Category: Architecture

Local studio SHED Architecture & Design has renovated a 1920s building into a compact two-level home with a black exterior and interior references to its history in Seattle. The 1927 building was previously a studio for Seattle impressionist artist Louise Crow, then a church, before the 1,000-square-foot structure (92-square metre) was converted into a house […]

Treehouses resembling seed pods, bark-imprinted walls and a spine-like spiral staircase pay homage to the landscape surrounding Mandai Rainforest Resort in Singapore, completed by local studio WOW Architects. Overlooking a reservoir in the 126-hectare Mandai Wildlife Reserve, the resort was created for hospitality brand Banyan Tree and is designed to immerse visitors in the surrounding […]

A mass-timber structure designed by a pair of architects as their holiday home and a house that was renovated by a studio principal for her mother feature in our houses of the month list for September. Read on to find out more about the most popular residences featured on Dezeen this month: Photo by Michael Moran […]

Japanese studio Schemata Architects has converted an old factory on the island of Teshima into a cafe, swapping its metal walls with polycarbonate that allows light into the building. Located by the Ieura Port harbour in Japan, the 360-square-metre former ironworks, now known as Teshima Factory, has been divided into two parts – one containing a […]

Earthy tones and tactile materials characterise Toybox, a 160-year-old Portuguese-style home in Goa, restored by Indian practice Grounded. Toybox is situated on a site close to the banks of the river Moira, in the quiet village of Aldona in Goa. Now owned by Grounded founder Anjali Mangalgiri, who renovated the house to sell it, the […]

Architecture studio BIG has completed a building at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles made of “a series of parallel building volumes side by side” that surrounds a central atrium. Commissioned in 2020, the Robert Day Sciences Center is located on the eastern side of the Claremont McKenna College Roberts campus and contains spaces, labs […]

International studio MASS Design Group renovated and adapted six derelict factory buildings into a mixed-use community hub in New York’s Hudson Valley. The new Scenic Hudson Northside Hub was completed this summer, revitalising the former Standard Gage Factory in Poughkeepsie, New York. “Scenic Hudson’s Northside Hub represents MASS’s commitment to adaptive re-use as the lowest […]

A pastel colour palette, metal canopies and furniture informed by children’s block games lend a playful feel to Gyöngyszem Kindergarten in Budapest, Hungary, renovated by local studio Archikon. Archikon renovated and modernised the kindergarten, which occupies one of a series of prefabricated community structures built along a tree-lined path in the 1960s as part of […]

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled the 90-metre-long, four-storey-high Humanise Wall as the centrepiece of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Revealed at the opening ceremony of the biennale, which Heatherwick is general director for, the twisted wall is located in Songhyeon Green Plaza park in central Seoul. Named Humanise Wall, the giant steel […]

Architect Terry Farrell, best-known for the postmodern MI6 and TV-am buildings, along with his high-tech collaborations with the late Nicholas Grimshaw, has passed away at the age of 87. Farrell passed away yesterday, according to an announcement by his London studio, Farrells, this morning. “It is with deep sadness that, on behalf of his family, […]