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Echlin uses broken-plan layout to create spacious interiors within London mews house

by Dezeen | Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorized

A nearly six-metre-high green wall and a basement floor with a walk-on skylight are among the additions made by design and development firm Echlin to this remodelled mews house in Knightsbridge. The resulting design is described by the local firm as a...

Shoppe On to showcase 25 Japanese design brands on its virtual marketplace

by Dezeen | Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorized

Dezeen promotion: the second edition of virtual homeware fair Shoppe On will see the return of Showcase: Japan, spotlighting talented design and crafts brands from across the country. Shoppe Object – the New York design fair behind Shoppe On – is teaming up with the...

Designers make desktop computers and mice out of honey and ice

by Dezeen | Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

Industrial designers Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore have made prototype computers from unconventional materials such as ice and honey to explore how people value emotional connection versus usability. Called For the Rest of Us, Beyer and Sizemore made the retro desktops...

Commenter says demolition of Burroughs Wellcome building is “the right decision”

by Dezeen | Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

In this week’s comments update, readers are divided over the demolition of Paul Rudolph’s brutalist Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina and sharing their views on other top stories. Photographs have surfaced showing the Rudolph’s 1969...

Five architecture and design events this February from Dezeen Events Guide

by Dezeen | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized

Stockholm Design Week, a live-streamed talk with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and MoMA’s exhibition about systemic racism in the built environment are among the physical and digital events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place in February. Above: Norwegian...
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“A bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her honeycomb cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”
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Karl Marx – Das Kapital

Refugio bee shelters by MaliArts – source: Dezeen

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