The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features renderings for a UFC stadium set to be built on the White House lawn. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. UFC president Dana White unveiled plans for a mixed martial arts arena on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC, proposed as part […]
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Local firms Good City Studio and Hexagon Studio Architects have converted the main turbine hall of a historic Philadelphia power plant into Ballers, a sports club that includes indoor pickleball, soccer and squash courts. Ballers is located inside a portion of the newly renovated Delaware Power Station in Fishtown, Philadelphia, which was recently rebranded into […]
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US architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed a skyscraper clad in glass on top of a restored 1899 train station in Boston, USA, the “busiest transit hub in New England”. Boston South Station, an 1899 curved neoclassical structure designed by Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, had had no major upgrades since restoration […]
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Japanese studio SANAA has reached completion on its largest cultural project to date, Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan. Set to open to the public in Taichung’s central park in December, the 58,016-square-metre building contains an art museum and a city library, spread across eight blocks interconnected with winding walkways. SANAA has completed Taichung Green Museumbrary […]
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A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended above a construction site during excavation works for the upcoming 50 Fenchurch Street skyscraper in London, designed by architecture studio Eric Parry Architects. Carried out by construction company Multiplex, over 125,000 tonnes of earth were removed from the ground around the Grade I-listed Tower of All Hallows Staining. […]
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Making clothes using living organisms is fundamentally changing how Iris van Herpen thinks about materials, the Dutch fashion designer tells Dezeen in this interview. Since starting her own studio 18 years ago, Van Herpen has carved out a reputation for sculptural designs that are innovative even for the inherently experimental world of couture fashion. One […]
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Dezeen Showroom: Danish homeware brand Vipp has added to its family of Swivel chairs, which have a classic modernist aesthetic that combines aluminium and leather. The Swivel series balances timeless design and everyday functionality, according to Vipp, with compact and visually lightweight silhouettes that sit as easily within a home office as a conference room. […]
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Rumours of the metaverse‘s demise are greatly exaggerated – particularly when it comes to designing virtual buildings, writes Sarah Housley. An article about the metaverse? Is it 2020? No futures vision has burned more brightly or been abandoned more quickly this decade than the metaverse. But like all “failed” futures, the metaverse has not gone. […]
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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 aircraft crashed in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state on Tuesday as it attempted to land at a farm near […]
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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, previously named Hunstanton School, comprises two glass and steel structures that both are in need of updating. According to Jestico […]
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