This week on Dezeen, the annual Do not Transfer Enhance! competitors named Nic Howett Architects’ The Secret Backyard Flat as London’s best new home improvement project for 2023.
The flat, which is positioned within the borough of Southwark, was praised by the judges for exhibiting “how a really excessive commonplace of expertise might be achieved with a low price range”.
It was chosen from a shortlist of 15 renovations revealed in April by Do not Transfer Enhance!, an annual competitors held by New London Structure (NLA).
“The Secret Backyard is stuffed with surprises,” mentioned choose Marie-Louise Schembri. “This stunning house in a really busy and dense city a part of London appears like an oasis and has consolidated present neighbourhood and household communities.”
We continued our protection of the Venice Structure Biennale with a narrative on the Zero Gravity Urbanism exhibition, which showcased designs for the controversial Neom challenge in Saudi Arabia and featured masterplans by Danish studio BIG for its octagonal port city Oxagon.
A variety of studios additionally shared insights into their work on The Line mega metropolis – probably the most publicised of all Neom developments. Architect Peter Cook dinner said its height is “a bit stupid” and questioned whether the project would be fully realised.
And Italian Studio Fuksas, which can also be engaged on The Line, said it “does not touch the poetry of the desert” in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
In different Venice information, Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher has said Venice Architecture Biennale “does not show any architecture”.
In a submit on Fb titled Venice Biennale Blues, Schumacher known as the occasion an “anti-architectural biennale” the place the nationwide pavilions “refuse to point out the work of their architects”.
“The Venice ‘Structure’ Biennale is mislabelled and will cease laying declare to the title of structure,” he wrote.
In the meantime, Clerkenwell Design Week launched in London this week. In celebration of the occasion, British artist Steve Messam created four inflatable sculptures designed to “reimagine the structure” of their places in Clerkenwell.
Amongst them was a six-metre-high inflatable constituted of a vivid blue hand-sewn textile and characterised by its 27 spikes, which poke out from the archway of St John’s Gate – a medieval gatehouse inbuilt 1504.
Automobile model Bugatti entered the residential actual property market this week with its design for a 42-storey skyscraper that will let residents drive straight into their penthouses.
Set to be positioned in Dubai, the Bugatti Residences shall be made with Dubai-developer Binghatti and may have a sinuous kind wrapped in balconies on each degree.
In different automotive information, we checked out how electric-vehicle technology is changing car design. Dezeen options editor Nat Barker spoke to specialists and automotive designers, who mentioned vehicles will begin to look dramatically completely different as electrical autos develop into the norm.
Widespread initiatives this week embrace a stable in Umagoya, Japan, constructed from conventional Japanese joinery in cypress and cedar, a stone-clad Nevada house and a New York store modelled on a collegiate locker room.
Our newest lookbooks featured airy terraces and balconies and marble-lined bathrooms.
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