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As The Shard nears completion in London, here is the transcript of an interview conducted with architect Renzo Piano before work started on the 300 metre-high tower. (more…)
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World Architecture Festival 2012: in the final movie from our series announcing the call for exhibitors at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, programme director Paul Finch discusses why an experimental office building with an inflatable facade was named World Building of the Year in 2011. (more…)
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Dutch design studio HEYHEYHEY assembled an assortment of objects including toothbrushes, books, marbles, matches and a toy train inside two suitcases to build a chain-reaction machine that signs and stamps a postcard. (more…)
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Slideshow feature: this week we’ve run a series of stories on the Yongsan International Business District , a new commercial hub in Seoul, South Korea, that’s due for completion in 2024. Commissioned by South Korean developer DreamHub , the new district has been masterplanned by architect Daniel Libeskind and will include skyscrapers by a host of international architects including Renzo Piano, BIG, MVRDV, REX, Dominique Perrault and Libeskind. Here’s a slideshow to bring them all together. (more…)
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Slideshow feature: this week we’ve run a series of stories on the Yongsan International Business District , a new commercial hub in Seoul, South Korea, that’s due for completion in 2024. Commissioned by South Korean developer DreamHub , the new district has been masterplanned by architect Daniel Libeskind and will include skyscrapers by a host of international architects including Renzo Piano, BIG, MVRDV, REX, Dominique Perrault and Libeskind. Here’s a slideshow to bring them all together. (more…)
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New York firm REX was another of the fifteen architects commissioned to design skyscrapers for the fast-growing Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. They’ve proposed a tower with blocks of storeys offset from the centre and cantilevered from each end. (more…)
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Designed in Hackney: scribbled faces on fabric masks feature in the latest collection from young designers Leutton Postle , who continue this week’s look at Hackney fashion designers. (more…)
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Designed in Hackney: scribbled faces on fabric masks feature in the latest collection from young designers Leutton Postle , who continue this week’s look at Hackney fashion designers. (more…)
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The next building in our series from the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, is a skyscraper designed by French architect Dominique Perrault , with faceted glass that will ripple across the surface. (more…)
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World Architecture Festival 2012: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is the focus of our next movie about the World Architecture Festival , as programme director Paul Finch explains why the jury unanimously voted for it to win the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2010. (more…)