16 videos about Dezeen Awards to help you prepare your entry ahead of the 2 June deadline

With the entry deadline less than 30 days away, VDF teams up with Dezeen Awards today. Here we present a playlist of 16 Dezeen Awards videos to help you prepare your entries, plus at 1pm we'll speak live to judges and winners in a series of conversations sponsored by design brand Hem.

Launched in 2018, Dezeen Awards has become the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.

The YouTube video playlist includes films about the trophies winners receive, interviews with judges about how they choose winners and features on past winners. The movies can also be watched below.

VDF x Dezeen Awards is sponsored by Stockholm-based independent design brand Hem.

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Atelier NL design Dezeen Awards trophy

Atelier NL co-founders Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyk explain how they used London clay to create the trophies for Dezeen Awards in this movie Dezeen filmed at their Eindhoven studio. See how last year's winners are showing off their trophies.

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Dezeen Awards trophy references London architecture

In this movie, Dutch design studio Atelier NL reveal the completed hand-made trophies that all winners receive.

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Architecture project of the year 2019: A Room for Archaeologists and Kids

A wooden pavilion designed to provide shelter for archaeologists that was named architecture project of the year 2019 shows that architecture "does not need to be complicated", said Dezeen Awards 2019 judge and architect Lyndon Neri in this movie.

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Interiors project of the year 2019: Piazza Dell'Ufficio

Piazza Dell'Ufficio by Branch Studio Architects, which was named interior project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019, teaches children about the power of design, said judge Eva Jiricna in this movie.

Located in a suburb of Melbourne, the renovation of the administration offices of Caroline Chisholm College attempts to reduce visual barriers between staff and students.

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Design project of the year 2019: Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group

Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group, which was named design project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2019, could be used in architecture, said 2019 judge Nelly Ben Hayoun in this movie produced by Dezeen.

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Dezeen Awards 2019 judging day

Dezeen Awards 2019 winners were selected by 16 leading architects and designers. The Dezeen Awards master jury day included French designers Philippe Starck, Matali Crasset and Nelly Ben Hayoun.

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Storefront Theatre by Matthew Mazzotta

In this movie, artist Matthew Mazzotta explained how the success of The Storefront Theater, which won him architecture project of the year 2018 at the inaugural Dezeen Awards, came down to the way the local community has made use of it.

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Architecture project of the year 2018: The Storefront Theater by Matthew Mazzotta

Dezeen Awards 2018 jury chair Michel Rojkind explained why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned architecture project of the year.

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Interiors project of the year 2018: Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art

The Dezeen Awards jury voted unanimously to name Casson Mann's designs for the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art as interior project of the year 2018. Jury chair Brittney Hart explained why in this Dezeen movie.

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Design project of the year 2018: Windvogel by Studio Roosegaarde

The Dezeen Awards jury named Windvogel by Studio Roosegaarde as design project of the year for the way the light-emitting kites draw attention to a new renewable energy source, said jury chair Paul Priestman in this movie.

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Dezeen Awards winners sum up architecture and design in one word

What would you say if you won a Dezeen award? In this movie, the Dezeen Awards 2018 winners sum up their work in a single word.

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Micha Weidmann Studio uses colour and movement to animate Dezeen Awards 2018 ceremony

Graphic designer Micha Weidmann Studio collaborated with photographer Leon Chew to create the visual identity for the Dezeen Awards 2018 ceremony.

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Sarah Izod interview: The creative director talks about the Dezeen Awards ceremony

In this movie, architect Sarah Izod explained how she drew from the children's book Where the Wild Things Are to create an other-worldly ceremony for the inaugural Dezeen Awards in 2018.

Izod is also a Dezeen Awards 2020 judge and will be assessing entries across in two design categories.

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Dezeen Awards judges on trends in architecture

The master jury for the architecture categories at Dezeen Awards 2018 discussed the trends that emerged from this year's entries in this movie filmed at the judging day in London in September 2018.

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Dezeen Awards judges on trends in interior design

The Dezeen Awards 2018 interiors shortlist showed how social media is affecting the spaces designers create, according to judges featured in this movie.

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Dezeen Awards judges on trends in design

Members of the Dezeen Awards 2018 design master jury discussed how the shortlist revealed the increasing focus on sustainability in contemporary design.

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Ben Cullen Williams photographs Antarctica alongside the explorer Robert Swan

The artist has documented the continent to coincide with the 200th anniversary of its first sighting, and at a time when its future is under unprecedented peril. We chat with him about this remarkable project.

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Gabriel Alcala talks about the efficiency and clarity behind his vivid practice

Interested in creating unexpected narratives, Gabriel discusses the place of humour during doom and gloom.

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Studio Drift, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Carlo Ratti, Sevil Peach and Iris van Herpen feature at VDF this week

Week four of Virtual Design Festival sees collaborations with New York gallery Friedman Benda, a celebration of fashion designer Iris van Herpen, a cocktail masterclass with Milan's Bar Basso and a live tour of a castle.

To catch up on what you missed so far, check out the VDF weekly highlights posts looking back on what happened in previous weeks. See the full VDF schedule. All times are UK times and are liable to change.

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Monday 4 May

VDF x Dezeen Awards

With the entry deadline for Dezeen Awards less than 30 days away, we've brought together eight judges and winners to discuss their work and the role of awards in architecture and design for a virtual drop-in with Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs sponsored by design brand Hem.

1:00pm Nelly Ben Hayoun
1:10pm Studio Drift
1:30pm Arthur Mamou-Mani
1:50pm Sarah Izod
2:10pm Adam Nathaniel Furman
2:25pm Sevil Peach
2:40pm Victoriya Yakusha
2:50pm Talenia Phua Gajardo

4:00pm Screentime: Carlo Ratti

Marcus Fairs interviews Italian architect Carlo Ratti, founder of Carlo Ratti Associati, which works in everything from furniture to urban planning. The architect recently designed a shipping-container intensive care unit together with Italo Rota. This interview is part of our Screentime series in partnership with Enscape.

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Tuesday 5 May

VDF x Friedman Benda

Today we launch a collaboration with the New York City gallery, sharing one video per week from its Design in Dialogue series of conversations with designers hosted by curator and historian Glenn Adamson.

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2:00pm Screentime: Space Popular

Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of multidisciplinary design and research practice Space Popular will join Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs for a live conversation as part of our Screentime series in partnership with Enscape.

www.spacepopular.com

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Wednesday 6 May

VDF x Iris van Herpen

Dezeen will launch an exclusive series of video interviews with the Dutch fashion designer.

5:00pm Screentime: Jimenez Lai

Bureau Spectatcular's Jimenez Lai is today's Screentime interviewee and will be live from Los Angeles at 5pm for today's Screentime conversation with Marcus Fairs sponsored by Enscape.

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Thursday 7 May

Maurizio Stochetto, owner of the design world's favourite bar, will share his Bar Basso cocktail recipes and tell the history of the legendary Milanese institution.

2:00pm Screentime: Harriet Harriss

Harriet Harriss, the dean of architecture at The Pratt Institute, is interviewed live from 2pm as part of VDF's Screentime series in partnership with Enscape.

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Saturday 9 May

VDF x Schloss Hollenegg

Dezeen collaborates with Schloss Hollenegg in Austria for a virtual tour of the castle and its Walden exhibition with curator, castle owner and real-life princess Alice Stori Liechtenstein.

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Virtual Design Festival is the world's first online design festival. Produced by Dezeen and running from 15 April to 30 June, it features a rolling schedule of interviews, movies, product launches, live streams and collaborations. To join the VDF mailing list or to find out more contact vdf@dezeen.com. Press information can be found here.

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Jagged MDF creates entire walls of storage for El Guateque apartments in Barcelona

Kitchens, bathrooms and storage spaces are slotted behind an MDF "scenography" in these apartments designed by architects Adrià Escolano and David Steegmann.

Escolano and Steegmann created the two El Guateque apartments by converting a 160-square-metre self-build house from the 1950s.

A refurbishment had previously been attempted in 2007, but was abandoned due to the financial crisis. As a result, the building had no internal partitions and was in need of an entire refit.

Converting the three-storey building into two separate homes meant that space inside was limited, so the architects were keen to leave as much space open as possible.

Their design splits the two homes into "front-stage" and "backstage" areas.

The front-stage areas are the main living spaces, used for eating, sleeping, working and relaxing, while the backstage areas are for more private or utilitarian activities, like cooking or bathing, and for storing belongings.

These backstage areas are where Escolano and Steegmann have focused their attention. They are built from MDF panels, with jagged edges that differ on each floor.

"The project concentrates on the backstage, accumulating in a single technical piece of furniture, present on all three floors," said the pair.

"The furniture's closing panels, a suspended scenography, build a background landscape for the living space," they explained.

On the uppermost floor, two jagged panels slide open to reveal a shower. On the ground floor, the rugged edges run underneath the ceiling, while the first floor storage wall features an uneven end section.

The architects came up with the design by exploring the limitations of CNC cutting machines. The geometries they used were based on a study of broken marble slabs.

"Since MDF wood panels are cut by numerical control machines, we were interested in pushing the limits of this technique to new possibilities, forcing the cutting machine to vectorial movements," they explained.

As well as the MDF panels, Escolano and Steegmann have also used terracotta tiles to unify spaces throughout the building. These tiles line the bathroom spaces, and also provide wall and floor surfaces for outdoor terraces.

The apartment on the ground floor is an open-plan, L-shaped studio flat with a terrace at the rear.

Sliding doors integrated into the MDF storage wall make it possible to subdivide the space when needed.

The second home occupies both the first and second floors, and is a bit more versatile.

On the first floor, two spaces can be partitioned off to form bedrooms, the largest of which is contained by a concertina-style screen.

The upper level functions as a master bedroom suite, which opens out to a roof terrace and pool.

Other homes that make creative use of MDF include An Attic for David, which features bespoke cabinetry, and Apartment XVII, where the material is coloured green.

Photography is by José Hevia.

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Project credits:

Architects: Adrià Escolano, David Steegmann
Engineer: Joan Ovejero
Contractor: Constructiva Global

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