Visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale can drink coffee made from the city’s canal water in a Golden Lion-winning intervention by US practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Named Canal Cafe, the structure sits on the… Read More »Diller Scofidio + Renfro serves up canal water coffee at Venice Architecture Biennale
A series of models, installations and photographs addressing the decarbonisation of architecture fill the Spain Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Curated by architects Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Manuel Bouzas Barcala, the Internalities exhibition… Read More »Spanish pavilion demonstrates “another way of building” at Venice Architecture Biennale
A spiralling structure of cross-laminated timber and glass surrounds a circular events space at the Czech Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, which was designed by European studio Apropos Architects. Referencing a cylindrical form that featured… Read More »Spiralling ramp of timber and glass wraps Czech pavilion at Osaka Expo
Materials from Asia informed the co-founders of California studio OWIU Design while renovating a house for themselves in Los Angeles originally designed by architect and SCI-Arc co-founder Ray Kappe. Tucked in a suburban cul-de-sac in… Read More »OWIU remodels Ray Kappe’s Glass Ridge House in LA
An oversized, corrugated metal roof punctured by a large circular skylight crowns this home in rural New Zealand, by architecture studio Keshaw McArthur. Called Openfield House, the family home was designed with sliding external walls… Read More »Agricultural sheds inform “unfussy and honest” home in New Zealand
Every now and then, a house gets published on Dezeen that makes you think, “wait, does someone really live there?!” From the startlingly industrial-looking to the downright surreal, here’s a roundup of 10 of the… Read More »Ten houses that it’s hard to believe are actually houses