Most of us know the feeling: the first sense of stress, and all self-maintenance (to avoid the oft-misinterpreted phrase, self-care) goes right out the window. This, obviously, is not ideal. Blood pressure rising, stress from… Read More »The Iris Meditation Pod Brings Calm to the Modern Workplace
Architects Shibanee Sagar and Aadi Sagar explain how they introduced green-roofed suburban housing to foster daily contact with nature in this Texas community, as shown in this exclusive video by Dezeen. Called Tapestry, the 121-home… Read More »Shibanee & Kamal Architects design green-roofed housing community in Texas
A cluster of new and old buildings in the ancient centre of Yangzhou, China, has been stitched together into a hotel complex by local firms BLUE Architecture Studio and the Urban Architecture Lab at Southeast… Read More »BLUE Architecture Studio converts historic Yangzhou district into sprawling hotel
With a growing number of lectures, talks and interviews, David Adjaye is slowly returning to public life following sexual assault and harassment accusations two years ago. We ask how the architecture profession will react. It is… Read More »Will David Adjaye be re-accepted by the architectural establishment?
Architect David Adjaye has called the reporting on his alleged sexual misconduct “deeply unfair”, in some of his first on-the-record comments since allegations came to light. An extensive Financial Times (FT) investigation in 2023 saw… Read More »David Adjaye criticises reporting of sexual assault allegations
French flooring brand Tarkett has announced that its linoleum is now carbon-negative across all stages of its life cycle, from sourcing raw materials to end-of-life deconstruction and recycling. The brand said although the make up… Read More »Tarkett achieves “world’s first” carbon negative linoleum