Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses at Vitra At the Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses explores the dynamic world of the renowned Sri Lankan architect. Born on the island country, Bawa spent much of his early years traveling the world, particularly in Europe. Although tempted to stay in…
Pigmented lime plaster colours the hempcrete facades of this wedge-shaped history museum in Eindhoven, completed by Dutch studio Studio Marco Vermeulen with a palette of biomaterials. Located on the site of a former driving-school track in the Dutch city, Museum Vonk explores 10,000 years of regional history in a hands-on and interactive way. It was…
This week on Dezeen, we considered how the architecture of data centres is changing in the face of rapid development of hyperscale facilities. As AI drives the demand for data centres, vast facilities are being built across the US, prompting people to question the impact on local environments. With the increasing public discussion over data…
From a modernist church in South Korea to a geometric post office in Qatar, editor Bob Pang selects 10 of his favourite projects from the recently released Brutalist Asia book. Edited by Pang with Blue Crow Media founder Derek Lamberton, Brutalist Asia contains photographs and essays of 140 buildings in 28 Asian countries. It aims…
A water tank ballasts this wooden pavilion in Nara, Japan, designed by London practice Studio Armitage as a shelter for people working in the surrounding rice fields and allotments. Named Field Shelter, the demountable structure addresses the absence of a rest spot for locals tending their allotments in the Amagatsuji neighbourhood. Studio Armitage has built Field…
Wood and Glass Rework Kolonaki Apartment into Workspace Greek practice Local Local converts a ground-floor apartment in Athens’ Kolonaki neighborhood into its first permanent studio, using light-touch interventions that retain the apartment’s existing architectural character. The leased space required non-structural changes, so the practice repaired and lightened the original wooden floors, painted the…
Timber installation Reinterprets Lunano’s Stone Towers Located in Lunano, in Italy’s Marche region, What the Stones Whisper is a six-meter-tall timber tower that reinterprets the nearby Torre Lunano and the stone structures scattered across the surrounding landscape. Designed and built by Collectif MAGMA in two weeks for the Fe.M – Festival di Microarchitettura, the…
TGIF, etc. Happy birthday to Bjarke Ingels. As a gift, news broke on October 1 that BIG was awarded the commission to design a tower in Tirana, Albania. Already local The post MacArthur snubs genius architects, Arcadis drops architecture, INC declares <em>Us Is More</em>, design weekends and months abound, and more appeared first on The…
architecture for looking For Loewe’s Spring Summer 2027 show, the runway rises off the usual single plane. Inside a temporary white volume in the courtyard of Paris’ Château de Vincennes, Casper Mueller Kneer Architects has built a circular, two-story arena where guests look across, down, and through the space at one another. Models move…
Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration announced the start of the public review process for the 100 Gold Street redevelopment, which will soon give New Yorkers an opportunity to weigh-in The post Plan for 100 Gold Street, a sky-high city project near the Brooklyn Bridge, moves forward appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.