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    Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum

    Urban-Think Tank has completed the next phase of its Empower Shack project, bringing safe low-cost housing to residents of South Africa's informal settlements. More

    India Block | 28 December 2017 | 7 comments
  • "Extra-legal occupation" of Venezuela's Torre David tower ends in forced evictions

    News: the Venezuelan government is forcibly evicting hundreds of families from Torre David, the abandoned skyscraper in Venezuela that squatters have turned into a role model for informal communities. More

    Amy Frearson | 24 July 2014 | 7 comments
  • Urban-Think Tank develops housing prototype for South African slums

    Design strategy collective Urban-Think Tank has designed and built a prototypical house as part of an initiative to improve housing conditions for slum dwellers in some of the 2700 informal settlements across South Africa (+ movie). More

    Amy Frearson | 7 March 2014 | 18 comments
  • Iwan Baan on "architecture without architects"

    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

    Rose Etherington | 6 September 2012 | 10 comments
  • "Why should the poor live in slums if there are empty offices in the city?" - Justin McGuirk

    Curator Justin McGuirk tells us why his Golden Lion-winning installation about a community living in a vertical slum in Caracas could set an example for new forms of urban housing, in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More

    Amy Frearson | 1 September 2012 | 22 comments
  • Urban-Think Tank and Justin McGuirk win best project at Venice Architecture Biennale

    Justin McGuirk, Urban-Think Tank and Iwan Baan win best project at Venice Architecture Biennale

    Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Justin McGuirk (pictured above, holding the award), photographer Iwan Bann and the Urban-Think Tank team of Venezuela (also pictured above) have won the Golden Lion for best project at the Venice Architecture Biennale for their Torre David/Gran Horizonte installation and cafe. More

    Rose Etherington | 29 August 2012 | 6 comments

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