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Pavilions on a pedestal
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Architectural pavilions can take creativity to the next level – but what makes a pavilion truly great?
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17 Apr 22
Outer peace
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Design Indaba Alumnus Shigeru Ban designs a wellness retreat on Japan’s Awaji Island
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10 Apr 22
Art for art’s sake
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A reimagining of one of the world’s foremost performing arts schools has healing potential for creatives and audiences alike
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10 Apr 22
Hip-hop architecture
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Architect Sekou Cooke draws inspiration from hip-hop culture for his designs
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28 Mar 22
Changing the paradigm
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Diébédo Francis Kéré is the first African architect to win the coveted Pritzker
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22 Mar 22
Virtual village
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Ubuntuland, Africa’s first Metaverse marketplace, explores a new digital era of art on the continent
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20 Mar 22
Rays of sunshine
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Atelier Nomadic’s luxury bamboo treehouses are inspired by Mobula Rays
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20 Feb 22
An Architect’s Agenda
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David Adjaye’s first design for Ghana’s visionary healthcare initiative to be built in 2022
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14 Feb 22
Upward mobility
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Stefano Boeri Architectti brings urban forestry to social housing in Eindhoven
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31 Jan 22
Celebrating the Arch
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Few South Africans have left as profound a legacy as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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10 Jan 22
Exploring interspecies art
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has developed an algorithm that caters for pollinator preferences
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30 Dec 21
Bicycle parking garage scoops major design award
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An 8 000m² “space-age airport for cyclists” boosts The Hague’s transport hub
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6 Dec 21
Former Design Indaba Speaker, Es Devlin presented her Conference of the Trees at COP26
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The iconic stage designer planted a space for climate change conversations
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22 Nov 21
Subline lets New Yorkers reclaim disused subways
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Pietro Quintino Sella’s conceptualises new transportation routes for cyclists and pedestrians in abandoned subway lines
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8 Nov 21
antenna 2021 graduate Anandita Ayesha Rangarajan’s Hate, Spaces, Ghettos project uses architecture as a means of political and social critique
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Commenting on ghettoisation and spatial segregation in cities
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2 Nov 21
Kim Kuhl’s Nessi project focuses on saving urban greenery
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Tackling pavement drought with a simple irrigation system
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1 Nov 21
In honour of Garden Day, we look to #DI Speakers who give a nod to nature
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National Garden Day took place on 17 October
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18 Oct 21
Must-sees at Expo 2020 Dubai UAE!
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From fascinating pavilions to installations by #DI Alumni, there’s no shortage of enthralling innovations
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6 Oct 21
That’s a wrap!
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With Arc de Triomphe recently under wraps in Paris, we look at the globe’s top wrap artists
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28 Sep 21
Exclusive: Nerea Amorós Elorduy on creating more liveable environments in Refugee Camps
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Elorduy embodies a better world through creativity
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14 Sep 21
ODA reinvents New York City
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Beyond the Streets sees New York’s citizens and economy flourishing
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31 Aug 21
A Gold Medal for design at the Tokyo Olympics
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Some of the greatest moments of the Tokyo Olympics will prove to be design-related
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2 Aug 21
Iwan Baan will transport you to the ‘Most Hopeful Places on Earth’
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Renowned photographer Iwan Baan guest-curates See All This.
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2 Aug 21
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto
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Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo
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26 Jul 21
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