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25 February 2021 ‘ with the heavens that cover them.’ Federico Garcia Lorca With better times on the horizon, Shangri-La Hotel, At The Shard, London, is offering the opportunity for ‘Time to Reflect’ to escape from the daily home/office or work structures that might confine you and to experience life from a new, different and liberating perspective. Six RIBA-registered members will get the chance to spend a week in one of the hotel’s 202 rooms, located from level 34-52 at Pritzker-Pri...

Copy Even if you don’t know what media architecture exactly is, you have probably seen it many times. You may even have interacted with it, which is often the purpose of media architecture. That interaction can range from commonplace activities such as checking the departure sign at a train station, to being immersed in art installations that mix digital technology with layered information. With this omnipresence it is now time to develop a critical outlook on this emerging discipline that is...

Dezeens 10 most popular school shows Ahead of relaunching Dezeen School Shows for this years graduation season, we have rounded up the ten most popular showcases of student work that we published last year. Dezeen School Shows provides universities with an affordable digital platform to put the work of their students in front of Dezeens huge global audience of over three million monthly readers. The service was conceived last year as part of Dezeens hugely successful Virtual Design Festival (...

Its back! Architecture and design schools can once again ensure their students work reaches the widest possible audience with an affordable virtual school show on Dezeen. Dezeen School Shows provides universities with an affordable digital platform to put the work of their students in front of Dezeens huge global audience of over three million monthly readers. Dezeen School Shows viewed 500,000 times The unique service was conceived last year as part of Dezeens hugely successful Virtual Design...

Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2021 2020 winners The Drawing Matter Trust has launched a second writing contest featuring a £4,000 prize fund [Deadline: 1 June 2021] The competition – now in its second year – invites people aged over 18 to submit a short essay that explores the role of drawings in the ‘process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent’. Advertisement The call for submissions aims to generate a number of texts that respond to items within the Drawing Matter c...

The Lore Group creative director strives to create an element of surprise Words by: Alia Akkam + Alissa Ponchione • Photos by Jennifer Hughes Despite the limitations of growing up “in the middle of nowhere in South Africa,” Jacu Strauss, creative director at Lore Group, always had an appreciation for design, spending ample time painting, drawing up dream house plans, and building cities out of sand. After studying at University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, Strauss...

Anne-Laure Pingreoun, design curator and founder of Alter-Projects and Alternative-Thinkers Anne-Lauren Pingreoun is a design curator and founder of Alter-Projects, a new generation multidisciplinary company curating special projects which build unique stories and social experiences for designers, brands, and property developers, and Alternative-Thinkers, an online platform where creative practitioners set the framework and are then connected to funding. Her clients include the likes of the LVM...

Walter Hochauer In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old. What is known today as Austria has been populated for a very long time; the buildings here are just a blip on the region’s history, but they’re all worth seeing when you’re next there. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving ...

The governments current consultation on toilets, entitled Toilet provision for men and women: call for evidence, places the provision of "gender-neutral" desegregated facilities and the safety of trans and gender non-conforming people who rely on them, under threat. This consultation is dog-whistle politics, motivated not by improving access to public toilets, but in suppressing the rights of trans and gender non-conforming people. From the governments pitiful reform of the Gender Recognition A...

Architects should oppose plans to change toilet design rules Digital Edition: Architects should oppose plans to change toilet design rules Plans to steer Building Regulations towards segregated WCs are an attack on trans rights, writes UVW-SAW’s Tatiana Whiting Enjoyed your complimentary access to the AJ? Register to read a limited number of free articles Register Every issue of the AJ Ev...