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…
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…
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…
Sliding screens of woven timber ventilate House in Corjeum by Field Atelier
Local studio Field Atelier has completed a breezy home near Goa, India, which is wrapped by verandas sheltered…
Shingled Canadian house blends forms into fluid composition
Canadian studios Oyama and Julia Manaćas Architecte have designed Waterhouse, a woodland house clad in wood shingles that…
The Design Labo creates shell-shaped pavilion for Expo Osaka
The shell of a prehistoric marine mollusc informed the spiral shape of the Pasona Natureverse Pavilion at Expo…
Assemble draws on folkloric rituals for Fibredog shelter in London
Architecture collective Assemble has married thatch and timber to craft Fibredog, a public artwork that doubles as a…
Eight post-war homes that “still have lessons to teach us today”
Homes designed by architects including Denys Lasdun and Ernö Goldfinger feature in author Dominic Bradbury’s latest book Post-War…