US studio Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled its latest skyscraper for Miami, designed to display “quiet refinement” on a slender site on the city’s waterfront. Renderings Previous Next Renderings Close Called Lilli, the residential skyscraper development is the latest in Miami from Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG). The studio is…
Gensler transformed the former BNP Paribas office headquarters into a 237-room hotel for Ruby, an urban lifestyle hotel group also part of IHG Hotels & Resorts. Ruby’s first location in France, Ruby Lilou is located near one of the oldest quarters in Marseille. The 110,000-square-foot building marries the historic and the contemporary through both material…
OMA AND POTATO HEAD REIMAGINE RETAIL IN BALI In Bali, Potato Head and OMA have opened the Good Times General Store, a retail space where buying something is only part of the experience. Located within Desa Potato Head in Seminyak, Indonesia, the hospitality brand’s first permanent store doubles as a craft center, bringing together…
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) notified Manhattan residents of Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in September that legal proceedings will be initiated against them if they refuse to vacate their buildings. The notices were sent to people who live in Fulton 11 (401 and 419 West 19th Street) and Chelsea Addition (436 West 27th…
Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has transformed a two-bed, red-brick bungalow into a four-bedroom family home in Manchester, UK. Described by the studio as “squeezing a quart into a pint pot”, the project involved expanding and reorganising the 69-square-metre home to accommodate a growing family and improve connections to a rear garden. Loader Monteith designed…
Le Rosey creates new spaces to learn A glance at the new rooms at Swiss boarding school Le Rosey inevitably brings back memories of childhood mornings. For much of Western society, those long days unfolded in monotonous, almost institutional spaces that could have been photocopies of the school next door, were it not for…
Flacon Cargo Module turns SHIPPING CONTAINER INTO MICRO-CABIN Designed by architects Evgeny Makarenko and Andris Shneps-Shneppe, this 24-sqm micro-cabin transforms an intermodal steel shipping container into a self-contained, relocatable residential module. Located within the ‘Derevnya’ creative community, an experimental rural settlement established by the Flacon Design Factory team, the project accommodates a double bedroom,…
A pair of skyscrapers joined by three bridge elements will form the centrepiece of World Trade Center Yerevan, a development by British studio Foster + Partners set to be built in Armenia. Situated in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, one of the towers will house offices and the other will contain apartments and a hotel. Foster…
What’s the deal with Elon Musk’s latest stunt? And has China just built the best spiral staircase ever? Listen to the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly now. This week, Dezeen features editor Nat Barker and architecture reporter Amy Peacock discuss the (literal) launch of the Tesla Roadster, which set the internet alight with footage of…
Photo by Laurian Ghinitoiu For most of the space age, architects could fantasise freely about building off-world. Inflatable lunar villages and glass Martian domes could be sketched out without anyone having to worry too much about who cleaned the toilets. That luxury is disappearing as we start to seriously consider the possibility of living in…