Walls of roughcast render and a concrete roof enclose this coastal home on Cruit Island in Ireland, designed by Donegal studio Pasparakis Friel to blend in with the surrounding rocky outcrops. Located off the Republic… Read More »Coastal Irish home by Pasparakis Friel embraces “exposed island context”
Prosecutors are seeking the arrest of developer Manfredi Catella and Milan city council member Giancarlo Tancredi for bribery related to the city’s skyscraper boom over the past decade. Prosecutors in the city are looking to… Read More »Prosecutors seek arrests as part of sprawling investigation into Milan skyscraper boom
It’s time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material’s place back within our toolkits, design collective Cella tell Dezeen in this Building with Cob interview.… Read More »Cob can be “a mainstream building material once again” say Cella
Israel has used controlled explosions and bulldozers to demolish thousands of civilian buildings across Gaza in recent weeks, a BBC investigation has found. The broadcaster’s open-source intelligence team, BBC Verify, analysed satellite imagery and video… Read More »Israel using planned demolitions to flatten “large swathes” of buildings in Gaza
Dezeen’s latest series investigates one of the world’s oldest building materials – cob. Building with Cob will explore how this ancient, earth-based material is being reinvented for the modern age. First, we hear you ask,… Read More »Are we on the verge of a cob comeback?
Japanese studio SANAA has released photos of its Taichung Green Museumbrary cultural complex under construction in Taiwan, as it prepares to open to the public in December. Once complete, the “museumbrary” will be SANAA‘s largest cultural… Read More »Images reveal SANAA’s largest cultural project taking shape in Taiwan