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2020 was an unforgettable year. While schools adjusted to hosting online events and lectures, people worldwide could tune in and listen to thought-provoking discussions and presentations from leaders in architecture, design, and other complementary disciplines. As we look back a…
New York Governor Cuomo's State of the State speeches last week included an ambitious proposal for a large-scale redevelopment project on Manhattan's west side, adjacent to Penn Station.
The yongeTOmorrrow project is heading toward the finish line with widespread support from advocates, but a few want the plan to go one step further.
Architecture studio Abin Design Studio has built a small, multifunctional community centre in the city of Bansberia in the Indian state of West Bengal. Informed by terracotta temples found in West Bengal, the two-storey centre is designed to provide a variety of flexible spaces…
Following the news that US architecture studio Rael San Fratello has won the Design Museum's Design of the Year award, here's another chance to see our exclusive interview with partner Virginia San Fratello in which she discusses the studio's border-wall-straddling see-saw. Spea…
They’re privileged and can be lacking in self-awareness, yet the home-builders on Grand Designs are always compellingIf the foolish man builds his house upon the sand, as I was taught to sing at Sunday school, only the exhibitionist asks Kevin McCloud to come and film it happenin…
Architecture studio Populous is set to reuse the fuselages from 30 Airbus A340 aircraft as sunshades for an expanded stand at football club RC Strasbourg's stadium in France. Populous will revamp the entire Stade de la Meinau, which is home to French top-tier football team Racin…
An installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries' border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year. Dubbed the Teeter-Totter Wall, the project was in place for only around…
While the traditional image of the cabin is one of a rustic wooden home located far away from any trace of society, architects have been experimenting with these conventions alongside newer material and technological considerations to push the boundaries of the ‘cabin’ today. Whe…
Aldeburgh Music's new creative campus at Snape Maltings opened to the public on May 9th. The project, part of a phased development of grade 2 listed 19th century maltings buildings at the edge of the Suffolk marshes, brings a range of derelict granaries and kilns into use as rehe…
Sou Fujimoto Architects has unveiled its design for the top part of the tallest skyscraper in Japan “Torch Tower” in Tokyo, collaborating mainly with Mitsubishi Estate Company CO., LTD., and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, Inc. Standing tall at 390m, the highrise building planned to be…
Dezeen promotion: graduating from the IE School of Architecture and Design provided the skills to design adaptable spaces for the post-pandemic workplace, according to designer Araceli Torres Muñoz. Torres Muñoz, who is a workplace strategist and designer at architecture studio…
The reception room and alcove are different depending on the seasons and guests. The reception room has disappeared from the house due to the diversification of lifestyles and the rationalization of floor plans, and the name is already unfamiliar to us. Its function has been thro…
Blank Space has announced the winners of the second annual Outer Space competition. The competition asked architects and designers to leverage real scientific advances in robotics, AI, rocketry and autonomous spacecraft to create visions for the near future in outer space.The com…
Many architects tend to prefer using materials and architectural elements in their natural or raw state. It is common to remove ceilings and finishings, especially in renovation projects, to expose a building's structure. This process of reclaiming the natural materials of constr…
And a window that looks out on Corcovado. Oh, how lovely. Tom Jobim's lyrics, immortalized by João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto's voices and a soft guitar, was one of the early songs that introduced the world to the idea of a paradisaical Rio de Janeiro and a promising Brazil, wi…
Designing resilient cities combines practical solutions with innovative ideas. Interdisciplinary global firm HKS is working to bring these ambitions to life with researchers, urban designers, nurses, anthropologists, graphic designers and more. Viewing design as a process of disc…
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB, is the first multilateral development bank with head office in China. This financial institution, with its 103 member states, has now moved into its new head office at a prominent location in Beijing. After winning the international com…
Architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has turned a mews house in Paddington, London, into an art gallery for its former residents topped by a large roof light. Named the Paddington Pantheon, the artists' former home was reconfigured to be a gallery to display their work alo…
Located in a densely populated, busy street close to the impressive town hall building in Walthamstow the existing terraced house dates back to the 1920s. With both neighbours having rear extensions (one being built concurrently to AR) the terrace features a hotchpotch of largely…
The assignment was to create an Integral Yoga and Spa Center in an area of 418 irregular square meters, located in Colonia Carretas, two blocks from the historic Arcos, in the city of Querétaro.
The property of the KiTa Parkstrasse is located in the vicinity of the Berg Cultural Park in the east of Stuttgart. The new two-storey building of the four-group nursery school is part of the green corridor with historic trees on the site of the previous building. The positioning…
Offering one of the best office building locations in Chicago in terms of accessibility and visibility, this site would have been developed many years ago if not for its trapezoidal shape. Given that the east and west property lines are not parallel, fitting a typical Class A off…
Boston Architectural College (BAC) announces its Spring 2021 Student Lecture series. Their Spring theme Just Space welcomes five speakers whose work in architecture, design advocacy, and urbanism highlights the important conversations relating to social and racial justice needed…
The site is a typical sloping village with dense vegetation. A small river runs through it and reaches the top of the village, commanding the magnificent scenery of Mount Tai in the distance. When the project started, there were no villagers living on the site, leaving only a doz…
BMW Motorrad recently collaborated with Kingston Custom for the second custom edition of BMW R 18 in the 'SoulFuel' series.
Sitting across the street from New York's City Hall Park in the Financial District, the first residential building in NYC designed by Richard Rogers and Graham Stirk of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, No. 33 Park Row, is nearing completion. First renderings of the building appea…
Architecture practice Snøhetta plans to build a perforated canopy as part of the Moody Patio alongside the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas. Designed to evoke giant petals, 15 slim columns will blossom into curved forms to provide shade across a plaza next to the…
Located in Giljik-ri, Ganghwa Island, Ger House is a weekend house for client who does business in Incheon. The house site is an area where fields are cleared and developed as residential areas, and is located at the highest point on gentle slopes. The client wanted to build it a…
The design of today’s public schools tends toward the underwhelming. Their formal and material solutions tell a story of frugality of means as well as of imagination. Even in those [...] Read More... The post Washington, D.C.’s unique political status is reflected in the design o…
The new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall, named for the visionary United States senator who proposed the project in the 1990s, will open its doors on January 1 to New Yorkers and travelers from the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak, the New York City Subway, and the entire northeas…
The Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials KyronMAX Challenge invites creatives to share designs that utilize KyronMAX's range of breakthrough, high strength carbon fiber-based composites to solve an engineering or manufacturing challenge.
Hosted by the Future London Academy, 'Trendspotting and Strategic Foresight' is a practical course for business leaders, innovation professionals, and business owners that shows how to work with trends and futures in a strategic way.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has published its latest annual web report, Tall Buildings in 2020, with plenty of facts and figures on the state of the skyscraper construction industry during a year full of pandemic-related uncertainty. With 106 completions of bu…
Architect, educator, and researcher Mariana Ibañez joins as the new chair and associate professor at UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. She will succeed under Heather Roberge's leadership, who served as associate professor and chair of the department since July 201…
Pollard Thomas Edwards has completed a 300-home development in north London, comprising two low-rise courtyard blocks and three towers designed to evoke the streamlined aesthetic popularised by Art Deco design. Local firm Pollard Thomas Edwards designed the Motion project for de…
The World Design Organization is calling for submissions for the 2021 World Design Impact Prize. The Award program aims to recognize industrial design-driven projects that have a positive impact on our social, economic, cultural, or environmental quality of life.
Submissions are now open for the 2020-2021 A' Design Award. The annual competition accepts entries in 100+ categories including but not limited to architecture, industrial design, graphics design, packaging design, fashion design, web design, advertising design and more.
POPL Restaurant, Copenhagen - Concept, Space and Furniture Architecture and design studio Spacon & X has been enlisted to design the space for POPL, a new restaurant within the noma family. For the project, the Copenhagen-based studio has collaborated with German interior brand e…
The Economic Innovation Group has released its 2020 Distressed Communities Index.
The house is structured by two large volumes that dialogue and define its layout on the ground. A large horizontal prism sits along its length and contains the social sectors of the house. Next to it, an imposing cube is attached containing the private sectors of it. The morpholo…
The nation's fair housing policies are built on a foundation of assumptions that neglects the community and culture of low-income neighborhoods.
The city, which has been slow to implement complete streets initiatives during the pandemic, promises closer collaboration with community groups to advance equity in transportation.
Planning departments relying on online public hearing processes will want to keep monitor this lawsuit in New York City.
Mae Architects has completed a community centre in west London that is designed to be as adaptable and recyclable as possible. The London-based studio had the circular economy in mind when developing the design for Sands End Arts and Community Centre in Fulham. A circular approa…
UK architecture studio David Chipperfield Architects has revealed its plans to revamp and extend the Grand Hotel apartment block in the Belgium seaside resort of Nieuwpoort. David Chipperfield Architects will restore the existing fabric of the former hotel and add a four-storey…
Car prices have been going for a while, but even by recent standards a December jump in car prices is likely to be an outlier.
Jorge Ramón Giacometti Taller de Arquitectura designed Casa Ocal to suit its hard-to-reach location in the mountains in the north of Ecuador. The Ecuadorian architecture practice used eucalyptus wood and recycled metal for the gabled structure. Casa Ocal is raised on pilotis to…
University of Hawaii graduate students explored the potential for improvements to the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor, an important coastal public space in Honolulu.
Despite the stated goals of state and federal agencies to encourage active modes of transportation, there's still a long way to go to make sure that all cities and communities have safe, convenient sidewalks and bike lanes.
Descanso Gardens in Los Angeles County offered the Wishing Tree for visitors to share their wishes and hopes for 2021. The public response was overwhelming, with over 10,000 notes hung on the tree in a matter of weeks.
Dark bricks cover this house on the southern tip of Sweden, which Lund-based studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur arranged around a lush courtyard and swimming pool. Architect Johan Sundberg's office designed Villa Tennisvägen for a site nestled within the Ljungskogen pine forest i…
Plans for the centre of Coventry claim to offer a sense of place, but ignore its pioneering mid-century reconstruction Coventry is UK City of Culture 2021, a title that focuses attention on its contribution to the cultural life of the nation: 1980s two-tone music, the legend of L…
American studio The Brooklyn Home Company has designed a Brooklyn townhouse using Passivhaus principles in New York's Carroll Gardens neighbourhood. The Sackett Street townhouse comprises four storeys as well as a rooftop with views of the Manhattan skyline, along with a basemen…
TOB Architect has added a monolithic extension to a Victorian townhouse in Dublin, Ireland, with exposed concrete interiors that are intended as a protective shell for its inhabitants. Named Hollybrook Road after the street on which it is built, the statement extension was desig…
This week on Dezeen, architecture studio Opposite Office envisioned fortifying the US Capitol in response to the invasion of the building by Donald Trump supporters. The provocative architecture studio created the concept, named Capitol Castle, as a comment on how democracy is i…
They were looking for a weekend place in upstate New York. They never expected to build it themselves.
For their virtual lecture series, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has focused their Spring semester lectures on Building Justice- Design and Planning for a Just Society. Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured compilation features each school's lecture series and their communicati…
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work. Tip: use the h…
From the rubble of war, Coventry rebuilt a town centre hailed as a radical urban vision. Yet, even as it salutes this heritage as UK city of culture, planners are plotting its destruction‘The town of the future” is how Coventry was described in Our Land in the Making, a popular L…
Seattle firm LMN Architects worked with the Coast Salish tribes to design the Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal on a sacred waterfront in Washington State. Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal is a two-storey building and a toll booth serving the Mukilteo-Clinton transport route…
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is planning a $35 million campus redesign led by the firm Snohetta. It will feature architectural and landscaping improvements throughout the museum’s 200,000-square-foot grounds like a dramatic biomorphic canopy rede…
“From Pharaonic tombs, to Mamluk mosques, and from Coptic monasteries to Roman villas,” you can now take online tours of Egypt's most important archaeological sites. The Google Arts & Culture organisation has teamed up to create the digital platform 'Preserving Egypt’s Layered Hi…
Powerhouse Company's Paper Roof, the new design for a reception center in Tianjin, China has been completed. The form is a transparent glass block topped by a light sweeping roof inspired by traditional Chinese architecture. Photo by Weiqi JinPhoto by Weiqi JinPhoto by Weiqi JinT…
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Studio Twenty Seven Architecture—named in a wink to the two cofounders’ early 24-7 working habits, according to cofounder and principal-in-charge John Burke—relishes bringing community into the firm’s design process. As [...] Read More... The post Studio Twenty Seven Architecture…
The walls of this Italian villa, designed by Giordano Hadamik Architects, are formed of natural stone excavated from the home's site. Villa Nemes is partially embedded into the Ligurian landscape. To help it merge with its setting, its architects chose to clad the exterior walls…
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Working remotely is nothing new. With the pandemic changing the way firms and studios continue to navigate COVID-19, however, working remotely is still a requirement for most, and will continue after the pandemic for some. As projects continue to move forward, firms have adopted…
A ribbon of steel and aluminium winds around the Suzhou Bay Cultural Center, which French architect Christian de Portzamparc has completed on the shore of Lake Tai in China. Set on an esplanade in Wujiang District in Suzhou, the centre is divided into two distinct wings that con…
London's Antepavilion charity has launched its fifth annual pavilion competition without former partner the Architectural Foundation, which has withdrawn due to ongoing battles with the local planning authority. Competition organiser Russell Gray told Dezeen the foundation had t…
Italian studio Network of Architecture has completed an extension to a hotel in South Tyrol comprising ten gabled guest suites elevated on stilts to preserve access to the scenic grounds. Network of Architecture (NOA) was tasked with adding ten suites, named Floris, to the Parc…
Located in a former garage space at the base of a residential block, this school for music in the Spanish city of Burgos makes a feature of the building's existing concrete structure. Local architect Enrique Jerez and interior designer Blanca Leal were commissioned to create the…
The upcoming Re-Use and Renewal Virtual Summit on February 23 and 24 will provide a space for members of the design community to discuss approaches to preservation and adaptive reuse. [...] Read More... The post Deborah Berke discusses adaptive reuse in anticipation of AN’s Re-Us…
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How the Pandemic Fueled the Tiny-House Movement and Where It's Going in 2021
With the new year upon us, it's time to flex those creative muscles again and consider participating in one, or two if you will, design competitions. For 2021's first curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have selected four challenges calling…
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The next stage of building a scientific support facility in Antarctica begins this week [...] A 20 person-plus team from BAS construction partners BAM, Ramboll and Sweco is working on the second season of building the cutting-edge science and operations building. Construction can…
Located in Toronto’s west end in the Geary Corridor, PARTISANS’ new studio space spans a single-level and covers 11,000 square feet, providing ample room for the practice to grow to over 100 team members. The group took a collective approach in designing the new space, pulling fr…
This post is sponsored by Azure Magazine The AZ Awards has been recognizing excellence in design and architecture across the world for over a decade now. Since AZURE debuted the AZ Awards in 2011, the program has grown in size, scope, and momentum to be internationally recognized…
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As we look back on the year, there were plenty of things that made days challenging. Social media took the reins as the public turned to these platforms for entertainment and reflection. While the amount of time spent on these apps has also sparked controversy and discourse, many…
Brooklyn-based architectural firm Almost Studio has designed the 1,500-square-foot flagship boutique for the popular emerging fashion designer Sandy Liang. It is due to open in December of this year. The space sits on the ground level of a five-story brick building built in 1900…
The organization announced that it would abandon elements of its ambitious redesign, opting for a more modest approach.
The AIA announced yesterday that ArchiPAC (the AIA's political action committee) had paused all PAC activities and contributions indefinitely, pending further review of the political situation and to enable the development of protocols to address this and future events aimed to u…
Times Square Arts has announced that Love Letters, a billet-doux-ready interactive public art installation to be realized in plywood, safety net, and dichroic film, is the winner of the 13th [...] Read More... The post Soft–Firm’s Love Letters named winner of the 2021 Times Squar…
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Oslo-based Jon Danielsen Aarhus has designed Cabin Son, a holiday home set on the water's edge overlooking the Oslofjord and Jeløya island on the south coast of Norway. The spruce-clad, L-shaped home was designed to follow the topography of the site's naturally occurring ledges.…
Paignton Picture House on the English Riviera awarded £200k grant from Historic EnglandA lovely old cinema in Devon that once reserved a balcony for the crime writer Agatha Christie – and a second one for her butler – is to be restored to its former glory.The Paignton Picture Hou…
The total number of skyscrapers completed in 2020 fell by 20 per cent as the coronavirus pandemic affected construction, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's annual tall buildings report. Over the past year, 106 buildings over 200 metres tall completed…
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for four skyscrapers called Lusail Towers in Qatar near the studio's Lusail Stadium, which is being built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Designed to be the headquarters for Qatar National Bank, Qatar Central Bank, Qatar…
The 16-storey Vessel viewpoint designed by Heatherwick Studio for New York's Hudson Yards development has been temporarily closed after a man reportedly committed suicide by jumping from it. According to the New York Times, a 21-year-old man named Franklin Washington jumped from…
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Washington, D.C., is a city self-consciously styled, since its founding, to resemble ancient Rome. The neoclassicism of the White House and of the Capitol building, the now-tunnelized Tiber Creek on [...] Read More... The post Op-ed: D.C. is known for its classical and Brutalist…
Facing challenges from a federal planning authority and advocacy groups, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC is under pressure to revamp or justify elements of a significant redesign of its sunken sculpture garden.The heated debate over Hiroshi Sugimoto's plans t…
The Vessel, the spiraling staircase at Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s Far West Side, was closed to visitors on Tuesday, a day after a 21-year-old man jumped to his death in the third suicide in less than a year. It was unclear when the 150-foot structure, the vast development’s cent…
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has unveiled plans for a 100-mile belt of zero-energy walkable communities for a million people. The linear city will have no cars or streets, with all residents living within a five-minute walk of essential facilities. Bin…