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Balenciaga’s Raw Architecture concept has arrived on London’s New Bond Street

The Spaces

Fashion house Balenciaga has opened an artfully deconstructed new store in London, using concrete, metal and glass to create an industrial backdrop. London’s sketch says goodbye to pink with new interiors by India Mahdavi and Yinka Shonibare. There’s even artificial dirt scattered beneath the shelving. Photography: Balenciaga.

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Kingston School of Art highlights 10 student design projects

Deezen

Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection that celebrates the designer's Ukrainian roots and an allotment scheme at London's Docklands are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kingston School of Art. Kingston School of Art. The deconstruction of waste in the reconstruction of community.". Student: Amy Brown.

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“The World’s First Horror Film Was All About Modern Architecture. Change My Mind.”

Architizer

In literature and the visual arts — the representational arts, let’s say — modernism was an attempt to find new forms of artistic expression to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world where old certainties and trust in institutions were falling away. Counterintuitive as it might seem, they wanted to bring art closer to life.

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PURE NFTEA Tea House, Shenzhen, China

e-architect

In this way, an asymmetrical yet balanced frame was constructed on the horizontal plane, defining a new space in a deconstructive manner. 2 Deconstruction Chinese Lego blocks — mortise-and-tenon structures, a flexible joint in architecture “The Sun (tenon) and Mao (mortise) represent the Yang and Yin elements in Chinese philosophy. .”

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Square House is best described as subtly deconstructive. She is also a co-founder of the nonprofit Urban Arts Collective (UAC) and is currently Executive Director at NOMA National — all while pursuing licensure as an architect. In this formulation, art, both contemporary and historical, serves as an indispensable touchstone.

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Women at the forefront of innovation in design

Hotel Designs

The work of artist Sally Coulden of Red Dog Glass Design combines contemporary art with exciting materials and technology. Bowen bases her art on the concept of chromology, the psychology behind colour. The artwork is then expertly applied to high-quality glass panels that are durable, practical and of course beautiful.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

They can serve as vehicles for exploring ideas, as in Benedikt's book on the Kimbell; they can serve as repositories for the many sketches, drawings, and photographs produced about a place; or they can exist somewhere in between on such a spectrum between critical analysis and laudatory presentation.

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