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Design inspiration: the best projects from January

Design Week

The letters’ weight varies according to information collected from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre from 1979-2019 and continues in alignment with that trend until 2050. Wilkinson Studio has created a 400m hoarding inspired by Morse code for the new Santander tech hub, which is under construction in Milton Keynes.

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Solar Photograms Imagine a Haunting Vision of the Future

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In My Plastic Life , a series of solar photograms, the artist brings this scene and others like it to life through cameraless pictures created using plastic waste: single-use plastic bottles, shopping bags, bottle caps, and more. “Darkroom paper has a spray of nano-silver gelatin particles,” the artist explains.

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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Selects Winning Proposal for its New Waterfront Home

Azure Magazine

Chaired by New York-based architect and principe of WXY Architecture + Urban Design Claire Wiesz, the jury also included landscape architect Claude Cormier and Sobey award-winning artist Ursula Johnson.

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Climate crisis: design industry rallies around its greatest challenge yet

Design Week

of pre-industrial levels and cutting emissions until they reach net zero by 2050. The festival aims to inspire and motivate designers, while showing them practical things they can do to improve outcomes for their clients and the planet. .” Talk and action are two different things of course. temperature rise.

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Babylons of Tomorrow: The Architecture of Arab Futures

Azure Magazine

As Amal Dababseh report s, “56 percent of the population of the Arab world currently lives in cities and urban centres and it is expected that the population of cities and urban areas will increase by 75 percent by 2050.”. For Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour , the future is at the forefront of a multi-media métier.