Water Towers of Ireland by Jamie Young
Photographer Jamie Young is compiling an archive to document the history of water towers in Ireland. More
Photographer Jamie Young is compiling an archive to document the history of water towers in Ireland. More
Curator Justin McGuirk tells us why his Golden Lion-winning installation about a community living in a vertical slum in Caracas could set an example for new forms of urban housing, in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Dezeen Wire: furniture giant IKEA is turning to digital imagery instead of photography to illustrate its brochures and online galleries and expects 25% of all images to be created on computers by next year, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. More
A decaying mosque synagogue, a staircase of scaffolding and the steel structure of London's Olympic stadium feature in the twelve shortlisted images from a photography competition to capture architecture from around the world. More
Prints of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre by photographer Luke Hayes are now on display in The Changing Room, a space at Dezeen Super Store that is regularly given over to different creatives to showcase their products or artwork. More
Photographer Vicente de Paulo has captured some of the most iconic buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and has manipulated the results so that they come to life when seen through 3D glasses. More
Ahead of the London 2012 Olympics opening on Friday, here's a slideshow of images from photographer Edmund Sumner documenting architecture created for the games. More
New York photographer Randy Scott Slavin has joined hundreds of photographs to create distorted views of American cities and landscapes (+ slideshow). More
German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling. More
Slideshow: here are some photos by Julien Lanoo of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, including more pictures of the cork-covered interior plus dusky night shots.
Slideshow: a curved concrete facade wraps around the front of this house by A2+ Arquitectos in Leiria, Portugal, with a large hole revealing the rectilinear house behind (photos by Fernando Guerra). More
Here are some photos from a walking architectural tour of Reykjavik in Iceland, taken while we were visiting for DesignMarch last month. More
Last month Dezeen visited a selection of Icelandic design studios as part of DesignMarch in Reykjavik. Here are some photos from the tour taken with the Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson, which was kindly given to us by Pentax for the trip. More
The curved wings of this house in Kuwait converge around an outdoor swimming pool (photos by Nelson Garrido). More
Spanish architects MedioMundo have completed a bright red multimedia centre amongst a collection of towering apartment blocks in Seville. More
An exhibition of photographs depicting abandoned vehicles and derelict buildings surrounded by colourful clouds of paintball smoke by Hackney-based photographer Katja Mayer and art director Peter Chadwick is opening this evening at The Print House Gallery, London. More
Slideshow: Paris photographers Milo Keller & Julien Gallico shot this series of photos to showcase experimental jewellery by Swiss luxury design firm Atelier XJC that references feathers, scales and large delicate ruffs. More
Slideshow: Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has manipulated his own architectural photography to create impossible and fantastical structures, like this tower block that splits into two as though being unzipped. More
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us photographs and a movie that he shot of the Chilean Pavilion at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong biennale of urbanism/architecture 2011, where objects usually found in disaster relief shelters were used as furniture. More
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these photographs and an extended movie showing how children playing on roundabouts generate electrical power to illuminate three twirling parasols at an installation by Spanish studio Clavel Arquitectos in a Shenzhen public square. More