Category: Architecture

Plans to demolish the Museum of London and Bastion House to make way for the London Wall West scheme will be challenged at the High Court, following environmental concerns raised by campaign group Barbican Quarter Organisation. The Barbican Quarter Organisation was granted permission to proceed with its judicial review claim, which questions whether plans to […]

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed a redesigned logo with a bold, sans-serif font by London studio Johnson Banks as it prepares for its 200th anniversary. Set to roll out later this month, the rebrand aims to reflect the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ (RIBA) ambitions of adapting to the modern world while paying […]

Local developer Neutral has stated that construction on its mass-timber Edison skyscraper in Milwaukee, which it claims will be the “world’s tallest”, has been halted due to rising tariffs. According to local outlets, Neutral CEO Nate Helbach stated that construction on the residential tower Neutral Edison has temporarily halted due to “recent tariffs and broader […]

Chilean studio Max Núñez Arquitectos has raised a prefabricated steel house onto columns for a sloping site in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Chile, comparing it to a “lunar lander”. Casa en los Arboles (House in the Trees) was completed in 2023 on the edge of Conguillío National Park in the Andes. Near active […]

Students and faculty from 10 universities have built timber installations on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York. More than 150 participants gathered for the fourth edition of The Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival, titled BuildFest 2: Peace Rises. The students lived and worked on site during the five-day […]

London studio Hopkins Architects has completed a performing arts and education centre at the University of Oxford, which features a four-storey atrium and a Passivhaus concert hall. Set to open on 13 October, the 25,300-square-metre Schwarzman Centre unites seven faculties of the university‘s Humanities Division in one building, alongside the Institute for Ethics in AI […]

London studio Selencky Parsons has completed Bulls Barn, a family home in the south of England that looks like a cluster of small buildings. Located in the South Downs National Park, the house was designed to resemble a trio of cottages, with walls that combine terracotta-toned clay tiles with raw flint. Bulls Barn is located […]

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has been named on the Time100 Next list of the world’s 100 most influential rising stars. Ghotmeh, who designed the boat-like Bahrain Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, is the only architect named on the list by Time magazine, which also features actors, singers, and people in sports and business. Lina Ghotmeh designed […]

Thomas Heatherwick‘s Humanise campaign fails to identify the causes of poor-quality architecture or ways to tackle them, writes Owen Hopkins. “How do cities and buildings make you feel?” asks a promotional video for the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, which opened on Friday under the curatorial direction of Thomas Heatherwick. Across exhibitions, events and […]

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a trio of identical prefabricated holiday homes created for three sisters in Queensland. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Prefabrication specialist Blok Modular worked with Australian architecture studio Vokes and Peters to create Blok Three Sisters – a row of houses which were craned onto the site […]