Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a mono-pitched roof, along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. Located in Inverness,… Read More »Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness
A castle-like house by London studio Denizen Works that is vying for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award is the focus of this video, produced by Stephenson&. The short film is the… Read More »Hundred Acre Wood house resembles object “eroded by the weather”
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed a masterplan for an urban centre near Hangzhou in China, which will be based around a skyscraper-flanked spine. Based in Yuhang, one of 10 urban districts in Hangzhou,… Read More »Foster + Partners unveils design for Hangzhou centre around “leafy spine”
Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson’s book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. “These mid-century… Read More »Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America’s 20th-century “victorious exuberance”
Dezeen Showroom: Australian brand Woven Image has added five colourways to its collection of EchoPanel acoustic wall treatments. The new colours in the EchoPanel collection are powder pink Dusk, cool green Mint, warm yellow Butter,… Read More »EchoPanel acoustic panels by Woven Image
The world urgently needs architects and designers to start prioritising humanitarian projects, writes Cameron Sinclair as part of our Designing for Disaster series. What is humanity? From the Latin word “humanitas” we find the definition… Read More »“How we respond to disasters tells us a lot about our future”