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A new scientific study has shown the positive correlations between public health and tree planting in urban areas. In a report published recently by The Lancet medical science journal, a team of European researchers shared data on mortality rates in 93 cities in the summer of 20…
A clearer vision is emerging for the futuristic Quayside project planned to transform a stretch of Toronto's waterfront, one that is shaping up to be one of the most architecturally-distinct pockets of development in the entire country.Following over two years since the cancelati…
Although the BeltLine was designed to connect Atlantans and improve their quality of life, it has driven up housing costs on nearby land and pushed low-income households out to suburbs with fewer services than downtown neighborhoods. The BeltLine has become a prime example of wha…
Urlo Studio designed a rotated, triangular mixed-use complex clad in red concrete panels and terracotta tiles that is meant to reference the architectural heritage of its site in Quito, Ecuador. Completed in 2022, the project known as Olvia contains 14 residential units and comme…
We wanted to create a place in a quiet residential area that could combine a beauty salon with a small seating area and dance classes. The project began with such a request.
This week, we are continuing our Get Lectured series with a look at the big names coming to The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in the Spring 2023 semester for what promises to be a packed slate of public lectures and events. The month…
Buildner Architecture Competitions has announced the results of their MICROHOME Edition #5 competition. The annual contest forms part of Buildner’s Small-Scale Architecture series and seeks to entice ideas to tackle affordable housing crises around the world. The latest competiti…
The M 5606 building questioned us about the possible ways of approaching our design practice. The proposal recognizes the temporal and spatial instances inherent to the project, based on the recognition of the categories of contextualization (between insertion and implementation)…
L.A. County Towns Clash Over Homelessness Policies LM_Ortiz Fri, 02/03/2023 - 08:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption Makeshift shelters line the sidewalk near Los Angeles City Hall. In mid-December, Karen Bass was sworn in as mayor in Los Angeles, the first woman mayor in city…
Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a new movie studio to be constructed along the Brooklyn waterfront. Commissioned by production company Samson Stages, the Red Hook Studio is imagined as a “dynamic vertical village, where the building structure is created from the stacking of eigh…
A Mixed-Use Vision for Houston Landfill Site Diana Ionescu Fri, 02/03/2023 - 07:00 Primary Image In the Kinder Institute for Urban Research Urban Edge blog, Nancy Sarnoff writes that the future of a former Houston landfill is in question as the city and a local non-profit debate…
Community-focused £500m scheme will build new galleries, a learning centre, green spaces and a home for the Alan Turing Institute of data scienceAn extension of the British Library’s St Pancras site, to include new galleries and event spaces as well as a community garden, has bee…
There used to be more cows than people in Visalia, but a new 3,000-seat megachurch has brought Vegas kitsch to the worshippers of California’s Central ValleyWith declining congregations, shuttered chapels and an ever shrinking number of priests, it is easy to assume that church i…
The female heroes of abstract expressionism, Sonia Boyce in Margate and an unsettling ruling at Tate Modern – all in your weekly dispatchAction, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70Abstract expressionism gets stereotyped as macho, but here are its female h…
The annual photographer of the year winners were chosen from more than 3,000 entries across nine categories. The top prize goes to images captured in the deep south of New Zealand, an area the photographer says she enjoys for its wonderful light and colourWildlife photographer of…
Milwaukee County Makes Substantial Progress on Homelessness Diana Ionescu Fri, 02/03/2023 - 06:00 Primary Image “In 2022, Milwaukee County had the lowest per-capita count of unsheltered homeless people in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developme…
The Hangar was designed in 2020 to house a collection of historic planes from the 30s to 70s. The clients, who visited historic hangars in other countries, requested a building that resembled the old hangars, which were built in wood structures with galvanized tiles.
New LA Mayor Karen Bass has elevated current City Planning Commissioner Jenna Hornstock to a newly-created post as the Deputy Mayor of Housing, according to the city's announcement on Wednesday afternoon. The appointment aligns with Bass’ comprehensive shakeup of the city’s exist…
Opinion: Connecticut Vision Zero Bill A Step in the Right Direction Diana Ionescu Fri, 02/03/2023 - 05:00 Primary Image A bill making its way through the Connecticut state legislature would codify the state’s commitment to Vision Zero and require municipalities to actively plan f…
The main aim of the design and the client's request was a future-oriented handling of materials and a building that was integrated into the environment. A generous green roof as a cut-out and folded landscape forms the largest space-forming element of the house. The lightweight t…
Minimal, white finishes emphasise the geometric form of this home in Melegnano, Italy, designed by local practice Form_A to reference the neighbouring historic buildings. Named Casa SM, the two-storey, two-bedroom home creates a new street corner between two existing building in…
Architects Sarah Wigglesworth's and Piers Taylor's self-designed renovations feature in this roundup of British houses that have recently been retrofitted and insulated to improve their energy efficiency. The UK's housing is among the oldest and most poorly insulated in Europe, w…
With flexible exhibition galleries, dedicated space for educational programming, and areas for public gatherings, OCMA’s new building will provide expanded access to the museum’s permanent collection, which comprises important works of modern and contemporary art, and to its worl…
Humans are hard-wired to respond positively to nature; the crackling sound of fire, the smell of fresh rain on soil, the healing characteristics of plants and the color green, being in proximity to animals, etc. That, along with today’s critical environmental conditions and rapid…
A rest station for a vista - Sitting in the mountains, the building is a rest station for bikers that is located at the highest spot of a cycle track. Towards the north there is potentially a broad, open view, which is currently blocked by trees at eye height, so we hoped to crea…
Most architects are looking to win more work; not just higher-paying projects but those that allow them to unleash their creativity and passion. These opportunities can be won or lost on a professional's ability to communicate their design vision — so the proposal has to be on po…
The Danish Pavilion has announced Josephine Michau as the curator of the exhibition “Coastal Imaginaries” to represent Denmark at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition highlights nature-based design solutions to alleviate global c…
Comedian leads coalition against ‘exploitative’ proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed stationGriff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (350ft) of new offices, shops…
Built in 1941, the renovation of Building 12 is envisioned as a vibrant community gathering and event space that is integral and connected to the landscape and overall site offering spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay and the city.
The Pacific Northwest is synonymous with rainy mountains, expansive coastlines and dense forests. Known for its majestic landscapes, the region has innate connections to the waterfront. Over time, these channels were referred to as the Salish Sea. Encompassing the Strait of Georg…
The first image that comes to mind when we think of an office is a place with a table and chair. But it was not always the case. In the Middle Ages, monasteries were the main places for study and knowledge, with private rooms designed to help monks concentrate when researching. H…
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The Stöckli, as it is called in some Swiss regions, finds its origins in the old tradition of the ‘Auszughaus’. Retiring farmers are entitled to this as a home when the farm and all its work are passed on to the next generation.
Church of the Holy Spirit in Pegognaga, near Mantua. The new Church of the Holy Spirit in Pegognaga, near Mantua, is the result of restricted competition. It replaces the previous parish church, damaged by the 2012 earthquake. The project ensures a proper scale and orientation in…
Granules of Needs - The brief required a strong connection with designated areas for togetherness and rooms for privacy in this multi-generational private retreat. The returning client desired to live in a more capacious settlement for their extended family. The Gritted Grid expl…
We used to look up at the stars, remembering the love and hate of interstellar life through time and space, intertwined in the dark cosmic forest of spinning and flickering ......
Commentary continues to proliferate in the architecture community after Cooper Union’s last-minute decision to postpone the exhibition Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, which was supposed to open on January 25. [...] Read More... The post Controversy continues surrounding…
The owners of luxury flats opposite Tate Modern’s viewing gallery face an unacceptable level of intrusion that prevents them enjoying their homes, the supreme court has ruled. In a majority judgment, the court determined that the flat owners faced a “constant visual intrusion” th…
Forbes and Egyptian real estate development company Magnom Properties have announced plans to construct a 55-story zero-carbon commercial tower in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital outside of Cairo. Called the Forbes International Tower, this marks the first time the media giant…
This project is designed for Mr. Sibi Kuriakose at Thiruvankulam, Ernakulam. The house is located in a 20-cent plot overlooking a paddy field. The selection of the plot was done in consideration with the architect with the view in mind. An unobstructed view of the paddy field fro…
A list of architecture firms involved in the design of Saudi Arabia’s NEOM project has come to light along with a preview exhibition on view now in Riyadh at the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for Contemporary Art that features proposals from unspecified designers. Peter Cook, Adja…
Tacoma Developing New Housing Policy Diana Ionescu Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:00 Primary Image With its population poised to grow by more than 127,000 people in the next two decades, Tacoma, Washington is taking steps to boost affordable housing in the city. Writing in The Urbanist, Ke…
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features MVRDV's reimagining of Vancouver's waterfront in response to rising sea levels. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, which reported that sea levels could increase as mu…
Green Alleys: A New Paradigm for Stormwater Management Diana Ionescu Thu, 02/02/2023 - 11:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption A green alley under construction in Los Angeles. A program that installed green infrastructure in Los Angeles alleyways got its first real test last mo…
The addition nearly doubles the capacity of the convention centre and is the first large expansion since 2001
Binational studio Montalba Architects used ample glazing and a clever siting strategy to provide the best vistas at Canyon Terrace House in southern California. Designed for a family of four, the multi-storey home sits on a sloped site in Santa Monica. Providing a connection to t…
The annual temple design to feature in this year’s Burning Man festival has been announced: The Temple of the Heart concept is designed by Polish-born, San Francisco-based entrepreneur Ela Madej with the help of her co-lead Reed Finlay and will be the festival’s first physical te…
The sprawling property mirrors back the surrounding Californian desert scenery
It looks like New York is shaping up to be the next Hollywood. Yesterday, Samson Stages announced its plans to open film studios and soundstages in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The film [...] Read More... The post BIG unveils design for film production studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn appear…
Casa Baglioni is located in the design district of Brera, an area known as the 'artists’ district'
Toronto-based Montgomery Sisam Architects has unveiled their design for the overhaul of the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve. Situated in a rural site in King Township north of the city, the new campus is intended to accommodate research students and faculty for…
OMA has taken a step closer to the completion of its first tower in Tokyo, following the announcement that the Toranomon Hills Station Tower will open in the Fall of 2023. Part of the wider Toranomon Hills development, the mixed-use tower will reach 873 feet in height, and will h…
Thai practice IDIN Architects has created a series of minimal, pavilion-like structures for Nana Coffee Roasters in Bangkok, which feature mirrored mosaic ceilings to reflect the surrounding gardens. Located in Bangkok's Bangna district, the project occupies an oasis-like site of…
LA's Destination Crenshaw initiative has revealed an updated opening day for its largest component along with news of $3.4 million in federal grant contribution that will help further shepherd the project towards its eventual completion later this year. The development’s Sankofa…
The landmark decision, that luxury glass-walled flats opposite the museum’s new viewing gallery are being disturbed, could lead to a shift in how public life in cities operatesThe verdict is in: people who live in glass houses may throw stones with impunity. After six years of le…
The American Institute of Architects has unveiled the winners of the Regional & Urban Design category of the 2023 AIA Awards. Recognizing the best in urban design, community development, and regional and city planning, the awards seek to elevate an approach to urbanism that “acco…
Former Columbia GSAPP dean James Stewart Polshek has been posthumously honored with a new endowed scholarship in recognition of the commitment to design excellence and social causes he embodied while helming the school for fifteen years. The Ennead founder passed away in Septembe…
Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica, which open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. Named Achioté, two 95-square metre villas are embedded in a steep 11,000-square metre plot of jungle, 300…
USC School of Architecture’s annual Design Charrette concluded recently with five unique design-builds being awarded across three categories of the contest, which is now in its twelfth edition. Tasked with creating a Media Incubator Center for Creative Content, students from the…
Following last week’s look at an opening for a Senior Designer at Extell Development Company, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Architectural Design at the Universi…
Included in our latest weekly employer highlights are five architecture and development firms with current job openings in Brooklyn/New York City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Costa Mesa, California. For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job board and browse our active com…
Austrian studio Juri Troy Architects has completed Straw Flea House, an angular cabin in the historic village of Murstetten built using locally-sourced timber and straw. Designed as a single-bedroom weekend home, the dwelling sits alongside a historic barn on a wooded site outsid…
Residents of the luxury Neo Bankside flats live as though they are on display in a zoo because of the Tate Modern's Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension, the supreme court has ruled. A majority judgment by the supreme court has determined that the viewing gallery at the Tate's S…
Architects have a duty to use their skills to help solve societal problems even if it means thinking beyond designing buildings, ProxyAddress founder Chris Hildrey tells Dezeen in this interview. British architect Hildrey founded ProxyAddress, a social enterprise that gives peopl…
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing MVRDV's envisioning for Vancouver's waterfront in the year 2100 and the world's most aggressive SUV. Dutch architecture studio MVRDV released a study that aims to offer possible solutions to urban planning in the face of risi…
Stockholm Design Week, Object Rotterdam, Modernism Week and Nomad St Moritz are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Among the other events taking place in February are design festivals Design Shenzhen and Madrid Design Festival. St…
Amsterdam’s Kossmanndejong (KDJ) has been announced by the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County as the lead exhibition designer for the La Brea Tar Pits overhaul following a competitive international search process. In tandem with WEISS/MANFREDI and Los Angeles-based Gru…
Michael Graves Architecture is once again expanding in the Mid-Atlantic market with the newly-announced acquisition of the well-known North Carolina-based firm Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce Architects. The move comes after successive acquisitions of Maryland's Waldon Studio Arc…
Four architecture firms have envisioned virtual words for pax.world, a metaverse platform that invites users and brands to host and attend live events, including concerts, gallery exhibitions, business conferences, and [...] Read More... The post Grimshaw, HWKN, Farshid Moussavi,…
The new semester is upon us, and Archinect is continuing with our Get Lectured series with a look at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture’s public programs for the Spring of 2023. The school shares that this term’s theme revolves around an examination of “extractivism” and…
Studio CL has created a concrete apartment block in Chile made out of precast concrete that was designed as a prototype for a multi-family housing unit. Named DSP Apartment, the building is sited in Santiago on a site previously occupied by a single-family residence. Prompted by…
The International Garden Festival has unveiled the five projects selected for its 24th edition. Under the theme “Roots,” designers were tasked with imagining a present and a future that is ecologically, economically, and culturally responsible by drawing on the teachings of previ…
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Invisible Studio's announcement that it is moving its operations out of the UK as a response to Brexit. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The news that architecture practice Invisible Studio is moving its operations…
California studio Bittoni Architects has completed Common Melrose, a communal living complex with 23 bedrooms that is meant to be an affordable alternative to traditional living arrangements. Built on a formerly vacant lot, Common Melrose stretches along a commercial avenue in an…
The 2022 winners of the Art of Building photography contest have been named by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Each year, two winners are selected from an international field of entries to match criteria set forth by the organization's directive. As the CIOB says, We…
Following last week’s visit to New York City-based SKOLNICK, we are using this week’s edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series to explore the work of California and Switzerland-based practice Montalba Architects. Founded in 2004 by David Montalba, the Santa Monica / Lausanne…
Founding chair of the Academy of Urbanism determined to involve local people in architectural decisions about their neighbourhoodsThe urban planner and architect John Thompson, who has died aged 78 after a long illness, was a leading proponent of “community architecture” and the…
England's housing developers have been given an ultimatum - commit to repairing unsafe buildings or be banned from operating in the market. Developers now have six weeks to sign a government contract to fix their unsafe buildings from the past 30 years. According to the governmen…
The new building codes make 49 amendments to the International Building Code...will be the first time Aspen has set energy limits for every building in the city...The new regulations are not about affordable housing...Axelman does not expect the new regs will reduce the rumbling…
The non-profit group 4 Day Week Global has published the findings of their trial into the impacts of a four-day workweek on businesses. The trial began in February 2022, when 33 companies enacted a “meaningful work time reduction” for six months without reducing pay. The companie…
Folding glass doors and perforated metal screens allow for the mediation of light, ventilation, and noise at the J House in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, designed by local studio CTA. CTA, short for Creative Architects, was approached by a teacher who had purchased a narrow plot measuring f…
International architecture studios including Adjaye Associates, Morphosis, Studio Fuksas and Coop Himmelb(l)au have been named in a Riyadh exhibition as working on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia. Currently under construction in Saudi Arabia, the 170-kilometre-long megacity is…
From a Japanese residence with a cartoonish facade to a pared-back villa in coastal Italy, here are Dezeen's top five houses of the month for January. A tiled home by Mecanoo, a minimalist forest retreat and an inconspicuous concrete dwelling also feature on the list, which compi…
Czech architecture studio A8000 has renovated a stepped pavilion in the Czech Republic adding a partially glazed facade and a versatile black-and-white interior. A8000 restored the original proportions of Pavilion Z, which is located in the city of České Budějovice, to create a v…
For much of its recent history in mitigating climate change, Denver has concentrated on buildings’ operational energy — the energy needed to run basics like heating, air conditioning, lighting and hot water. That will shift in May, when Denver’s newly adopted green code takes eff…
First announced in 2019, the project spans a block of Fulton Street between Brooklyn Avenue to the east and New York Avenue to the west. Plans call for the construction of three buildings featuring approximately 840,000 square feet of offices, educational, cultural, and commercia…
Following news earlier this month that he would step down from his role as Executive Director of AIA New York and the Center for Architecture, Ben Prosky has announced his [...] Read More... The post Former AIANY Executive Director Ben Prosky to take on new role as President of t…
The Empire State Building lights change frequently in recognition local and national events. The top floors of the building glow red, white, and blue for the Fourth of July and [...] Read More... The post The Empire State Building committed football treason on Sunday appeared fir…
Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler, British Columbia. Named Ambassador Crescent, the 3,130-square foot (290-square metre) house i…
It’s renewable, strong as steel, astonishingly fire resistant – yet it’s easy and quiet to build with. Could timber construction be the future? We step inside the revolutionary new London workplace that everyone wants to touchThere is very little about most new “sustainable” offi…
Lebbeus Woods, Ecologies, 1984-1990 Curated by Jennifer Olshin Friedman Benda 8260 Marmont Lane Los Angeles, CA 90069 Open through February 4 Lebbeus Woods died at his home in New York [...] Read More... The post Drawings by Lebbeus Woods now on view at Friedman Benda in Los Ange…
London-based architecture studio Hyperspace has created a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England, featuring a pivoting door and a charred-timber facade that doubles as an insect hotel. Hyperspace converted a suburban garage to create the work-from-home studio called Dark Matter.…
Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine feature in this roundup of brick alternatives, designed to reduce the masonry unit's embodied carbon footprint. After concrete and steel, brick has become the latest focus for architects, designers and material researchers hoping…
Retrofit, biomaterials and grassroots design are among the trends that architects including Kjetil Thorsen and Samira Rathod predict will define the architecture of 2023 and beyond. Dezeen spoke to 10 architects from a mix of leading and emerging studios around the world about th…
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has won this year's Jane Drew Prize for Architecture for her contribution to raising the profile of women in architecture. Sejima is best known as the co-founder of the Japanese architecture studio SANAA, which she found…
In our latest competition, Dezeen has teamed up with PlasticFree to give 100 readers a chance to attend Incredible Future NOW – an interdisciplinary forum of talks focusing on the climate crisis in New York City. Our Incredible Future Now takes place at Parsons School of Design i…
Japanese studio Ushijima Architects has completed a small wood-clad house in Shiga Prefecture, with living spaces raised on a concrete base to help mitigate the risk of flooding. Located near Biwa-ko, the largest freshwater lake in Japan, the U-House sits on an area of former wet…
Teachers and parents voice fury over risk to life in England’s crumbling classrooms as DfE keeps survey details from public scrutinyMinisters sparked a furious row over the safety of thousands of dilapidated school buildings in England on Saturday night by abandoning the imminent…
Japanese graphic designer Tomohito Ushiro has completed the Hiroo East Park toilet in central Tokyo as the latest addition to the Tokyo Toilet project. Built within the Hiroo East Park, the toilet features a large light panel that circles through 7.9 billion different light patte…
Dazzling computer-generated images of a newly revamped Liverpool Street do little to establish its merits or flawsProperty companies have always liked to put the best possible gloss on their proposals – views taken from angles that minimise their bulk, atmospheric effects in thei…