December 2011
92 posts
Watch“Architecture is a dangerous discipline because if you are wrong, you are wrong for a long time. If someone writes a bad book, you don’t read it, but architecture is more lasting and profound. This is the reason why, in the case of the Shard, I thought it was right to go through a complicated process of approval and public enquiries”.
Renzo Piano - architect, London Shard
WatchArchitect Michael Maltzen on density, icons and context in Los Angeles.
WatchDigitally Connected Smart House
Openarch recently unleashed their prototype of a completely digitized smart house to the public. Designed to adapt to its inhabitants, all components of the house are connected to the internet creating a parallel home on the web. Real time data feeds continuously to provide information and the ability to control any aspect of the digital house through a gestural...
WatchArchitecture With Objects
You’ll never look at the kitchen knife, napkin, bowls, books or other seemingly banal, commonplace items in the same way again after watching Spanish architect prodigy Luis Urculo‘s latest video, Covers, where he uses humble everyday objects to recreate some of the most lauded structures from all over the world.
This city life: Walkable Communities are the... →
WatchShanghai: Inside awards - The Waterhouse at South Bund by Neri & Hu
As part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. See photos and more information in our story on...
WatchBicycle Messengers
Animated bicycle messengers weave between live-action traffic in Midtown Manhattan, highlighting the peculiar relationship between messengers and the city in which they operate.
Dir. Joshua Frankel
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Wiel Arets . ‘Recent Projects’
a mackintosh school of architecture friday lecture from 26 nov 2010
