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Welcome to “Countryside, the Future”: This is what you might get if you asked a celebrated European philosopher-architect to reinvent the Iowa State Fair. No mess, no smells, just acres of color printouts, cryptic homilies about nature, and a couple of pesticide-spraying drones.…
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) and the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles (A+D) have announced the latest iteration of the Built by Women exhibition, a program designed to celebrate the breadth of achievement by women at the building industry’s highe…
The planning approvals process took a black eye in Boston last year, when a bribery scandal sent a Boston Planning and Development Agency staffer to jail.
An unprecedented shutdown of museums is taking place in Venice, Turin and Milan as private and public institutions close their doors in the wake of the coronavirus (Covid-2019) outbreak across northern Italy. Seven Italian regions have now been instructed to close museums and imp…
OMA has revealed its plans to renovate and extend three vacant railway buildings in Brussels to create an office for Belgium train operator SNCB. The proposal will create workspaces for 4,000 employees of SNCB, otherwise known as the National Railway Company of Belgium, beside t…
The idea of blocking major streets to private automobiles is making advocates envious in cities that have yet to implement the idea. A petition is circulating to give the car-free treatment to Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.
Haptic Architects has won a competition to design a railway museum on the outskirts of Margate in Kent
Missouri lawmakers removed a barrier to the creation of a Hyperloop test facility in St. Louis.
Cash-strapped churches are raising money by inviting developers to build pricey flats on their turf. Is this the promised land for faith buildings – or a deal with the devil?High-end Bosch appliances, carpeted bedrooms, generous storage – and a three-storey wooden cross right out…
Most Americans are aware that the 2020 Census is underway, but many still lack information about key details of the big, national headcount.
Architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso has used earthen blocks, pine and concrete to help this holiday dwelling blend into its forested setting in central Mexico. House in Avandaro is located in the scenic town of Valle de Bravo, which lies about 150 kilometres (93 miles) wes…
Chicago is late to the game on all-door bus boarding, but that will change this summer.
Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2020 A new school term means it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly…
The project had as a starting point the use of blocks of different shapes - material utilized in the construction industry and, depending on the manner it is worn, it might make the project more sophisticated.
On March 1, Luxembourg will be the first country in the world to make all its public transit free to ride.
A Dutch advocate believes Lego's city sets should reflect streets that prioritize all users. Including bike lanes would be one way for the toy manufacturer to start accomplishing that goal.
Architecture studio Pareid and students from Chulalongkorn University have built an open-walled classroom around two water collecting funnels in western Thailand. Called Pylonesque, the classroom was created as an additional space at the Ban Wang Toey School in the Thai province…
The architecture of the building is subordinated to the vicinity of the Masurian lake, over which the house was built. The buildings did not disturb the landscape by opening the interior transparently to the beauty of the landscape. The house was designed in a rectangular plan wi…
Rotation, displacement, and interleaving of blocks are some of the options that enable the diversity of raw brick patterns in architecture. The shape of these elements, usually used for the construction of walls, has been explored in a creative way to compose facades of residenti…
An Essex man has been removed from the Register of Architects after spending client money to pay his blackmailer
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has named a handful of landlords who have not removed combustible materials from buildings as anger mounts over the national cladding crisis
The dream was to own a Brooklyn brownstone — and one architect and his family found a way. It isn’t for everyone.
This renovation of, and extension to, a large Victorian end-of-terrace house in Rathgar, saw the upper levels stripped back to their original features and proportions, with insensitive additions removed, so as to again reveal the essential character of the spaces.
PRP’s concept designs for the major regeneration of an estate in Camden, north London, will be put to a vote as residents take part in a ballot to decide whether their homes are demolished
Entitled 2038, the German pavilion looks back from the future to the past, which is, in fact, our modern time. Seeking to provide answers, the pavilion imagines the world in the era of “New Serenity”, and tells the “story of a world in which everything has just about gone well”,…
One Thousand Museum is a 62-storey residential tower opposite Museum Park in Miami. With views across Biscayne Bay, this popular 30-acre park was redeveloped in 2013 as one of downtown Miami’s primary public spaces and includes the city’s new art and science museums.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) has been picked to build a permanent housing development on the plot of RSHP’s PLACE/Ladywell pop-up homes scheme in south London
In recent years, much attention has been given to timber constructions. Being a sustainable and renewable material, which captures a huge amount of carbon during its growth, the innovations related to this material have allowed for increasingly higher constructions. However, when…
A few kilometers from Bera, the Landaburu borda is a small traditional building, anchored in the magnificent landscape of the Navarre mountains.
The field of architectural visualization has come a long way: It used to be a very time and cost-intensive process that only larger firms could afford and was usually outsourced to specialist companies that let their supercomputers render images for days or even weeks. Whilst thi…
We have all the responsibility to find new ways of thinking. And not only thinking, but actually doing. Mjøstårnet is the first time in history that something like this has been constructed on this scale. It’s also, the first time in history that the materials and the expertise h…
The Louis Vuitton Maison Osaka Midosuji is now open to the public. As a result of a close collaboration between architects Jun Aoki and Peter Marino, the four-floor luxury store is a reflection of the city’s international travel hub status. The very first Louis Vuitton café, enti…
News of the closure of the Frank Lloyd Wright–founded school has caused immense shock and sadness across the architecture community.
The Pritzker Prize is the most important award in the field of architecture, awarded to a living architect whose built work has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity through the art of architecture. The Prize rewards individuals, not entire offices, as too…
OMA and partner Reinier de Graaf, together with Jaspers-Eyers Architects, have won the competition to design the new headquarters of Belgium's National Railway Company in Brussels. The design preserves three monumental buildings in the Brussels-South train station along Fonsny Av…
Architect Danish Kurani has recently completed a new tech lab in New York City in partnership with Black Girls Code. As a place where young women from all over New York can come together to learn about technology, the revamp project includes 3,900 square feet of space at Google’s…
Nowadays, life demands a kind of architecture that is primarily flexible, over one that is strictly functional. Household mutations is what defines the contemporary home, understood as a combination of indeterminate, ever-changing rituals. Every person’s home is the stage on whic…
Angled aluminium louvres cover the reclaimed brick walls of the Junshan Cultural Center near Beijing, China, designed by Neri&Hu. Nestled amongst the mountains around Miyun Resevoir, the Junshan Cultural Center transforms an existing two-storey sales building that previously onl…
A large white box hovers over the ice; in the box, there a people walk about, bide their time, or seemingly hover over the floor. What is happening?
Edinburgh Pavilion is the full internal refurbishment and large contemporary extension of a Grade B listed Victorian villa in a Conservation Area in central Edinburgh. The existing property consists of a series of grand rooms with significant decorative features, arranged in a fo…
Against the background of National Stadium in Beijing, 10 dwelling houses are established in a community called HOUSE VISION. Curated by Kenya Hara, it invites corporates, architectures and designers to work together to offer such life sized houses that would be manufactured in t…
Losing sleep can be a drag. Especially, since we know sleep deprivation drastically impacts the cognitive functions so crucial to work in architecture. Things like judgment, critical thinking, problem solving, planning, and organization, are but a few of the influenced aspects of…
Khesht-Baf building located in west part of Tehran. The architecture of the building was handed over to the IMAGE ARCHITECTS when the construction of the skeleton and concrete was completed. Khesht-Baf 4 floors, two of which are underground and used for swimming pool, gym, parkin…
Casa Cook Κοs is a new 5 star resort hotel of 216 beds in a 29.080 square meters beachfront plot, located on the greek island of Kos, in the south east Aegean Sea.
Forensic Architecture's first United States survey exhibition, Forensic Architecture: True to Scale, made its debut last week at Miami's Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College. The exhibition, according to a press release, explores a new understanding of architecture, a…
The nation's first fuel cell electric train will make its debut in Southern California in about four years, but it's also associated with a controversial ballot measure on the station sites that voters of Redlands will decide on Super Tuesday.
The 10th annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition has announced the verdict, and not one but two winning designs have been chosen this year: The Pneuma by Los Angeles-based designers Ying Qi Chen and Ryan Somerville as well as Repose Pavilion by Brooklyn-based architect and edu…
The Voxel consists of four core components: a seat, backrest/armrest, a pillow, and ottoman. The components can be configured in a number of ways, allowing users the freedom and flexibility to customize their optimum layout. According to Fast Company, BIG says the Voxel is inspir…
CNN host Fareed Zakaria questions whether the goals of Sanders' ambitious Green New Deal are realistic.
Ms. [Rita] Ebel, who has been in a wheelchair herself since a car accident 25 years ago, said the idea was born after a friend of hers, who is also in a wheelchair, said she could not get out of a shop with steps and had to enlist the help of four people to carry her chair down.…
If you're just starting out your design career or already have a few years of professional experience under your belt, and you're on the lookout for new opportunities, why not start your job hunt with the latest listings from last week's Employer of the Day featured firms. Allied…
In a statement posted the American Institute of Architects (AIA) website, the organization explains that a group of former AIA presidents have written a letter directly to President Donald Trump denouncing the Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again executive order. Previously…
Former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening penned a local opinion for The Washington Post in support of the TCI to advance funding of alternatives to driving and ask readers to shape the controversial initiative by submitting comments by Feb. 28.
Engineering News-Record (ENR), a leader reporting news and projects in the construction industry, has recently announced its 2020 ENR Awards of Excellence. Judges have selected 20 winners for this year's Best of the Best Projects competition. Among those 20 honorees, Zaha Hadid A…
Monica Obniski, the current 20th and 21st Century Design curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum, has been selected to lead curatorial efforts for the decorative arts and design at the High Museum in Atlanta. According to a High Museum press release, Obniski will oversee exhibitions…
The National Museum of African American Music is on track to open in Nashville later this year...it will be the only institution dedicated to showcasing music genres created and inspired by black Americans. In 2015, [mayor] Karl Dean, announced that plans would move forward to re…
At a time when states are debating the removal of Confederate monuments, Maryland unveiled bronze statues of famed abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass during a ceremony Monday night in the Maryland State House. The life-sized statues were dedicated during a specia…
Architecture practice Studio Vural has envisioned a seaside holiday dwelling that is carved into sand dunes and operates without relying on public utilities. Dune House is designed for a coastal site in Wellfleet, a small hamlet located on the hook-shaped peninsula of Cape Cod i…
The TreeHugger tourist information office in Bressanone, northern Italy, features smooth concrete walls that curve around the trunk of a tree. Designed by local studio MoDus Architects, the small building sits adjacent to the Bishop's Palace, a 13th-century villa that is one of…
A show on view through March 15 examines the work of an artist who worked closely with many prominent modernist architects.
Red brick archways define the lower and topmost levels of Cadence, a housing development designed by Alison Brooks Architects next to Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross, London. A total of 103 homes will be built behind the brick facades. Dramatic brick archways will form a colonna…
Writer and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper has become director of charity Open City, which runs Open House London. In his new role Harper, who joined Open City after working as deputy director of the Architecture Foundation for five years, wants to encourage people to be more in…
The exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on view until August 14, raises more questions than it answers.
A high school program embedded within a commercial and manufacturing hub teaches students real-life job skills.
Hand-charred wooden planks contrast whitewashed cedar in the facade of this house in Washington state, designed by Portland practice Open Studio Collective. The builder made the dark facade boards by hand using Shou Sugi Ban, a traditional Japanese technique of charring wood to…
Studio Okami Architecten has dug a brick and concrete home into a sloping hillside, looking out over the valley landscape of Mont-de-l'Enclus in Belgium. Rather than conform to the strict building regulations of the area, which would have required a pitched roof, local brick and…
We've updated our Japanese houses Pinterest board with pictures from new projects, including a house in Osaka with 16 different floor levels and a minimal square building clad in black corrugated metal. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. New addit…
Artists Heather and Ivan Morison have unveiled Mother, a thatched hut offering sanctuary and solitude in a Cambridgeshire nature reserve. Installed in the Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, Mother is a deceptively large sculpture, designed to look like the haystacks that were once found…
White stone lattice surrounds the entrance to a paramedical college in Agroha, India, clad in red sandstone by architecture practice SpaceMatters. The Vidya Devi Jindal Paramedical College is located at Agroha's Institute of Medical Science. SpaceMatters based its form on the Co…
From chic bed-and-breakfasts to sprawling modern luxuries, these hotels are notable bright spots in a city filled with stars.
This week on Dezeen, CF Møller revealed photos of Sweden's tallest timber building and Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman was prevented from entering the United States. Measuring at 8.5 storeys high, the recently completed Kajstaden Tall Timber Building in the city of Vä…
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 Archin…
Barcelona, Spain-based Estudio Barozzi Veiga has been selected to design a new headquarters for Oolite Arts, one of Miami's largest artist-supporting cultural groups. In a press release announcing the selection of Barozzi Veiga, Oolite Arts CEO Dennis Scholl said, Miami’s visual…
At the rate we’re going, I fully expect, Zero Energy Ready Homes to become the norm by 2030, when tens of thousands of homes are certified each year or constructed under codes representing zero energy performanceStacy Fitzgerald-Redd talked with Sam Rashkin, chief architect of th…
“We have to think of buildings as material depots,” says Thomas Rau, a Dutch architect who has been working to develop a public database of materials in existing buildings and their potential for reuse. [...] “Waste is simply material without an identity,” he says. “If we track t…
Acclaimed Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye and noted Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang have been named as the 2020 Isamu Noguchi Award winners by the Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York City. Both have made several impacts in their respective industries as well as throughout t…
According to the museum’s most recent 990 tax forms, filed in 2018, LACMA is carrying $331 million in county bond debt that was used to pay for construction of the Resnick Pavilion, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, the Pritzker Parking Garage and other projects. In addition to…
A single family residence in an Austin suburb gives its traditional neighborhood a contemporary edge.
A three-bedroom lakehouse is enveloped in a an operable redwood rainscreen system.
Yona Friedman, the Hungarian-born French Jewish architect who helped develop the concept of mobile architecture in the 1960s and 70s, has passed away at age 96. Friedman was born in 1923 and grew up during the Nazi era. Due to the fact that universities in Budapest had imposted s…
Angled white walls will mark the entrance to underground contemplation spaces at Herzog & de Meuron's roadside Autobahnkirche chapel in Switzerland. Set to be developed on the outskirts of Andeer beside the A13 highway, Autobahnkirche will become the country's first motorway cha…
Los Angeles practice Stayner Architects has restored a 1950s house in Palm Desert, California, which was designed by modernist architect Walter S White to feature a wave-shaped roof. The dwelling was completed in 1955 for artist Miles C Bates and is named Wave House after its ro…
Newly found monument honouring Romulus includes 2,600-year-old sarcophagusA newly discovered ancient shrine believed to have been dedicated to the cult of Romulus, the legendary founder and first king of Rome, has been unveiled.The monument was discovered by archaeologists in a c…
We get it. It can get a little overwhelming keeping up with the dozens of new architecture competitions launching worldwide on any given week — let alone having to stay on top of the multiple deadlines for each and every one. That's why Bustler is here to help! At the end of ever…
Venetian office AMAA has converted an abandoned plumbing factory into an architecture studio with a rough-and-ready character. AMAA founders Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo created their new workplace by inserting a steel-framed, two-storey glass volume inside the old…
Rem Koolhaas's exhibition exploring the countryside at New York's Guggenheim museum aims to put the countryside on the agenda again. Koolhaas developed the Countryside, The Future exhibition with his research studio AMO, its director Samir Bantal and a series of collaborators. T…
Companies from across the architecture, engineering and construction industries have collaborated to create a free digital embodied carbon calculator that they hope will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and counter climate change. The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (E…
Dezeen promotion: in this short film released by Danish tap manufacturer Vola, architecture practice McLaren Excell explains the importance of paying tribute to a building's past during its restoration process. The film, titled A Sustained History, sees the two co-directors of M…
The architect will focus on the climate crisis and urban theory in the global south.
The facade of Louis Vuitton's store in Osaka, designed by architects Jun Aoki & Associates and Peter Marino, is based on the sails of old Japanese merchant ships The Louis Vuitton Maison Osaka Midosuji stands on the busy shopping street of Shinsaibashi-suji. Japanese architectur…
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill establishing a council that will lead the planning, design, and construction of a new museum slated for Washington, D.C. dedicated to women's history. The bill—H.R. 1980, Smithsonian Women's History Museum Act—passed t…
Are you an experienced architect looking for a fresh start? Are you an industry leader ready to make an impact at a new firm or perhaps an intermediate level architect whose ready to pursue a new career move? This week Archinect has selected 11 architecture firms across the count…
The AIANY announced the six winning firms in the 2020 New Practices New York Awards, which distinguishes young architecture and design firms who push the boundaries of architectural practice through their work. The competition is open to firms who have been operating since 2010 a…
In winter 2021, Boston is expecting Model-C, its first ground-up full Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Passive House demonstration project. Designed and developed by Generate, an architectural tech company, and Placetailor, a leading sustainable housing developer, Model-C replaces th…
As the three-month-long renovations for the Great Hall comes to a close, the National Building Museum prepares to reopen on March 13, 2020. The reopening will kick off a yearlong 40th anniversary celebration at the museum. The celebration will begin with a new exhibition: Alan Ka…
University of Southern California (USC) President Carol Folt has announced that the institution will eliminate tuition costs for students whose families make less than $80,000. In addition, the private university will no longer consider home equity when making financial aid calcu…
This post is brought to you by Arquine The seventh edition of the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival of Architecture and City will address an unavoidable issue on the urban planning and architecture agenda: the climate crisis. If a few years ago we asked ourselves in MEXTRÓPOLI about the possib…
Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman has been prevented from entering the United States ahead of the opening of his studio's Miami exhibition that explores the arbitrary logic of the border. Weizman, who was made an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list earlier this yea…
Make's St James's Market redevelopment, which includes a block with a ribbon-like stone and bronze facade and the restoration of a late 19th-century building, is featured in this video produced by Dezeen for the architecture studio. Located on Regent Street St James's – formerly…
The architect, a champion of cities, now turns a spotlight on the countryside in a sprawling new exhibition about the other 98 percent of the world.