The Royal Institute of British Architects has paid £150,000 to its former president Alan Jones, settling a long-running legal dispute over its handling of his personal information. The £150,000 payment was listed in a draft of the institute’s annual financial report, seen by the British magazine Architect’s Journal (AJ), which broke the news yesterday. In…
A monolithic grey-brick home in Northern Ireland and a skinny house in Kyoto are among the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also included in our monthly roundup of our readers’ favourite residences is a lime-rendered house in Mexico, a cross-laminated timber holiday home in Sweden and a home in India built alongside…
A skeletal frame of reclaimed timber surrounds the elongated form of Skroget, a community sauna and public deck in Norway designed by student architecture studio Rare Collectiv. Overlooking the busy harbour of Båtsfjord, known as Norway’s fishing capital, the structure was designed and built by 15 students from the Design in Context course at the…
the future was supposed to clean the house For much of the twentieth century, the home of tomorrow was imagined through a familiar set of promises. The dishes would wash themselves, while a screen might connect you to someone miles away. Eventually, a computer would sit on a desk and begin controlling the house…
British architect Norman Foster is set to deliver a keynote speech at this year’s Dezeen Awards party, which will take place at the Royal Opera House in London on 16 November. In his address, Foster will focus on the future of architecture, drawing on his oeuvre as one of the most influential architects of his…
Architecture studio Snøhetta added tunnelling playgrounds to Sky House, the final of four clubhouses that make up its Pavilia Farm residential development in Tai Wai, Hong Kong. Called Sky House, the clubhouse was designed as a playground and fitness centre for all ages and combines play spaces with workout areas for senior residences. The Sky…
A recyclable timber pavilion designed to mimic wildflowers is among the prototypes built by students at BuildFest 2026, shown in this video produced by Dezeen. Designed by students from Lehigh University and Syracuse University, Wildflowers uses custom-designed 3D-printed joints to connect timber columns in an X shape that resembles flowers. It can be disassembled for future…
Irish vernacular furniture informs settle public installation settle, a temporary architectural installation designed and curated by TRESTLE, proposes a public interior for gathering and collective experience in the contemporary city. Drawing on the functionalism and adaptability of Irish vernacular furniture, the installation explores how an infrastructure of carefully considered objects can form a temporary…
Most home renovations begin with a brief. However, this 1955 Paul Rudolph original, located in Delray Beach, Florida, began with a discovery. When Nina and Michael Marco of Casa de Marco Design purchased the former Sewell C. Biggs Residence in 2018, they found a red velvet bag in a bedroom closet—inside were 1950s photographs of…
With AI driving demand, vast data centres are increasingly in the news as people question the impact on local environments. Can architects help to make these buildings look and function better? When was the last time that buildings animated the population of the United States as much as the current wave of data centre development? In…