Comments
Comments
"Dystopian ugly" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a cluster of seven staggered housing blocks in Abu Dhabi by Dutch studio MVRDV. More
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Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda
Dezeen Agenda features plans to carve terraces into London skyscraper
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features plans to renovate the Foster + Partners-designed HSBC Tower in Canary Wharf, London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More
Houses
Houses
Alison Brooks Architects creates copper-clad London home with "folding geometry"
Site constraints and local architecture guided the angular form of Mesh House, a copper-clad home that London studio Alison Brooks Architects has completed in Belsize Park. More
Restaurants
Restaurants
Long Nguyen Design wraps Vietnam restaurant in bamboo screen
A screen of bamboo shelters diners at the Nhà Tú Garden Restaurant in Vietnam, which has been completed by architecture studio Long Nguyen Design. More
Interview
Interview
Reusing existing venues for Olympics "is not easy" says Populous' François Clément
Paris 2024 comes close to the limit of what is possible in terms of minimising construction for Olympic Games hosted in a single city, explains Populous' François Clément in this Olympic Impact interview. More
News
News
Populous set to design stadium "inspired by classical Roman architecture" for AS Roma
Italian football club AS Roma has unveiled the design concept for a stadium that is planned for the Pietralata area in Rome. More
Landscape and urbanism
Landscape and urbanism
Dubai to convert 64-kilometre-long highway into "human-centric" Green Spine
Architecture studio Urb is planning to convert a 64-kilometre-long arterial road in Dubai into the "world's greenest highway", designed as the emirate's answer to New York City's High Line. More
Cultural
Cultural
WXY Architecture and Jerome Haferd Studio design structures for historic Africatown
US studios WXY Architecture and Jerome Haferd Studio are among four firms that have won a competition to design several cultural venues for historic Africatown in Alabama. More
Sheds
Sheds
Atelier l'Abri embraces "expressive potential of construction" with Quebec shed
Local architecture studio Atelier l'Abri has created a shed at a Quebec farmhouse with a galvanized steel and hemlock timber structure. More
Bungalows
Bungalows
Madam Architectuur updates Belgian bungalow with red-timber cladding
Brussels studio Madam Architectuur has renovated and extended a bungalow near Aalst, updating its exterior with bright red-painted timber that is "striking yet modest". More
Olympic Impact
Olympic Impact
Dezeen's guide to the architecture of the Paris 2024 Olympics
To kick off our Olympic Impact series, Dezeen profiles the most architecturally notable venues of the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games – where the major theme has been renovation and reuse. More
Olympic Impact
Olympic Impact
The race to reduce the Olympic Impact
Today we launch Olympic Impact, a series investigating whether the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games can be the blueprint for sustainable major sporting events. Nat Barker sets out what to expect. More
Opinion
Opinion
"Building 1.5 million homes is not the same as solving the housing crisis"
Keir Starmer's newly elected government has made big promises about increasing housing supply in England without properly explaining why it wants to do so, writes Peter Apps. More
Apartments
Apartments
Neri&Hu animates gridded Taipei apartment block with arched screens
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens. More
Events
Events
Five outdoor architecture and design events on Dezeen Events Guide
To celebrate summer, we've selected five current and upcoming events taking place outdoors from Dezeen Events Guide, including Chart Art Fair, Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and Horst Expo. More
Visitor centres
Visitor centres
WXY Architecture creates welcome centre for New York nature preserve
New York City-based studio WXY Architecture has unveiled a wooden, light-filled visitor centre for a nature preserve on the seaside in Rockaway, Queens. More
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate
Dezeen Debate features "sympathetic and classy" New York extension
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features CookFox Architects' extension to an early 1900s building in New York. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
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Houses
Houses
Origami-like roof tops timber home in Suffolk by Studio Bark
Local timber-framed buildings influenced the geometric form of Water Farm, a house that architecture practice Studio Bark has added to a family farm in Suffolk. More
Holiday homes
Holiday homes
Snøhetta designs sweeping holiday home for foothills of Mount Yōtei
A crescent-shaped volume will enclose this holiday home, which architecture studio Snøhetta has designed for hospitality brand Not A Hotel in a ski resort on Hokkaido Island, Japan. More
Cultural
Cultural
MORE Architecture creates Ginkgo Gallery as "antidote to the museum boom" in China
Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China. More