Tarrant County College’s original campus in Fort Worth, Texas, was built in the 1970s as a Brutalist series of off-white, monolithic brick buildings. In 2017, a tornado tore through North Texas, damaging much of the campus’s facade. Scaffolding and barricades were put in place to protect returning students and staff from falling bricks, which also…
The following text is reproduced from NIGHTSWIMMING: Discotheques from the 1960s to the Present, a book by photographer Giovanna Silva, and shared with designboom courtesy of the author. NIGHTSWIMMING – Giovanna Silva I started photographing discotheques when Monditalia commissioned a project from me on the architecture of Italian nightlife for the 2014…
A rug factory in Rangpur, Bangladesh, designed by Dhaka-based studio Nakshabid Architects to dismantle workplace hierarchies, has won the RIBA International Prize for 2026. Named Green Field Factory, the project is the fifth winner of the biennial award, presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to the world’s best new building outside the UK.…
Local architecture studio Spaces by Manah has completed The Soil & Sea community centre in Chennai, India, with a brick barrel-vaulted roof that serves as a “visible landmark” on the site. The 4,330-square-metre building was designed to provide learning space for a local education centre, as well as to house community workshops and events. Spaces…
This year’s Stirling Prize winner was announced last night. We discuss whether RIBA made the right choice. In this episode, Dezeen’s editor-in-chief Tom Ravenscroft is joined by architecture reporter Amy Peacock to discuss the winner of the UK’s biggest architecture prize. We ask whether Lion Green Road by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFF Architects is…
EXPANDABLE city NETWORK UNIFIES THESSALONIKI’S HISTORICAL layers The Armosi (Άρμοση) masterplan, designed by Apostolopoulos Tasoulis, establishes an expandable urban network to unify over seventy monuments and archaeological sites across Thessaloniki, Greece. Structured along the historic Egnatia Street axis and its intersection with Aristotelous Street, the design framework integrates Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Jewish, and modern…
The Lion Green Road housing in south London, designed by local studios Mary Duggan Architects with Ruff Architects, has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building. Located in Coulsdon, the high-density development commissioned by Croydon Council provides 157 homes across five blocks, which are stitched together by a series of…
Expanded plans and renderings for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) were released earlier this week. The transformation of Ohio’s busiest airport includes a series of major projects from circulation improvements, such as new parking and transit access, to the design and construction of a new terminal headhouse. The project is led by Corgan. The team…
On November 5 and 6, Facades+ returns to Los Angeles to deliver an outstanding program for our largest event of the year. Embodied carbon and collaboration are the themes of the first day’s symposium, which will feature roundtables moderated by our co-chair, SOM. Additionally, Lucas Epp, vice president and founder of StructureCraft, will present a…
When Stevenson Commons opened 50 years ago, it was met with skepticism. The Mitchell-Lama complex was designed by Pruyn‐Bergren Associates. Located in the Soundview section of the Bronx, it has 948 homes in 9 towers—three of the towers are 24 stories, the remaining are 6 stories. (The landscape architect was M. Paul Friedberg.) In 1975…