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Alejandro Aravena's low-cost housing solutions
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
Looking to low-cost housing solutions, Alejandro Aravena propagates the building of half a good house.
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2 Sep 11
Hello Helsinki
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
The Helsinki Design Week, happening from 9 to 18 September 2011, considers ways of embedding design into life.
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30 Aug 11
Kaross & Goet
Kaross and Goet are two Johannesburg design studios who have been collaborating since 2012.
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26 Aug 11
Pop or not
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Architecture & Interiors
This is Not a Pop-Up in London is a design experiment, giving various designers the chance to make their creative mark.
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25 Aug 11
Black
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Architecture & Interiors
With RCA Black, the Royal College of Art presents the first-ever exhibition of work by students of African and African Caribbean descent.
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18 Aug 11
(In)formal connections
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Jorge Mario Jáuregui works to integrate Rio de Janeiro’s favelas with the formal city, using articulation through public spaces.
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15 Aug 11
One x one
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Architecture & Interiors
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African Design
From Berlin to Burkina Faso, Francis Kéré is building a bridge using education, upliftment, local materials and energy efficiency.
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15 Aug 11
Luyanda Mpahlwa + Mokena Makeka
Dialogues
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Architecture & Interiors
Mokena Makeka and Luyanda Mpahlwa chat about using public space, culture, fun and romance to create an African architectural identity.
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15 Aug 11
Soho Synagogue
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Soho Synagogue by Dror Benshetrit brings design direction and interventions to a Jewish place of worship.
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15 Aug 11
Public light
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
A light installation on the façade of the Zeilgalerie in Frankfurt hopes to make this building an architectural highlight in the city.
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12 Aug 11
Modern reinvention
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
A design concept by Tsai Design Studio and Jakupa Architects and Urban Designers draws on historical relationships to modernise a building.
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12 Aug 11
Spaces in-between
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
The materials Kate MccGwire uses in her installations play at evoking a dichotomous way of thinking, seeing and feeling.
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4 Aug 11
Cultural magnetism
Design News
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Craft
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Architecture & Interiors
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Director of the Museum of Architecture, Design and Urbanism in Mexico, Regina Pozo Ruiz gives a whistle-stop-tour of contemporary design.
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3 Aug 11
Spring break
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
In a joint celebration of spring and Women's Day, Freeworld Design Centre presents a creativity-filled programme.
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2 Aug 11
Holding out for a hero
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
From a neglected concrete structure the Heroes Monument in Bogota, Colombia has been transformed into a vibrant cultural space.
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24 Jul 11
Glass houses
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Bright and shiny, Shanghai’s new Museum of Glass highlights the endless possibilities of this material.
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17 Jul 11
Tube hotel
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
A tubular, pyramid-like hotel targets budget travellers in Mexico. It comes with a spectacular view and is built with recycled concrete.
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9 Jul 11
Russian jewel
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
The Pushkinsky Jewel is a design concept for connecting a landmark theatre to the historic and culturally vibrant Pushkin Square in Moscow.
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3 Jul 11
Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
African architecture should stop copying the West, engage the real needs of the people and regard the environment, says Diébédo Francis Kéré.
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30 Jun 11
Rohan Shivkumar and M P Ranjan at WDCD 2011
Video Interviews
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Architecture & Interiors
Rohan Shivkumar and Professor MP Ranjan look at ways of effecting real change in India.
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29 Jun 11
Linear park
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
A diagonal urban park in Barcelona connects the city to its natural surrounds.
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29 Jun 11
2D/3D
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
A half chair? Or just the illusion of a chair? Here’s the 2D/3D Chairs for Issey Miyake.
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29 Jun 11
Hats off
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Surrounded by 4 000 hats in an exhibition space, one might be forgiven for feeling mad as a hatter.
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28 Jun 11
Shapes of eight
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
The 8 House allows people to bike all the way from the street to the 10th level penthouses.
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25 Jun 11
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