Movie: in this interview filmed at the Italian Cultural Institute in London yesterday, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to architect David Chipperfield, director of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Chipperfield speaks about Common Ground, his theme for the biennale, and gives his views on the contemporary architecture scene, comparing architects to “perfume brands at Duty Free, on a pedestal, singular and isolated” and says: “[Architects] don’t have common ground between ourselves and the public”.
The Italian Cultural Institute was the venue of Friday’s press conference to launch the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which takes place from 29 August to 25 November. Read more here.
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This week Google opened a campus for startups in east London, Yves Bahar launched a bigger and louder version of his Jambox wireless speaker and BIG unveiled designs for a tower block shaped like a hashtag. More »
Chinese architects Neri&Hu have completed this private member’s club in Beijing. More »
Designed in Hackney: here’s another design classic from the London borough of Hackney – Paul Cocksedge‘s pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups. More »
Milan 2012: New York and Amsterdam designer Karim Rashid presented this sofa with modular arms and headrests slotted into a high back at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this month. More »
Slideshow: Danish architects 3XN have completed a riverside cultural centre in Norway with glass hills outlined on its facade. More »
Skyscrapers in Seoul: Danish architects BIG have designed a towering apartment block for Seoul that will be shaped like a hashtag. More »
(Mostly) Designed in Hackney: east London designers Dominic Wilcox, Ed Carpenter, André Klauser, Barnaby Barford and Donna Wilson have created a range of alternative souvenirs for visitors to east London during the Olympic games. More »
The latest issue of Dezeen Mail includes interviews with Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, stories including a new Google campus and a blanket that watches you sleep, plus all the latest jobs, competitions and music. Check it out here.
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Milan 2012: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio, Guardian critic Justin McGuirk gives us his take on the future of design criticism, as fast reactions on platforms like Twitter and Facebook are balanced by long-form analysis in e-books and online journals.
He goes on to discuss how the fetishisation of traditional crafts by mass-producers is pushing design in a new direction and agrees with previous guest journalist Joseph Grima that the arrival of hacking culture and open-source production is the big story in Milan this year, describing it as the antithesis to the luxury design industry that the city normally centres around. More »
Milan 2012: visitors were invited to sit in a chair hooked up to advanced stress-analysis equipment normally used in the car industry at an installation by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for car brand Audi in Milan last month. More »
Milan 2012: London designers 00:/ recently showed visitors to Milan’s most famous department store how to construct a wooden house from a downloaded kit of parts. More »
Slideshow: these ridged metal walls enclose the facilities of an outdoor swimming pool that Spanish firm Arquitecturia have just completed in the town of Tortosa. More »
Japanese architects Ninkipen! have planted a tree at the centre of this hair salon in Kadoma and surrounded it with mirrored A-frames. More »
Milan 2012: Hackney-based organisation Technology Will Save Us believe everyone should understand how simple devices work, so at the Hacked Lab in Milan they hosted workshops that included a lesson in building an electronic musical instrument. More »
