Mycelium insulates experimental timber pavilion by Myceen and EKA PAKK
Insulation panels made using mycelium and a modular timber construction system were used to create PAKK Pavilion, an…
This week high-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw died
This week on Dezeen, Grimshaw founder Nicholas Grimshaw passed away at the age of 85 and we reported…
WOJR completes House of Horns overlooking Silicon Valley
This house in California‘s Los Altos Hills was conceived by architecture firm WOJR as “an assemblage of instruments”…
Eight infill houses that make the most of vacant city plots
Our latest roundup looks at houses that respond to the tight constraints of infill sites with designs that…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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,…