Heydar Aliyev ultimate expression of parametricism’s “fluidity”
Our parametricism series launches with a look at the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan. Designed by Zaha…
Parametricism is the architecture “of neoliberalism itself”
Parametricism has been billed by its originator as the defining architecture style of the 21st century. To kick off…
“Nothing is superfluous” in The Root holiday cabin by Kasawoo
London architecture studio Kasawoo has created The Root, a prefabricated holiday cabin in Greece, clad in deep-red timber…
Morris Adjmi draws on industrial heritage for Steel House in Denver
US studio Morris Adjmi Architects has completed a Denver office building in a former industrial zone with a…
“I never set out to be an architect” says John Pawson
Architectural designer John Pawson described how teaching, taking photographs and travelling the world led him to architecture during…
Dezeen’s top five houses of month year
Glass blocks and rammed earth were among the unconventional materials used to create the most popular houses featured…
Hollaway Studio completes Westview Cottage in Dungeness
A monochrome palette of wood and metal marks out this low-lying house in Britain’s only desert, designed by…
Will Gamble frames Ribbon House extension with weathered steel
Weathered steel shaped like a “pressed ribbon” frames the rear extension of this Victorian townhouse in London, renovated…
Musson Brown Architects and Miltiadou Cook Mitzman complete “flatpack” home
UK studios Musson Brown Architects and Miltiadou Cook Mitzman have completed a courtyard home in Newcastle, which was…
Spaceworkers converts granaries into Vila do Bispo Museum
Architecture studio Spaceworkers has completed the Vila do Bispo Museum in Portugal, adding a red-concrete volume to a…
Studio Bucky cloaks Cucu cabin in Ireland with red shingles
New York practice Studio Bucky has nestled an off-grid cabin among trees in rural Westmeath, Ireland, shrouding its…
“The Emperor has (almost) no clothes,” says commenter
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing BIG’s designs for the riverside Tennessee Performing Arts Center in…