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Waterloo International Terminal was “made to fit the cleaning machine” says Nicholas Grimshaw

February 27, 2020 Siufan Adey 0
Waterloo International Terminal by Grimshaw

We continue our high-tech architecture series with this exclusive video interview in which British architect Nicholas Grimshaw describes the painstaking level of detail required of his landmark station project. The International Terminal at Waterloo station in London is an elongated, four-platform railway concourse with a snaking glass-and-steel roof, which Grimshaw’s eponymous architecture practice designed in

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At The Audo hotel “you can purchase everything you see”

February 21, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
The Audo hotel in Copenhagen

Copenhagen’s The Audo is a hybrid hotel and furniture showroom says Menu founder Bjarne Hansen, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards. The Audo, which was awarded the title of New Concept of the Year at the 2019 AHEAD Europe hospitality awards, is a 10-room hotel in Copenhagen that Danish design brand Menu designed

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McLaren Excell discusses preserving a home’s history in short film by Vola

February 21, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
Lower Mill by McLaren Excell

Dezeen promotion: in this short film released by Danish tap manufacturer Vola, architecture practice McLaren Excell explains the importance of paying tribute to a building’s past during its restoration process. The film, titled A Sustained History, sees the two co-directors of McLaren Excell talk through the process of sensitively transforming an 18th-century mill in Wiltshire,

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Make uses bronze and stone for St James’s Market redevelopment

February 20, 2020 Siufan Adey 0
St James's Market redevelopment by Make

Make architecture studio has completed the first phase of St James’s Market redevelopment, featuring a block with a ribbon-like stone and bronze facade and the restoration of a late 19th-century building, as shown in this video produced by Dezeen. Located on Regent Street St James’s – formerly known as Lower Regent Street – the scheme

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Brinkworth suspends wooden skateboarding bowl inside San Francisco’s Supreme store

February 18, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Supreme San Francisco by Brinkworth and Wilson Brothers

London design studio Brinkworth has built an elevated skateboarding bowl inside this Supreme store in San Francisco that reverberates sounds “like a huge speaker”. The Supreme store is in the city’s Mid-Market neighbourhood, in a retail space on the ground floor of an industrial building renovated by UK practices Brinkworth and Wilson Brothers. The duo

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“We were all broke” when we designed Park Road Apartments says Nicholas Grimshaw

February 18, 2020 Siufan Adey 0

British architect Nicholas Grimshaw explains the impact that limited resources had on the housing block he designed with Terry Farrell, in this exclusive video interview created for our high-tech architecture series. Completed in 1970 by Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership – the architecture practice set up by the duo five years earlier – Park Road Apartments is

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Guggenheim New York releases teaser video ahead of Rem Koolhaas Countryside exhibition

February 11, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Guggenheim New York releases teaser video ahead of Rem Koolhaas Countryside exhibition

The “most radical” changes to civilisation come from the countryside rather than cities, according to architect Rem Koolhaas, who will explore the topic in a major exhibition opening at New York’s Guggenheim Museum next week. The architect and AMO, the research arm of his firm OMA, have produced the Countryside, The Future exhibit to spotlight rural

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HSBC headquarters was “more than just a building” says Norman Foster

February 7, 2020 Siufan Adey 0
HSBC headquarters by Foster Associates

In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech architecture series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the headquarters he designed for HSBC in Hong Kong in the 1980s transformed his architecture firm into a global brand. The 44-storey-high Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters was completed in 1985 by Foster Associates, which

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Palazzo Daniele is a “contemporary place with an ancient structure”

February 7, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0

Architect Roberto Palomba describes his firm’s approach to renovating the Palazzo Daniele hotel in Puglia, Italy, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD Awards. Palazzo Daniele, which was named Hotel of the Year at the 2019 AHEAD Europe hospitality awards, is a nine-suite boutique hotel housed in a 158-year-old palazzo located near the

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Watch the video of Liam Young’s keynote lecture at Dezeen Day

February 5, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Liam Young at Dezeen Day

Director Liam Young explains why “we must all actively shape and define” the future with architecture and film-making in this video of his keynote at Dezeen Day. Young, a film director who calls himself a “speculative architect”, was one of three keynote speakers at Dezeen’s inaugural conference on 30 October. At the event he explained his

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