Seoul Architecture Biennale “a very sincere attempt to invite a bigger conversation” says Thomas Heatherwick

This year’s Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism aims to directly engage the public rather than replicate the “echo chamber” of other architecture festivals, says the event’s general director Thomas Heatherwick in this exclusive interview. Speaking to Dezeen ahead of the opening of the fifth Seoul Architecture Biennale today, Heatherwick explained that he wants to start […]

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OF Studio designs Argentinian mountain house that “emerges from the terrain”

International architecture practice OF Studio has created a brutalist concrete house with a cantilevered terrace and sloped foundations shaped by its site on a mountainside in Mendoza, Argentina. Completed in 2024, the 571-square metre (6,146-square-foot) house known as Brutal Honesty took six years to construct on the edge of a canyon. Brutal Honesty took six […]

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Medieval church suspended 14 metres above London skyscraper construction site

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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Alison and Peter Smithson school to be refurbished “before it is too late”

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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