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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. It’s part of Balenciaga’s Raw Architecture concept, which sees retail spaces stripped back to the extreme, designed to be closer to construction sites and abandoned spaces.

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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities

BD+C

BR+A Consulting Engineers, and Code Red Consultants, there are feasible, cost-effective strategies for building mass timber labs that align with industry standards. Cross-laminated timber system’s prefabricated, modular nature and its use of reversible metal connections creates the potential for eventual deconstructability.

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Paradis Beachcomber unveils €12 million transformation

Hotel Designs

Tasked to carry out the design project, which centred around a new F&B concept, was Carina Share, Director at Design Partnership. “The Blue Marlin fish that hung in the space has been deconstructed in an art installation,” Share told me. There are now two restaurants and one central bar.

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Building tall with timber "does not make sense" say experts

Deezen

If we want to win the race against climate change, the construction industry is going to have to get comfortable with using more mass timber in everyday buildings," said Browning. Atelier Ten's Leedham agreed that tall timber buildings are "not always going to make sense" but that they can help the industry to use timber more efficiently. "We

Building 141
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Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards judge Piero Lissoni

Deezen

Yesterday we announced six more Dezeen Awards judges : industrial designer Maurizio Montalti , Will Meyer and Gray Davis of Meyer Davis, architect Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei , design director Pragya Adukia and professor Kate Goldsworthy. Submit your project before the entry deadline on Thursday 1 June.

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Panel discussion: curating ‘wow’ moments in hotel design

Hotel Designs

The concept of the Wow! This year, highlights from the installation included a mirrored bathroom, a 3am room made complete with a playful deconstructed disco ball, a safari-meets-townhouse design scheme, and a bathroom set from Studio Mica and House of Rohl that confronted wellness through the clever use of materials, tones and form.

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"Deconstructivism started well over a century ago and still continues today"

Deezen

The very notion of a renaissance whole was put on the couch, revealed as a fiction, along with functionalist Bauhaus modernism, based on notions of serial industrial production and the normative. Deconstructivism in its diversity and focus on difference acknowledged the individuality that industrialized modernism stamped out.