Foster + Partners completes 270 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed the 270 Park Avenue supertall skyscraper in Manhattan for American financial…
De Wachtkamer hacks refugee beds to provide more privacy and dignity
Visitors to Dutch Design Week are invited to consider how the country houses its asylum seekers in a…
Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors
French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a…
Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs pearlescent opera house in Hanoi
Architecture studios Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW Architects have broken ground on the Isola Della Musica opera…
Specht Novak designs Austin ADU devoid of windows
Architect Scott Specht has completed an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Austin that is clad entirely in corten…
Foster + Partners tops Cambodian airport with latticed canopy
British studio Foster + Partners has completed the Techo International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which features a curved…
MAD unveils Breathing Cells sculpture at Seoul Biennale of Architecture
Architecture studio MAD has designed a “giant mattress” at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture that comforts people standing…
Eduardo Souto de Moura and OODA design gridded Tirana skyscraper
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has teamed up with Porto-based studio OODA to design a mixed-use concrete…
Windowless facade conceals “quiet grandeur” of Woodend bungalow
Living spaces richly finished with varieties of Italian marble lie behind the opaque facade of this house in…
Roberts Gray Architects wraps SKI House with charred timber
Exposed blockwork walls are contrasted by screens of lightweight steel and blackened timber at SKI House in Wānaka,…
Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building
London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill combining co-living and hotel stays…
“A cathedral of wood” says commenter
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a wood-lined diabetes health centre in Copenhagen created by Danish…