Sloped walls form Canyon Drive housing complex by LOHA in Los Angeles
American firm LOHA has completed a row of sculptural, metal-clad homes in Los Angeles that is meant to explore possibilities for the "small lot subdivision typology". More
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Ole Scheeren's Fifteen Fifteen skyscraper in Vancouver moves forward
Büro Ole Scheeren's residential Fifteen Fifteen skyscraper in Vancouver, which will have a distinctive form with numerous stacked boxy volumes, has taken a step closer to reality as apartment pre-sales begin. More
Bath Spa University spotlights 11 student design projects
An animation where magical characters travel through valleys collecting treasure and a naturally-dyed kimono project are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Bath Spa University. More
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Watch The World Around In Focus: Land talks
Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel were among the speakers that participated in The World Around In Focus: Land, an afternoon of talks exploring contemporary post-colonial land-use issues. Watch the online event here. More
LETI publishes Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide to support net-zero target
The London Energy Transformation Initiative has published a report that sets out a blueprint for retrofitting UK homes in order to meet national climate change targets. More
Benedetto Camerana adds garden with 40,000 plants to the rooftop test track at Fiat's former Lingotto factory
Italian architect Benedetto Camerana and landscape designer Il Giardino Segreto have created a rooftop garden called La Pista 500 on the rooftop test track at Lingotto, Fiat's iconic former car factory in Turin. More
Build: Architecture 2021 online event to explore frontiers of real-time 3D rendering
Dezeen promotion: Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, HOK and Foster + Partners are among the architectural practices giving presentations at Build: Architecture 2021, an event exploring innovative uses of real-time rendering. More
Remi Connolly-Taylor creates her own glass brick-walled London home
Designer Remi Connolly-Taylor has designed Maryland House in London, which features a glass brick enclosed staircase, as her own home and studio. More
Buildings could "definitely" be made exclusively from plant-based products says biomaterials CEO
Architects could soon be designing homes and other buildings using nothing but biomaterials, according to Biobased Creations CEO Lucas De Man. More
UK net-zero strategy "totally lacking in ambition" say architects
The UK's strategy for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 "does not go far enough" and ignores embodied carbon according to the RIBA and other industry groups. More
Fritz Hansen creates beige, white and rose showroom in Shanghai
Danish brand Fritz Hansen has opened a showroom in Shanghai's Jing'an district, which is the brand's latest outpost in China. More
Dezeen Awards 2021 studio public vote winners include all-female Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio
SO-IL, Yakusha Design, WGNB and three other studios have been chosen by Dezeen readers as winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the studio categories. More
"Largest wooden building in Iceland" to occupy landfill site in Reykjavík
Architecture studios Jakob+MacFarlane and T.ark have designed a low-carbon cross-laminated timber building called Living Landscape that will transform a landfill site in Iceland's capital city. More