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Designing a WeWork | A Behind the Scenes Interview with Design Director, Cristina Crespo

Designing a WeWork | A Behind the Scenes Interview with Design Director, Cristina Crespo

I Work, You Work, WeWork #BetterTogether Whether you need a desk, office, or an entire floor, WeWork offers millennials, startups, and even established companies, the opportunity to work in a collaborative office space; but WeWork is not your typical office -- It offers multiple floors co-working and open office (hot desks) with city views, sunny terraces, 24-hour accessibility, free coffee and beer, and daily networking + social events. WeWork was founded in New York (2010)

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ARCHICULTURE: A Documentary About Architecture School

ARCHICULTURE: A Documentary About Architecture School

Finally! Archiculture: A Documentary About Architecture School has just been released. It's been in the making for about 6 years and was originally called: "ArchiTorture" (for rightful reasons). Now it's here to show all of the hardship of architecture school for those that are familiar with it, and those that haven't gone through it, will get a sneak peak of what it's all about. Enjoy! #architecture #architectureanddesign #art #designer #design #environment #experiment #furn

The DesignBloc Feature // PLAY: The Documentary

The DesignBloc Feature // PLAY: The Documentary

PLAY: The Documentary play (plā/) verb : engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose. All work and no play, is just no fun! People from all over the world are working themselves too hard, and leaving no time to enjoy the little moments in life. However, our friends at The Urban Conga are making a difference to change that. The Urban Conga, is a non-profit community that activates social interaction through the act of "PLAY." Thei

Unleash the Designs!

Unleash the Designs!

That's right kids... The designs for the Guggenheim Helsinki project have been revealed! Stage One involved submissions from 77 countries. Each submission is presented on the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition online gallery and allowed just two images and a brief concept summary provided by each competitor. However, don't expect to vote just for your favorite design big wigs. Each design is only listed by its registration number. Bit brief, yes, but the competitors were

Banksy Hoax Strikes Again

Banksy Hoax Strikes Again

By now, you may have already read on the internet that the legendary Banksy was arrested early morning by London's Metropolitan Police and his identity has been revealed! Well take a deep breath. We have some news for you... The DesignBloc is happy to report that this story is a HOAX. Yes, once again, the internet has tricked thousands of people. Shocking right? The article featured on "National Report" goes on to identify Banksy as Paul Horner, and 35-year old male born in L

All Rise, Court is Now in Session

All Rise, Court is Now in Session

Zaha Hadid is suing the New York Review of Books over an article that was published claiming that Hadid was “showing no concern” for the deaths of migrant construction workers currently working on her design for a football stadium (that’s soccer) for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. That’s right, we have a good, old fashioned defamation suit on our hands. Now I will present the arguments and allow you to come to your own conclusions. The complaint centers on an article by Fil

The NOMA Convention is Near! Lecture Highlight: "Design & Technology - MoBE" - October 4th

The NOMA Convention is Near! Lecture Highlight: "Design & Technology - MoBE" - October 4th

*Update: The date of thie event has changed to October 4th (October 3rd was reported in the post last week) The NOMA {National Organization of Minority Architects} annual convention is in Philadelphia this year, and there will be lots to do and see. One event we would like to highlight is a presentation by Architect, Pascale Sablan, AIA, NOMA, LEED of FXFOWLE in New York. The lecture hosted Sablan titled, Design & Technology, will focus on the design process and technologies

A Design Festival: London Style

Mark Your Calendar: London Design Festival For all my Brits and non-Brits alike, get out your pen and add something to your calendars. The London Design Festival is back and running from September 13 – 21. Started in 2003, the festival has become one of the world’s most important annual designn events. This year you get more than 300 events and exhibitions from designers all over the world. Just a small tasting of the events scheduled... The Global Design Forum: Debating

Step Aside Trees, We Have A New Leaf

Step Aside Trees, We Have A New Leaf

A graduate from the Royal College of Art has claimed to have developed a silk leaf that could create oxygen for space travel and make the air better here on Earth. Julian Melchiorri, along with the silk lab from Tufts University, is responsible for this new idea. The leaf is created from a mix of protein extracted from silk and chloroplasts and when exposed to light and water, the leaf supposedly acts just like our friends already on the trees and produces oxygen. Currently,

Professional Artist Recreates Drawings from When He Was 4-Year's Old

Professional Artist Recreates Drawings from When He Was 4-Year's Old

Dutch artist, Telmo Pieper has given some of his childhood drawings a second chance at life. We all remember as a child, when we didn't care if our drawings had proportioned bodies or the same sized eyes. Well as a 4-year old, Piper didn't care about intricate details as well, and he is sharing his childhood artwork with a whole new twist. As you will see below, Pieper took the time to enhance and digitally render a few of his former adolescent masterpieces by adding material

Patron Saint...of Architecture!?

Patron Saint...of Architecture!?

Oh, What a Saint! That’s right fellow architects, we may finally have a Saint to pray to when deadlines loom, clients become unbearable, or we need an extra hour of sleep? Finally Now, who may this be you may be asking yourself? After sifting through all of the famous names you can recall from hours in architecture school… it’s Antoni Gaudi. An Architect a Saint? ...Who knew! Antoni Gaudi, Looking All Saintly! WWGD: What Would Gaudi Do? Within the next year, Pope Francis is r

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