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Architecture

"People want Stockholm to be a low city" - Josefin Larsson on Victoria Tower

World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed, architect Josefin Larsson of Wingårdhs tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how the residents of Stockholm want it to be a "low city", but that her studio's controversial high-rise hotel there is a "real midget" compared to the skyscrapers of Singapore, where the World Architecture Festival took place. More about "People want Stockholm to be a low city" - Josefin Larsson on Victoria Tower

Amy Frearson | 18 October 2012 | 1 comment
Architecture

"Small projects are good grounding for research" - John Wardle on Shearer's Quarters

World Architecture Festival 2012: Australian architect John Wardle tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how small projects can be "a good grounding for research and testing of ideas" in this movie we filmed about his award-winning Shearer's Quarters at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. More about "Small projects are good grounding for research" - John Wardle on Shearer's Quarters

Amy Frearson | 17 October 2012 | 2 comments
Architecture

"There's a very strong future for books" - Mark Dytham on Daikanyama T-Site

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the future of books in the digital age in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month, where a bookstore he designed in Japan won the prize in the shopping centres category. More about "There's a very strong future for books" - Mark Dytham on Daikanyama T-Site

Amy Frearson | 16 October 2012 | 1 comment
Interview

Movie: Chris Wilkinson on Gardens by the Bay

World Architecture Festival 2012: "No one's ever seen anything like it before," director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects Chris Wilkinson tells Dezeen in this movie we filmed overlooking the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore, which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. More about Movie: Chris Wilkinson on Gardens by the Bay

Amy Frearson | 15 October 2012 | 3 comments
Architecture

Vito Acconci interview: "Architecture is not about space but about time"

Architecture magazines are ruining architecture, Brooklyn-based artist and architect Vito Acconci told Dezeen at Vienna Design Week, stating that "architecture is the opposite of an image". More about Vito Acconci interview: "Architecture is not about space but about time"

Marcus Fairs | 13 October 2012 | 2 comments
Architecture

Movie: Wilkinson Eyre Architects on winning World Building of the Year

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 about Movie: Wilkinson Eyre Architects on winning World Building of the Year

Rose Etherington | 5 October 2012 | 3 comments
Architecture

"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 about "Architecture is a discipline that speaks to all your senses" - Pierre de Meuron

Amy Frearson | 4 October 2012 | Leave a comment
Architecture talks

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 about Architects should be wary of "thinking that they know how to do everything" - Studio Weave

Amy Frearson | 1 October 2012 | 3 comments
Architecture

"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." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money" - Peter Zumthor

Rose Etherington | 29 September 2012 | 35 comments
Design

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 about Movie: Erwan Bouroullec on his favourite project ever at Clerkenwell Design Week

Dan Howarth | 23 September 2012 | Leave a comment
Design

Dezeen's London Design Festival audio guide

London Design Festival: this week we've been recording short interviews with designers and critics at the top shows of the London Design Festival, and we've now compiled them in a handy audio guide to the festival. More about Dezeen's London Design Festival audio guide

Rose Etherington | 22 September 2012 | Leave a comment
Design

Yves Behar on skeuomorphic design and Apple

Developing hardware and software at the same time is design's "new frontier", according to industrial designer Yves Behar, who added that "Apple is actually a little bit behind in that area". More about Yves Behar on skeuomorphic design and Apple

Rose Etherington | 20 September 2012 | 7 comments
Architecture

"Legal systems don't really defend designers at all" - Tom Dixon

London Design Festival: "Legal systems don't really defend designers at all" when it comes to copying, British designer Tom Dixon told Dezeen today at the Global Design Forum, a day of talks from leading figures in the design world as part of the London Design Festival (+audio). More about "Legal systems don't really defend designers at all" - Tom Dixon

Emilie Chalcraft | 18 September 2012 | 11 comments
Design

Movie: Marc Newson on designing nearly everything

Industrial designer Marc Newson has famously tried his hand at designing pretty much everything. In the second of five movies Dezeen filmed to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, Newson talks us though a range of his projects that takes in mobile phones, knives, beds, clothes, packaging and a surf board so slick it was sold as a sculpture. More about Movie: Marc Newson on designing nearly everything

Dan Howarth | 29 August 2012 | 2 comments
Design

"I was obsessed by the idea of making things myself" - Marc Newson

In the first of five movies Dezeen filmed with industrial designer Marc Newson to coincide with the publication of a major book on his work by Taschen, he talks about the early days of his career when he made everything himself - including one of his most famous pieces of work, the Lockheed Lounge chaise longue. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I was obsessed by the idea of making things myself" - Marc Newson

Dan Howarth | 28 August 2012 | 3 comments
Interview

Etsy at Clerkenwell Design Week

In the third movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week pop-up shops, Etsy UK marketing manager Georgina Blain explains how their global online marketplace is helping designers such as Sandra Dieckmann (work pictured) to expand from a local customer base to promote and sell their work internationally. More about Etsy at Clerkenwell Design Week

Dan Howarth | 26 August 2012 | Leave a comment
Interview

Blurb at Clerkenwell Design Week

In the second movie in our series we filmed at pop-up stores during Clerkenwell Design Week, UK director of self-publishing platform Blurb Teresa Pereira talks about how designers are bypassing traditional publishing houses and using the internet to create, publish and sell their own books. More about Blurb at Clerkenwell Design Week

Dan Howarth | 25 August 2012 | 2 comments
Architecture

Architects risk becoming "urban decorators" - David Chipperfield

With the Venice Architecture Biennale opening next week, here's a full transcript of our interview with its director David Chipperfield, who explains the thinking behind this year's theme, Common Ground.

Chipperfield stresses the need for the profession to address "the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with." Otherwise he says, architects risk being relegated to being "urban decorators." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Architects risk becoming "urban decorators" - David Chipperfield

Emilia Kalyvides | 24 August 2012 | 3 comments
Design

Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree at Clerkenwell Design Week

Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John's Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree at Clerkenwell Design Week

Emilie Chalcraft | 21 June 2012 | 2 comments
Design talks

Movie: Peroni Collaborazioni Talk with Formafantasma part 2

Movie: in our second movie from the Peroni Nastro Azzurro talk with Italian designers Formafantasma they talk about the processes behind their projects, which include plastics made of blood and vases made of bread (+ transcript). More about Movie: Peroni Collaborazioni Talk with Formafantasma part 2

Emilie Chalcraft | 20 June 2012 | 1 comment