Lizzie Crook
Cheng Chung Design creates restaurant within brick art installation in China
Hong Kong architecture studio Cheng Chung Design has created a restaurant and exhibition space within the cavernous interiors of a brick art installation in Mile City, China. More
Plans for Barbican concert hall by Diller Scofidio & Renfro axed
Plans for the pyramidal Centre for Music by Diller Scofidio & Renfro in London have been scrapped, with a "major renewal" of the nearby Barbican estate set to take place instead. More
Dorte Mandrup to turn former home of Nazi architect into design academy
Dorte Mandrup has announced its plans to convert the Saalecker Workshops, the former home of German architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg, into an international design academy. More
MVRDV to build artificial hill alongside London's Marble Arch
MVRDV has revealed visuals of Marble Arch Mound, a temporary landscaped viewpoint that will be built in central London to attract people back to the Oxford Street shopping district following the coronavirus pandemic. More
Life Meets Art book offers glimpse inside homes of leading creatives
Norman Foster's lofty dining room and the tactile living space of Faye Toogood are among the home interiors revealed in author Sam Lubell's new book, Life Meets Art. More
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot design Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre for Adelaide
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot have revealed visuals of the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre in Adelaide, which will take cues from traditional Indigenous shelters. More
Kéré Architecture models Benin's parliament on African palaver tree
Kéré Architecture has released visuals of the National Assembly of Benin, which has been designed to "express the democratic values and identity" of the country. More
Wormhole Library by MAD nears completion in China
Chinese architecture studio MAD has released construction photos of its sinuous Wormhole Library after the building topped out on Haikou Bay in Hainan. More
Zaha Hadid Architects models expansion of Beijing exhibition centre on traditional Chinese architecture
A striped roofscape that takes cues from tiled roofs in traditional Chinese architecture will characterise Zaha Hadid Architects' expansion of the International Exhibition Centre in Beijing. More
Saket Sethi creates egg-shaped garden temple alongside rural Indian house
Indian architect Saket Sethi has completed the Sunoo Temple House on the outskirts of Mumbai with a rooftop garden and a private worship space that is designed to evoke a galaxy. More
Lack of embodied carbon regulation "huge blind spot" says Architects Climate Action Network
ACAN is campaigning to introduce embodied carbon regulation in the UK to reduce the emissions generated over a building's entire lifespan. More
OMA designs Chengdu Future City as "alternative to the typical masterplan"
Chengdu Future City is a car-free masterplan for the capital of China's Sichuan province designed by architecture studio OMA to focus on the site's existing geography and topography. More
Perkins&Will redesigns earthquake-damaged Alaska office to evoke glacier
Architecture firm Perkins&Will plans to revive a vacant 1970s office building in Alaska by stripping it back and re-cladding it with an angular, glazed facade that mimics a glacier. More
Zaha Hadid Architects reveals images of four-winged cultural centre in Zhuhai
A roofscape modelled on patterns of migratory birds will shelter the four wings of the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre that Zaha Hadid Architects is developing in southern China. More
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti to revive Pirellino skyscraper in Milan
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti have announced plans to overhaul the 1950s Pirellino office skyscraper in Milan, Italy, and build a plant-lined timber tower beside it. More
Foster + Partners proposes larch-clad innovation hub in the Swiss Alps
Textured larch shingles and a mountainous roofscape will define InnHub La Punt, an innovation and community centre that Foster + Partners is developing for Engadin valley in Switzerland. More
Sou Fujimoto Architects and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei to design crown for Japan's tallest skyscraper
Sou Fujimoto Architects will collaborate with Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei to design the top section of the supertall Torch Tower skyscraper in Tokyo, which is set to become the tallest building in Japan.
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Weston Williamson + Partners designs HS2 viaducts above "community-led orchard"
A series of green public spaces will be landscaped around the Water Orton viaducts that Weston Williamson + Partners has designed in Warwickshire for the High Speed Two railway. More
Studio Puisto balances black cabin on slender column in Finnish forest
Niliaitta is a black-painted cabin that Studio Puisto has elevated on a single column and hidden within woodland near the Salamajärvi National Park in Finland. More
Centre Pompidou in Paris faces four-year closure for repair works
France's culture minister has revealed that the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers will be closed from 2023 to undergo major renovations. More