Cultural
Cultural
Sharjah desert visitor centre takes its shape from prehistoric sea urchins
Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre on a former prehistoric sea in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE. More
Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre on a former prehistoric sea in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE. More
Developer Avanton has acquired a Grade II-listed Victorian gas holder in London and is exploring plans to turn it into a habitat for alligators as part of a housing development. More
Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. More
Zaha Hadid's recently completed Miami skyscraper One Thousand Museum – one of the late architect's last buildings – is revealed in a short movie and photography. More
The developer of New York's World Trade Center site has nixed BIG's Two World Trade Center design in favour of an earlier proposal by Foster + Partners, following back-and-forth over the two projects. More
Zaha Hadid Architects has released a video revealing a sinuous white exhibition centre that it is close to completing on Unicorn Island in Chengdu, China. More
American studio MW Works has created an "intentionally modest" dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that serves as a nature retreat for a multi-generational family. More
Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes has built a bunker-like studio from prefabricated concrete and stone alongside his home in Coyoacán, Mexico City. More
Foster + Partners has launched a planning appeal for the 300-metre-high Tulip tower, which was blocked by London's mayor Sadiq Khan last year. More
Scullion Architects has remodelled and extended a house in Dublin, adding a long glazed sun room with deep sill and copper parapet that opens on to a garden. More
Mexican firm Reyes Rios + Larrain Arquitectos has covered the walls of an apartment complex in Tulum in stucco that is pigmented pink to contrast pockets of greenery. More
Design collective Medium has completed 8-23-VI, a pavilion with moving walls that creates a new public place for residents of the Gldani neighbourhood in Tbilisi, Georgia. More
British architect Norman Foster recalls the challenges of designing the UK's pioneering high-tech art gallery, in this exclusive video interview filmed by Dezeen as part of our high-tech architecture series. More
Precht and Mamou-Mani Architects have completed a sustainable sand-printed installation called Sandwaves in Diryah, Saudi Arabia. More
The emotional and economic impacts of cities are closely connected, but this is lost in a proliferation of meaningless phrases like "healthy placemaking" and "human-centric design", says Reinier de Graaf. More
A stone-clad house in woodland close to Antwerp by DDM Architectuur features an indoor pool and a double-height music room overlooking a pond. More
From waterfront properties with uninterrupted views to gabled homes nestled among pine trees, we've rounded up 10 black cabins that provide hideaways in unique places around the world. More
Bez + Kock Architekten used a bridge to connect an extension and a 17th-century museum in Arnsberg, Germany, forming the Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. More
NL Architects has completed a huge cultural complex in Groningen, which is set to become an important landmark for the Dutch city. More
AOA Architects has clad the stepped gables of a playful apartment block in South Korea with glossy red and white tiles in a reference to the video game Minecraft. More