Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers
UNStudio creates skyscrapers to "redefine vertical living" in São Paulo
Dutch firm UNStudio has completed two skyscrapers in São Paulo incorporating sustainable strategies and a "windmill-shaped" floor plan. More
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Public and leisure
Public and leisure
Foster + Partners expands Spanish winery with "discreet" barrel-vaulted structure
British studio Foster + Partners has added a vaulted timber hall to Bodegas Faustino winery in Spain, which features an earthy material palette and overhanging roof. More
Holiday homes
Holiday homes
Cowper Griffith Architects creates contemporary holiday home in medieval hall
UK studio Cowper Griffith Architects has combined the medieval fabric of the 14th-century Calverley Old Hall in West Yorkshire, England, with contemporary additions to create a holiday home for the Landmark Trust charity. More
Architecture videos
Architecture videos
Wraxall Yard designed as "attractive, comfortable, fully inclusive holiday accommodation"
This video spotlights the Wraxall Yard holiday accommodation by Clementine Blakemore Architects, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize. More
Comments
Comments
"Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
Ten contemporary houses in The Hamptons
Our latest roundup showcases a mixture of new and renovated houses located in The Hamptons, including a dune-informed home by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and a James Bond "lair" by designer Timothy Godbold. More
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda features conceptual AI skyscraper by Neri Oxman
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a conceptual skyscraper engineered for planting and designed using artificial intelligence. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
PPAA arranges terraces around house in a Mexican forest
Mexican studio PPAA has created a grey stucco house with open-air terraces that allows residents to reconnect with the forest of Valle de Bravo, Mexico. More
Concrete houses
Concrete houses
Álvaro Siza steps orange-hued concrete home into sloped site in Barcelona
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. More
Architecture videos
Architecture videos
Park Hill Phase 2 "contains the history and stories of the people of Sheffield"
This video spotlights Phase 2 of the Park Hill estate regeneration in Sheffield by Mikhail Riches, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize. More
News
News
Twentieth Century Society calls for preservation of "just one set of cooling towers"
As the UK closes its last coal-fired power station, conservation group Twentieth Century Society is running a campaign to preserve a set of cooling towers. More
Adaptive reuse
Adaptive reuse
Decommissioned cooling towers turned into theme parks, music venues and extreme sports centres
After the UK's last coal power station closed last week, the Twentieth Century Society has selected seven projects that demonstrate how the under-threat cooling towers at these "cathedrals of industry" could be reused. More
Housing
Housing
MVRDV transforms world war two military base into housing
Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former world war two German military base in the Netherlands, adding terraced housing and preserving a series of bunkers disguised as farmhouses. More
Landscape and urbanism
Landscape and urbanism
Metabolic Studio diverts LA River water to "facilitate natural systems that want to repair themselves"
Art and research organisation Metabolic Studio has showcased aspects of its Bending the River project, an infrastructure and art project designed to remediate water and land around the Los Angeles River. More
Landscape and urbanism
Landscape and urbanism
BIG set to "reanimate" 1950s power plant on Scape-designed park
Architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans to adapt a decommissioned power plant in Connecticut, USA, into a community centre on a site to be reimagined by landscape studio Scape. More
News
News
"Hotel in nature" in Singapore named Best Tall Building Worldwide
The 23-storey Pan Pacific Orchard skyscraper in Singapore by architecture studio WOHA has won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's award for the world's best new tall building. More
Public and leisure
Public and leisure
Perforated brickwork wraps The Gong music centre by Atelier Oï
Perforated brick walls wrap an open-roof stage at this circular music centre in Cambodia, completed by Swiss architecture studio Atelier Oï. More
Architecture videos
Architecture videos
National Portrait Gallery visitors are "not there to look at the architecture"
This video spotlights the overhaul of the National Portrait Gallery by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize. More
Residential architecture and interiors
Residential architecture and interiors
Donaldson + Partners creates arched house "for the twenty-first century"
California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. More
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate features a student centre hailed as "eccentrically energetic in and out"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Student Pavilion at the University of Melbourne by US studio KoningEizenberg. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More