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Twelve design and architecture student projects featured on Dezeen School Shows in 2024

Deezen

As the beginning of an open project, this atlas explores four terrascapes: the Beech Forest Quarry (where sandstone was extracted), the Westgate Lakes (a former sand mine), the Birrarung River (subject to dredging) and a disused car factory (which has petrochemical soil contamination)," said Prunotto.

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Miniview: Mondrian Singapore Duxton deconstructs the shophouse

Hotel Designs

Carter was taken with the big idea of the deconstructed shophouse. Rather than a direct translation, we took its parts and deconstructed it into contemporary forms,” she explained. Main image credit: Mondrian Singapore Duxton Miniview: Mondrian Singapore Duxton deconstructs the shophouse Pauline Brettell.

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The Spirit of Sustainability: Designing with Ghost Materials

Architizer

Their WasteBasedBricks are made using demolition rubble from urban deconstruction sites and give a second life to materials that would otherwise be crushed into low-grade aggregate. Their Skip Tiles, composed of 95% recycled ceramics, reuse discarded offcuts and broken tiles from tile manufacturers, reducing the waste produced in fabrication.

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Deconstructivism "killed off postmodernism" says Peter Eisenman

Deezen

Eisenman was a follower of ideals of deconstruction that were developed by philosopher Jacques Derrida and considers himself a deconstructionist architect rather than a deconstructivist one. He explained that of the others in the exhibition, only Bernard Tschumi "had any interest in deconstruction". In mine as well.

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Largest earthquake test for mass-timber tower successful in California

Deezen

The design featured a rocking wall and steel rods that ran the length of the structure Lever Architecture designed the tower for the Colorado School of Mines-led test, utilising the largest shake table in the world at the University of California, San Diego, which measures 25 x 40 feet (7.6

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Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 winner: Lesia Topolnyk

e-architect

Lesia Topolnyk chose the mining village of Hrabove in her native Ukraine, which became world news in 2014 when passenger flight MH17 was shot down, killing all 298 people on board. Lesia Topolnyk uses narrative and construction techniques to deconstruct this relationship in her dark, oppressive design. photograph : Aad Hoogendoorn.

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Banyan Tree Nanjing Garden Expo by CCD

aasarchitecture

CCD deconstructed and reshaped various elements such as light, stones, forest and rain on the abandoned limestone quarry. The form of the “cocoon” is deconstructed and evolved to respond to nature. In this way, a new mysterious wonderland is created in the former quarry valley. Photo © Wang Ting.