Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has designed the Woma mixed-use building in Miami‘s Wynwood neighbourhood with a central plaza and a facade broken up into colour-blocked sections. Developed by Uribe Schwarzkopf, a firm behind several recent high-profile Quito buildings, Woma will have 163 residences in Wynwood, a former industrial district now known for its murals and…

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A tilted facade with large glazed openings was designed to bring an adjacent forest “directly into the interior” of this home in the Czech Republic by Prague-based Papundekl Architects. Located in a South Bohemian village, the single-storey home is contained within a modular timber structure, which has been topped by a mono-pitch roof and clad with…

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A stone house embedded into the Greek landscape and a sprawling American home with a retractable roof are among the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also included in our monthly roundup of our readers’ favourite residences is a white cube built inside existing brick walls and a timber home with tree-like columns.…

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Grassy rooftops and PE rattan facades characterise Split Mass Residence in Indonesia, which local firm K-Thengono Design Studio designed with multi-level social spaces for the family to gather. Located on a corner plot in Tangerang, the home‘s tiered, sloping garden roofs connect indoor living spaces with the planted outdoor setting. Rattan facades cloak Split Mass…

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Portuguese studio António Costa Lima Arquitectos has completed Praia do Bom Sucesso, a block of three homes in Lisbon with an industrial-feeling structure of exposed brickwork and weathered steel. Located close to the northern bank of the Tagus river, the new block was tucked behind the retained facade of an old warehouse, in an area…

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As Burning Man kicks off its 40th-anniversary event in Nevada, we rounded up the work of 12 architecture studios featured at the festival over the years, including BIG and Arthur Mamou-Mani. Larry Harvey and Jerry James put on the first Burning Man Festival in 1986 as a solstice ritual. At the time, it consisted of…

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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”.…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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