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Entries for Dezeen Awards 2019 will now close on Monday 3 June at 23:59 UK time, instead of later today.

The Dezeen Awards website got overloaded yesterday! So we’re giving entrants an extra three days to get their entries in.

Our servers crashed due to the unprecedented volume of last-minute entries. We’re really sorry about this.

The new deadline is 23:59 UK time on Monday 3 June.

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Remember, entries for Dezeen Awards 2019 now close on Monday 3 June at 23:59 UK time.

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This week we’ve selected five of the top vacancies for senior architects on Dezeen Jobs, including positions at international firms UNStudio and Studio Fuksas.

Senior architect at UNStudio

UNStudio is looking for a senior architect to become part of its team in Hong Kong. The practice completed a mixed-use complex in the central business district of China’s Hangzhou, which features facilities including a hotel contained within a pair of twisted glass towers.

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Senior architect at Studio Fuksas

Italian firm Studio Fuksas has recently revealed plans for the International Congress Center Jerusalem, set to be the centrepiece of Israel’s Giv’at Ram mixed-use complex in Jerusalem. The studio has an opening for a senior architect to join its practice in Rome, Italy.

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Senior architect at Tigg Coll Architects

Tigg Coll Architects is seeking a senior architect to join its London-based office. The firm renovated a former bank headquarters in London’s King’s Cross into a student accommodation building, using interior references from the area’s railway heritage.

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Senior architect at Matt Fajkus Architecture

A family home in Texas has been designed by Austin-based studio Matt Fajkus Architecture with varying sized windows, to frame the different views of a neighbouring oak tree. The practice is recruiting for a senior architect to become part of its team in Austin, USA.

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Senior architect at Anouska Hempel Design

Anouska Hempel Design has a vacancy for a senior architect with a minimum of three years’ experience, to join its London-based office. The firm completed the interiors for the Corfu Suite at London’s Blakes Hotel in Kensington.

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«Je vois le quotidien de manière artistique, comme s’il s’agissait de mon propre film et que je pouvais écrire le scénario de ce qui arrive à mon personnage étape par étape». Photographe et directrice artistique, Delfi Carmona exprime sa créativité à travers des images délicates et mélancoliques. En mêlant tons chauds, composition travaillées et lumière naturelle, la photographe a façonné un univers au style très reconnaissable. 

Quelles sont les principales étapes de ta relation à la photographie?

Ma relation avec la photographie a commencé à l’adolescence. Je viens du monde du théâtre et de la mise en scène et cela a un lien direct avec mon travail actuel. Que ce soit lorsque je pose devant un appareil photo ou que je dirige une autre personne, mais aussi lors de la composition de scènes photographiques ou lorsque je dois penser la direction artistique d’un projet. Dès que j’ai eu un appareil photo entre les mains, j’ai réalisé que c’était ce que je voulais faire. C’était le début d’une relation qui a duré toute une vie, qui a des hauts et des bas comme toute relation, mais qui alimente chaque jour mon désir de continuer à me créer et à me reconnaître par le biais de l’art.

Les jeux d’ombres et de lumières sont presque omniprésents dans ton travail. Pourquoi et comment sont-ils devenus ta principale source d’inspiration et signature artistique?

La lumière naturelle m’a toujours fascinée, c’est ma lumière préférée pour créer. J’aime particulièrement travailler avec la lumière du soleil et voir son impact sur les éléments, comment elle met en valeur certains détails, son rapport direct avec la couleur, la luminosité, etc. Je pense que cela doit faire un peu avec la possibilité de s’émerveiller de quelque chose qui semble si simple et en même temps est si complexe à contrôler et à utiliser. J’aime travailler avec les ombres de manière conceptuelle, pour exprimer une idée ou un sentiment. Je les aime visuellement et j’aime la finesse et l’intimité qu’ils suggèrent, la possibilité de se montrer sans nous montrer complètement. Je pense aussi que c’est un autre élément d’une composition qui peut nous aider à compléter une image, à donner plus de force visuelle aux éléments. 

Quels photographes t’ont le plus influencé?

Je ne pense pas qu’un photographe en particulier ait influencé mon travail pour le moment, j’ai le sentiment que les influences et l’inspiration viennent de différents endroits et s’entremêlent pour créer un réseau dans l’esprit de l’artiste. Je suis inspirée par de nombreux artistes, par de petits actes de la vie quotidienne, par des choses que j’ai vécu tout au long de ma vie, par des personnes avec lesquelles je discute chaque jour et desquelles j’apprends beaucoup. De nos jours, nous sommes influencés par de nombreux facteurs liés à l’exposition constante aux stimuli visuels, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. L’important est d’apprendre à démêler et à absorber ce qui est spécial et unique, ce qui résonne à l’intérieur et renforce ce que nous sommes. Si je dois parler d’influences visuelles spécifiques, je pense que je pourrais citer les peintures d’Edward Hopper. Son utilisation de la couleur et de la lumière me bouleversent et m’inspirent complètement.

Peux-tu nous en dire plus sur tes projets à venir ? 

Absolument! Je travaille sur mon premier cours de photographie en ligne. Il sera basé sur l’utilisation de la lumière naturelle et la possibilité d’apprendre à se représenter de manière créative.I y aura également quelques conseils sur la direction artistique et la retouche des couleurs. J’ai un second projet qui me passionne beaucoup, c’est un voyage que je vais faire dans les prochains mois. Je vais m’installer à Paris et à Berlin et y travailler pendant un certain temps. Dans un futur proche, je m’imagine vivre et travailler sur de nouveaux projets dans certaines villes européennes.

«Je crois que la persévérance que j’ai acquis dans mon travail est liée à la passion, au plaisir et à l’amour qui me nourrissent plus que tout au monde. »

Stirling Prize winning architecture firms including Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield Architects and Foster + Partners are calling on all UK architects to adopt a “shift in behaviour” over climate change.

Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and Alison Brooks Architects have also joined Architects Declare, an initial group of 17 architecture studios calling for collective action to confront the climate and biodiversity emergencies.

“The twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are the most serious issue of our time,” Architects Declare said in a statement.

“For everyone working in the construction industry, meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift in our behaviour,” they added.

“The research and technology exist for us to begin that transformation now, but what has been lacking is collective will.”

UN reports highlight looming crises for planet

The founding members of Architects Declare, who have all won the UK’s top architecture prize, have pledged to design buildings, cities and infrastructures with a more positive impact on the environment, which could then be part of a larger self-sustaining system. The organisation is inviting all other architecture studios to make the same commitment.

The built environment currently accounts for 40 per cent of the UK’s carbon emissions according to the UK Green Building Council. Carbon dioxide is produced by burning fossil fuels and directly causes climate change.

Earlier this year the UN warned there are only 12 years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the only way of averting catastrophic levels of rising seas and increasing extreme weather events.

Another UN report released last month warned that one million animal and plant species are at risk of extinction due to human activity.

Architects Declare pledge to protect environment

Action points proposed by Architects Declare include faster adopting low carbon materials, reducing construction waste and upgrading existing buildings to make them more carbon efficient.

The architects also state they want to go further than aiming for net zero carbon emissions for buildings by adopting regenerative design principles, where a structure actively contributes to renewing the resources it depletes.

Fosters + Partners has also become the first architecture practice to pledge to design only carbon neutral buildings by 2030.

Climate action group Extinction Rebellion shut down swathes of central London, including Waterloo Bridge, in April to demand government action against climate change. The UK government has since declared a climate emergency.

Read the full list of Architects Declare founder members:

› AL_A
› Alison Brooks Architects
› Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
› Caruso St John
› David Chipperfield Architects
› dRMM
› Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
› Foster + Partners
› Haworth Tompkins
› Hodder + Partners
› Maccreanor Lavington
› Michael Wilford
› Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
› Stanton Williams
› Wilkinson Eyre
› Witherford Watson Mann
› Zaha Hadid Architects

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Brooklyn designer Eny Lee Parker’s latest homeware includes a mirror that looks like “dripping pancake batter” and donut-like lamps.

Parker debuted the designs at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), an annual showcase that coincides with the NYCxDesign festival.

The 12 piece collection builds upon her handmade ceramic work, called First Hand Collection, which included terracotta jugs as table legs and floor lamps that look like desert cacti.

Parker’s new handiwork results in organic forms that mimic a human body’s natural curves.

“First Hand Collection Part II is an evolution of the hand-built ceramic series which flirts with familiar gestural forms and curvaceous human body,” Parker told Dezeen.

“Everything is about what you can do with your body so there are a lot of the shapes are very lumpy and imperfect,” she continued.

Parker created the works using a variety of techniques and gave them playful names to describe exactly what they look like.

The Lumpy Breakfast Table, for example, features a curved glass top that slices through a wide and curvy smooth ceramic base. The remaining ceramic piece on top of the glass is indented to place items inside.

Slip mirror was made with thick slip, a type of liquified clay that Parker poured into a flat mould multiple times to look like layers of “dripping pancake batter”.

Her Blob Sconces resemble large donuts with a terracotta hue, with light bulbs placed in the middle of each. The sconces are slip-casted with ceramic into a mould, then reshaped by hand to “give a unique shape for each piece”.

Dangling from the sconces pull switches are custom gota beads, a ceramic embellishment that was created in the same style as her new earring line.

Stitch Stool, an upholstered seat with four curvy, pronged legs “seemingly escapes your grasp with its arthropod like appendages”, according to Parker. A beige ceramic version of the stool spotted with dark brown speckles is also available in a glazed finish.

The Lumpy Vases were created with a similar finish to the ceramic stool by a hand-thrown pottery process, which was then reshaped by hand. Flat protruding rims around the outer edges make the vases appear like life-size mushrooms or fungi.

Parker graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She relocated to New York to create furniture, lighting, and jewellery design. Prior to working with clay and ceramics, she was skilled in welding, which she incorporates into her current work.

Her previous designs include a geometric metal candelabra she created in collaboration with Norwegian artist Kaja Solgaard Dahl as part of Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition at last year’s New York design festival.

ICFF took place from 19 to 22 May 2019 at the Jacob K Javits Center in New York City. Other launches at this year’s event included kitchens designed by David Thulstrup, Note Design Studio and Muller Van Severen for Reform and a wooden chandelier by Stickbulb.

Photography by Jahmad Balugo.

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