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• Kengo Kuma builds blackened-wood chicken coop at Casa Wabi artist retreat

  20-06-2020 19:00
  
  Kengo Kuma's firm has designed a coop for chickens living at the Casa Wabi arts foundation in Mexico to be like a collective housing project.The Casa Wabi Coop is a chicken hut that provides eggs for the Casa Wabi Foundation in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
  Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKA) received the commission from foundation founder Bosco Sodi. Better acquainted with projects for people, the firm decided to adapt the model of communal housing for the birds."In our practice, we usually work on pro
  
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• Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects incorporates egg-shaped tomb into Sakai house

  20-06-2020 13:00
  
  Japanese studio Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects has attached an egg-shaped tomb to an "unconventional" house in the city of Sakai, Osaka prefecture.
  Called Minami Hanada Tomb, the project plays on idea of the Mozu Tombs – a series of vast ancient burial sites with distinctive raised mounds that the city is famous for. However, due to zoning laws, the new tomb is purely symbolic.
  "After investigation, it turned out that creating the cemetery in the residential area is legally pro
  
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• Deja Vu: A Brief History of Every Mac CPU Architecture - How-To Geek

  20-06-2020 12:40 via howtogeek.com
  
  Deja Vu: A Brief History of Every Mac CPU Architecture  How-To Geek
  
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• This week's VDF highlights include Vitra, Neri&Hu, Lee Broom, Gaetano Pesce and Es Devlin

  20-06-2020 12:00
  
  Week ten of Virtual Design Festival featured live interviews with Mariam Kamara and Lee Broom, a panel discussion with Stellar Works featuring Space Copenhagen and Neri&Hu, plus the launch of our collaboration with Swiss furniture brand Vitra.Virtual Design Festival, the world's first online design festival, runs until 10 July. For the full schedule of upcoming events, visit dezeen.com/vdf/schedule.
  Monday 15 June
  Screentime with Micha Weidmann: As part of our ongoing live intervie
  
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• Flying Gherkin stars in Foster + Partners' children's book

  20-06-2020 11:00
  
  UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has made an illustrated online book starring its Gherkin skyscraper as part of an initiative to entertain children during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Named The Flying Gherkin, the book gives the Foster + Partners-designed office human features, arms and a rocket-like body, and follows it on its journey as it takes off from London to visit other buildings designed by the studio around the world.
  The book, which is available to download online, was writt
  
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• 15 architecture projects by University of Applied Arts Vienna students - Dezeen

  20-06-2020 09:00 via dezeen.com
  
  15 architecture projects by University of Applied Arts Vienna students  Dezeen
  
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• 15 architecture projects by University of Applied Arts Vienna students

  20-06-2020 09:00
  
  This VDF school show by the University of Applied Arts Vienna's Institute of Architecture features a temporary hospital designed for pandemics and a facility that supports women living in the European slum.There are a total of 15 projects in the digital exhibition by students from three different year groups at the Austrian architecture school, completed as part of either Studio Díaz Moreno and García Grinda, Studio Greg Lynn or Studio Hani Rashid.
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• This week, designers heralded a sustainable future

  20-06-2020 07:00
  
  This week on Dezeen, Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch predicted we'll have pollution-eliminating biofabricated materials with the decade, and Arrival launched an electric bus.
  Speaking to Dezeen as part of Virtual Design Festival, Gutsch said the only solution to plastic pollution is to develop sustainable alternatives.
  The circular economy "will never work with the materials we have" says Cyrill Gutsch of Parley for the Oceans
  "The future is about materials that are non-toxic," said
  
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