Opinion
Opinion
"The design professions are not stepping up to address the wildfires problem"
As wildfires exacerbated by climate change wreak increasing havoc around the world, Greg Kochanowski argues it's time for a different approach. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Like a box of matches over gravel" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an "elegant" rectangular house with circular garden terraces in São Paulo, Brazil. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
Notan Office creates "micro-city" of housing on an industrial site in Brussels
Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. More
Factories
Factories
Spacon & X adds kombucha brewery to 1930s functionalist building in Copenhagen
Danish studio Spacon & X preserved "different layers of unique history" when designing the Folk Kombucha brewery, which is set within a listed building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
Stanaćev Granados clads cube-shaped Chilean house in white wood
Local architecture studio Stanaćev Granados has created an oceanside holiday house shaped like a cube and clad in wood on the coast of Chile. More
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda features campaign to save Marcel Breuer's holiday home from demolition
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the launch of a campaign to prevent the demolition of Marcel Breuer's holiday home. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More
Landscape and urbanism
Landscape and urbanism
NBBJ and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers create LA playground
American architecture studio NBBJ has collaborated with American musician Flea to design a playground on a public housing complex in Los Angeles. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
Limestone plinth supports Hungarian holiday home by Kontextus Architecture Studio
A monolithic limestone-clad plinth supports the lightweight steel-framed structure of The Clifftop House, a holiday home in Hungary by Budapest practice Kontextus Architecture Studio. More
Roundups
Roundups
Ten A-frame homes and cabins where pitched roofs form sloping walls
A zero-emission holiday cabin and a triangular house with underground bedrooms feature in this roundup of A-frame homes. More
Interview
Interview
"I don't think AI knows what humans like" says Daniel Escobar
Over-reliance on AI tools for architecture like floor-plan generators could result in boring buildings, Online Lab of Architecture co-founder Daniel Escobar tells Dezeen in this interview. More
Architecture
Architecture
Elkus Manfredi Architects cuts openings into 1950s "concrete bunker" in Washington DC
A Cold War-era building designed to withstand nuclear blasts is among the structures that have been renovated by Elkus Manfredi Architects at the newly established Children's National Research & Innovation Campus. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Rashid Ali Architects creates chequered garden tea room in Somaliland
Somaliland- and London-based Rashid Ali Architects has created a chequered timber garden pavilion that can be illuminated as a "glowing lantern" in Hargeisa. More
Portuguese houses
Portuguese houses
Bak Gordon inserts green-tiled concrete house on sloping street in Lisbon
Portuguese studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos has designed two concrete structures separated by a courtyard for a house on a narrow plot in Lisbon. More
Barns
Barns
Ten modern barn houses from Dezeen's Pinterest
Dezeen's Pinterest followers searched for "modern barn house" 13 times more than normal in the last few weeks. We round up 10 of the most popular barn conversions and houses informed by barns from Pinterest.
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Office interiors
Office interiors
The Act of Quad converts Mumbai shed into studio with see-through facade
The Act of Quad founders Priyanka Itadkar and Falguni Bhatia have built their own interior design studio, The Light Box, by transforming a 58-year-old former library in Mumbai, India. More
Hotels
Hotels
Wellness centre opens at Santorini cliffside hotel
The Katikies Kirini resort, which overlooks the Greek island of Santorini's dramatic volcanic caldera, has opened a wellness centre as part of its on-site spa. More
Public and leisure
Public and leisure
Flowing vaulted roofs top Tarang arts space by The Grid Architects
Undulating vaults shelter this multipurpose arts space in Ahmedabad, India, which local studio The Grid Architects designed to defy "conventional architectural norms". More
Houses
Houses
Chris van Niekerk installs minimalist house in Cape Town's Steenberg mountains
Cape Town-based architect Chris van Niekerk has completed Mountain House, a minimalist retreat in the rugged landscape of South Africa's southernmost city. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
Arii Irie Architects completes stripped-back Warehouse Villa in Japan
Tokyo studio Arii Irie Architects created this warehouse to double as a storage unit and a holiday home for its client in Isumi, Japan. More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week we revealed this year's Burning Man temple
This week on Dezeen, we revealed renderings of the temple that will form the centrepiece of this year's annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, USA. More