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

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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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden 's west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to "trigger curiosity" and offer protection from its wild surroundings. The clients had bought a very rural and wild plot on the west coast of Sweden, and they wanted a similar approach," he continued.

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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 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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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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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Architecture studio Snøhetta has begun work on the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library , releasing the first construction images as well as renderings of the building's green roof that appears to merge with the landscape. Above: Snøhetta's Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is underway in North Dakota.

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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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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Set off from this largely glass exterior, ornate screens typical of Islamic architecture surround the podium building. Ornate screens decorate the podium's exterior "Ziraat Bank Headquarters is a modern building with deep roots in Istanbul's physical and cultural context," said KPF design principal Mustafa Chehabeddine.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2025

Studio Bua has completed a cabin in western Iceland Atelier Nyp is the latest addition to a cluster of former farm buildings on the remote site in Skardstrond that have been turned into a home, guesthouses and cultural spaces by Studio Bua , which has offices in London and Oslo.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Rather than constructing a building based on industrial mass production, we intentionally focused on materials and details that convey the marks of the hand and warmth of craftsmanship," he added. UCCA Clay Museum's distinctive roof is defined by a series of peaks, intended as a nod to the nearby Shushan mountain.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Named Zheijang Shaoxing Shangyu District Cao'e River Culture and Art Centre, the building will be set on the banks of the Cao'e River and host local and international productions of opera, theatre, dance and drama. The centre will be topped by sweeping roofs. The curved exterior will be mirrored internally.

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Archinect

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Chicago Tribune is reporting on the successful effort by Windy City preservationists to save the landmarked vacant Century and Consumers buildings, the “last vestiges of the Chicago School of Architecture” after two years of fighting. The buildings were completed. Their owners, the U.S.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Informed by its marine setting, the centre is set to comprise a sinuous, round-edged volume that draws on the "radial symmetry of starfish", and will be finished with reflective aluminium panels and rounded roof openings.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The new 3-story building uses materials common to the neighborhood; brick and glass block, applying them in innovative ways to create an aesthetic familiar with the surroundings and at the same time new and inviting.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2025

"However, the concept moves away from a single, compact mass and instead breaks the building into separate volumes, rotated to face the east and northwest." The interstitial space reveals the compact volume's interior as a fragile soft interior world in stark contrast to the homogeneous hard exterior," described the studio. "As

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

According to the museum's most recent April 5th update, interior walls and exterior glazing are being installed on the site’s western side, facing north to Wilshire Boulevard. Work on the building’s MEPs is now underway, and the concrete pour for the roof decks has been completed to the east side of the site.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Comprising two towers connected by a 100-meter tall skybridge, the headquarters building forms a new landmark near the main tollgate to and from Seoul. The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2025

Other houses featured in our monthly roundup of the most popular residences published on Dezeen include a wooden-clad home arranged around a courtyard in the Netherlands and a pitched home in Scotland crowned with a red corrugated-metal roof.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2025

Architecture studio EC3 and developer Prince Concepts have created The Canopy, a series of duplex buildings in Detroit with rooftop murals, native gardens and over 100 new trees. Each building is a duplex with two units. The buildings are organised around a series of outdoor "living rooms".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The founders of Takk have created a mobile bedroom for their daughter Elevated on a wheeled base, the structure can be moved around the apartment to accommodate its constantly changing layout, which is the result of Luzárraga and Muiño designing and building a rotation of large-scale architectural works.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 19, 2023

” Outside, an Écomestible-designed landscape holds a greenhouse and a garden dedicated to small-scale vegetable production, while inside, the main building houses a residence, work studio, workshop, and a culinary production and meeting space.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Elding Oscarson has created a cube-shaped church in Gothenburg "We wanted to have a powerful volume for the church, to contextually fit with the harbour area's magnificent old industrial buildings," founding partners Jonas Elding and Johan Oscarson told Dezeen. The photography is by Johan Dehlin.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The resort sees a landscape of rice terraces enclosed by several buildings containing public functions, a bathhouse, guest rooms, and villa suites. Photo credit: Hoshino Resorts Exterior. Photo credit: Hoshino Resorts Rice Terrace.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2025

O'Donnell + Tuomey has completed Sadler's Wells East in Stratford, London O'Donnell + Tuomey designed the building, which is Sadler's Wells ' fourth venue, to celebrate dance as an art form, while paying homage to Stratford's industrial past. This solidity is counterbalanced by chamfers and corbelled brick details to add texture.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2025

Dutch studio OMA has unveiled plans to renovate the Selman Strmasi Stadium in Tirana and transform the surrounding area with tilted, geometric high-rise buildings. OMA plans to wrap its exterior with an open-top bowl and increase its capacity from 9,500 to 15,000. Read: Why are so many unusual skyscrapers being built in Tirana?

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ArchDaily

APRIL 2, 2025

Among the many elements that make up a building, openings play a crucial role in connecting the interior and exterior, balancing privacy with transparency, and allowing the entry of natural light and ventilation.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

Housed under an expressive timber canopy, the 237,000-square-foot building will serve as an experience center for the car brand Volvo, designed around “Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access to nature, and openness and inclusion.” The Henning Larsen -designed World of Volvo has opened in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Archinect

JANUARY 14, 2025

Designed as a five‑storey solitaire, the building responds to the heterogeneous urban fabric of the built environment. The angular volume adopts the heights of the surrounding structures and reacts to the neighbouring buildings with large window openings, entrances, recessed and projecting elements.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2025

Named Rusty House on the Rye after its reddish-brown exterior, the project added a side extension to the modest end-of-terrace house, creating a new landmark on the corner of Peckham's Bellenden Road.

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2025

We're building Dib Bangkok to be a true creative oasis, a bridge between Thailand, Southeast Asia, and the global art scene." The building's largely-concrete structure is complete with an entirely glazed ground floor, while its more discrete upper levels are punctuated with protruding windows.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Perforated aluminium screens envelop the exterior of Darlington Public School in Sydney , Australia , which has been redesigned by architecture studio Fjcstudio. It was also the winner of World Building of the Year 2024 at the World Architecture Festival 2024 and was praised by the jury for its "poetic" design.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2025

Test designed a prefabricated cabin to replace a dilapidated house in Barcelona Due to the area's building regulations, the studio had to work with the existing plot and designed three options for how the house could be remodelled. The roof is metallic and finished with sprayed cork for extra insulation.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The stacked-bond brickwork and regular fenestration of the addition contrast the old buildings This contemporary form features stacked-bond bricks in bright white and regularly spaced fenestration, contrasting the irregular-spaced windows and the beige hue of the older construction. "The

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sun Tower sits on a beach in the Chinese city of Yantai According to the Beijing-based studio, the design of the cone-shaped building was informed by a giant sundial and was also intended as a contemporary take on lighthouse typologies. Visitors can access the theatre via a passage tunnel cutting through the building.

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