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Two Hundred Tons deconstructs steel tubes to create Unroll furniture collection

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The Unroll collection comprises a shelving unit, coffee tables and coat hooks, all produced by designers Adam and Monika Štok using deconstructed steel tubes. Adam and Monika Štok founded their Prague-based studio in 2020 with the aim of developing high-quality, original products that utilise experimental technologies.

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Deconstruction of building made of alternative concrete resulted in just two buckets of waste

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A 700-square-foot showroom and model home displaying Nexii’s building technology was constructed in 2019 near Vancouver to prove the buildability of the new material, which has far lower emissions than conventional concrete.

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New York Institute of Technology spotlights seven fabrication and robotics projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a 3D printed panel made from wood and clay that is filled in with hempcrete is included in this school show by the New York Institute of Technology. Clay 3D printing is the primary technology explored in addition to wood as a structural component and hempcrete as a finish texture.

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Twelve design and architecture student projects featured on Dezeen School Shows in 2024

Deezen

Student: Tika Pratiwi Sufyan School: University of the Arts London Course: MA Design Management View the full school show Deconstructing Muqarnas by Yashraj Chauhan and Arefin Chisty In April, Yashraj Chauhan and Arefin Chisty's project Deconstructing Muqarnas was published on Dezeen in New York Institute of Technology's School Show.

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10 Danish designs made from new technologies and traditional crafts

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Organised by Copenhagen Design Agency (CDA), The Mindcraft Project is an annual digital exhibition highlighting the explorative work of Danish designers who combine new technologies and traditional craft techniques in their design process. Repeated blackened Douglas pine planks come together to form the Maestro chair by Rasmus B.

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Architecture 101: What Is Sustainability in Architecture and Design?

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Breaking this down into Upfront (emissions up to the point the building becomes operational, in-use day-to-day maintenance) and end-of-life, meaning carbon footprint of demolition and deconstruction, reveals how big a deal it is. The result means contributing to, rather than extracting from, over-stretched national grids.

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

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But the emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde's demise may have been exaggerated. The seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition was held at the MoMA.