Pauline van Dongen tops kite-like pavilion with solar-powered textile
Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a flexible, solar-energy-generating textile called Heliotex, which forms the canopy of…
Commenters ask “what’s not to like?” in this week’s Dezeen Debate
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a woodland house in Quebec clad in wood shingles. Subscribe…
Foster + Partners completes 270 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed the 270 Park Avenue supertall skyscraper in Manhattan for American financial…
De Wachtkamer hacks refugee beds to provide more privacy and dignity
Visitors to Dutch Design Week are invited to consider how the country houses its asylum seekers in a…
Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors
French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a…
Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs pearlescent opera house in Hanoi
Architecture studios Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW Architects have broken ground on the Isola Della Musica opera…
Bull O’Sullivan Architecture perches tiny aluminium chapel on hillside
New Zealand studio Bull O’Sullivan Architecture has perched a compact aluminium-clad chapel on a hillside overlooking the Lyttelton…
Specht Novak designs Austin ADU devoid of windows
Architect Scott Specht has completed an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Austin that is clad entirely in corten…
MAD unveils Breathing Cells sculpture at Seoul Biennale of Architecture
Architecture studio MAD has designed a “giant mattress” at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture that comforts people standing…
Roberts Gray Architects wraps SKI House with charred timber
Exposed blockwork walls are contrasted by screens of lightweight steel and blackened timber at SKI House in Wānaka,…
Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building
London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill combining co-living and hotel stays…
Pinzauer transforms Hampstead home with concrete-framed pavilion
An exposed concrete-framed extension frames views across a garden and sunken studio at this Victorian townhouse in Hampstead,…