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VERNON MWAMUKA

Shades of Grey

The pictures here are from 2002 when I spent a week in Bulawayo as a guest lecturer. Firstly the NUST campus itself, (which I believe was a collaboration with an American concept architect) and then the Bulawayo Centre, in a similar colourful style with a nod in the Post Modern direction. It dates from my early childhood in Barnsley.

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BROCHURE, RAIN & BOOK

Shades of Grey

We were just doing concept design after concept design while Zimbabwe's economy declined in the early 2000s. We had given up on A1 sheets for concept work. d One of the books I was able to rescue from my house in Zimbabwe was a rather splendid landscape format hardback with watercolour sketches by Alex Jack.

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Building community before designing the building

Habitus Living

Not only each project, but the very practice itself as set up by Andrew Maynard in 2002. Even though Austin and Maynard bring strong values and ideas to the table, they are careful to avoid imposing preconceived concepts on the design. And once the sketches have begun, Austin adds, “we don’t get too attached to any of the ideas.”.

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Inside Scoop: 10 Established Interior Designers You Should Know

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The studio’s projects share ALA’s minimalist and playful design vocabulary, and seamlessly combine comfort, wellness, smart planning and fresh interior design concepts. Ever since Nate’s first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2002, he has become one of the world’s most recognizable interior designers. Sheila Bridges.

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Kongjian Yu, FASLA, sketches the concept for Chinatown Park in Boston in 2003. In 2002, I proposed a nature-based ecological approach to planning: ecology first. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. There was a whole vacuum in China of how to deal with urbanism.

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How One Architect at Mecanoo Is Using AI as a Sketchbook and Library of Ideas

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Nuno Fontarra is Partner at Mecanoo , where he has worked as an architect since 2002. Sketching by hand has always been the most powerful tool for architects. We use sketches not only as a fast way to communicate ideas with others but also as a dialogue with ourselves. Just like hand sketching, it’s become a dialogue.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London

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We are endlessly grateful to our loyal partners and supporters for making Ghotmeh’s remarkable concept for a Pavilion into an inspiring reality. Campbell Thompson, Head of Furniture & Lighting at The Conran Shop said: “It has been a real privilege to collaborate with Lina on the development of her designs from sketches to final pieces.