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This week the world's tallest skyscraper restarted construction in Saudi Arabia and Dezeen interviewed Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Diébédo Francis Kéré. Read on for more...

 

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William Samuels creates relocatable home as "radical departure" from standard house

William Samuels creates relocatable home as "radical departure" from standard house

The corrugated metal-clad modules of this home in New Zealand were designed to be moved by trailer as an alternative to standard houses.

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Construction of world's tallest skyscraper restarts in Saudi Arabia

Construction of world's tallest skyscraper restarts in Saudi Arabia

Construction work has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, a skyscraper designed by Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture, which is set to be the world's tallest building.

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Pritzker "has given me courage" says Diébédo Francis Kéré

Pritzker "has given me courage" says Diébédo Francis Kéré

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Diébédo Francis Kéré may be known for his resource-light community buildings but would be open to designing a skyscraper, he tells Dezeen in this interview.

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Thom Fougere creates collection of ring-shaped benches for forest floor

Thom Fougere creates collection of ring-shaped benches for forest floor

Montreal-based designer Thom Fougere has created a small collection of ring-shaped benches cut from a single plate of steel and installed in the woods outside of Winnipeg.

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Singapore Design Week 2023 will explore how design can improve lives

Singapore Design Week 2023 will explore how design can improve lives

Promotion themes of innovation, inclusivity and sustainability will be the focus of the exhibitions, workshops and talks taking place at this year's Singapore Design Week (SDW), which opens later this month.

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Open Architecture designs "extraterrestrial-looking" space museum in China

Open Architecture designs "extraterrestrial-looking" space museum in China

Chinese studio Open Architecture has revealed its design for a space museum and experience centre in Yantai, China, which will appear like a mysterious black object in an oceanfront park.

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Haworth Tompkins unveils "UK's first multi-storey light-industrial scheme"

Haworth Tompkins unveils "UK's first multi-storey light-industrial scheme"

British architecture studio Haworth Tompkins has completed a three-storey industrial building in London, which the studio claims is the first multi-storey light-industrial scheme in the UK.

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Ganni unveils handbag made from bacterial leather at LDF

Ganni unveils handbag made from bacterial leather at LDF

Bacteria were used to grow this handbag by Danish fashion brand Ganni, made from a leather alternative by London biotech company Modern Synthesis that contains no plastic or petrochemicals.

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Dellekamp Schleich uses trusses for "Mexico's largest mass-timber building"

Dellekamp Schleich uses trusses for "Mexico's largest mass-timber building"

Architecture studio Dellekamp Schleich has created an office building in Mexico City that it says is the country's largest and tallest mass-timber structure.

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"Emerging talents require nurture" says Jan Hendzel

"Emerging talents require nurture" says Jan Hendzel

More can be done to support emerging designers in London says Jan Hendzel, who curated an exhibition focused on emerging talent at this year's London Design Festival.

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Haptic lingerie uses AI to craft erotica based on the user's touch

Haptic lingerie uses AI to craft erotica based on the user's touch

Designer Summer Chen has combined artificial intelligence and sensor-embedded lingerie to create a "touch-to-text" system generating erotica, developed as part of her studies at the Royal College of Art.

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Trojena masterplan has "holistic harmony" says project director

Trojena masterplan has "holistic harmony" says project director

LAVA project director Lukas Kronawitter has outlined the thinking behind the masterplan of the Trojena ski resort being developed as part of the Neom project in Saudi Arabia.

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Global South delegates blocked from attending UIA World Congress of Architects

Global South delegates blocked from attending UIA World Congress of Architects

Delegates from the Global South were denied visas to attend Copenhagen's UIA World Congress of Architects this summer by the Danish government, despite the event's stated goal being "leave no one behind".

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