A curlicued brutalist hotel whose facade resembles two faces kissing and a bank crowned with towers informed by clay castles are among the modernist buildings celebrated in Togo’s first-ever Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion. The small… Read More »Togo centres its “eccentric” modernist architecture in Venice Biennale debut
With just three weeks left until entries close, Dezeen Awards judges architect Simon Allford and designers Tatjana von Stein, Giorgia Lupi and Benjamin Hubert offer advice on what a winning entry should look like. Alongside… Read More »Dezeen Awards judges share their advice on how to create a winning entry
Chiselled stone walls and vast stretches of glass define a coastal California home by US studio Field Architecture, which was designed to “bring the residents closer to nature with every turn”. The house sits on… Read More »Field Architecture perches Big Sur House on bluff overlooking the ocean
Boston architecture studio Safdie Architects has designed a reimagined downtown “urban heart” for Portland, Maine, USA, centred around a 30-storey skyscraper designed to reference coastal architecture. Located on four acres in the historic Old Port… Read More »Safdie Architects designs Maine’s tallest building to resemble a lighthouse
Proposals by Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio and WilkinsonEyre for a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II near Buckingham Palace in London have been revealed. Five proposed design concepts for the Queen Elizabeth II memorial in… Read More »Queen Elizabeth II memorial proposals revealed
London’s Victoria and Albert museum and American studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro have collaborated on an exhibition on the architecture of storage at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, unveiled exclusively here. Named On Storage, the exhibition… Read More »Diller Scofidio + Renfro directs film on storage for V&A exhibition at Venice biennale