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This week Saudi Arabia scaled back The Line megacity

April 13, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we reported on the news that Saudi Arabia is scaling back the expected population it hopes The Line mega city will reach by 2030. News agency Bloomberg reported that officials expect The Line, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia’s Neom project, to house fewer than 300,000 people by 2030 compared

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Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign creates “boring alter-egos” of UK landmarks

April 12, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Creative agency Uncommon Creative Studio has made “boring” versions of UK landmarks including Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle for Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign. Created to demonstrate how UK landmarks would look if designed in modernist styles, the agency used artificial intelligence to reimagine the landmarks. Along with Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle, Uncommon Creative Studio

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UK-Kenya team to turn British Pavilion “inside out” for 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

April 3, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The British Council has announced that the British Pavilion at the next Venice Architecture Biennale will be curated by Cave Bureau co-founders Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi with Dezeen contributor Owen Hopkins and Queen Mary University professor Kathryn Yusoff. The British contribution to the 2025 biennale in Venice will see the British Pavilion building in the

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Fulham reveals swimming pool-topped stadium alongside Thames

April 2, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Football club Fulham FC has unveiled renders of its Populous-designed Riverside Stand at its Craven Cottage stadium in London that show a rooftop swimming pool. Described as “a European football stadium first”, the rooftop pool overlooking the Thames forms part of the redevelopment of the Riverside stand for the Premier League football team. Designed by

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Seven nest-shaped buildings wrapped in branches, twigs and pine

March 30, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

As spring begins in the northern hemisphere, Dezeen spotlights seven nest-shaped buildings from its archives. Stick around for projects including a tree-top hotel room and a horse-riding arena. Stork Nest Farm, Czech Republic, by SGL Projekt Constructed from a timber frame wrapped in large sticks, this dome in the Czech Republic was designed by SGL

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This week Sagrada Familia announced its final completion date after 140 years

March 30, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, La Sagrada Familia Foundation announced that Antoni Gaudí’s landmark church in Barcelona is finally set to be completed in 2026. The foundation told news site CNN that construction on the church, which began in 1882, is set to finish in two years, 100 years after the death of its architect. Work

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“Outstanding” landscape architect Lynn Kinnear dies aged 64

March 28, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Landscape architect Lynn Kinnear, founder of Kinnear Landscape Architects who collaborated on projects including the Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School, has died aged 64. Described by Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore as “one of the outstanding landscape architects of her generation”, Kinnear passed away earlier this month after a battle with cancer. Born in Edinburgh in

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BIG and A+ Architecture set to design mass-timber transport hub in Toulouse

March 25, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studios BIG and A+ Architecture have revealed the design for the mass-timber Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub in Toulouse, France, which will be topped with a rose-coloured “foraine” brick roof. Set to be built alongside the existing main station to the west of Toulouse’s city centre, the 2,800-square-metre building was designed as an interchange for

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This week we revealed plans for supertall skyscrapers and a casino at Hudson Yards

March 23, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, plans were announced to expand the Hudson Yards development in New York with a series of supertall skyscrapers and a casino. Developer Related Companies and Wynn Resorts released a series of renderings showing what the potential skyscrapers could look like, following proposals submitted to the city in February. The renders show three

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