Architecture

Prince William has announced the five winning projects of this year’s Earthshot Prize, including technology designed to capture waste heat and convert it into usable and clean electricity. Founded by the prince and British wildlife presenter and historian David Attenborough in 2020, the annual Earthshot Prize awards five winners £1 million each to scale up […]

Dezeen Showroom: Danish architect Mette Fredskild has designed a customisable kitchen island for Lithuanian brand Kongacph that draws on the “calm and simplicity” of Japandi design. The bespoke solid oak 25×25 Workshop Kitchen is based on a simple grid system and named after the 25 by 25 milllimetre battens that comprise its structural frame. The

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in Melbourne with a curved roof and textured concrete walls designed by LLDS Architects. Called Northcote House, the home is slotted into the site of a former car park, with bespoke elements including the irregularly shaped plywood roof structure created using computer numerically controlled (CNC) robotics.

Architecture studio Atelier Heyman Hamilton has renovated and expanded Torö, a holiday home on an island with the same name in Sweden, focusing on “the meeting between the building and the site”. The careful renovation aimed to honour the house’s 1970s Folkhem architecture, a Swedish movement that combined modern materials and mass production systems with

This video produced by Jim Stephenson spotlights the University of Aberdeen Science and Teaching Hub by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. It is the fourth video published by Dezeen in collaboration with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) to highlight

Mongolian designer Sarina has released a duo of stools clad in the pale bark of birch trees that celebrate the craftsmanship of the Oroqen people of Inner Mongolia. The Oroqen people are an ethnic group native to the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, who have been using birch tree bark in their handicrafts for

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the Saint-Denis Pleyel Station by Kengo Kuma and Associates. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has revealed the Saint-Denis Pleyel Station in northern Paris, featuring a facade wrapped in vertical wooden louvres. The 35,000-square-meter station was constructed as part of the

A group of Columbia GSAPP professors and students have created an inflatable installation for the New York university’s campus that hung suspended between two buildings and contained seating made of nets. The temporary Cloud Pavilion (Cloud) measured 66 feet (20 metres) wide and consisted of an inflatable, silver doughnut-shaped volume with a large net that

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for micro housing which promotes sustainability is included in this latest school show by students at the University of Waterloo. Also included is a botanical garden which includes education initiatives and a proposal for a food security system through combining a greenhouse with a food bank. University of Waterloo Institution:University

California studio LOHA has completed a residential and retail building called Bellevue53, which features a rooftop swimming pool and stepped elevations clad in white metal. Located just north of a major freeway, the multi-level building sits on a corner lot in Los Angeles‘ Silver Lake neighbourhood, known for its trendy restaurants, distinctive architecture and bohemian