Saudi development Neom has unveiled a hotel called Treyam that bridges a lagoon as the latest resort on the Gulf of Aqaba. Designed by US studio Mark Foster Gage Architects, the 250-room hotel will be contained within a 450-metre-long bridge with glass-bottomed rooms and topped with an infinity pool. It is set to be built
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Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. According to the BBC, the studios are creating a masterplan for the entire island as part of a project led by actor Idris Elba, whose father was born in Sierra
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Architect Yussef Agbo-Ola has created a tent-like temple informed by Sharjah’s topography and biodiversity as part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. Occupying a classroom within the former school that is now the triennial’s headquarters, the temple was designed by Agbo-Ola of London environmental design practice Olaniyi Studio as a place for incense burning and reflection. Named Jabal:
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The extensive foundation work taking place at The Line site in northwestern Saudi Arabia has been released by Neom at property fair MIPIM. Shared by The Line chief operating officer Giles Pendleton on LinkedIn, the video – titled February progress report – shows construction continuing on the mega city. A video showing construction on The
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This week on Dezeen, Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that aim to foster community. Yamamoto, who became the 53rd architect to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, was recognised for his work created over a five-decade career. To celebrate Yamamoto’s win, we looked back at 15 of
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It’s now 20 years since a solo woman won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The profession’s most prestigious award must do better, writes Tom Ravenscroft. It is 20 years since Zaha Hadid won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, yet somehow she remains the only solo woman to have won the accolade. Just days before International Women’s Day today,
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Architecture studio Altqadum has revealed the Bab Al Salam Mosque in Muscat, Oman, which is formed of five geometric volumes and has a cone-shaped minaret. Recently opened in the Omani capital, the mosque was designed to have a contemporary appearance that would help it to become a local landmark. “The client’s vision was to establish
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Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that are a “background and foreground to everyday life”. Yamamoto, who is the 53rd Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate and the ninth from Japan, was honoured for his buildings that aim to foster community. “For me, to recognise
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UK studio Foster + Partners is reportedly designing a two-kilometre-high skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which if completed would be the world’s tallest building. According to a report in UK architecture magazine Architects’ Journal (AJ), the UK studio is designing the megatall skyscraper for a site to the north of the Saudi capital. The AJ
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Conserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture is a way of boosting the city’s international profile, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation chair Gayane Umerova tells Dezeen in this interview. The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is leading the preservation of more than 20 impressive Soviet-era modernist buildings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. “The foundation was set
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