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		<title>PAUL COCKSEDGE STUDIO DESIGNS ‘EXPLODED VIEW’ BRIDGE IN CAPE TOWN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Cocksedge announced his first ever project in South Africa, during Design Indaba’s annual conference on Friday 28 February 2020. The internationally recognised British designer is creating a permanent timber bridge across the Liesbeek River in Cape Town, within the public open space of the The Upper Liesbeek River Garden. It&#8217;s Cocksedge&#8217;s second project to explore the use of wood and its environmental credentials – following on from his Please Be Seated installation at London Design Festival 2019. The bridge is being developed in collaboration with Design Indaba, WSP and building company XLAM. It will be made from the invasive Eucalyptus tree wood, offsetting its negative effects by using it as a building material. The species originates in Australia but was brought to South Africa in the 1800s for use as shade, windbreaks and plantation timber. The tree can, in fact, negatively impact the water table. Cocksedge plans to work with X-Lam to turn the Eucalyptus tree into Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) – a structural, prefabricated timber panel which is a more sustainable alternative to concrete, masonry and steel, requiring less water and less energy to manufacture. The timber is glued in longitudinal and transverse layers, which creates a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green light &#124; Stunning new Villa Verte is open to guests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jim Brett and Ed Gray decided to launch a sister property to their exclusive-use Villa Maison Noir in Hout Bay, Cape Town, it was with the intention of creating yet another sanctuary-like space that was inspired and informed by the natural beauty of the bordering Oudekraal Nature Reserve and surrounding areas. To bring this vision to fruition, the couple earmarked a plot of land right next door to Villa Maison Noir and dreamed of replacing the drab 1970s-style building housed on the site with something much more memorable. Their wealth of interior experience, passion and expertise stood them in good stead to dream up a property that would do justice to the astounding setting. Between them, Brett (previously of Anthropologie and West Elm) and Gray (who founded luxury furnishing store Bruges Home) have a passion for design and art. This new project provided the perfect blank canvas on which to continue the creative journey they started with Villa Maison Noir. Like Villa Maison Noir, Villa Verte – so called for its densely treed setting – was to be a showcase for exciting furniture design, artwork and craft. But first, the structure had to be conceived, and to achieve this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greening architecture &#124; Design Indaba 2020 Speaker Kathryn Larsen thatches with seawood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing her bit to green the building industry is the ambition of bio-based designer and architectural technologist Kathryn Larsen. Larsen hails from America but is currently based in Denmark where she works as a construction architect at aNNeKS. From a young age, the itinerant designer was fascinated by vernacular architecture – how local constructions methods and materials can be adapted for use in modern buildings. After a gap year in Japan in 2013 – undertaken under the auspices of NGO CIEE, which specialises in international exchange – she found herself drawn to how other cultures design their lives. She studied Japanese intensively and documented her experiences in a sketchbook. When she returned to the US, she studied architecture at Cornel University from 2014-15, then transferred to the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA). Here, she finished her undergraduate degree in Architectural Technology and Construction Management, in 2019. For her dissertation, she focused on the seaweed houses of Læsø, and on eelgrass as a Danish building material – a topic without many English-language resources. She designed an original research project under the supervision of KEA Material Design Lab, called Seaweed Thatch Reimagined, and built prefabricated seaweed thatch panels designed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative trends in concrete usher in the future of architecture and design</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Concrete’ and ‘innovation’ are two words which are seldom used in the same sentence. Many consider concrete to be a material that cannot advance further in its use. But this is not the case at all. There remain myths around concrete and its limitations, but with technology advancing at such a rapid pace, innovation in concrete may become a commonplace occurrence. At this point in time, however, concrete innovation is still a tremendously stimulating and relatively new field. The latest trends in concrete bear witness not just to the unlimited application of design thinking, but also to the flexibility of concrete itself – especially when combined with other materials. “Cement Gardening”, a popular trend in concrete innovation, is known for ‘greener’ living in urban gardening and is built around the idea of plants growing in cement. It is exciting as it is a successful way in which to create a vertical garden and living wall. Cement gardens capture rainwater, and the multi-layered cement encourages and sustains the growth of specific mosses and lichens directly onto the cement material. Given enough time, the vertical garden and living wall will be patterned with ‘living’ greenery. Another forward-thinking trend in concrete innovation is known as “Translucent Concrete” &#8211; a fibre-reinforced concrete which is used for aesthetic and [...]]]></description>
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