Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has been named the recipient of the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award for 2027 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. Kuma, who is founder of his eponymous studio Kengo Kuma & Associates, was chosen for his demonstration of “how architecture can restore the relationship between people and the natural world”.…
Social housing in Spain‘s Balearic Islands has won this year’s Obel Award for demonstrating that public administration can be “a genuine engine for change”. Carried out by the Balearic Social Housing Institute (IBAVI), the Balearic social housing model involved addressing housing shortages with a more sustainable approach to procuring, designing and building public housing. We…
Lake Como Design Festival, London Design Festival, Detroit Month of Design and Tallinn Design Festival are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this September. Other events taking place during the month include Habitare, Frieze Seoul, Downtown Design Riyadh and Maison&Objet. Detroit Month of Design takes place in September each year.…
Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, one of the co-founders of international architecture firm OMA, has passed away at the age of 89. Elia Zenghelis, who was also an influential architectural educator and director of Gigantes Zenghelis Architects, died on August 30 2026. Further details have not been made public. The architect was best-known as a founder…
Skylights, an internal light well and silver-painted ceilings pull light deep into House in Shichiku, a home in Kyoto designed by local studio Tato Architects. Designed for a couple and their cat, the home occupies an overlooked plot at the end of a small alley, on a site once occupied by the client’s childhood home.…
US studio Lehrer Architects has completed Loma Verde, a supportive housing development for once-homeless residents that features a slender footprint and stucco walls adorned with splashes of colour. Located in the city’s Filipinotown neighbourhood, the Loma Verde project was built on a tight lot that formerly held a single-family home. Lehrer Architects has completed a…
In the ongoing battle over a renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the administration of US president Donald Trump has said it may have to demolish the Edward Durell Stone-designed building and replace it with an amphitheatre. This week, a Justice Department attorney filed a civil action stating the administration may seek to…
German architecture studio Opposite Office has created a one-square-metre treehouse to work from, fixed to a tree at the Bauhaus University campus in Weimar. Opposite Office designed the compact tree-bound structure, named Baumhaus Office, in response to high office rental prices in Munich, Germany, where the studio was previously based. Baumhaus Office is a one-square-metre architecture…
British studio Foster + Partners, in collaboration with academic institutions, has secured funding to develop an automated fleet of robots and drones for on-site timber construction. Named SWIFT-Build, which stands for Swarm-based Inverted Fabrication for Timber Buildings, the proposal won a €4 million, three-year research grant from the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder funding programme. The…
Architecture practice Nodecraft Studio has created a farmhouse on the outskirts of Bengaluru from a cluster of poured-earth walls and concrete volumes linked by verandahs. Nodecraft Studio designed the 279-square-metre weekend retreat, named Aalok Farmhouse, to be a holiday home as well as a space for hosting the clients’ business meetings. Indian architecture practice Nodecraft Studio…