Architecture
Architecture
Productora adds steel-frame extension to pink bungalow in Los Angeles
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More
Architect Curro Checa Romero has refurbished and extended a 1980s house in east London, more than doubling its interior dimensions and creating a series of light-filled spaces with an improved connection to the rear garden. More
Park Hill estate is to receive a new Carmody Groarke-designed art gallery and suite of studios, as part of the redevelopment of the brutalist housing scheme built in 1961. More
Construction has begun on Zaha Hadid Architects' residential high-rise in the Mexican capital, set to become the city's tallest apartment building. More
Dezeen promotion: Spanish surface manufacturer Compac has revealed five new variations of its quartz surface material, each based on textures and patterns found in the natural environment. More
A simple house features on the cover of Reinier de Graaf's new book, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession. In this extract, the OMA partner reveals the building's secret, politically fuelled past. More
The smooth surface and soft-pink hue of a newly plastered wall provided the starting point for the design of communal workspaces at this new creative hub in east London by local studio Sella Concept. More
The spherical, weighted base of this floor lamp by Australian designer Nick Rennie stops it from falling over if pushed or knocked. More
Snaking wooden walkways traverse a terraced garden planted with 700 trees at the heart of this tower development in Singapore's Marina Bay by Ingenhoven Architects and landscape firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman. More
This captioned movie created for our Dezeen x MINI Living series features the duct-shaped pavilion PUP Architects designed for the roof of an east London warehouse to challenge the local planning authority's stance on rooftop dwellings. More
The Calvin Klein flagship on New York's Madison Avenue has gone from "minimal to maximal", with a bright yellow makeover forming the backdrop for artworks celebrating Americana. More
WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. More
Photographs showing the drawing tools of architects and designers feature in this week's Dezeen Mail, alongside an eye-shaped library by MVRDV and therapy tools for sexual abuse. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›
A crematorium, a sports field and a multi-storey charging station for driverless cars are among six shortlisted proposals to repurpose decommissioned gas holder sites across the UK. More
Dezeen promotion: this year's Sleep – an annual gathering for hotel architects and designers – will focus on the role of design in creating loyal, returning hotel guests. More
Architects Anna and Eugeni Bach are making the Barcelona Pavilion more minimal than ever before – by covering all of its walls with white panels. More
There are numerous architectural firms looking to add visualisation artists to their teams. Our pick of the best positions available via Dezeen Jobs include roles with London-based David Chipperfield Architects, Rotterdam-based MVRDV and Visualhouse in New York. More
Lamborghini has collaborated with a group of researchers from MIT to create a conceptual electric sports car, which has a carbon fibre shell that is able to repair any cracks or damages by itself. More
Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has released a movie showcasing architect Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago, in a bid to protect the postmodern government building from demolition. More
Twelve rose-tinged clay arches fan out over a huge stainless-steel sink in this Snøhetta-designed Aesop store in west London, designed in tribute to Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer. More