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Scottish practice Loader Monteith Architects has used two volumes clad in locally-sourced black timber to extend this stone cottage in the Highlands. Strone of Glenbanchor, which sits at the edge of the Cairngorms National Park in central Scotland, was originally built as a cott…
Run Run Run is intended as an architectural intervention that facilitates the use of the city in alternative ways. It is an infrastructure that makes it possible to turn the street into a playground and training site, helping to emancipate oneself from the dependence of the domes…
Revival of an Italian Hilltown. Designed by Mario Cucinella Architects for the historic centre of Peccioli, Palazzo Senza Tempo is a response to the municipal administration’s desire to encourage new cultural programmes and commercial activity while enhancing the built heritage o…
Confronting the land on which architecture was built - This is the renovation of a wooden building that stands on the site of a shell mound that bears traces of the early Jomon period, about 15,000 years ago. The building was built as a share house (six rooms), but it was sold th…
Drawing inspiration from local Norfolk pines, the latest mixed-use residential project by Koichi Takada Architects is a sculptural and sympathetic addition to its coastal location in Burleigh Heads (Queensland, Australia). The organic, overlapping architectural curves and linear…
As New York City continues to emerge from the dark days of the pandemic that sent it reeling well into the early spring of this year, a new effort has been put forth led by local artists and design studios to help the city’s eight million residents reconnect via a series of publi…
It was on a Japanese ski trip that the owners of this Wanaka house came to appreciate the efficiency of small spaces. Staying in a compact two-bedroom vacation home in the mountains, they saw that a small, carefully designed house could be comfortable and pleasant to live in. Bas…
Are you looking for an architecture job at a big, global firm, or do you prefer to apply your talent at a boutique design studio? The huge list of current openings at Archinect's industry-leading job board has got something for everyone, and our latest weekly highlight of feature…
The aptly-named Swedish photography museum Fotografiska has formally codified plans to double its footprint worldwide, which, when added together, will make Fotografiska the world’s largest private art museum. Although the [...] Read More... The post Fotografiska unveils ambitiou…
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Dissecting the Eviction Crisis James Brasuell Mon, 11/29/2021 - 12:00 Primary Image An eviction crisis has loomed over the United States since the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders of Spring 2020, but it's always been hard to tell how bad the effects if the pandemic would be for…
Who would have predicted that the spread of COVID-19 would drastically change our perception of the world, human existence, and space in 2020? In the small clinic where my father works, it is difficult to keep the general outpatient clinic and the fever outpatient clinic in separ…
Once San Francisco's 'Grandest Boulevard,' Van Ness Almost Done With Another Makeover James Brasuell Mon, 11/29/2021 - 11:00 Primary Image San Francisco has been working on the Van Ness Improvement Project, which includes the controversial addition of bus rapid transit lanes, for…
The Czech Republic’s capital city is getting a verdant new addition thanks to the latest winning effort from one of Amsterdam’s top firms. Benthem Crouwel Architects has been named the winner of an international competition for its mixed-use design that features housing units, re…
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Toronto Reconsidering its Parking Requirements James Brasuell Mon, 11/29/2021 - 10:00 Primary Image Citing concerns about a changing climate and the changing habits of urban dwellers, Toronto city council is set to decide if it will keep requiring a minimum number of parking spac…
The north entrance faces a main road and features a wide, open space with high ceilings. The south end of the salon has a mezzanine level that rises 1580mm above the main floor. From the high windows, cutout views of the sky are visible. We designed this salon to take full advant…
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As part of the firm’s continued experimentation with the increasingly popular building method in its hometown, Henning Larsen and Ramboll have unveiled a new design for what will eventually become Copenhagen’s largest mass timber structure. The new Marmormolen area development sc…
A Primer on Arlington County's Missing Middle Housing Study Diana Ionescu Mon, 11/29/2021 - 09:00 Primary Image According to an article by Ally Schweitzer, Virginia's Arlington County is entering the second phase of a comprehensive study to evaluate how the county can encourage c…
The BlackCliff House is situated on Canada’s west coast, perched on a granite rock rising 40 meters above the shoreline below. This location is a geographical “halfway” point for a dispersed family who are intermittently working and living on multiple continents. The home accommo…
Fast-Rising Rents: Cause or Effect of Institutional Real Estate Investors? James Brasuell Mon, 11/29/2021 - 08:00 Primary Image Heidi Groover examines one of the big questions of the contemporary housing affordability crisis: to what degree are investors responsible for run away…
Dezeen promotion: AHEAD has unveiled the winners of its Europe 2021 edition, including its coveted Hotel of the Year award, which was taken home by luxury hotelier NoMad's London hotel. The Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design (AHEAD) celebrates compelling hospitality pr…
Cincinnati Approves Funding for Affordable Housing Diana Ionescu Mon, 11/29/2021 - 07:00 Primary Image The Cincinnati City Council has approved close to $1 million in funding for an affordable housing project, reports Becca Costello for WVXU. As Costello writes, The Barrister pro…
Talk of architecture internships has been an ongoing discussion at Archinect. With the rise in fair and equitable work practices for designers at various levels, we've frequently opened our platform to organizations and individuals aiming to shed light on best internship practice…
Deus Ex Machina, a famous brand of Australian origin whose products are geared towards motorcycles, surfing, and fashion in the post-modern world, chose São Paulo to house its first store in Brazil. Recently opened on the traditional Avenida Rebouças, the project signed by the ar…
The “Slave Play” actress and the Chicago-based artist discuss generational gaps, success and the art that brought them each acclaim.
Tenure blind housing to revitalise Tottenham. Apex House, a high-quality regeneration project by John McAslan + Partners, is a cluster of three inter-connected brick-clad buildings rising to a peak of 23-storeys over the junction of Seven Sisters Road and Tottenham High Road in n…
Lightly charred timber clads the walls of Sayang House, a house conceived by designer Carlos Gris for an aunt who had returned to UK after 20 years abroad. Gris designed the home for his aunt Gretta Funnell, who decided to leave her home in Malaysia and move to the Cambridgeshir…
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Tigg + Coll Architects has added a timber-roofed wing to a house in Surrey, England, to support the needs of two children with a rare muscular disorder. The project, called House for Theo and Oskar, prepares the two-storey suburban home in Boxhill for the family's future needs.…
Twenty architectural firms and practitioners from all over the world will be selected as part of the 2021 generation of ArchDaily's New Practices this Tuesday, November 30, on ArchDaily and its versions in Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese.
People spend hours at work every day. Offices still fail to recognise the difference lighting can make to their workspaces. Lighting is an important matter when talking about visual comfort and productivity. Optimized lighting can help to improve performance and there are determi…
Monte Tauro is a single-family residence located in Lomas de Chapultepec, a highly residential area of Mexico City. The site is a 30x20m rectangle with neighbors to three of the sides, and a street on the north side.
The building construction industry currently accounts for 40% of annual greenhouse gas emissions, due to its high carbon embodiment and carbonated energy demands. Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is a sustainable solution to address these concerns and to contribute to a n…
Virgil Abloh, a great American influential figure in the fashion, art, culture, design, and architecture scene, passed away at 41, after a silent battle with cancer. Known for his collaboration with AMO, especially for the Off-White Flagship Store in Miami and in Paris, a brand h…
From postpunk stationery to Harry Styles nail polish and a beach towel celebrating the woman who shot Andy Warhol … get your Christmas in gear with our guide to the hottest presents for your best art friendVintage Wagner throwWant to snuggle up with Wagner? It’s not the usual res…
Located at 127 NE 41 Street, in the heart of the city’s dynamic and expanding Design District, the bi-floor space has been designed by Off-White’s founder and creative director, Virgil Abloh together with AMO—the boundary-pushing research and design branch of the renowned archite…
Fotografiska Museum has announced its expansion to three new locations in Berlin, Shanghai and Miami, to be housed within existing buildings redesigned by Herzog & De Meuron, Neri&Hu and Rockwell Group. A former department store in Berlin's Jewish Quarter, a 1946 factory building…
The acclaimed designer Virgil Abloh has passed away at the age of 41 after a two-year battle with cancer. The American designer and entrepreneur was originally trained as an architect, but his impact on the design world was felt throughout fashion, interior design, music, and pro…
Architect Nate Dalesio has completed a cork-covered home for himself and his young family in Upstate New York, reusing the existing foundations but replacing almost the entire building. Dalesio, who also runs the architectural firm Multitude Studio from his home, overhauled the…
Critics say retrofitting rather than demolishing and constructing buildings has less climate impactThere is a new front in Britain’s planning wars. Rows over obstructed views and architectural style are being elbowed aside by concerns about the carbon footprint of new buildings.T…
Exeter College; St Hilda’s College, OxfordFrom its big, sheltering roof to its little desk windows, Alison Brooks’s new quad for Exeter College is a tour de force that puts people first, while a playful addition to St Hilda’s makes the most of its riverfront settingJust after you…
Large glass doors open a double-height living space out onto a lush garden in this annexe to a 19th-century home in Porto by Bak Gordon Arquitectos. Named Casa 2, the building was conceived by the Lisbon-based studio as a standalone garden pavilion. It contains four ensuite bedr…
Looking for exciting architectural career opportunities in Philadelphia? Lots of new openings have been posted on Archinect's job board recently, which is why we're highlighting a selection of active employers in this week's curated jobs picks. For the complete list of available…
If you’re reading this it’s not too late: Die-hard Drake fans looking for a little architectural distraction during the American holiday, which was a byproduct of the Civil War, can now find respite in the form of a new virtual tour of the Grammy winner’s massive 19th-century lim…
Architectural studio Al Borde used blackened wood and a cement-coated canopy to form an observation deck and classroom in a protected natural area in southwestern Ecuador. The project, called Learning Viewpoint, is located near Guayaquil in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest – a…
British practice Tim Ronalds Architects has converted a 19th-century malt house in Canterbury into a theatre for The King’s School, using an as found approach that celebrates the industrial building's original steel, brick and timber structure. The London-based firm completed Th…
This week on Dezeen, we revealed the architecture, interiors, design, media projects and studios that won trophies at the Dezeen Awards 2021. This year, 50 winners including studios, individual architects and designers were chosen from more than 4,700 entries from 86 different c…
Architecture studio OMA has completed the first phase of transforming a US Postal Service building into a multi-purpose destination in downtown Houston. The public areas at POST Houston opened on 13 November 2021 within a 500,000-square-foot (46,450-square-metre) concrete mail-s…
Charles EL Gilman urges the government to resume and complete electrification schemes, Jim Grozier fondly remembers on-board sightseeing booklets, while Victoria Owens recalls an ecclesiastical jewel seen from a trainI was glad to read in Ian Jack’s article (The London to Edinbur…
An exhibition highlights creative solutions by architects around the world to the problem of homelessness.
The Architectural Review has announced Carles Enrich Studio as the winner of the AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2020. The Barcelona-based practice was chosen from a shortlist of 16 young architects and designers around the world recognized as “the architectural stars of tomorrow…
Designs by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) took center stage as the City of Toronto announced a partnership between Los Angeles-based real estate investors Hackman Capital Partners (HCP) and production [...] Read More... The post SOM unveils a new media hub for the Toronto water…
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has designed a collection of peaked umbrella-shaped structures that were informed by the surrounding mountains for a rest area in Japan. The Oath Hill Park is a rest area with toilets and an observation deck in a rural, moun…
To coincide with Greenpeace's 50th anniversary, Dezeen teamed up with Michael Green Architecture and Greenpeace to host a live talk to discuss the relationship between design and activism. The talk, titled Design, Activism and Impact, was moderated by Dezeen's founder and editor…
Architect Chris Precht will present Bert, a modular timber house, at Dezeen's next Architecture Project Talk, presented in partnership with the Forest Stewardship Council. Register now to watch the webinar at 1:00pm London time on Tuesday 2 December. During the webinar architect…
Skylights made from a patchwork of recycled phone, tablet and laptop screens create a rainbow-like lighting effect inside this pavilion at Strathclyde Country Park in Scotland, designed by O’DonnellBrown Architects with artist Kate V Robertson. Overlooking Strathclyde Loch, the…
We have now published over 170 school shows! As we approach the end of 2021, here are the ten most popular showcases of student work from throughout the year. Dezeen School Shows provides universities with an affordable digital platform to put the work of their students in front…
Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has created a partly underground weekend home that is meant to exist in pleasant tension with the natural landscape. Casa Aguacates is located in Valle de Bravo, a rural lake town that is a couple of hours by car from Mexico City. Known for its…
Chinese practice HOOOLDESIGN have completed a showroom and living quarters inspired by the human journey through urban paths and alleyways. Titled “The Streets,” the project uses a blend of stone, terrazzo, timber, concrete, and glass to create a 460 square meter (5000 square foo…
British fashion brand Burberry has installed a pop-up store that reflects a surrounding mountain range on Jeju Island, South Korea, for its latest outerwear clothing collection. Nestled at the foot of the Halla mountains on Jeju Island, The Imagined Landscapes Jeju is part of a…
Architecture practice Demogo has perched a small cabin on the dramatic Marmarole mountain range in Northern Italy's Dolomites, with a full-height window that gives the impression of almost falling over the edge of a cliff. With bunk beds to accommodate up to 12 people, Bivouac F…
Danish architecture practice Henning Larsen and engineering company Ramboll have designed an eight-storey stepped wooden building for the Nordhavn waterfront on the eastern edge of Copenhagen. The proposed mixed-use commercial building, called Marmormolen, would measure 28,000-s…
The Tate apparently showed off a gingerbread model for the finale of the Great British Bake Off. This year’s winning entry for the BBC Channel 4 competition was an oversized remake of the Mad Hatter’s tea party from one-time architecture critic Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland…
Following last week’s initial release of its annual House of the Year shortlist, the Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the next two projects that will, along with five others, vie for the influential award first established by the institute in 2013.The second up…
Multicolour tiles form graphic stripes across the exterior of this showroom in Miami, which Esrawe Studio has designed in collaboration with art collective Superflex. The showroom belongs to natural stone company Grupo Arca and is located in Wynwood, a former industrial district…
This post is sponsored by the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) School of Architecture and Design, an Archinect Partner School The mission within the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) School of Architecture and Design is to deliver a 21st-century design education, whi…
The ten winners of the Construction Startup Competition 2021 have been announced by CEMEX Ventures, recognizing the most promising startup companies in the construction sector for this year. The overall winner of the competition was Document Crunch, an AI-powered software which c…
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Leading modernist Bernard Judge passed away in his Los Angeles home last week at the age of 90. The LA Times’ Carolina Miranda has an excellent write-up on the man who once designed a home for Marlon Brando on an atoll in French Polynesia. Judge was in many ways the living defini…
Dezeen promotion: in an interview with Swiss window brand Sky-Frame, architect Dara Huang speaks about the connection to health, wellbeing and spirituality that drives her architecture practice. Speaking to Sky-Frame, Huang said that she believes proximity to nature can extend a…
Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, has been selected by the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors as successor to outgoing AIA Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Ivy, FAIA. [...] Read More... The post Lakisha Woods named as 15th executive vice-p…
The Brooklyn Museum in New York City has received a massive capital investment from the Department of Cultural Affairs — $50 million, the largest single gift in the institution’s history. The funding, announced yesterday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, will support gallery renovations a…
Colourful shipping containers and a modular steel structure make up Stadium 974, which Fenwick Iribarren Architects has completed in Qatar ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup. Formerly known as Ras Abu Aboud, the 40,000-seat sports venue near Doha's port is the first stadium design…
After Foster + Partners' design for the Tulip tower was recently rejected by the UK government, we round up 10 other high-profile building projects that were never actually built. Mexico City airport by Foster + Partners The Tulip is not the first time Foster + Partners has seen…
Outgoing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has released a new $90 billion dollar resiliency plan that will expand on an existing pilot program using the city’s own climate-based design guidelines as a precept. The plan calls for a total of 40 new projects overseen by 23 different capital…
In collaboration with the World Architecture Festival since 2012, the Architectural Photography Awards (APA) has been celebrating the work of professional and amateur photographers with a passion for capturing the beauty of architecture and the built environment. According to AP…
Architect and Rice University alumnus Charles Renfro, partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), is returning to the Houston campus of his undergrad alma mater for the creation of a [...] Read More... The post Diller Scofidio + Renfro reveals a barn-inspired design for Rice Univ…
Q+A with KB Home on Creating More Water-Efficient Houses
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have offered an insight into the design and fabrication of a new architectural sculpture, built with the help of artificial intelligence and four robots. The structure, standing 22.5 meters (74 feet) in height, will consist of five geometr…
Tricon Residential Plans Over 3,000 Build-to-Rent Homes Across 23 Communities
The Ron Arad and David Adjaye-designed UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London is facing another legal challenge this week after years of back-and-forth between a slate of opposition groups and the UK government. The Times of Israel is reporting that a High Court judg…
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In this week's comments update readers are debating Herzog & de Meuron's Tour Triangle, which is set to be built in Paris, and discussing other top stories. The Tour Triangle skyscraper is finally set to begin construction in Paris after 15 years in the making, amid a last-ditch…
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Zaha Hadid Architects has shared an update about its latest venture in the Chinese entertainment capital of Macau. The multibillion-dollar project has topped out on Phase 2 of its Hollywood-themed twin-tower resort called Studio City. The resort was built to expand developer Melc…
With a mildly risqué tweet that elicited no candid responses, MVRDV has revealed a 15-story mixed-use residential tower planned for Mannheim, Germany’s under-development Franklin Mitte district. The donut-y form bears [...] Read More... The post MVRDV reveals the “O” apartment bl…
Architects, designers and policymakers should join forces to write a manifesto for Canadian design that platforms indigenous communities, according to Andrew King of architecture studio Lemay. A cohesive and inclusive Canadian design identity would help unify the country around…
In this latest weekly highlight of featured employers, we are showcasing five architectural, urban, interior, and experience design firms with current job openings in New York City/Brooklyn, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. For eve…
The famous diarist’s dedicated building, left to his Cambridge alma mater, could not be altered. So architect Níall McLaughlin created a magical solution “My delight is in the neatness of everything,” wrote Samuel Pepys in his diary in 1663, “and so cannot be pleased with anythin…
Outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday afternoon that the Brooklyn Museum, the city’s second-largest art museum in physical size at 560,000 square feet, only behind the [...] Read More... The post The Brooklyn Museum will get a $50 million revamp appeared…
The strings of musical instruments informed the vertical lighting elements and bookshelves of this cinema lobby and bookshop created by Hong Kong-based Pulse On for a site in Shanghai's Bingo Plaza shopping mall. Pulse On, which is part of the One Plus Partnership headed by Virg…
British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio is collaborating with architecture office Veretec to create a campus for global pharmaceutical company UCB in southeast England. The proposal involves the refurbishment of the existing Eli Lilly and Company campus in Surrey and the in…
Tournament venues designed by Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects feature among the completed stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Construction has now completed on Lusail Stadium, which was designed by British studio Foster + Partners and will host the final g…
With its glacial lakes, silky beaches and verdant hills, it’s a wonder this brilliant county for walking is often overlookedThank God no boozy poet or philandering painter was born or buried in Llandeilo in the heart of Carmarthenshire. If there were, it would probably be flooded…
When The Detroit Free Press wrote a profile of Mr. Johnson in 1963, he declared his commitment to modernism and his extreme distaste for ornamentation and pastiche — “dishonest copies of the past,” as he put it. He particularly disliked colonial architecture. “We’re not living a…
In California’s Inland Empire, dozens of mega-warehouses for Amazon, UPS and other companies are choking the cities with traffic and air pollution. Some argue that the jobs warehouses provide aren’t worth the cost, while others say it’s online shopping that’s the real problem.Des…