Serpentine Pavilion 2020 postponed until next year due to coronavirus
The opening of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, designed by South African architecture studio Counterspace, has been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. More
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Columbia College Chicago creates immersive installation for deaf community
Columbia College Chicago exhibits an immersive installation tailored to the deaf community for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. More
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Green and yellow Eames chairs fill Tacofino Ocho restaurant in Vancouver
This taco restaurant in Vancouver, designed by local studio September, is filled with fibreglass Eames chairs and curvy black tables. More
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Live interview followed by exclusive performance by singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe
As the final part of today's VDF x Beatie Wolfe collaboration, the musician speaks live to Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs before performing three of her tracks. More
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"We have a tendency to look at representations of new cities as a kind of pornography" said Michael Sorkin
Ahead of Monday's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and reSITE , the Prague urbanism conference has shared a video of a lecture by Michael Sorkin, in which the late architect and critic quashes the lure of glamorised future city proposals. More
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"Music is core to our humanity" writes Beatie Wolfe in an essay exploring tangible formats for music in the digital age
For her collaboration with VDF, singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe has written an essay about the power of music to transform lives, particularly during difficult times. More
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From Green to Red is "part music video, part protest song and entirely a statement of our time" says Beatie Wolfe
As part of the VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the singer-songwriter has shared this exclusive preview of From Green to Red, a forthcoming interactive environmental protest installation. More
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Building Beyond Borders uses stone and earth to build Women's House Ouled Merzoug
Architecture students collaborated with a women's group in Morocco to design and build a community centre out of stone and earth in the village of Ouled Merzoug. More
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Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 24 April
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes coronavirus tartan and emojis. More
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VDF premieres Beatie Wolfe's documentary Orange Juice for the Ears
To kick off today's VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, we're exclusively streaming the online premiere of the singer-songwriter's documentary Orange Juice for the Ears: from Space Beams to Anti-Streams. More
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Peckham apartment blocks by Tikari Works are covered in rust-red shingles
Rust-red tiles completely cover the facade of these angular apartments in south London, which Tikari Works has designed to have a "sibling relationship" with neighbouring properties. More
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Lockdown is an "exercise in presence and gratitude" says Beatie Wolfe
Ahead of today's VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the musician says that the coronavirus lockdown is a chance to celebrate "the little things that are so often overlooked" in this video message for Virtual Design Festival. More
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Mále Uribe Forés makes wall tiles from Chilean desert salt
Chilean architect Mále Uribe Forés has turned salt into reactive wall tiles that will crystallise and grow over the course of her Salt Imaginaries installation. More
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Atelier Espaço P2 remodels Portuguese home with wood-lined interiors
Architecture studio Atelier Espaço P2 has refurbished this house in Ansião, Portugal, inserting wood-lined interiors into a building that has been in the owner's family for three generations. More
