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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf |Jennifer Hahn
New! Dezeen Agenda US Sent on alternate Fridays, this US edition of Dezeen Agenda is a fortnightly newsletter rounding up everything you need to know from America, featuring news, projects and interviews with industry figures. Plus occasional updates and invitations to Dezeen events. New! Dezeen Showroom New Releases A quarterly newsletter rounding up a selection of recently launched products by designers and studios, published on Dezeen Showroom.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
Google has dialled up the fun in its updated design language, Material 3 Expressive, after user testing found that people have an appetite for "wild and way-too-playful" interfaces, Google Design vice-president Vanessa Cho told Dezeen. Released earlier this month, Material 3 Expressive is the fourth update to Google's Material Design system and aims to inspire emotion through an expanded use of colour, shape and animation.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
The future potential of earth as a building material was the focus of this year' soil-rich Morocco pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Moroccan architects Khalil Morad El Ghilali and El Mehdi Belyasmine aimed to encourage visitors to consider how ancient earthen architecture and modern engineering could be combined in their pavilion named Materiae Palimpsest.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Cajsa Carlson |Rima Sabina Aouf |Jennifer Hahn
Design studio LoveFrom has completed a rebrand for William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco, including a custom typeface, logo and a suite of whimsical illustrations for decorating bookmarks and other paraphernalia. More
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3 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf |Jon Astbury |Christina Yao |Karen Anderson
Australian practice Equity Office has completed the Wangun Amphitheatre in southeastern Victoria, a performance space for the First Nation community that is sheltered by steel-framed fabric canopies. More
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3 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
Australia's first all-Indigenous curatorial team at the Venice Architecture Biennale has aimed to bring a distinctly Aboriginal design approach to its pavilion, a calming and inclusive space focused on the theme of Home. The Home pavilion is centred on a circular rammed-earth structure that serves as a gathering area and is surrounded by a display of small, sculptural objects.
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3 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
The curators of the Lebanese pavilion have explained why they fought to be at the Venice Architecture Biennale despite the challenges of life under conflict, including the killing of one of their colleagues just two weeks ago. The Lebanese pavilion is one of the few overtly political national contributions to the biennale, tackling the theme of ecocide as a weapon of war under the title The Land Remembers.
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3 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
Visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale can drink coffee made from the city's canal water in a Golden Lion-winning intervention by US practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Named Canal Cafe, the structure sits on the edge of Venice's Arsenale building complex and draws water from its lagoon, part of the city's famous network of canals.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
A curlicued brutalist hotel whose facade resembles two faces kissing and a bank crowned with towers informed by clay castles are among the modernist buildings celebrated in Togo's first-ever Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion. The small African nation is putting its "eccentric" modernist architecture on the world stage in the Considering Togo's Architectural Heritage exhibition, which opens this weekend in Venice gallery Squero Castello.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Rima Sabina Aouf
Crank windows, plastic composite body panels and no radio feature in the first vehicle from automaker Slate, which aims to make a desirable truck in the US that's as cheap as possible. The Slate Truck is a two-seat electric pick-up truck produced to be "radically customisable and affordable". It expects it will cost customers under $20,000 after electric vehicle tax credits – less than almost any new car on the market in the US.
