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• Dezeen Awards 2023 winners announced at ceremony in London

  28-11-2023 22:16
  
  All 50 Dezeen Awards 2023 winners have been announced at this evening's ceremony in central London.
  The winners were revealed at a party at Shoreditch Electric Light Station attended by shortlisted studios along with Dezeen Awards judges past and present including Nelly Ben Hayoun, Omar Gandhi, Patricia Urquiola, Sumayya Vally and LionHeart.
  All Dezeen Awards 2023 winners revealed
  The winning projects have been selected from more than 4,800 entries from 94 countries. The 39 project category winn
  
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• Dezeen Agenda features BIG's twisting One High Line skyscrapers in New York

  28-11-2023 20:00
  
  The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features photos of two skyscrapers designed by BIG as they near completion. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.
  Newly released images showcase the exterior of two stone-clad skyscrapers designed by BIG for its One High Line development, located by the High Line park in New York.
  It comprises two stepped-spiral condominium towers, which will enclose a central public courtyard with retail spaces at the base.
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• Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

  28-11-2023 19:00
  
  Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio.
  The Walker Hall project involved transforming a "vacant, seismically unsafe building" on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern California, just west of Sacramento.
  Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements designed by Leddy Maytum Sta
  
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• Angular clay-tile roof crowns Jakarta home by Ismail Solehudin Architecture

  28-11-2023 12:30
  
  Indonesian studio Ismail Solehudin Architecture has playfully adapted the forms and materials found in traditional Javanese homes for Distracted House, a family residence in Jakarta.
  Distracted House is finished in a mix of concrete, brick and plaster and topped by an angular clay-tile roof based on those of traditional houses in the area called joglo.
  The distinctive intersecting forms of the home are the result of a large communal space at its centre, which has been "twisted" so that the famil
  
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• Light Bureau subtly illuminates fjord-side rest stop in Norway

  28-11-2023 12:00
  
  Scandinavian studio Light Bureau has introduced minimal lighting to this rest-stop toilet along the Norwegian Scenic Routes so as not to distract visitors from the surrounding landscape.
  Espenes Rest Stop accompanies the Hardanger stretch of the Norwegian Scenic Routes – 18 roads that offer picturesque drives across the country.
  The structure itself was designed by Norwegian architecture firm Code but Light Bureau was brought in to devise a sensitive lighting scheme.
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• "Architects are too often complicit in gentrification and social cleansing"

  28-11-2023 11:30
  
  French studio Lacaton & Vassal, which was today named the winner of the Soane Medal, demonstrates how architects can work with, not against, communities and existing buildings, writes Edwin Heathcote.When architects Lacaton & Vassal were commissioned to improve the Place Léon Aucoc in Bordeaux in 1996 they didn't do much at all. In fact they left it pretty much as it was, with an instruction to do more regular maintenance and to replace some of the gravel.
  It was, in its way, a pr
  
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• Dezeen's Pinterest roundup features seven tranquil mosques

  28-11-2023 10:45
  
  Over the past week, searches for mosques on Pinterest have increased by more than 10 per cent. We've rounded up seven projects from our mosque board.
  The studios included in this roundup looked to traditional Islamic architecture to create timeless mosques to be used as a space for worship and prayer.
  Studios including Shatotto and Marks Barfield Architects used natural building materials to design mosques to serve the local community.
  Scroll down to see seven projects from our mosque board 
  
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• Lacaton & Vassal wins 2023 Soane Medal for architecture

  28-11-2023 10:30
  
  French studio Lacaton & Vassal has been named the winner of this year's Soane Medal for producing "some of the most important buildings of our time".
  Social housing specialist Lacaton & Vassal, which is led by French duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, was honoured for its 30-year body of work that focuses on reuse.
  Top: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal lead Lacaton & Vassal. Above: the studio renovated Grand Parc Bordeau
  "Lacaton & Vassal's priority is to avoid unnec
  
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