World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects' Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm's Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival today. More »
Tag: Dezeen movies
Movie: Wilkinson Eyre Architects on winning
"Architecture is a discipline that speaks
to all your senses" - Pierre de Meuron
To coincide with the final weeks of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, here's an interview we filmed at the opening in May with Pierre de Meuron of architects Herzog & de Meuron, in which he talks to Dezeen about how the pavilion was realised in cork to appeal to all the senses and "not only your eyes". More »
"The internet has escaped out into the street"
- James Bridle at Designed in Hackney Day
In this second movie from our series filmed at the Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions we hosted in August, technologist James Bridle talks about his recent projects including a series of animations on top of bus shelters that were designed to look "like the internet has escaped out into the street". More »
Architects should be wary of "thinking that they
know how to do everything" - Studio Weave
In this first movie from the series we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions, architects Maria Smith and Je Ahn of Studio Weave speak to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about projects including a bench for 300 people and how they believe "a trap that architects can fall into is thinking that they know how to do everything." More »
"I’m a passionate architect... I do not work
for money" - Peter Zumthor
As Peter Zumthor has this week been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture, here's another chance to watch the movie interview Dezeen filmed with him last summer, in which he told us "I'm a passionate architect and I think it's a beautiful profession." More »
Movie: Erwan Bouroullec on his favourite
project ever at Clerkenwell Design Week
In the second movie Dezeen filmed with designer Erwan Bouroullec at Clerkenwell Design Week, he flicks through the new book documenting 15 years of work by him and his brother Ronan and talks about his favourite project ever. More »
Movie: Erwan Bouroullec on Pico tiles
at Clerkenwell Design Week
In this movie filmed by Dezeen, designer Erwan Bouroullec talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the textured Pico tiles that he and his brother Ronan exhibited during Clerkenwell Design Week. More »
Movie: The Idea of a Tree by Mischer'Traxler
at Clerkenwell Design Week
In this second movie that Dezeen filmed with Mischer’Traxler at Clerkenwell Design Week, the Austrian design duo talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about their Idea of a Tree machine, which makes benches and lamp shades that are all unique records of the sunlight conditions on the day they were produced. More »
Movie: Collective Works by Mischer'Traxler
at Clerkenwell Design Week
Austrian design duo Mischer'Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone's watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week. More »
"An underdose of utopia can be as dangerous
as an overdose" - Reinier de Graaf
In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm's fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an "inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of." More »
Reinier de Graaf of OMA presents
"architecture with a social conscience"
Reinier de Graaf of OMA talks to Dezeen about "architecture with a degree of social conscience" by anonymous local authority architects in France and Italy in the second of three movies we filmed at the firm's Public Works exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. More »
"Bloody fools,
bloody fools"
In the first of three movies filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Reinier de Graaf of OMA talks about Pimlico School, a brutalist building in London that was demolished last year and which features in OMA's Public Works exhibition of "masterpieces by bureaucrats" at the biennale. More »
Iwan Baan on "architecture
without architects"
In a movie Dezeen filmed at his Golden Lion-winning installation in collaboration with Justin McGuirk and Urban-Think Tank at the Venice Architecture Biennale, architectural photographer Iwan Baan talks about how residents have built their own homes between the columns and floor plates of the unfinished Torre David skyscraper in Caracas. More »
Marc Newson on the projects
that got away
In the final movie in our series filmed with Marc Newson at his London studio, he tells us about lesser-known projects - including a six-wheel Aston Martin for a member of a Middle Eastern royal family - that "for one reason and another didn't get out there." More »
"I pre-dated the trend for large watches
by about a decade" - Marc Newson
In this next movie in our series filmed with Marc Newson in his London studio he tells us about the watches he's designed, including the first ones that he built himself in the late 1980s. More »