Dorte Mandrup unveils plans for tent-like climate research centre in Greenland



Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has revealed its designs for a climate research and visitor centre in Greenland, featuring a tent-like structure and a rooftop platform for observing icebergs (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Dorte Mandrup unveils plans for tent-like climate research centre in Greenland



Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has revealed its designs for a climate research and visitor centre in Greenland, featuring a tent-like structure and a rooftop platform for observing icebergs (+ slideshow). (more…)

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“After decades of Detroit ruin porn, America’s Biennale exhibition runs riot”

Aaron Betsky Opinion column on America's Venice Biennale exhibition

Opinion: the imaginative but unrealistic proposals for Detroit on show at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale have left Aaron Betsky wondering if there is hope for architectural projects among the city’s ruins. (more…)

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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects chosen for Obama Presidential Library



Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have won the long-running competition to design the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago. (more…)

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AIA reveals best small American architecture projects of 2016



The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of this year’s Small Projects Awards, which include a tiny floating sauna and a mobile dental surgery in a trailer (+ slideshow). (more…)

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“Design is always political” says What Design Can Do founder

Richard van der Laken portrait

Dezeen promotion: designers can engage with social and political problems that are sometimes too big for governments to tackle, says Richard van der Laken, founder of annual social design conference What Design Can Do (+ interview). (more…)

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Micaella Pedros uses heat-shrunk plastic bottles to join furniture



Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Micaella Pedros has repurposed discarded plastic bottles into joints that can be used to hold wooden furniture together (+ movie). (more…)

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Dezeen Mail issue 312 features this week’s best stories and discussions

London architects create pop-up art studio to highlight the city’s unaffordable rents



London Festival of Architecture 2016: architects Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas have created a small pop-up studio to raise awareness of how London‘s unaffordable rents and education is crippling its creative industries (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Creative Industries Federation plans urgent Brexit crisis events



Brexit crisis: the Creative Industries Federation is organising a series of emergency sessions to prepare the sector for Brexit, saying “if it is going to happen, we need to mitigate the consequences”. (more…)

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