Ever have the urge to get away from it all and retreat to a cosy cabin somewhere quiet and remote? In the second roundup of our review of 2021, we pick out 10 of the best cabins on Dezeen this year, including a metal tube in Russia and a house on stilts in the Brazilian
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The row over how the fire-gutted Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris should be restored has restarted as plans to give the interior a tourist-friendly makeover are emerging. Confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures are set to be replaced with modern art murals and new light and sound effects designed to create “emotional spaces”, according to a report
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Architects should reuse existing buildings where possible to reduce embodied carbon and emissions, according to Christopher Trott, head of sustainability at Foster + Partners. Other ways of lowering emissions include not building basements, reducing spans, using less materials and making greater use of wood, Trott said. “The kind of immediate things that we can do
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Kicking off our review of 2021, we round up 10 of the most striking and interesting houses featured on Dezeen this year, including a concrete villa in Indonesia and a mid-century Californian home given a new lease of life. Bat Trang House, Vietnam, by Vo Trong Nghia Architects Encased in ceramic bricks, this house was designed
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After Foster + Partners’ design for the Tulip tower was recently rejected by the UK government, we round up 10 other high-profile building projects that were never actually built. Mexico City airport by Foster + Partners The Tulip is not the first time Foster + Partners has seen its design efforts go unrealised. Construction on
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The Tour Triangle skyscraper designed by Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron is finally set to begin construction in Paris after 15 years in the making, amid a last-ditch attempt to stop it by the building’s critics. Developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) this month struck a partnership deal with an investment arm of French insurance multinational AXA, providing
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Figures from architecture and the built environment who attended COP26 have given the climate conference low marks while praising the energy of the fringe events and hoping that politicians’ words will now be followed by action. “It’s just a start when it’s almost too late,” said Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton Architects, who gave the
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Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its second redesign for a new building at the Vancouver Art Gallery after the project was pledged a nine-figure donation from a property developer. The architecture firm has revised the massing and facade of the proposed building, opting for a copper-coloured woven metal covering the wooden soffits
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Cheshire Architects used local Kiwi materials and craftwork for the interiors of this hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. The 99-room The Hotel Britomart on Galway Street in downtown Auckland involved the restoration of a century-old existing building and the construction of a 10-storey block. The interiors are designed to reflect the surrounding area’s mish-mash of
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Plans for windowless student dorms in California attracted widespread criticism last week, but Munger Hall is not the first building to keep natural light at bay. Our latest roundup features ten fenestrationally challenged buildings with glassless facades. House in Toyonaka by FujiwaraMuro Architects Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects designed this L-shaped house in Osaka as a
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