Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

London's Victoria and Albert Museum has launched its Tropical Modernism exhibition, which highlights the architectural movement's evolution from colonial import to a "tool of nation building".

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JUNE 26, 2023

The project has increased public space by around a fifth, including converting office space into top-lit galleries in the newly named Weston Wing, which will house the Gallery’s contemporary collection. The ceilings of all the galleries have been restored and unified with a single colour.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Portraits by Pratik Gajjar (top) and Vinay Panjwani (above) Balkrishna Doshi Indian architect and educator Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi passed away on 24 January aged 95. Willis was one of the founders of the National Building Museum in Washington DC.

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Hotel Designs

JUNE 19, 2023

A large amount of time is spent working with interior designers and architects, with recent projects having included Chateau Denmark, London, Adare Manor, Ireland, Ardbeg Distillery, Scotland, alongside numerous undisclosed residential homes.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Artworks by Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and more can be seen throughout The Audley pub and its restaurant in London 's Mayfair, designed by architecture studio Laplace. Laplace designed The Audley pub (above) and its restaurant (top image) in London. London's affluent Mayfair neighbourhood is a hotspot for bars and restaurants.

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MARCH 12, 2020

While much of the city is on self-imposed quarantine as we figure out Covid-19, most of our museums are still open (for now) and there is one show you can't miss if you are in Washington, John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal. While we may all know Sargent for his portraiture, he quit oil portraits in 1907 to concentrate on other things.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2023

Other recent rebrands featured on Dezeen include illustrator Peter Horridge's logo for The National Portrait Gallery in London , Peter Saville's "subtle but necessary" rebrand of Aston Martin and Burger King's first rebrand in 20 years.

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English Buildings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The king’s retainers and followers would have worn the badge, and it appears several times on the Wilton Diptych, the superb portrait of the ruler now in the National Gallery. And it was in earlier times too – the inn’s history is said to go back further than the Georgian era.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Others include the Galápagos Islands, Sagarmatha National Park, and the Statue of Liberty. Like other chapters in the book, Eskilson briskly covers decades and centuries in just around twenty pages, moving from 18th-century charts and graphs to digital data on websites, across buildings, and on the walls of galleries.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Home / Life in General / An American in London An American in London Bob Borson — February 17, 2014 — 49 Comments I am in desperate need of a holiday – for lots of reasons. Of all the trips and time I’ve spent in London, it has NEVER rained on me … so I think I might be due. Avebury over Stonehenge.

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The Spaces

APRIL 11, 2023

Back then, St Martins was located on Charing Cross Road, running through the heart of London from Oxford Street to Trafalgar Square. He’d return to this body of work decades later as an exhibiting painter, using the construction sites, parks and streets around London as his starting point.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sabina is an architectural designer based in London and a guest critic at UCL, where she graduated with distinction. Illieva is also a guest lecturer in production design at The National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She also won the Top Student Prize in the 2021 One Drawing Challenge! Wandile Mthiyane. Bless Yee.

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e-architect

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Bowie’s radical innovations across music, theatre, film, fashion, and style – from Berlin to Tokyo to London – continue to influence design and visual culture and inspire creatives from Janelle Monáe to Lady Gaga to Tilda Swinton and Raf Simons. He didn’t just make art, he was art!”

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of cannonballs, donated Lego bricks and a marble toilet roll feature in Making Sense, the first design-focussed exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at London's Design Museum. Ai Weiwei: Making Sense is on display at London's Design Museum from 7 April to 30 July 2023.

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Architecture Here and There

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

An explanation: Dr Justin Shubow, a former Yale philosophy instructor, has long been president of the National Civic Art Society, which champions ‘classical and humanist’ architecture in the public realm. America’s national style, even in its earliest years, had a certain viscosity. Conflating the Zeitgeist.

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