The proliferation of touchscreens in cars is “dangerous” and designers will shift back to analogue switches, British architect Norman Foster tells Dezeen in this interview. The Foster + Partners founder was speaking at the launch… Read More »“The touchscreen has been mindlessly applied to the automobile” says Norman Foster
The Bahrain Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which won the Golden Lion award for best pavilion, aimed to address rising global temperatures by suspending a cooling ceiling over seating. Named Heatwave, the pavilion… Read More »Bahrain’s Golden Lion-winning pavilion features ceiling designed to cool construction workers
The first render of Lina Ghotmeh‘s design for the permanent Qatar pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, Italy, has been revealed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Revealed at an event during the opening… Read More »First image of Lina Ghotmeh’s permanent Qatar pavilion for Venice biennale revealed
After disasters like the Los Angeles wildfires one of the best ways for architects to help is by designing prototypes, write Dana Cuff, Emmanuel Proussaloglou and Ryan Conroy. Octavia Butler’s 1993 apocalypse novel, Parable of the… Read More »“In post-disaster cities like Los Angeles, we need new model homes and we need them now”
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has won the Shaping Water Competition with Harmonic Tides, an installation informed by the movement of water, which will be built at Clerkenwell Design Week later this month. Mamou-Mani‘s installation comprises two… Read More »Arthur Mamou-Mani wins Shaping Water Competition with wave-like 3D-printed installation
Visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale can drink coffee made from the city’s canal water in a Golden Lion-winning intervention by US practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Named Canal Cafe, the structure sits on the… Read More »Diller Scofidio + Renfro serves up canal water coffee at Venice Architecture Biennale