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Traditional design techniques are "alive and well" in Le Salon de Septembre exhibition

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Guided by the motto "Remastering The Past", the collective thought it fitting for the show to highlight the fact that traditional design techniques are "very much alive and well". See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024

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For our Designing for Disaster series , her foundation reveals it is a third of the way towards that target. The latest update from the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan , founded by Lari, is that the rebuild programme has so far provided 333,000 homes for those displaced by the 2022 floods.

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Time Space Existence show in Venice spotlights solutions for a planet under pressure

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For example, the Norman Foster Foundation (NFF) and Holcim present the Essential Homes Research Project, a proposal to provide displaced people with safe, comfortable and dignified homes. The Norman Foster Foundation (NFF) and Holcim present the Essential Homes Research Project. The event rungs between 20 May to 26 November.

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Ten standout pavilions from the 2023 London Design Biennale

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With the theme of The Global Game: Remapping Collaboration , the event aims to rethink how nations communicate and collaborate. The event features 40 exhibitors from around the world from Chile to Nigeria, as well as the event's first-ever humanitarian pavilion designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.

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2022 RIBA Charles Jencks Award

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The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are pleased to announce the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award is Forensic Architecture. The event will include an interview by Thomas Aquilina from the New Architecture Writers programme. 2022 RIBA Charles Jencks Award Winner. 8 December 2022.

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SOM and Princeton University create self-balancing arch for Venice Architecture Biennale

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The group chose to do an updated take on what Beghini calls a "lost" construction technique – the laying of bricks in a herringbone pattern, as used by Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi on the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. The Venice Architecture Biennale takes place from 20 May to 26 November 2023.

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Yasmeen Lari creates bamboo pop-up mosques for Islamic Arts Biennale

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Read: Using "ancient wisdoms and techniques" can lead to carbon-neutral buildings says Yasmeen Lari Recently, Lari designed a cultural centre in Pakistan from bamboo that was built by local people. Also at the event, Studio Bound created an installation that aims to communicate the idea that all of Mecca can be considered a mosque.

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