Articles by Jessica Mairs

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to deliver Royal Academy’s annual lecture

April 13, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Dezeen promotion: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects will give the annual Royal Academy of Arts architecture lecture on “freespace”, the theme they chose for this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The Grafton Architects founders will deliver the 28th Annual Architecture Lecture in the new David Chipperfield-designed The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre at the Royal Academy of Arts on 16 July 2018. Dezeen is

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Zaha Hadid’s only house finally completes in Russian forest

April 12, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

New photographs and a movie reveal Zaha Hadid’s only completed private residence – a house in the Barvikha Forest near Moscow, for a man she called the “Russian James Bond”. The late Iraqi-British architect designed Capital Hill Residence for businessman and philanthropist Vladislav Doronin, who runs property companies Capital Group and OKO Group, and is also the owner of luxury hotel and resort

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Kengo Kuma to build aquatics centre and harbour bath in Copenhagen

April 12, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is designing an aquatics centre on Copenhagen’s harbour, featuring indoor pools framed by brick pyramids and outdoor baths that terrace down to meet the sea. Kengo Kuma’s office won a competition to design Water Culture House. It forms part of COBE’s regeneration of Chistriansholm – an artificial landmass also known as Paper Island,

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Prefabricated cabin can be transported to remote locations by lorry

April 10, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

This £39,000 prefabricated cabin by artist Bobby Niven and architect Iain MacLeod is designed to be easily transported on the back of a lorry. School friends Niven and MacLeod designed the small hut, known as the Artist Bothy after the Scottish name for a shelter, for artists wanting to set up studio in isolated locations.  The compact

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Kengo Kuma designs Japan’s first Ace Hotel

April 9, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

The Ace Hotel chain is opening its first Japanese outpost in Kyoto this winter, in a former telephone exchange building overhauled by Kengo Kuma. Japanese architect Kuma will convert the ShinPuhKan building – originally designed by Tetsuro Yoshida and completed in 1926 – to create suites set around a plant-filled courtyard. It will be the 10th Ace Hotel, joining

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Kengo Kuma designs Japan’s first Ace Hotel

April 9, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

The Ace Hotel chain is opening its first Japanese outpost in Kyoto this winter, in a former telephone exchange building overhauled by Kengo Kuma. Japanese architect Kuma will convert the ShinPuhKan building – originally designed by Tetsuro Yoshida and completed in 1926 – to create suites set around a plant-filled courtyard. It will be the 10th Ace Hotel, joining

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Swedish government introduces new benchmarks for architecture and design

April 6, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

The Swedish government has introduced a set of quality targets for architecture and design, which aim to make Sweden a more “sustainable, equal and less segregated society”. The Stamped Living Environment Bill, which lays out plans to make sustainability and quality integral to the design process, has largely been welcomed by the Swedish architecture and design community. Architects and

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UK’s biggest architecture firms reveal gender-pay disparity

April 5, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Hawkins\Brown has emerged as the only one of the UK’s largest architecture practices with a gender pay gap better than the country average. Collectively the 14 architecture practices that have reported data have a median gender pay gap – the common way of reporting pay disparity – of 18.4 per cent. This compares to the countrywide average

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UK’s biggest architecture firms reveal gender-pay disparity

April 5, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Hawkins\Brown has emerged as the only one of the UK’s largest architecture practices with a gender pay gap better than the country average. Collectively the 14 architecture practices that have reported data have a median gender pay gap – the common way of reporting pay disparity – of 18.4 per cent. This compares to the countrywide average

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Suspected murderer Peter Madsen worked on BIG’s smoke-ring-blowing power plant

April 4, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

A Danish inventor on trial for committing murder aboard his self-built submarine helped Bjarke Ingels Group develop the distinctive smoke-ring-blowing chimney of its Copenhagen power plant, Dezeen has learned. Peter Madsen, who is charged with the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, is credited with helping Danish architecture studio BIG develop the technology for the chimney. He features

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