Archinect

APRIL 1, 2025

” “Too often, cities build new infrastructure and arenas for the Olympic Games only to see them abandoned or neglected after the Games are over,” the committee said. The proposal includes coating the building’s curvaceous exterior in a protective polymer to allow Olympic athletes to perform tricks off its g.

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2025

Image credit: Davide Macullo Architects Image credit: Davide Macullo Architects The structure's prefabricated concrete exterior is finished in five shades, mirroring the natural color transitions observed across the seasons. The approach seeks to allow the building to blend into the environment, enhancing its integration with the landscape.

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

Located in a conversation area a couple of streets away from the original college, David Kohn Architects designed the shape of Gradel Quadrangles' main building to create outdoor areas informed by the historic New College building. It changes a lot as you move around it," he continued.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 18, 2025

Exterior Render. The new building would replace the existing headquarters on the outskirts of Hradec Krlov, a medieval city surrounded by municipal forests on its eastern limit. Image PLOMP In 2016, an international public architecture competition was announced to design a new administrative center for the Czech Forestry Commission.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

Image credit: Chris Cooper Image credit: Christopher Payne/Esto The taller building, named New College West, features soft-grey metal ‘treehouses’ inspired by its woodland setting. Meanwhile, the smaller Yeh College building is described by the team as “low-slung by outward-looking.”

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This year’s Architecture MasterPrize Architecture Photography winners showcase a diverse range of disciplines and building types, all working as a showcase of the technical skill and brilliant artistry that is required for the difficult art of architectural photography.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

To kick off our 21st Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series, we profile Herzog & de Meuron 's Tate Modern in London the most significant building of the year 2000. Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern opened in 2000 The building fundamentally changed art gallery design.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A sculptural light fixture runs floor to ceiling in a neutrally decorated bedroom The exterior of the 3,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) building is clad entirely in limestone-travertine bricks, which were installed offset from one another to create a relief effect. The photography is by Sam Frost.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Following the completion of Open Architecture 's conical Sun Tower in China , we've collected 10 eye-catching skyscrapers , towers and cultural buildings that stand out from their surroundings. The towers are linked by a raised public park and contain 495 apartments, some of which open onto balconies on the corners of the jagged facade.

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, by IM Pei , the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". It was a big bang," the MIA's former director Julia Gonnella told Al Jazeera.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The building is located in the northern Czech city of Ostrava and boasts six rotating concrete walls. Featuring a series of colourful additions, including playful rooftop extensions and a new exterior staircase, the now-combined blocks accommodate shops on the ground floor and apartments upstairs.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Building -& Mission Rock Building B reimages the future of the workplace by fostering a seamless connection between interior and exterior spaces.

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2025

From timber grids to soaring steel trusses, the way a building holds itself up has long been hidden beneath layers of cladding and finishes. Without further ado, let’s see how architects are letting their buildings stand tall, bare-boned and proud. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

From an art gallery in a converted grain silo to a brick workshop in Vietnam, Dezeen's editorial team have each picked their favourite building of 2024 , out of more than 1,000 we have published throughout the year. It's an unexpected triumph for a studio best known for its cultural landmarks."

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ArchDaily

MARCH 11, 2024

Facade of a modern building with ventilation pipes. The building background. Image © Stanislav71/ Shutterstock Rising demands for energy efficiency, technical functionality, and interior comfort in buildings necessitate the development of more efficient building envelope constructions. Read more »

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2025

Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings. Largely built in the 1960s and 70s as the federal government expanded,Washington DC has numerous brutalist buildings built by leading architects including Marcel Breuer. As an outsider, and admittedly, a photographer, I'm quite fond of the building.

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Archinect

JANUARY 16, 2025

Titled ‘Building Frame of the House,’ the scheme was designed for a married couple who sought a home that supported their busy work-from-home schedules while feeling each other’s company. The north wall of the building is skewed to create a space that connects to an adjacent vacant site.

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2025

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series, we spotlight architect Dibdo Francis Kr 's Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso the "perfect learning environment". The architect started his career strong, with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture describing the building as the "perfect learning environment".

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Building elements have been adorned with relief-carved garlands, inscriptions, fresco murals, portrait busts, and classicizing figurative sculptures, all of which emphasize the unique and intentional nature of each component. Can artists be involved in the industrial-making processes of building elements? Azulejo Tiles in Portugal.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

California studio LOHA has completed a residential and retail building called Bellevue53, which features a rooftop swimming pool and stepped elevations clad in white metal. The building features a rooftop swimming pool Designed to "elevate the urban environment", the building's massing was influenced by the area's hilly topography.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Courtesy of Brick Industry Association Brick is a traditional building material that enhances durability, versatility, and the aesthetic appeal of building design. In various colors, sizes, and textures, thin brick can be applied to diverse surfaces, such as walls and facades, without additional structures. Read more »

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2025

London practice Stolon Studio has completed The Parks, a housing complex that has been transformed from a group of neglected farm buildings in Herefordshire. To match the red-brick exterior walls, each home is topped with a red metal roof and features red timber detailing.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Architizer's 13th A+Awards features a suite of sustainability-focused categories recognizing designers that are building a greener industry and a better future. Buildings dont always need a fresh start sometimes, the most compelling transformations happen by working with whats already there. These additions take many forms.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A new prototype demonstration of different burgeoning smart building technologies is coming to the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University as part of a cross-institutional effort that will result in the construction of a new 3,229-square-foot Smart Campus Integration and Testing Hub (SCITHub) designed by WZMH Architects.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The news, which was first reported last week by a local outlet, comes just 15 months after the building (officially the largest of its kind in Asia) opened with praise as the new home of NTU’s Business School. Ito’s team did not provide a statement regarding the issue.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 10, 2024

Image Courtesy of Vitrocsa When we talk about the building envelope , we often make the analogy of a skin that protects and wraps the structure, creating a transition in the physical environment. In addition, they are noteworthy thanks to their versatility across different systems that connect life within the interior and exterior.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

"We were looking for an intervention that would not only provide a multi-purpose space but also create a new facade for the building when viewed from the road", said Marta Morelli, co-founder of K+M Arquitectura y Urbanismo. The strategy was to not touch the existing building, but instead to introduce a new contemporary structure.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image © Jonathan Yeung In Delirious New York , Rem Koolhaas vividly discusses the Downtown Athletic Club, a striking example of how an unassuming building exterior can conceal a vibrant mix of distinct, self-contained programs. Ap Lei Chau MSB Urban Fabric. Read more »

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2025

It was updated by Atelier Itch with a mostly windowless facade of corrugated lightweight steel to "refine the building's exterior", which the studio said was previously "cluttered" due to an external road-facing staircase. Throughout the interior, pared-back finishes have been applied, echoing the utilitarian look of the exterior.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Originally conceived as a preservation project for quince trees in 2004, Sayuwon has since grown into a sprawling complex of landscaped gardens, hiking routes, buildings and artworks. For the first reel in the series, Dezeen filmed Kia's EV9 alongside the buildings at Sayuwon. The vehicle comes in six or seven-seat configurations.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The following are the outstanding recipients of the 2024 awards: Jon Baugus – Superintendent, Chambers Construction (1) Steve Kurtz – Exterior finisher (envelope and waterproofing), Xtreme Xteriors, Inc. Steve Otto – Finish carpenter, Ordell Construction Co. Steve Perkins – Mason, Hap’s Masonry, Inc. You recognize it immediately.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The building, named La Nube, adds 77,000 square feet of learning and play space to the city, and was designed alongside El Paso architects Exigo and exhibition designers Gyroscope. The Snøhetta -designed El Paso Children’s Museum has completed construction in Texas.

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Architizer

MARCH 11, 2025

Architects once designed with this kind of assurance all the time, shaping buildings for one thing, nothing more, and absolutely nothing less. Buildings are expected to do double, sometimes triple duty. Yet, some buildings refuse to entertain the idea of a Plan B. A carpark better be able to moonlight as an events venue.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A nod to the historical presence of the Terracotta Army can be seen in the exterior tiled cladding on each of its buildings’ facades. The development occupies space between the ruins of the Temple of Heaven and the famed Shaanxi TV Tower. Central to its design is the artistic heritage of ceramics in the region.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2025

Next in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series we look at the updating of three 1960s housing blocks in Bordeaux , which put social housing retrofit at the top of the architectural agenda. They haven't done a TED Talk.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Renders of the centre's exterior reveal landscaped courtyards that wind around the building to provide shaded outdoor space for visitors. Additionally, the building's reflective exterior clad with anodised aluminium panels is intended to reduce both the heat gain and cooling demand.

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Architizer

MARCH 17, 2025

Unlike a print ad or social media campaign, a building is a long-term investment in brand identity. Buildings are long-term brand statements that should embody the brand’s ethos. The transparency of the chain links enhances the buildings ambiance, maintaining exterior privacy and interior visibility.

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