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Research studio Lithuanian Space Agency has imagined a fictional world in outer space that would be created from people 3D-scanned at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled Planet of People, the Lithuanian pavilion is located in the renaissance Santa Maria dei Derelitti church and centred around a 3D scanner that scans visitors to send them into The post Lithuania virtually sends people to outer space at Venice Architecture Biennale...

Dorte Mandrup designs IKEA Copenhagen store with rooftop park Dezeen 1 hour ago © Provided by Dezeen A visual of a city-centre IKEA store Danish studio Dorte Mandrup has designed a city-centre IKEA store with a public rooftop park that will act as a "green lounge" for Copenhagen, Denmark. Slated to open in the Vesterbro neighbourhood in 2023, the store has been designed by Dorte Mandrup with IKEA to suit the behaviours of urban consumers. It will be easily accessible by foot or by bike and topped with a tree-lined roof that will offer "much-needed green space to the busy centre" of the c...

Uzbekistan's first Venice Biennale pavilion celebrates a dwindling form of community living Dezeen 6 hrs ago © Provided by Dezeen A full-scale replica of a house in an Uzbek mahalla aims to highlight a historic and endangered form of community living in the Republic of Uzbekistan's first contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale. Called Mahalla: Rural Urban Living and curated by Emmanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein of Swiss practice Christ & Gantenbein with Victoria Easton, the pavilion grew out of a project led by the team at ETH Zurich researching and documenting mahalla. ©...

An exhibition about nightclubs at the V&A Dundee and the first-ever Mexico Design Fair are among the events listed in Dezeen Events Guide this May, while the Venice Architecture Biennale is also taking place after its postponement last year. Other in-person events this month include NYCxDesign, Iceland's largest design festival DesignMarch and the debut International The post Five architecture and design events in May from Dezeen Events Guide...

Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph colourful Soviet architecture across Central Asia Dezeen 7 hrs ago © Provided by Dezeen The State Academic Russian Theatre in Kazakhstan Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from Central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. The duo's Soviet Asia series documents architecture constructed between the 1950s and 1991 in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. © Provided by Dezeen Top: Exhibition Hall of the Uzbek Union of Artists in Uzbekist...