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From fortress-style architecture to candy-coloured interiors, here are the six biggest trends to emerge from the Dezeen Awards 2019 longlists. The rising use of cork in architecture and the popularity of low-tech cabins set in remote locations also stood out among the 903 projects that made the longlists this year. Here…

Deserts, forests and mountain peaks inspired the design of tech company Slack’s 10-storey office in San Francisco, which is meant to embody “the similarities between hiking a wilderness trail and working”. The Slack Headquarters is located within a 16-year-old building in the downtown district, near gleaming new skyscrapers such as the…

Sharing is Caring When I was much younger I was asked to be apart of a “Counsel of Elders”. It was a great honor and completely unexpected. Being so young myself I felt I did not have much to contribute to this younger man’s wisdom. But it did several things for me. It put me […]

Eleven theses which Andreas von der Heydt believes will shape the future of education and the way we´ll be learning.

When asked to envision how we should live in the future, it can seem glib for an architecture firm facing the realities of climate change to respond: Anywhere but here.

Maria Aiolova, assoc. aia co-founder, terreform one An architect, educator, and urban designer who holds 18 technology patents, Aiolova co-founded Terreform One, a design research nonprofit in Brooklyn, N.Y. The group looks to technology, design, and synthetic biology to develop sustainable, localized solutions for transportation, infrastructure, waste treatment, food, water, energy, and other concerns. John […]

See them all Discover the little paper world constructed by artist Charles Young who conceived of the idea as a 365-day creative project to explore different architectural forms through paper, every single day for a year. Except… it turns out he never stopped. The tiny paper metropolis has now grown to 635 buildings, many with […]

Visit Website Watch Video WHY CODING IS A BIG DEAL Google started Made with Code because increasingly more aspects in our lives are powered by technology, yet women aren’t represented in the roles that make technology happen. If the community can inspire girls to see that code can help them pursue their passions, whatever they […]

Be an idiot Be terrible Be a dreamer Be an explore Be a self starter Be an outcast Be a kid When we where kids we where pretty slow. Can’t draw worth a darn, they walk like drunks, and definitely can’t talk right. No, I do not want “basgetti” for dinner. They fail at everything […]

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You! Ask, “What You Can Do For Your Country?”

After previous photographers apprenticeship with his father Hugo Schmölz in Cologne he led after his death in 1938, continued the photo workshop. In 1956 he married the photographer Walde Huth and founded the studio with this “schmölz + huth”. Through intensive collaboration with his father, the commissioned work could be continued without interruption after 1938. After military service Karl Hugo Schmölz documented the […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQa0BajKB4Q?     THE BAUHAUS MANIFESTO   Walter Gropius, “Bauhaus Manifesto and Program” (1919) The ultimate aim of all visual arts is the complete building! To embellish buildings was once the noblest function of the fine arts; they were the indispensable components of great architecture. Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued […]

The love of my life said yes! I am walking on cloud nine.

The idea, was to use abandoned railways as a living classroom, that could move students and facilities to different towns as needed, when needed. Spaces could be easily altered to the will of the class or research. If it was rainy or to hot the whole school could be moved to a more indicative part of […]