Architecture
Architecture
"The graffiti rather improves the aesthetics" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a trio of incomplete skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles that have been covered in graffiti. More
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a trio of incomplete skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles that have been covered in graffiti. More
First-time data on Australia's gender pay gaps has revealed the country's 22 biggest architecture firms pay men between five and 27 per cent more than women, failing to meet the government's target pay gap range. More
Three villages will make up Omani Mountain Destination, a mixed-use district for 8,000 people being developed for Oman by the country's Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning. More
An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. More
Mexican architecture studio RED Arquitectos has completed a cement-covered residence with screens made of stones used for preparing food on the coastline of Cerritos, Mexico. More
Large wooden beams frame the interiors of L'échappée, a multimedia library in France designed by local practice Atelier WOA as an alternative to "institutional and cold" public buildings. More
London studio David Kohn Architects has converted an agricultural building on a former dairy farm in Newton Abbot, UK, to create a house and studio named Cowshed. More
US studio Page Southerland Page has added a Corten-steel addition to a museum in Texas that complements a historical structure and was designed to look like "a chunk of landscape". More
International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. More
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. More
Conserving Tashkent's modernist architecture is a way of boosting the city's international profile, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation chair Gayane Umerova tells Dezeen in this interview. More
Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. More
Local studio Medprostor has covered and partially repaired a 900-year-old Romanesque church in Slovenia, placing an operable roof on top of the open structure to create a space "between a ruin and a reconstruction". More
A vaulted concrete base supports an elevated football pitch and running track at the Hexi Sports Field, which The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed in Shaoxing, China. More
This week on Dezeen, the seven finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2024 were announced, which included a copper-clad convent in Corsica and an art gallery in the Czech Republic. More
A trio of incomplete skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles have been covered with graffiti, sparking debate about the development, which has been abandoned since 2019. More
White volumes, balconies and planters are stacked around a central courtyard at House for Young Families in Da Nang, Vietnam, which has been designed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. More
A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. More
Two years into Russia's full-scale invasion, architecture and design studios in Ukraine are adapting to support the war effort while also ensuring they stay in business. More
Local architecture studio Habitable Form has created the timber-clad Victory Bay House to minimise disturbance to oak trees and to endure the storms and flooding that can strike its location along the Atlantic Seaboard. More