A new design trend prioritises the needs of bugs and animals above human beings. Rima Sabina Aouf finds out if "interspecies design" is the next step in creating more sustainable spaces and objects.
An exhibition designed to invite in animals, a...
A cluster of buildings and courtyards that act as "a natural extension" of a mountain will define this campus expansion, which Dutch studio OMA is creating for Hongik University in Seoul.
The extension is being developed by OMA to simultaneously... -
The recent announcement of Kongjian Yu, FASLA, as the winner of the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Prize sent us back to the archives for this piece on his work at Hing Hay Park in Seattle.
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Early concepts by Kongjian Yu, FASLA,... -
Originally built in 1950, this stunning Seattle lake house was lovingly remodeled by the homeowners along with Shed Architects, nestled on the shores of Lake Washington. The project team worked together, creating a family home where an old and new... -
Australian architect Nic Brunsdon has created a giant sphere that inflates and deflates throughout the day for this year\'s National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission in Melbourne.
Called (This is) Air, the project is designed by... -
Humans are visual beings; we love looking at things we find pleasing. Pair that with functionality, and you’ve got some extraordinary brilliance. American architect Frank Lloyd Wright believed that a building should be pleasing to look at, connect... -
PituRooms is a seven-bedroom hotel that is just 2.8 meters wide with rooms measuring 2.8 x 3 meters with a height of 2.4 meters, thus it\'s dubbed as the "skinniest hotel ever" in Central Java, Indonesia. -
Canadian architecture studio Provencher Roy has created Darwin Bridges, a curved bridge on Nuns\' Island outside of Montreal constructed with concrete that utilises recycled glass in its mixture.
The structure replaces a set of two-lane bridges... -
Poles and cables connecting Habitat 1 and Habitat 2, allowing the orangutans to move across their new home. (Photo credit: Zeidler)
Those who visit the Toronto Zoo can now observe seven Sumatran orangutans in their new outdoor habitat designed in... -
Dezeen School Shows: a San Francisco fish market transformed into a bathhouse is included in Dezeen\'s latest school show by students at the Academy of Art University in California.
Also included is a foldable and portable bed that combines a... -
Architecture firm Jones Studio has designed an educational centre in Arizona with the aim of raising awareness about water resources and infrastructure in the region.
The Water Education Center will form part of a Central Arizona Project (CAP)... -
Marshgate, a 35,000 sqm state-of-the-art academic building designed by Stanton Williams, has been completed at the forefront of the UCL East campus, in London?s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Marshgate is designed to create a collaborative and... -
Flat 03 by Manikas & Manik? Studio in Vilnius is a marvel of contemporary design. Conceived in 2018, this apartment artfully blends functionality with aesthetics. It features a unique green wall set against a backdrop of soft greys and dark wood,... -
LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros\' headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles.
Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains... -
Lumi Shala, a yoga and meditation space at the Alchemy Yoga Center in Bali, Indonesia features curved and meticulously detailed bundles of bamboo arches joined together with structural anticlastic grid shells to create arches that resemble petals. -
The strength and availability of bamboo give it the potential to be as dominant in construction as concrete and steel, argues Atelier One engineer Chris Matthews in this interview.
"This idea that we have a sheet of rigid, extremely polished... -
