International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to… Read More »Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of “sitting under a tree”
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. Named the Álvaro Siza Wing, the three-storey extension has a… Read More »Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery
Conserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture is a way of boosting the city’s international profile, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation chair Gayane Umerova tells Dezeen in this interview. The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is… Read More »Preserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture an act of “cultural diplomacy” says cultural foundation’s head
Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Located on the edge of… Read More »AHMM to transform office into co-living space next to London’s Barbican estate
Interior designers Patricia Urquiola and Amechi Mandi, architects Odile Decq and Shawn Adams and product designer Lee Broom have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. Dezeen Awards 2024 launched last week in partnership with… Read More »Patricia Urquiola, Lee Broom and Amechi Mandi are announced as judges for Dezeen Awards 2024
Swedish studio Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor and design agency Snask have revamped a supermarket in Täby, adding pastel hues and materials such as terrazzo and wood to “turn shopping into an experience”. The design was intended… Read More »ICA Stop supermarket designed as a “culinary dream come true”