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Mapping the City of the 21st Century: Desplans and KooZA/rch Open up the Discourse to Young Creatives

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Desplans and KooZA/rch have revealed the three final winners of the #mycityscape competition. Inviting young creatives to this conversation, the open call questions the definition of the city, by asking “What establishes the identity of a city? What distinguishes one urban environment from the other? And What defines our relationship to the built landscape we inhabit?”

These Competition-Winning Drawings Explore the Meaning of Island Utopias

Niall Patrick Walsh — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Architectural print studio Desplans in collaboration with Library Illustrazioni have published the results of their architectural drawing competition titled “The Island: Between Utopia and Metaphor for Reality.” The competition asked participants to submit drawings and text interpreting the meaning of islands and utopias, considering “the double value inherent in the utopia” between aspiration and limitation.

These Drawings Use Just 5 Lines to Create Beautiful Compositions

AD Editorial Team — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000

DailyDose—one of ArchDaily's five favorite daily newsletters of 2017—have published a collection of drawings submitted as part of an open competition to sketch a composition of just five lines. To celebrate the milestone of their 1000th newsletter which has, over the course of the last five years, delivered 34,297 collected images to inboxes around the globe, one work (by Roberto de Oliveira Castro) will be made available as a limited edition framed artwork by Desplans.