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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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New York Institute of Technology spotlights seven fabrication and robotics projects

Deezen

Also included is a project that creates 3D printed materials based on the structure of chainmail and an installation that uses folded aluminium sheets to create dramatic lighting effects. Students experiment with various computational techniques that focus on studying form, patterns, structures, façade panels or interior components.

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Restaurante 34 by REM'A

Archinect

This condition drove us to explore an aesthetic-spatial concept that implied a deconstructed approach from the "art nouveau". This condition drove us to explore an aesthetic-spatial concept that implied a deconstructed approach from the "art nouveau".

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

But the emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde's demise may have been exaggerated. The seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition was held at the MoMA.

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Rasmus B. Fex's chair takes cues from tailcoat tuxedos

Deezen

The chair is made up of repeating wooden planks that come together to form the seat, back, armrests and structure, united on its top line by a slim metal band. The Maestro chair features in The Mindcraft Project 2022. Fex uses 1:5 prototype modelling to perfect his pieces. Furniture designer Rasmus B. Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2022.

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

BD+C

Compared to typical steel and concrete structures – which equate to 15% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions – mass timber has the potential to reduce embodied carbon by 40%. 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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Studio Bark designs "sculptural forest" timber installation for Leeds City Square

Deezen

It is set to be repurposed when the installation is deconstructed at the end of the year. Each Douglas fir fin can even be traced back to the precise stump in the forest using a unique code, which will enable us to track the journey of its lifecycle for many years to come," Studio Bark director Wilf Meynell told Dezeen.