Compact home in Melbourne by Jos Tan “celebrates city living”
Australian architect Jos Tan has completed Melville, a compact home in Melbourne with a simple, pale brick form…
Dezeen Agenda features Genslers’ design for an urban district in Iraq
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a masterplan for an urban district in Baghdad.…
Best Practice Architecture adds scalloped shingles to 1950s Seattle house
A retired mother enlisted the help of her daughter, a principal at Best Practice Architecture, to convert a…
“You want female design to stand for itself” says Charlotte Taylor
As part of the London Design Festival, Charlotte Taylor has curated an exhibition of collectible design pieces from…
“It’s time for activism” says Copenhagen Architecture Biennial director
The inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial wants to create practical solutions to the global challenges that are being exacerbated…
Reclaimed materials shape Copenhagen Architecture Biennial pavilion
Reclaimed bricks, timber and ventilation pipes determined the form of the Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion, hand-built by…
V Taller designs Mexican residential complex informed by Tower of Babel
Mexican studio V Taller has completed a residential complex in Tulum, Mexico that features a series of vaulted…
Urbanitree uses local materials for African Flow School in Cameroon
Patterned walls of rammed-earth bricks and carpentry in local hardwoods celebrate “ancestral materials and methods” at the African…
Five ideas that marked 20 years of Helsinki Design Week
On the heels of the 20th anniversary edition of Helsinki Design Week, Dezeen reporter Jane Englefield rounds up…
Roo Dhissou builds cob house inside V&A using mud from HS2 excavation
Artist Roo Dhissou and UK studio Intervention Architecture have designed Heal, Home, Hmm, a modular pavilion made using…
All(zone) creates colourful fabric pavilions in Shanghai for RAM Assembles
Architecture studio All(zone) has curated the Shanghai Picnic installation for the RAM Assembles architecture biennial, which features a…
Herzog & de Meuron embraces “no-design” for Calder Gardens in Philly
Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and landscape designer Piet Oudolf have completed the Calder Gardens art institution,…