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Tests your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s criticsFrancis Ford Coppola was given his middle name in honour of who or what? The Ford motor companyMichigan congressman Gerald Ford (later President Ford) Film director John FordWhich painter impressed a pope b…
Urban transition and new orientations. The project adds two floors on an existing volume and reorganize entirely the plan with a creation of a patio, transforming an urban house into a two apartment construction, a duplex on the two first floors and a triplex above it.
Gogoro has unveiled Eeyo 1 ebike, designed to address the daily challenges of city life and takes a different approach to traditional ebikes by prioritizing agility over utility.
This house is located in a quiet residential area, which is to Northside of Kurazukuri Zone (Old storehouse zone) in Kawagoe City. In the summer Koedo Kawagoe Fireworks Display is exciting in the whole city, in the autumn Kawagoe Festival, a lot of lantern lights in front of the…
The Sandler Stak chair is a classic of British design. Combining functionality and simplicity in a form that celebrates the materials and technologies used in its manufacture, the Stak chair is considered an exemplar of the modern design era.
PB Creative has partnered with Kraft Heinz to develop a new premium tier for drinks cordial brand Karvan Cévitam.
The Clerkenwell Brothers has designed a new brand identity and packaging for Little Miracles, a global iced tea brand.
IDSA's Sustainability Deep Dive 2020 is a three-day virtual event that will feature a comprehensive mix of expert presentations and skill-building sessions meant to produce a wellspring of innovative ideas and possibilities that are desperately needed to bring about change.
BackgrounSince the Reform and Opening-up, a “third-generation” living type has appeared in rural areas of southern Zhejiang province, which has formed a unique local landscape of 5-storey residential buildings with narrow width and long depth. The style of multiple-storey and nar…
La Cucina / Myeongborang is located at the highest point in the Hannam district on the south side of Namsan, commanding a panoramic view of the city, from Han River to the N-Tower. Whereas the previous building on this prominent site, Gallery Bing, dominated its surroundings with…
New York firm No Architecture has designed this house in Oregon's Willamette Valley wine country around a glazed garden fill with deciduous trees. A large dark roof covers the aptly named Courtyard House residence with an irregular piercing in the middle marking the courtyard. I…
Located in a suburb of ChauDoc town in AnGiang province, Southern Vietnam, this house is a sharing residence of 3 nuclear families who are kin. Although this project budget was tightened with local standards, which only allowed us to build a house with thin corrugated metal panel…
Photographer Peter Mitchell has been shooting Leeds for more than 40 years. His new book, Early Sunday Morning (RRB Photobooks, £50), captures terraced houses, cobbled streets, corner shops and scenes of destruction, 1970-1980 Continue reading...
Plot # 1282 is a residential project located on the northern periphery of Beirut at the proximity of one the city’s abandoned and unused railway terminal, military barracks, leftovers of agricultural land and a 30‐meter wide highway. The zone in which our project is located is no…
Week seven of Virtual Design Festival featured a video interview with Stephen Burks, an exclusive product launch by Tom Dixon and an all-star roundtable discussion with architects Junya Ishigami, Frida Escobedo, Counterspace and more. Virtual Design Festival, the world's first o…
SCI-Arc has announced that its summer program Making+Meaning will be held online this year. Now open to applicants all around the world, students from across the US, Asia, Europe, and beyond will convene to delve deeply into the most cutting-edge techniques and processes advancin…
The Mauritius Commercial Bank building designed by Mauritian architect Jean-Francois Koenig in 2006 and completed in 2012 is situated in the centre of the island of Mauritius to decentralise from head office in the Capital City Port Louis to be closer to the living areas of the w…
The 14th Annual San Francisco Design Week (SFDW), which attracts annually 60,000 visitors from around the world, is returning this year as the first regional virtual design festival.
Architecture studio Kientruc O built the Bó Mon preschool with a shady veranda for children living in Vietnam's mountainous Son La Province. Situated in the Yên Châu District's Tu Nang Commune, the rural school was designed to be comfortable in the warm and humid subtropical cli…
SPF:a has completed renovations on the Taylor Beach House, a 1977 home originally designed by noted California modernist Jerrold E. Lomax, FAIA (1927-2014). Located along the Malibu, CA coast, the Taylor Beach House is well appointed with 5,000 square feet of modern living space,…
Meant to be a dove, but looking more like a hen, one man’s vision of a temple for all faiths has enjoyed an unlikely resurrectionWho hasn’t at some time in their life dreamed of building a secret underground temple, a giant golden llama or a monument to Shirley Bassey made entire…
Material Works were commissioned to design a a small addition to this victorian terraced house in Stoke Newington, London. With a limited budget and limited space for building in, the challenge was to transform the existing dark and cramped kitchen space into a bright and open sp…
Through the past few months, the importance of community interaction and mental well-being has been felt by all. Yet, the need for a support system and constant reassurance has been a recurrent issue for much longer for forcibly displaced populations. Adding to the current health…
Located on Montjuic hill in Barcelona and designed by the rationalist style architect Josep Lluis Sert, the Fundació Joan Miró (Joan Miró Foundation) is a unique space imagined by Miró with a dream of bringing art to the entire world.
This week on Dezeen, Adidas released a face mask, Waugh Thistleton Architects proposed creating mobile vaccination centres in shipping containers and designers were accused of coronagrifting. Sportswear brand Adidas revealed Face Cover, a reusable face mask made from recycled ma…
The building aims to be a system that harmoniously integrates the new expected uses with a space of high-quality landscaping and urbanity, with various proposed activities with a strong symbolic character. An open, flexible urban facility is generated that allows the development…
The General Motors Technical Center fascinates with architecture filled with an abundance of light. Interior offices and showrooms evoke the impression of a calm overcast sky for a human environment and beauty. The campus designed by Eero Saarinen represents an influential icon o…
Transit unions are supporting members who have balked at assisting police during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd.
Belvedere was built in Hamburg’s central park Planten un Blomen as part of the “Hamburger Architektur Sommer” (the Hamburg architecture triennial) and to mark the 30th anniversary of the city partnership between Hamburg and Osaka. Designed by Kawahara Krause Architects and with a…
As an old industrial base in Tianjin, the Tractor Factory of Tianjin made outstanding contribution to the industrial development of China in the 1950s. As time develops, the industrial function of this plot is no longer prominent. Therefore, this renovation is not only a transfor…
“Usually we work, we draw, we look in each other’s eyes, we argue, we throw things around the room, we make models and break them apart, and somehow stuff gets made,” said Ms. Diller, who has been working from the couple’s weekend home in upstate New York.Liz Diller, architect an…
D&AD has revealed its plans for the 2020 New Blood Digital Festival, running from July 6-10 in place of its annual Festival at London's Truman Brewery. The digital festival will provide a virtual platform that continues to support and stimulate emerging creative talent during wha…
A groundbreaking ceremony has just taken place for the Monument to Freedom and Unity, in central Berlin. The 50m-long (164ft) bowl will move gently up and down when enough people stand on it, and it should be completed by the end of next year. In a guide to the design, architects…
After completing a required one-year post-occupancy review, the Silver Oaks Alexander Valley winery designed Piechota Architecture, with engineering and sustainable design consultations from Thornton Tomasetti, has achieved Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification. The wine…
White BuildingThe hotel was built in this natural landscape, pure and independent in its all-white architecture. Because the building is located on a hillside, shen mo, the designer, takes measures according to local conditions, laying out a stepped walkway leading to a high plac…
Julien Fincker has released Spitzkant, a serif typeface family that is characterized by strong contrasts. Pointed, sharp serifs and edges contrast with round and fine forms, making it very individual and expressive. This makes it particularly suitable for branding, editorial, pac…
States are reopening courts to eviction hearings even as coronavirus-driven job losses continue, setting the stage for “a housing crisis of unparalleled magnitude.”
The site is located in the local city developing gradually.It faces the 30-meter-wide main road, increasing in traffic.There are houses, apartments, nursing homes, office buildings, and restaurants built disorderly along this road. The car is very important transportation in the…
How To Recognize and Manage the Complexities of Heat Stress
It is no longer a novelty that adapting ourselves to the new home office working mode has been more challenging than we expected. Suddenly, learning how to peacefully share our space with others, differentiating our office hours from our personal lives or even communicating with…
The house in this case is a 40-year-old terrace house with a narrow and long pattern, and the internal is cut into many small pieces of space by many old mezzanines which are all the original structure of this house. Therefore, the whole space was dark and lacking of lighting eve…
For the duration of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, AN will use this column to keep our readers up to date on how the pandemic is affecting architecture and related industries. This weekly article is meant to digest the latest major developments in the crisis and synthesize br…
In response to the recent recommendations released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Matt Richtel with The New York Times has outlined some of the key takeaways of the guidelines, mainly that, for some employers, it may be easier to keep employees working a…
There are tons of materials available for renovation. So how to choose? To narrow down the available options, in this article, we will take a closer look at two finishes – paint and architectural film. We will also attempt to compare the cons and pros of using these solutions fo…
A District of Columbia preservation panel told the National Geographic Society on Thursday to suspend its current campus redesign plan pending further review of the proposed removal of an acclaimed sculptural installation on the site.A controversial plan to demolish an existing s…
New Products for Elegant and Enduring Exteriors
Bayswater Early Years Hub known as ‘Sunflower’ is a community centre in Australia built to last for more than 100 years
With the COVID-19 quarantine period entering its third month in the United States, Archinect is seeking input from the design community regarding how the crisis has impacted issues of mental health. Archinect has covered mental and workplace health issues extensively in the past…
OMA / Reinier de Graaf, together with Jaspers-Eyers Architects, wins the competition for the design of the new headquarters of the National Railway Company of Belgium, SNCB NMBS, in Brussels
Luxury Prefab Builder Dvele Announces Acquisition of Blu Homes
COVID-19 Update: 'The Hope is That The Freefall is Behind Us'
As everyone eases into the summer season, why not spend that free time challenging yourself by entering a design competition. Although COVID-19 and other economic issues have continued to make headlines, efforts to address sustainability have remained a priority amongst the archi…
Before social-distancing became in vogue, the owner of the Boar Shoat (a family term for youthful vivacity) was looking for some isolation. Not to get away from a pandemic, but to gain distance from the clamor of city living. He wanted a retreat - a place where he and his family…
Building Safety Month, Week Four: Training The Next Generation of Building and Safety Professionals
Operators of transportation infrastructure are taking steps to keep workers and travelers safe as the economy begins to reopen.
As restrictions start to ease around the globe, some museums and cultural centers will soon welcome guests—with new precautions.
President Donald Trump used Twitter to announce a spate of already-approved bus, commuter train, and light rail projects, many in politically strategic states.
Alside Creates New ASCEND Composite Cladding System
Italy and Spain have hospital trains on standby for any future Covid-19 outbreaks, after medical workers on France’s high-speed TGV train treated 84 patients.
Savant Systems to Acquire GE Lighting
VDF studio profiles: Ramona Albert Architecture is a New York-based studio that specialises in building and product design, and is driven by nature and contemporary technologies. The studio was founded in Brooklyn in 2018 by Romanian designer, builder and Harvard University grad…
This main through apartment started from a conventional structure organized with enclosed spaces, a distributive corridor and a small south-facing balcony.
Demand for touchless products such as toilets and faucets is soaring as architects look to prevent the spread coronavirus in their buildings, according to Paul Flowers, chief design officer at water technology brand LIXIL. Touchless products in bathrooms and kitchens combined wi…
With workers in quarantine, the busy neighborhood now feels like a secret backyard for families. Our critic walks with the architect Claire Weisz.
A photo series showcases the disruptive effect the pandemic has had on the U.S. auto industry.
Czech studio Refuel Works took cues from buildings by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to design this concrete villa nestled into the jungle in Costa Rica. Art Villa is part of the Art Villas resort in Playa Hermosa, an extensive property that comprises rentable houses,…
Covid-19 deaths track closely to the discriminatory boundaries set by housing lenders, sponsored by the government, in the 20th century.
Annabelle Selldorf spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. The New York-based architect spoke to Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about her work. Originally from Germany, Selldorf founded her pra…
New Orleans is looking for new ways to mitigate the effects of stormwater that regularly floods the city.
A recession is coming, though we don't know how big it will be or how long it will last. Compared to the Great Recession, the housing market could potentially help, rather than hurt, economic recovery, according to the analysis shared here.
London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman's Democratic Monument is a proposal for town halls around the UK that would feature bright tiles and a diverse mix of architectural styles. As civic buildings, Democratic Monuments would be brightly-coloured combinations of styles and materi…
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archine…
Urban Symbiotics is an insight and research led multi-disciplinary design practice that focuses on the user experience to innovate architecture, masterplanning and the public realm
Amir Kripper is Founding Principal of Kripper Studio. Born in Brazil, raised and educated in Uruguay and the United States, the Boston-based architect originated the multidisciplinary firm to deliver concept-driven design for commercial, multi-unit residential and institutional p…
Born in Tehran ,Mahsa Majidi graduated from Science and Research with a PhD degree in architecture
Femi has over 25 years of architectural experience in the Public & Institutional (P + I), Corporate, Commercial, High End Residential and Hospitality sectors
As Design Director and co-founder of Warner Wong Design and WOW Architects, Maria sets strategic objectives and oversees the development of the WOW team
Reflected greenery shrouds the mirrored extension that architecture practice Delavegacanolasso added to house in Madrid, which occupies a disused art studio. La Madriguera, which translates to The Burrow, has been designed by Delavegacanolasso to be a cosy home for a young coupl…
The AJ wants to know what you think Architects Declare has managed to achieve in its first 12 months
Allies and Morrison is set to become the latest architect to bag planning permission for a tower in the Old Kent Road, south London
An international competition is being held to masterplan a new utopian city state inspired by ZHA principal Patrik Schumacher’s vision for an Anarcho-Capitalist society
Westminster councillors have approved a 112-home mixed-use scheme by Child Graddon Lewis near the Grand Union Canal in central London
A virtual London Festival of Architecture will take place next month, it has been revealed, with building tours, a wide range of talks, a pub quiz and even a bake-off all moving online because of the coronavirus
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Graeme Nicholls Architects has extrapolated the form of a former greyhound stadium for a proposed oval of red-brick housing by Ibrox football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. The Albion Housing scheme, which would contain 160 dual-aspect apartments, would consist of two four-storey…
Nokia recently tasked CallisonRTKL with uniting two of Nokia's existing campuses in Las Colinas and Plano, Texas, and consolidating them into a single location in Cypress Waters.
Around the world, private companies and public institutions alike are racing to present first-of-its-kind 3D-printed buildings, even entire villages. In the Czech Republic, a developing company in collaboration with sculptor Michal Trpak is preparing to build, what it calls, the…
After months of testing by multiple general contractors, Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robot dog is being put to use in a real-world scenario, at the Denver International Airport’s multibillion-dollar expansion and renovation project.According to Construction Dive, Hensel Phelps empl…
The Associated Contractors of America (AGC) has published its monthly review of the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data on construction industry employment, finding predictably that states with the strictest lockdown protocols have fared the worst with regards to co…
OSHA Launches COVID-19 Website for Construction Employers and Workers
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani worked with Argentine-American architect César Pelli to complete this residential skyscraper in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Pelli Clarke Pelli, the firm founded by the Pelli who died last year aged 92, designed the Residences by Armani/Cas…
Gensler has added a black metal volume to an airport servicing ski resorts in Vail, Colorado, containing lounges with fireplaces and pale wood ceilings. The project was designed for Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE) in the town of Gypsum that services Vail, Beaver Creek and ot…
CityLab investigates the practices of company officials at Nextdoor to cultivate relationships with police and local officials.
Today's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, address the Brooklyn Bridge and the 2020 Wege Prize Awards. RIBA is also hosting its first virtual reality talk. Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour? Interview? Happy Hour? Submit i…
The Center for Community progress offers advice on effective code enforcement during a time of extreme economic duress.
A year after opening the Shed, Elizabeth Diller is trying to adjust to a world in which she and colleagues can no longer kick around ideas in person.
Wutopia Lab designed China's first all carbon-fiber structure in the rural area of Zhejiang, China in collaboration with digital construction team RoboticPlus.AI
A Roman mosaic floor has been discovered under a vineyard in northern Italy after decades of searching. Surveyors in the commune of Negrar di Valpolicella north of Verona published images of the well-preserved tiles buried under metres of earth. According to officials, scholars f…
Inspired by Philip Johnson's Glass House and the Ben Rose House from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a glass-clad pavilion recently completed by Maurice Martel Architecte sits as a tribute to modern architecture in Montréal. Photos by Adrien Williams.Complete with a four-season, indoor…
When corporations move out of the suburbs, they leaving behind largely unprofitable corporate campuses. Loss of property value and tax revenue follow in the communities they left.