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

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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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

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

APRIL 12, 2025

Porthole-style windows puncture the gable ends of this timber mountain cabin in Norway , which has been designed by local architect Quentin Desfarges. Quentin Desfarges added porthole-style windows to Timber Nest "Timber Nest does not merely occupy its site; it coexists with it," Desfarges told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2025

Designed in the 1950s, the three-storey building is one in a series of brick townhouses by the Chinese-American architect IM Pei that were integrated into an area with small, historic homes as part of an urban renewal initiative. The buildings feature deep-set arched doorways and rectangular windows.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Designed for the university's Faculty of Education, the 300-square-metre building adds new workshop and studio facilities directly alongside the faculty's neoclassical main building. We were also limited by the neighbouring apartment building which we could not overshadow.

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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. Read more

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

GRT Architects built a white-brick addition atop a trio of warehouses to create a mixed-use complex Originally built in the 19th century, the trio of warehouses were constructed independently of each other, and have distinctive rooflines and architectural details such as cornices and window rhythms.

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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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Archinect

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Occupying a former 6,000-square-foot church recreation hall, the project transforms the existing building into a rich mix of spaces. The design features architectural forms to metaphorically reference the bridge concept.

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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. meters) in height and is positioned in front of a west-facing window. Approaches such as this are missed opportunities to make a deeper impact.

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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. metres of depth for some amounting to a doubling in size installed without residents needing to move.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Named Zhang Yuan, the site has recently reopened after a complete rehabilitation of its historic buildings. Image: Zhu Runzi In accordance with historic preservation guidelines, the existing brick walls, doors, and windows of the original architectural façades and atriums were preserved.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The project has several buildings with different scales. Its most prominent structure is a large rectangular building that houses 3000 dwellings, along with a spacious interior square similar to a Roman forum and exterior windows inspired by the mosaics found in Islamic architecture.

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Architizer

MARCH 11, 2025

The one where regulars sit by the window sipping from plain white mugs. 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. Unashamedly, thats all it cares to do.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Image credit: Binyan Studios The scheme’s exterior is defined by a motif of arched windows with design details inspired by the tower’s prominent neighbors including The Century Association, the New York Public Library, Grand Central Station, Rockefeller Center, and the Chrysler Building.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2025

Chunky columns wrap the exterior of Wood Up, an apartment block in Paris by French studio Local Architecture Network with a glued-laminated and cross-laminated timber structure. Douglas fir was used for the exterior columns. The internal glulam structure is left exposed to the frame full-height windows.

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The loft extension features a pair of colonnaded bay windows OEB Architects designed the extension to reflect the proportions of the Victorian property and reference the couple's memories of holidaying in Italy. This resulted in a pair of colonnaded bay windows featuring red and yellow details, and a "zinc swoop" containing a new staircase.

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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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Deezen

JULY 13, 2024

A collection of distinctive new builds and carefully crafted residential extensions have been rounded up for our latest lookbook , which gathers home interiors enhanced and brightened by clerestory openings. On the home's west facade, a strip of clerestory glazing sit above small windows to encourage privacy and sun shading.

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2025

Architecture studio ACPV Architects has recently broke ground on the 70-storey The Residences at 1428 Brickell skyscraper in Miami , which is clad in "500 photovoltaic-integrated windows". Renders of the building show a tower fronted with a facade of undulating terraces.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea".

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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. Inside, the studio introduced new windows and doors, a revamped stairwell, and a new floating staircase.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The aquarium pavilion is clad in strips of cedar wood "This design has been developed around ideas of creating a network of accessible, inclusive connections linking the city, the waterfront, and the ocean, integrated with interior and exterior experiences of the Ocean Pavilion." It is targeting LEED Gold and ILFI Zero Carbon Certification.

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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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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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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

The Jay now occupies this plot and its design characterised by a square window grid pays homage to the unbuilt tower of the Bijlmerbajes," the studio told Dezeen. The Jay forms the first of four residential buildings set to be completed by the studio for the development. Its structure was built on site in less than six months.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

We chose aluminium windows on the outside, due to the harsh Belgian weather conditions, but in the interior, we placed walnut wood finishings over the aluminium frames to create warmth," explained Van Cauter. The architect also designed a cylindrical shed in the garden, which is made of the same pink brick used in the house's exterior walls.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Named Le Petit Merlot after its red palette, the project involved the expansion of a 1920s building containing two apartments located in the city's Plateau Mont-Royal district. The visual homogeneity of the project is ensured by shades of red.

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Deezen

APRIL 2, 2025

Ennead Architects has completed the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum in New Jersey The building is located on an elevated ridge between two pits of the former quarry, one of which is now filled with water and another at the front of the building that will contain a fossil-digging section for museum goers.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2025

Glossy blue and brown tiles intended to evoke mineral veins cover the exterior of this mining museum in Yixing City, China, completed by Atelier XK. Called Huanglong Mountain Zisha Mineral Source Museum, the 2,435-square-metre building is located on the remains of the Zisha Mine, which operated on Huanglong Mountain from 1972 until 1992.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Klas Hylln Architecture has added a pool house to a 1980s home in Warwickshire The volumes have curved edges and buff-brick exteriors, chosen to respect the original home and the surrounding landscape, while their interiors are pared-back and "almost monastic". They are connected to each other and to the existing 1980s home by glazed links.

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