Marcos Zotes, co-director of Basalt Architects, explains how the firm's work explores Iceland's tradition of geothermal bathing in this livestream from Stockholm Furniture Fair.
The livestream will begin at 12:00 Stockholm time. Watch it above or on Dezeen's Facebook page.
Basalt Architects co-director Marcos Zotes speaks live from Stockholm Furniture Fair
The 62-room resort hotel is embedded in the lava formations and turquoise geothermal pools of the Blue Lagoon site, in Iceland's UNESCO Global Geopark.
Dezeen Awards 2020 is now accepting entries for the world's best architecture, interiors and design projects, as well as the individuals and studios producing the most outstanding work.
The standard entry deadline for Dezeen Awards 2020 is 2 June, with discounted entry fees available until 31 March.
We are also introducing a late entry period this year. The extended deadline of 9 June will give you more time to enter your projects and studios – for a higher fee.
This year, there are 36 project categories that can be entered in total: 12 each for architecture, interiors and design.
We have introduced new categories for landscape project, infrastructure project, bar interior, restaurant interior, small retail interior, large retail interior, architectural lighting design and exhibition design.
There are also six studio categories that you can enter, which will name the best established and emerging architecture, interiors and design studios of the moment.
Dezeen Awards 2019 winners celebrated at a party in London
Dezeen Awards is different to other awards programmes as our low entry fees are designed to encourage smaller studios and avoid categories being dominated by large companies.
Projects are rewarded not only for their beauty and innovation, but for their benefit to users and the environment.
Entries will be judged by our influential panel, made up of 75 international architects, designers, academics and journalists. Keep your eyes peeled for the first judges announcement this week.
Last year's Dezeen Awards attracted over 4,500 entries from 87 different countries, making it one of the largest and most international awards programmes in the industry.
Dezeen Awards 2019 held a launch party in Stockholm
We are holding a panel discussion followed by music and drinks at a special event tonight to celebrate the launch of the third edition of Dezeen Awards. To join us email eventsguide@dezeen.com.
The livestream will begin at 15:00 Stockholm time. Watch it above or on Dezeen's Facebook page.
Titled End the Excuses and moderated by Swedish architecture writer Mark Isitt, the talk investigates how furniture producers and designers can work together to ensure that their manufacturing processes have minimal impact on the environment.
Designer Emma Olbers and Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder will discuss sustainable furniture design
Buchbinder is CEO of American furniture manufacturer Emeco. The company was founded in 1944 with the launch of its best known product, the 1006 Navy Chair, made from salvaged aluminium for US Navy submarines and still in production today.
Dezeen collaborated with Emeco, French illustrator Jean Jullien and his animator brother Nicolas to create an animated film about the brand's designs, including a chair made from recycled plastic bottles and another designed by Philippe Starck formed of a mixture of waste plastic and wood.
The New York Times column now boasts a podcast, book and, most recently, a TV series courtesy of Amazon. As it celebrates its 15th birthday, we speak to its creator Daniel Jones about why its stories of heartbreak, happiness and humanity have stood the test of time
One day in Berlin, Google Maps showed the red line denoting bumper-to-bumper traffic on several ordinarily calm streets, even though there was no special event taking place. Or anything happening on those streets, actually. The culprit: one man slowly walking around the city pulling a red wagon.
Berlin artist Simon Weckert rented 99 Android smartphones, installed 99 sim cards in them and filled a wagon with them, all powered on and running Google Maps. He then took to the streets of Berlin with them at a time when traffic was sparse. The object of the experiment, which he conducted last summer, but just published yesterday for the 15th anniversary of Google Maps, was to show how much we rely on the app’s traffic technology despite its limitations. It also answers some questions we’ve probably all had about how Google Maps actually works.
Artist Simon Weckert walked around Berlin with 99 phones in a wagon
The way Google Maps estimates traffic is by assessing the density of phones that enable the app to access their location, confirmed a Google spokesperson. Therefore, to the app’s technology, the only explanation for Weckert’s 99 phones in a condensed space was a dense traffic jam. The spokesperson also said, somewhat creepily, that Weckert’s experiment helps Google figure out where its geolocation needs to improve. It can distinguish between the motions of a car and a motorcycle, apparently, but recognizing movement in a wagon is still beyond it. If you’re wondering why a bus full of people with smartphones doesn’t automatically show up as a traffic jam, a bus is very easy to recognize via geolocation, as such a cluster of users follows a predictable path and stops in predictable places. Maybe Weckert’s next experiment should be trying to fool Google Maps into thinking he’s a bus.
The question on everyone’s minds is why? Weckert wanted to show how we rely on data to predict reality for us so we can plan our actions around it, trusting it as an objective display of reality, even though the technology used to interpret data can err or be misled, potentially forming an inaccurate model. Commenters are already coming up with ideas for gaming the system based on his experiment, while others think it worked a little too well and could have dangerous consequences.
Not everyone sees the value of the experiment, but it gave some people ideas
The magazine explores a 30-year stretch of time, starting in the 1960s with logos for the National Design Institute in India and the Yamada Design Room in Japan, and continues right the way through to the mid 80s.
In a short essay written for the book, editor Richard Baird makes a plea for designers to remember the past, and return to it as a way of making sense of the present.
“This is the story of design,” he writes. “New understanding, technologies and cultural shifts keep design moving forward, from becoming an ouroboros.
“Essential to this (in terms of both cultural and economic value) is an awareness of legacy, the agency to seek out historic resources, the capacity to think through which foundational components and principles of the past may still be relevant in the present, and how these might be best used or reinterpreted for the future.”
There’s certainly no shortage of inspirational fodder in the zine, which features logos of all shapes and configurations – including a few which are reminiscent of the design trends of today. Readers keen to delve into the archive can choose between two covers – either a 1976 symbol created by Yves Paquin, or a 2010 logo designed by BankerWessel (who co-designed the zine) for the Fotografiska gallery.
Shot around New York City between 2010-17, Jeremiah Dine’s new photo book Daydreams Walking brings together unremarkable, everyday scenes and dramatic images of the city, which are thrown into relief through a strong blend of framing, lighting and timing.
He was previously a studio assistant to legendary photographer Richard Avedon, but where Avedon was known for his stark portraits, Dine’s work places the city in the lead role. Found objects, graffiti and rubbish all earn their way into the book, and even when people do star in his photographs, on many occasions the shadows cast on walls and pavements manage to steal back your attention. Dine’s characters are always at one with their surroundings, if not dictated by them.
The project takes its name from a line in Music, a poem written in 1954 by prominent New Yorker Frank O’Hara, which is included in the book. It also features a listed soundtrack of the music that Dine listened to while shooting – featuring the likes of Lou Reed, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker – and an essay penned by author Robert Sullivan, which looks at the city experience by way of the street.
While Dine’s photographic style doesn’t diverge radically from what we’ve seen in the medium, Daydreams Walking captures those fleeting strokes of luck that account for our enduring fascination with street photography. Building on the ground laid by some of the 20th century greats, Dine’s lens brings the city and its characters to life – this time in blistering colour.
Daydreams Walking by Jeremiah Dine is published by Damiani, and will be available for £50 from March 5; damianieditore.com; jeremiahdine.com
