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AstraZeneca has established a new global research and development facility called The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge, UK. The Discovery Centre is at the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC), part of the broader Cambridge Southern Fringe Area development. The CBC a…
London practice Tuckey Design Studio has revamped a house in a converted chapel in Devon, England, revealing and restoring the building's original features. To celebrate its ecclesiastic history, the Old Chapel house has been reworked to reverse characterless alterations made dur…
This week on Dezeen, conservation group Docomomo responded to news that actor Chris Pratt had demolished a modernist house in LA designed by architect Craig Ellwood. In response to the demolition, Docomomo US executive director Liz Waytkus told Dezeen that unprotected modernist h…
The three distinct masses within this architectural composition transcend mere juxtaposition, as they seamlessly intertwine both in form and function to create a harmonious living environment. Each volume is thoughtfully interconnected to fulfill the diverse needs of the househol…
The end of the Spring 2024 academic term is rapidly approaching, so let's take a look at some of the late-semester events, reviews, and lectures still in store for our Archinect Partner Schools SCI-Arc, Pratt Institute, Tulane University, UCLA, Temple University, University of Or…
Villa 'Gol' is located in Lavasan, a beautiful city near Tehran, capital of Iran. The design of the villa resembles a solid mass of stone that has been carefully carved out, forming a passageway that links the two open sides of the structure and defines the entrance on the northe…
A study pavilion designed on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona were named by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and The post Gustav Düsing, Max Hacke, and SUMA Arquitectura win 2024 EUmies Awards appeared first…
Architecture studio Concrete has designed a hotel block for Dutch chain CitizenM in Downtown Austin, which is the brand's first Texas location and features artwork created in partnership with locals. CitizenM worked with long-time collaborator architecture studio Concrete to purp…
If you're an experienced architecture professional looking for a new career opportunity, check out this week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs. Below, we highlight 17 employers offering senior positions with a starting salary of over $100K per year. Our se…
Construction starts for March have dropped by 1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.06 trillion, according to the latest figures released in Dodge Construction Network's new Construction Starts Index. For the month, nonresidential building starts went down 9%, while nonb…
Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum has launched its latest exhibition, Wood’s Up!, a survey of 16 recent timber building designs that stand as examples for the use of the material and its future capacity to be used as a solution at mass scale in various typologies. A few of the 19…
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence V&A Museum London Through September 22 Staged in the V&A’s Porter Gallery, Tropical Modernism is a densely packed exhibition, trotting through 20th-century architectural histories in Ghana The post Tropical Modernism reexamines th…
Port de la Selva is a small coastal settlement in the northernmost part of the Costa Brava. The intervention is located on a plot of land in the “La Tamariua” urbanization on the north slope of Puig Gros, a small promontory that surrounds and protects the town’s port.
Snøhetta has announced a new regeneration project with the Japanese private environmental agency BOND. The scheme for a yet-unnamed national park has several planned outcomes aimed a different social and environmental issues in Japan, which is experiencing a crisis of aging and s…
The American Academy in Rome has announced the 31 recipients of the 2024–25 Rome Prize. Awarded each year and described as the gift of “time and space to think and work,” the fellowship is intended to “support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.” “T…
Will Supreme Court Case Lead to Lower Impact Fees — or Just More Studies? billfulton00 Fri, 04/26/2024 - 08:00 Primary Image The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down California’s unique rule — embedded in the Mitigation Fee Act — that exactions and impact fees don’t have to be “rou…
The client's request to create a residence for a small family in the context of large-scale properties presented a unique design challenge. This need for scale and volume in the immediate surroundings, together with the steep slope of the land, the geographical orientation, and t…
Organic Waste Raising Methane Emissions From Landfills Diana Ionescu Fri, 04/26/2024 - 07:00 Primary Image In an article for Governing, Carl Smith calls attention to the high levels of methane gas produced by organic waste in landfills. “In 38 states, landfills are the largest so…
New York State Attorney General Calls Out Town for Potential Religious Land Use Discrimination Mary Hammon Fri, 04/26/2024 - 06:00 Primary Image The New York state attorney general’s office has intervened in an ongoing land use controversy in Forestburgh, New York (pop. 793). Acc…
A family resemblance. Sector E of the Athletes’ Village is first and foremost a family resemblance. As coordinator architect of the sector, CoBe has pre-written the main guidelines that govern the design of the various buildings while leaving some leeway to the individual designe…
London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. Commissioned by Southwark Council, the housing forms part of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment and is organised in a U-shape around a…
Six interweaving petals encase the facade of Dior's store in Geneva, Switzerland, which has been designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Christian de Portzamparc. The Dior store's expressive facade elements echo those of its Seoul flagship store – also designed by French a…
The project is located in the small village of Mogrovejo, declared a Historic-Artistic Ensemble in 1985, situated in the Picos de Europa, specifically in the Ándara Massif and facing Mount Subiedes. Its location at the lower part of the urban core allows it to separate itself fr…
A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children's daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. Named Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM, the centre will sit beside the u…
Many major cities in the United States are grappling with large industrial buildings that have fallen into disuse. These buildings hold historical and architectural significance and are often protected from demolition. Consequently, architects face the challenge and responsibilit…
This project occupies a plateau bordered by a stretch of Atlantic forest in Rio de Janeiro. This small social space is defined by the implementation of cyclopean concrete walls that organize living areas.
On May 16th at 18:00 (CEST), Juhani Pallasmaa, chairing the esteemed jury consisting of Dorte Mandrup, Russell Foster, Iwan Baan, Yvonne de Kort, Michael Balick, and Gerd Folkers, will present the jury's reasoning, and the 2024 laureates for Daylight Research and Daylight in Arch…
Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been selected in TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2024.’ Known as the TIME 100, the list is an annual compilation of individuals who have made significant impacts on the world in various fields such as politics, tech…
Sometimes very ordinary client requests lead to surprising twists and turns and final solutions. Due to the growing number of children and limited space of the school, the school management decided to locate the new classroom in a two-story hall in the center of the school. Such…
Shigeru Ban Architects, in collaboration with The Glass House and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, have just revealed “Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House at The Glass House.” This collaborative installation opened on April 15th and is on display until…
Local studio Office Winhov has completed the sensitive restoration of two historic local buildings, converting them into a museum and memorial for the Dutch victims of the Holocaust. Located on Amsterdam's Plantage Middenlaan, the National Holocaust Museum by Office Winhov was de…
Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission have selected the winners for its 2024 edition of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards, from a pool of 362 nominated works. The 2024 Winner of the Architecture Prize is the Study Pavilion on t…
In 2020, in the midst of the first wave of lockdowns due to the pandemic, the municipality of Amsterdam announced its strategy for recovering from this crisis by embracing the concept of the “Doughnut Economy.” The model is developed by British economist Kate Raworth and populari…
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The new school building for Het Element combines two pre-vocational secondary schools, three sports halls, a dojo and a language center. By choosing a compact volume, we create extra green outdoor space, short walking distances and a vibrant central heart to which all the differe…
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of spaces where we reside has garnered significant attention. The demand for improvements in large office environments accommodating over 200 individuals is as high as the interest focused on personal spaces. Offices centered a…
Round Sky and Angular Ground - The phrase, “The sky is round and the ground is angular.” is an old-saying found in the Chinese astronomic book, Zhou bi suan jing. Ancient Fareast Asians acknowledged the boundary between the sky and buildings as curves. For that reason, traditiona…
An international competition to build the new Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki, Finland, has been launched. The initiative is part of the previously announced Helsinki South Harbor Makasiiniranta redevelopment that is being planned by a consortium including Niam, K2S…
However, check out the stadium renderings accompanying this story. Look at how big that thing is. The size almost makes the Museum Campus buildings look like neo-classical LEGO blocks in comparison. Judging from the renderings, the stadium looks pretty good as far as professional…
Eric Owen Moss’ first residential design in Los Angeles, the 1991 Constellation 167 home in Brentwood, has hit the market courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty for a listed price of $10.95 million. The home had previously been listed by Compass and Sotheby’s for $12 million…
The winners of this year’s European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture — Mies van der Rohe Award were just announced via a special ceremony held in Brussels earlier today. Leading the field of two category winners was the Berlin-based duo Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke’s new…
In Washington D.C., new details have emerged about the Bezos Learning Center, an education and cultural center coming to the site of the demolished Gyo Obata–designed restaurant pavilion not far The post More details emerge for the Perkins&Will-designed Bezos Learning Center appe…
Study: Higher Freeway Speeds Increase Crashes on Adjacent Roads Diana Ionescu Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas. A new study reveals that increased speed limits on interstate freeways have a rippling effect, raising the num…
The steel-framed Study Pavilion by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke has been named Europe's best new building, winning the Mies van der Rohe Award. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their eponymous studios in 2015 and 2016 respectively, are the youngest people to have ever rec…
A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity,…
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features this year's Don't Move, Improve! awards shortlist. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Annual awards programme Don't Move, Improve! has revealed its shortlist for this year's competition, hosted by New London Architec…
Street Safety Improvements Coming to the Bay Area Diana Ionescu Thu, 04/25/2024 - 11:00 Primary Image Safety improvements are coming to a major street in Oakland, California, reports Kristin J. Bender in The Mercury News, after 18 or more pedestrians were killed on International…
Madison Group, a Toronto–based development firm, announced recently its plans to build four new towers designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects in Toronto’s Midtown. The towers represent the office’s first project in The post Rafael Viñoly Architects announces four residential towers…
LA to Pilot Bus-Mounted Cameras for Parking Violations Diana Ionescu Thu, 04/25/2024 - 10:07 Primary Image In a pilot program set to begin by the end of the year, Los Angeles Metro will install AI-powered cameras on transit buses to help identify and ticket cars illegally parked…
The Royal Institute of British Architects is set to open an exhibition that unpacks narratives of gender, race, and imperialism within the fabric of the institute’s London headquarters. Titled Raise the Roof: Building for Change, the exhibition will host “a variety of new artisti…
Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house inspired by the scattered boulders that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. Known as Rockbound, the 4100-square foot (380-square metre) home sits on a rocky, sloped three-acre site ov…
The windmill sails of the Moulin Rouge, an iconic 135-year-old cabaret venue in Paris, collapsed to the ground in the early hours. Just before 2am this morning, the four blades attached to a red-painted windmill on top of the Moulin Rouge venue fell off and landed bent in front o…
Construction has begun on a $300 million renovation of Chicago O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 3. The upgrades are expected to take three years and will overhaul the terminal’s infrastructure from security checkpoints to baggage claim, as well as adding amenities and impr…
Heatherwick Studio has offered a construction update on its design for the UCB Windlesham Surrey Science Research Hub in the United Kingdom. When completed, the building will serve as a hub for the Belgian biopharmaceutical company UCB. In new photos released by the firm, the pro…
Bjarke Ingels Group has designed an installation for the car brand Audi, installed at Milan Design Week. Titled ‘Reflaction,’ a play on the words “reflection” and “action,” the installation seeks to convey how “our actions in the world reflect the very essence of our existence,”…
US studio Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed four skyscrapers and a series of public spaces in Toronto, which will be the studio's first built project in Canada. Developed by Madison Group and totalling two million square feet (185,806 square metres) the project will consist o…
A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worseIn recent decades New York City has changed dramatically, transforming from the lows of the crime and drug epidemics that ravaged the city in the 1970s and 80…
Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre is a significant organization that oversees a complex of various hospital buildings, the arrangement of which creates an internal street known as “Rua da Saúde Glass Roof” There was previously no continuous link between the buildings due…
Giving your home interior a makeover can be exciting, but it often involves significant expenses. However, you can achieve an impressive transformation without breaking the bank with careful planning, creativity, and resourcefulness. This guide provides various tips and ideas to…
British studio Mole Architects has created Alde Valley Barn, a brick-clad holiday home on a farmyard in Suffolk that dates back to the 17th century. The four-bedroom house replaces a steel-framed barn, which was added to the farm in the English town of Aldeburgh in the 20th centu…
Indonesian architecture practice Dhaniē & Sal has completed Mawi Garage in South Tangerang, creating a steel structure that references the engineering of the cars and motorcycles inside. The client, a car collector, tasked the local practice with renovating an existing 488-square…
You can still feature in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide for the upcoming 3 Days of Design festival, which takes place in Copenhagen from 12 to 14 June 2024. If you're hosting an event – including open showrooms, product launches, exhibitions and installations, talks and tour…
The winners of this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition have been announced as a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their vision for the redevelopment of a land parcel in downtown Seattle addressed concerns about equity, housing affordability,…
Kengo Kuma Associates has shared the announcement of a new mixed-use project in the Miami Design District. The MIRAI Design District is a $1 billion development to be realized at 65,000 square feet with 16,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and another 40,000 square feet of…
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Deputy Director, Occupancy Management - Real Estate at the MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Exhibition Designer…
Demolition is underway on one of the few East Coast buildings designed by the late Anthony Lumsden, a colleague of Cesar Pelli and former member of the “LA 12,” a The post Demolition underway on Anthony Lumsden’s Bard Building in Baltimore appeared first on The Architect’s Newspa…
Kéré Architecture has broken ground on a new all-wood childcare facility at the Technical University Munich (TUM). The design of the Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM is 700 square meters (7,500 square feet) in total and will hold space for 60 children in service to faculty mem…
The AIA/Deltek’s latest Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for the month of March has posted a decline to a score of 43.6. The new figures indicate a reversal of February’s “most modest easing.” The AIA says: This shows that clients are interested in starting new projects but rem…
In a large drop from February, the AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for March has reported a decline in billings for the 14th consecutive month. The score for March was The post March’s Architecture Billings Index reports significant drop from previous month appeared first…
In Bavaria, Germany, construction broke ground this week on a new kindergarten partially made of timber for Munich’s Technical University (TUM) by Kéré Architecture. The children’s center is sited at The post Kéré Architecture announces new timber kindergarten for Munich’s Techni…
Country diary | Isfahan’s sights | Dilyn the dog’s fleas | Bald truths | Pate expectationsI concur with Val Kirby’s letter (18 April) about Jim Perrin’s prose “in praise of celandines” and her wish that he could turn his silver pen to extolling the virtues of the dandelion. I ref…
As the start of this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics draws closer in Paris, the first images of the Chatillon Architectes-led restoration of the Grand Palais have been made public. The initial phase of the four-year project that will be completed in 2025 involved expanding its…
The Federal Trade Commission has announced a rule banning noncompetes in the United States. According to the FTC, the ban seeks to “promote competition” by “protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation.”…
In South Bend, Indiana, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) opened its doors in December for the University of Notre Dame. The neoclassical art The post RAMSA’s new art museum at Notre Dame has a hidden chapel with stained glass by Mimmo Paladi…
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a day of talks on the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances. Watch the concluding session here from 2:30pm London time. DesignTalks is a programme of panel discussions that take place at the Henning Lar…
You will find the Pears Jewish Campus Berlin community center located adjacent to the Chabad Lubavitch Family and Cultural Centre in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. This facility mainly focuses on serving children and youth, including a school, a daycare center…
By enhancing and redefining one of the globe’s most renowned hospitality brands, Atlantis The Royal in Dubai introduces innovative spaces that redefine the guest experience. This remarkable new addition builds upon the achievements of the existing resort, emerging as a striking i…
They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From the suburbs of Britain to the deserts of Arizona, we explore a show celebrating glorious green bordersSomewhere in the leafy depths of British suburbia, a thick circular hedge sprouts from the top of a grassy hi…
Planted balconies surround open living spaces at this house in Bangalore, designed by Indian studio 4site Architects for a nature-loving family. Named House of Greens, the four-bedroom home is informed by Bangalore's history of green spaces and parks, which have earned it the mon…
Photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has spent the last five years capturing brutalist and modernist churches across Europe. Here, he picks his 12 favourites from his Sacred Modernity book. With 139 photographs of 100 churches, McGregor Smith created the book to showcase the sculptu…
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a day of talks exploring the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances. Watch the second session here from midday uk time. DesignTalks is a programme of live talks that take place at the Henning Larsen Arch…
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a skinny house with exposed concrete walls in Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects. Named 2700, the 2.7-metre-wide home was built on a long and thin site left over following a road expansion in the city. Doing more wi…
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a day of talks focusing on the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances. Watch the first session here from 10am. DesignTalks comprises a series of discussions that take place at the Henning Larsen Architec…
Dropcity, an upcoming urban centre for architecture and design, let visitors see the reconstruction of its historic tunnels alongside a series of installations during this year's Milan design week. Dropcity, founded by architect Andrea Caputo, unveiled its In Progress exhibition…
From Archinect's active community of job seekers, firms, and schools, we are highlighting five hiring architecture practices with current openings in New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. Take a look at these opportunities below, and visit Archinect Jobs for the complete list o…
Zaha Hadid Architects has updated its progress on the Western Sydney International Airport project with Cox Architecture. Construction is now 75% complete on the approximately 4,200-acre design, which is located in the expanding Parkland City region. The project cost is equal to…
[...] such projects have fundamentally transformed in recent years, reflecting, among other things, seismic shifts in both museums’ priorities and the profession of landscape architecture, as well as a surge in interest in outdoor space because of the pandemic. The first rule: do…
The $12 billion high-speed rail infrastructure project that will connect Las Vegas with various hubs in the Southern California region is off and running. Brightline West’s 218-mile loop is now under construction with a $3 billion push from the Biden administration’s Bipartisan I…
Henning Larsen has announced a new cultural project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Danish firm's plans for the new Jeddah Opera House entail a 1,500-seat opera, 750-seat theater, and 150-seat Rehearsal Hall to be constructed at a site that forms the new Opera Quarter and is include…
Gordon Bunshaft’s Beinecke Library at Yale University is well known to architects—the 1963 building’s translucent granite facade appears in coffee table books around the world. But the iconic building’s exterior, The post Yale students design a temporary library for protesters at…
American firm Lake Flato Architects has completed a family retreat on Long Island that consists of three barn-like structures wrapped in cedar and constructed using prefabricated timber elements. The project, called North Fork, sits within the quiet town of Peconic and is named a…
The toll of urbanization in China has been documented in a new paper published in the journal Science by a team of researchers from different institutions around the country. Using a method called spaceborne synthetic aperture radar interferometry (or InSAR), they were able to es…
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a family home in the South Downs National Park by Sandel Rendel Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. The five-bedroom home was built on the site of a 1950s bungalow situated on a gently sloping terrain on the outs…
San Francisco-based Cosmic has raised $1.5 million in funding for their micro-home product designs aimed at bringing “self-sustainable homes in California and beyond.” The company’s leading product, Cosmic ONE, is described as a “limited-edition high-quality micro-home” that can…
FreelandBuck has released images of a recent art installation for the Washington Metro Area Transit Agency (WMATA) in Washington, D.C. Staged as an optical illusion, their new piece titled ‘Tunnel Vision’ works by projecting an image of a metro station over three intersecting alu…
An international competition to deliver a brand new concert hall to the Norwegian city of Bergen has announced Henning Larsen’s entry as the winning bid. The firm beat out four other shortlist finalists for the Grieg Quarter competition with their ‘Kontrapunkt’ vision, a 17,500-s…
From Kanye West to Chris Pratt, the celebrity approach to housing is more out of touch than everLooking for a bargain beach house? Then you’re in luck. Kanye West has just lowered the price on his minimalist mansion in Malibu, California, to a mere $39m (£31.5m) – a $14m discount…
In Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row Arts District, Johnston Marklee is designing multifamily housing with Ray, a real estate company founded by Dasha Zhukova. Ray Phoenix is the third major real estate project The post In Arizona, Johnston Marklee unveils Ray Phoenix—Dasha Zhukova’s third…
About Hilton Garden Inn Boston This beautifully curving and sculptural structure expertly links the verdant Olmstead Emerald Necklace with neighboring business and residential blocks at a bustling crossroads on the Brookline fringe of Boston’s medical sector, strongly anchoring i…
A ‘trailblazing’ building and a representational entryway to the city are arising with the new construction of Mercator One Office Building in Duisburg, Germany. The distinctive retreating fan-shaped façade that pivots at the short ends guides the streams of travelers and commute…