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Airbnb's Backyard initiative to roll out house designs in 2019
Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. More
Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. More
Kulapat Yantrasast has become the go-to architect for contemporary art galleries and museums in the US. Here are 10 of his major projects that differ from typical white-box exhibition spaces, with warm materials, unusual layouts and custom furniture. More
Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast was recently chosen to oversee a major renovation of galleries at The Met in New York. In this exclusive interview, he explains why he designs art spaces to be more than white boxes, and credits mentor Tadao Ando for providing a "true education". More
In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018. More
American studio John Ronan Architects has completed an academic building at the Illinois Institute of Technology that is meant to have a "light, cloud-like appearance". More
Continuing our review of 2018, social media assistant Fiona Hartley picks the 10 most impressive staircases of the past year, including a flowing structure made from oak and a set of cantilevered pink steps. More
Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. More
MAD has revealed visuals of a "theatrical" spiral staircase set to create a panoramic viewing platform for a historic warehouse on Rotterdam's waterfront. More
Engineered timber products such as cross-laminated timber must be exempt from the UK government's ban on combustible cladding materials, as they are essential in the global battle against climate change, say architects. More
Rooftop photovoltaics and windows that automatically open and close are among the sustainable features in a small Harvard building, which Snøhetta, Skanska and university researchers have retrofitted. More
French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris.
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Kicking off our annual review of architecture and design, editorial assistant Bridget Cogley looks back at the most important museums and galleries that opened in 2018. They include the V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma and a treehouse-like art institution in Tulum. More
Rolling waves inspired the undulating timber roof of this airport on the island of Cebu, designed by Integrated Design Associates as a "symbolic gateway to the Philippines". More
An elevated running track encircles this sports centre that Neumann Monson Architects has designed for the residents of Lone Tree, Iowa. More
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to skyscrapers, including Büro Ole Scheeren's 77-storey MahaNakhon tower with a glass-floored observation deck and the twisting Generali tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
Dot Architects has completed a school library in rural China constructed in a week by amateur builders using the WikiHouse open-source architecture platform. More
A massive curving slab of concrete covers the new school of architecture building at the University of Miami, by local firm Arquitectonica. More
This week on Dezeen, the winners of the inaugural Dezeen Awards were announced at a ceremony in London, with Christ & Gantenbein, Studio Roosegaarde and Atelier NL among the winners. More
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Aedas have completed the Passenger Clearance Building to house immigration facilities for passengers and goods entering Hong Kong. More
Billion-pound projects are perverting architecture warns David Adjaye, who says architects should be champions for the cities they build projects in. More