This week on Dezeen, the Elizabeth Line in London designed by architecture studios Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis won the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building.
The largest expansion to London’s underground railway network for more than a century was described as “a flawless, efficient, beautifully choreographed solution”, by the award jury.
Also at the awards ceremony, a group of five accessible holiday homes by London-based studio Clementine Blakemore Architects won the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize, while Al-Jawad Pike won the Neave Brown Award for Housing for the Chowdury Walk affordable housing.
We continued our mid century modern series with a profile of Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, who was a key figure in the movement and whose ethos saw him craft buildings down to the smallest details.
In an opinion piece as part of the series, Dominic Bradbury argued that we should aim to bring back the interdisciplinary ethos embraced by mid-century modern designers.
“There was a profound belief in the power of the polymath during the mid-century period,” he wrote.
In architecture news, MAD Architects unveiled an apartment block in Denver, Colorado, which has a facade that was described as “cracked open”.
Named One River North, the building’s canyon-like opening was designed as a nod to geographic formations found in the nearby Rocky Mountains.
This week we also turned our attention to space, with fashion house Prada and aerospace company Axiom Space revealing their design for a NASA spacesuit that will be worn when the first astronauts to return to the surface of the moon.
In a feature, Dezeen’s US reporter Ellen Eberhardt explored how architects and designers will be involved in the future of space travel.
Also in design news, Tesla unveiled the brand’s prototype Robovan along with the design of its long-awaited driverless Robotaxi. The vehicles were unveiled by Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the company’sWe, Robot event in Los Angeles, USA.
“One of the things we want to do, and we’ve seen this with the Cybertruck, is we want to change the look of the roads,” said Musk at the event. “The future should look like the future.”
Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included a children’s’ hospital designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Museum of Shakespeare in London and a Chinese arts centre wrapped in a translucent mesh.
This week’s lookbooks featured eclectic pizzerias and living rooms with warming fireplaces.
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