Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. Made from orange-tinted exposed concrete, Siza designed each floor in the house with an… Read More »Álvaro Siza steps orange-hued concrete home into sloped site in Barcelona
As the UK closes its last coal-fired power station, conservation group Twentieth Century Society is running a campaign to preserve a set of cooling towers. Hyperboloid thermal towers, more commonly known as cooling towers, were… Read More »Twentieth Century Society calls for preservation of “just one set of cooling towers”
After the UK’s last coal power station closed last week, the Twentieth Century Society has selected seven projects that demonstrate how the under-threat cooling towers at these “cathedrals of industry” could be reused. Cooling towers… Read More »Decommissioned cooling towers turned into theme parks, music venues and extreme sports centres
Designer Rachel Griffin discusses the “utopian qualities” of aluminium for Hydro‘s 100R exhibition, which is captured in this video produced by Dezeen for the brand. Griffin was one of seven designers featured in Hydro’s 100R… Read More »Hydro showcases “revolutionary” aluminium design pieces at London Design Festival
Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former world war two German military base in the Netherlands, adding terraced housing and preserving a series of bunkers disguised as farmhouses. MVRDV worked with landscape studio Buro Harro and… Read More »MVRDV transforms world war two military base into housing
Art and research organistaion Metabolic Studio has showcased aspects of its Bending the River project, an infrastructure and art project designed to remediate water and land around the Los Angeles River. For more than a… Read More »Metabolic Studio diverts LA River water to “facilitate natural systems that want to repair themselves”