Landscape architect Kongjian Yu, the founder of Chinese studio Turenscape, and three others have died in a plane crash in Brazil‘s Pantanal wetlands while reportedly making a documentary about his sponge city model. A small… Read More »Sponge city architect Kongjian Yu killed in Brazil plane crash
Plans have been unveiled by London-based architecture studio Jestico + Whiles to revitalise Alison and Peter Smithson‘s 1950s Smithdon High School in Norfolk, UK. Completed by the duo in 1954, the Grade II-listed secondary school,… Read More »Alison and Peter Smithson school to be refurbished “before it is too late”
Designer Ethan Akiyama Poh has won Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition with a concept that reimagines architect Kenzo Tange‘s disused post-war gymnasium, currently facing demolition, as a thriving civic destination. Akiyama Poh proposed reprogramming… Read More »Proposal to revive Kenzo Tange’s Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium wins Radical Renewal Competition
Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Located in the Shibuya Parco shopping centre, Frama Tokyo displays… Read More »Frama designs first international store in Tokyo to “reflect the architecture of wellbeing”
Promotion: the slender Fusion thin bricks by brick manufacturer Acme Brick lend a pearlescent quality to the facades of this office building in Texas, designed by US studio An.onymous. Located in North Richland Hills, the… Read More »Acme Brick helps make dermatologist’s office a “visual playground”
Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a sculptural addition to the home of St Louis Symphony Orchestra in St Louis, USA, while revamping historical interiors and creating a public-facing plaza. Snøhetta restored and expanded Powell Hall,… Read More »Snøhetta completes arched extension to St Louis’ Powell Hall