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Pebble-like  seats  in pastel hues offer students a place to recline in this recreational area, which Igarashi Design Studio has created for an arts university in Tokyo. The Zero Space room by  Igarashi Design Studio  is set within Musashino Art University, a creative university in north Tokyo that offers courses in fine art, industrial design, architecture and fashion. Populated by a series of comfy seating pads, the space was previously used as a shortcut to reach other buildings on campus. The local studio has make it into a place where students can relax or work in a much more casual setting than the library. Designer Hisae Igarashi, who heads up the studio, has also been a professor at the university since 2010. "Everyone has their own styles of seating and sleeping, and we have searched for an optimum solution," the studio explained. "Zero Space was created as a highly flexible space to suit each one's purpose, letting people use them both alone a...

"The core issue centers around the idea that creatives will be replaced by super-intelligent robots to design buildings, create art, or design vehicles. Yet even as AI evolves across other design-related industries, AI could prove to do more good than bad, tackling the mundane so that you can augment your creative process.  —  Interesting Engineering " Artificial Intelligence  has already changed the nature of industries like manufacturing and cybersecurity. However, where does architecture fit into this mix? A harrowing concern is super intelligent robots may replace the creative practice and take over the design process that architects and designers spend years studying. However, with this new found accessibility in automation and AI, perhaps there is way for architects to view more pros than cons. At the heart of AI is an understanding, processing, and translation of data. By processing massive amounts of  data  at a rapid rate, AI allows for fabri...

Studio Seilern Architects ' performing  arts centre  is intended to look as if it is emerging from the woods at Wellington College in Berkshire, England. The circular GW Annenberg Centre was designed by  Studio Seilern Architects  on the campus of the independent day and boarding school, which sits within some 160 hectares of parkland. The form was inspired by Greek amphitheatres, and the centre combines a 900-seat auditorium with a Cultural Living Room – a foyer that doubles as a cultural hub capable of housing exhibitions, smaller performances or gatherings. "The shape was generated for two reasons," founder Christina Seilern told Dezeen. "It creates a collegiate atmosphere, where everyone sees each other, and helps to integrate the building within its context, acting as a hinge connecting the modern and historic campuses." Acting as a new front to the modern campus, a ramp winds around the theatre's edge, where the wooden cladding gives wa...

There are all types of  quirky accommodation options  these days, and now you can even stay at a hostel built from stacked and up-cycled wooden shipping containers. The  Dock Inn  in Warnemünde opened a few months ago and is the first of its type in  Germany . The 64-room  hostel  sleeps 188 people in containers that are 25 square-meters in size, some of which have been welded together to form four- and eight-bed dorms. Warnemünde is a busy port and seaside town in the city of  Rostock  in  Mecklenburg.  The hostel is situated 12 minutes’ walk from the beach, and terraces on the bedrooms offer a view of the shipyard and cranes. The theme of industrial ambiance continues inside the building, with concrete walls and exposed pipes forming part of the decor. There are 42 double rooms, two suites, 15 four-bed dorms and five eight-bed dorms, and the dorms have lockers for each guest. Each bedroom ...

OMA  is planning to build a 63,000-seat  stadium  in its home city for football club Feyenoord Rotterdam. OMA 's managing partner David Gianotten has designed the new Feyenoord Stadium, which is set to become the largest football stadium in the Netherlands Proposed for a site on the Maas river, the building will replace Feyenoord's existing stadium De Kuip, which is set to be redeveloped. Gianotten said the arena will set "a new benchmark in contemporary stadium design". "The new Feyenoord Stadium will be as iconic and intense for the supporters and players of Feyenoord, and for the Dutch national team, as the historic Stadium de Kuip has been – but now fulfilling all top-level UEFA regulations," he said. "We look forward to finalising the design and seeing the completed stadium in our hometown of Rotterdam." The stadium is designed to follow "the DNA" of De Kuip, so will have a similar bowl-shaped form. This will ...