech company, and was completed in 2019 at a cost of $1.5 billion. It houses Huawei’s main research and development offices, but it looks far from a typical R&D headquarters. To get around Ox Horn Campus, you have to take a bright orange train. It's not open to the public, but anyone who has the chance to jump on one of these trains ...
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Architecture has long been intertwined with the historical narratives of colonialism, where European powers imposed their styles and ideologies upon colonised regions, often disregarding local cultures and climates. This dominance led to the perpetuation of architectural forms that were unsuitable for tropical environments, leading to issues such as poor ventilation, excessive heat gain, and structural instability. However, in the mid-19th century emerged a counter-movement known as Tropical Modernism, which sought to reconcile modern architectural principles with indigenous traditions and tro...
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Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, an award that is globally seen as architecture’s highest honour. 78-year-old Yamamoto is known for his social advocacy and his built works marrying public and private space, which often make a point of bringing together diverse groups in urban environments. “For me, to recognise space is to recognise an entire community,” Yamamoto said. “We can still honour the freedom of each individual while living together in architecture space as a republic, fostering harmony across cultures and phases of...
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At first glance, Annie Leibovitz and IKEA seem like an unlikely duo. The 74-year-old US photographer is a living legend, known for her striking portraits of some of the most familiar faces in popular culture, like the famous photo of Yoko Ono and John Lennon taken 5 hours before the Beatle was killed. Meanwhile, the ubiquitous Swedish furniture conglomerate has become a household name for its affordable Scandinavian designs, which often furnish college students’ apartments around the world. But IKEA and Leibovitz have at least one thing in common – they both have intimate knowledge about peopl...
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The owners of a beloved British pub called The Crooked House have been ordered to rebuild it wonky by a local council. A once popular watering hole for locals of the tiny English village of Himley in Staffordshire, the pub was mysteriously burned down in August last year, just two weeks after being sold to new owners, who then unlawfully bulldozed the pub two days later. Three people were arrested and later released on conditional bail in connection with the fire, which Staffordshire Police is treating as arson. Many local residents were upset by the 18th century building’s demolition, with mo...
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Assa Ashuach, one of the lead designers behind a futuristic pair of 3D-printed shoes says they are capable of studying you over time and improving themselves. The Evolve AI shoes, which are currently on display at the Dubai Museum of Future, are pushing the boundaries of science and design. The team behind these snazzy shoes is hoping to get them off the museum shelf and into users' hands within the next three years. “We are all a bit different, some of us have small feet, others have big feet. The same goes for legs, which can be thin, long, or large. This is something completely different, t...
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