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Büro Ole Scheeren designs winding concrete gallery in South Korea “without traditional thresholds”
Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed designs for the Suseong Continuum, a snaking, concrete art gallery in Daegu, South Korea. Set to be built within the city’s Yeonhwaji park, the 364-square-metre gallery was designed specifically for showcasing digital art. Berlin-based Büro Ole Scheeren designed the gallery as a continuous space, without any enclosed rooms and or doorways, in a bid to reflect the “flows” of digital art.
Seven projects by RIBA award-winning Nakshabid Architects
Who is RIBA International Prize winner Nakshabid Architects? In this roundup, we get to know the Dhaka-based studio through seven of its key projects spanning Bangladesh. Founded by Bayejid Khondoker in 2003, Nakshabid Architects’ extensive portfolio is concentrated in Bangladesh and encompasses both public and private projects – from residential blocks to mosques and museums.
Loader Monteith expands red-brick bungalow within “remarkably compact footprint” in Manchester
Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has transformed a two-bed, red-brick bungalow into a four-bedroom family home in Manchester, UK. Described by the studio as “squeezing a quart into a pint pot”, the project involved expanding and reorganising the 69-square-metre home to accommodate a growing family and improve connections to a rear garden.
Seven striking buildings that make a statement with red
A timber-clad fire station and an arena with a zigzagging facade are among the projects that feature in this roundup of red buildings. Photo by Måns Berg Liden's Brandstation, Sweden, by Kod Arkitekter Stockholm studio Kod Arkitekter used bright red-stained cladding to distinguish this fire station in Liden, Sweden, as a local landmark.
Seven striking buildings that make a statement with red
8 hours ago A new-build Melbourne house brings mystery and seclusion to a sleepy, suburban part of town - Malvern East. The home, titled Casa Piva and designed by B.E. Architecture, is an elegantly pared-down arrangement of volumes composed so as to reveal little to the outside world. Instead, a series of …
Spaces by Manah signposts Chennai community centre with barrel-vaulted roof
Local architecture studio Spaces by Manah has completed The Soil & Sea community centre in Chennai, India, with a brick barrel-vaulted roof that serves as a "visible landmark" on the site. The 4,330-square-metre building was designed to provide learning space for a local education centre, as well as to house community workshops and events.
"People need to be able to afford to adapt to climate change" says architect founder of Shaded
London architect Aimée Daniels has invented an awning system that sold out multiple times this summer. In this interview, she argues the UK needs to get on board with the power of shading. Self-described "clean-tech startup" Shaded sells simple and colourful external awnings that can be easily installed on or removed from sash windows and retail at £89. "It's a detachable awning for sash windows," Daniels told Dezeen.
Openings "dissolve boundaries" at Sable House by Allan Joyce Architects
Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK, to its countryside surroundings. Perched on a verdant plot, the five-bedroom Sable House dwelling replaces a 1950s house that had been home to the client and their family for more than 20 years.
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Architecture studios NH Architecture and Snøhetta have refurbished the Ian Potter State Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, revitalising its 2,000-seat auditorium and cascading brass ceiling. Australian studio NH Architecture and Snøhetta's Melbourne updated and expanded the theatre, which was originally completed in 1984 by architect Roy Grounds and interior designer John Truscott.
Former Zaha Hadid headquarters to open as public arts venue in London
The Zaha Hadid Foundation is set to open a public arts venue within the former headquarters of the late Zaha Hadid's eponymous studio in London. Located in London's Clerkenwell area, the new venue will serve as "a dynamic new hub for architecture and design" within the Grade II-listed Victorian school that was home to the studio for more than 30 years.
Space Popular creates carpet-covered gallery for Nieuwe Instituut
Architecture and design studio Space Popular has completed a gallery space for the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, using a colourful gridded carpet to demarcate its collection. Occupying a long, narrow volume within the museum, the Collection Gallery serves as a permanent space to exhibit the Nieuwe Instituut's physical and digital collection documenting the history of Dutch architecture.
White-brick extension defines Design Museum Gent revamp
Architecture studios Carmody Groarke, Atama and Re-st have completed the revamp of Design Museum Gent in Belgium, adding a geometric volume wrapped in waste-based white bricks. Set to reopen to the public in Ghent this weekend, the timber-framed wing introduces educational and event spaces to the museum, along with additional exhibition space.
Six civic projects by Kashef Chowdhury that put people first
Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury has published a monograph collating works from his three-decade-long career. In this roundup, we spotlight six key examples. Published by Park Books, the Meditations in Entropy monograph sees the architect recount his years focused on creating sustainable infrastructure for those who need it most with his studio Urbana. "I don't want to give service to people who have enough," the architect told Dezeen.
Seven buildings that demonstrate the versatility of bamboo
Now Nepal’s floods displace thousands, with survivors mourning loved ones and searching for belongings amidst the debris. When Anusa Thapa Magar rushed home from her job in the Maldives after hearing of Nepal’s devastating floods, she clung to the hope that her grandmother had somehow survived. Instead, …
Seven buildings that demonstrate the versatility of bamboo
Bamboo-clad parasols and a three-storey bamboo truss feature in this roundup of buildings from Southeast and South Asia built using the fast-growing plant. Photo by Chemi Dorje Lama Mahamudra Meditation Centre, Nepal, by Abari A mandala-shaped bamboo truss crowns this Buddhist meditation centre in Tibet, Nepal, which is perched atop a mountain near the country's capital, Kathmandu.
RSHP and ERRE unveil plans for curved-roof rail hub in Valencia
Architecture studios RSHP and ERRE have unveiled their plans for Valencia Central Station in Spain, which will incorporate public green spaces and sweeping roof canopies. Designed by RSHP and ERRE with engineering firm Sener, the station will become the city's key rail hub, with connections to the existing North Station. It will incorporate high-speed, commuter and metro services below ground, freeing up space at ground level for a linear public park the team described as a "green axis".
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Daniel Libeskind wins 2026 Praemium Imperiale for architecture
Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind has been named architecture laureate for this year's Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association. Libeskind, who leads the New York-based Studio Libeskind, was selected for the award for his work creating "emotionally resonant, innovative, and sustainable" architecture.
Plana House is a free-to-download design for a compact timber home
Architect Kristijan Markoc has created a downloadable template for a "deliberately modest", two-bedroom timber home designed to be adapted to any site. Named Plana House, the replicable home design has a compact, 42-square-metre plan and is composed of a simple, pitched-roof structure that can be constructed using readily-available materials.
Construction photos reveal progress on giant HS2 station by WilkinsonEyre
Images have been released of the Old Oak Common station in west London, which is currently under construction as part of the high-speed rail network HS2. The design, led by architecture studio WilkinsonEyre and engineering firm WSP, includes six platforms for the HS2 line running between London and central Birmingham, along with eight conventional platforms.
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Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has been named the recipient of the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award for 2027 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. Kuma, who is founder of his eponymous studio Kengo Kuma & Associates, was chosen for his demonstration of "how architecture can restore the relationship between people and the natural world".
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A tilted facade with large glazed openings was designed to bring an adjacent forest "directly into the interior" of this home in the Czech Republic by Prague-based Papundekl Architects. Located in a South Bohemian village, the single-storey home is contained within a modular timber structure, which has been topped by a mono-pitch roof and clad with pre-weathered metal.
Tilted facade lines modular Czech home by Papundekl Architects
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This week we reported on a colourful shirt that stops AI video surveillance
This week on Dezeen, designer Simon Weckert unveiled a colourful camouflage shirt that stops users being detected by AI video systems. Named Digital Camouflage, the shirt was developed in response to a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI) video surveillance at Berlin's Kottbusser Tor, which starts this month. According to Weckert, the anti-AI shirt uses a combination of bright colours and patterns to confuse the AI-powered system by subverting what the system recognises as a person.
Colar revives adobe structure to create pared-back home in Mexico
Architecture studio Colar has updated and extended a dilapidated adobe structure to create a single-storey home in Chiapas, Mexico. Named Casa Estelí, the 162-square-metre dwelling combines the revived adobe structure with two new brick volumes, each sheltered beneath an expansive, self-supporting timber roof.
ARB scraps two-year practice requirement for architectural registration in the UK
The Architects Registration Board has announced changes to its professional practice experience approach, which will see its two-year requirement of industry experience scrapped. Other changes include revisions to the organisation's Standards for learning providers, new guidance for employers and trainees, and a new Trainee Record of Experience process. The changes form part of the Architects Registration Board's (ARB) wider reforms to its Profession Practice Experience, or PPE.
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Woonpioniers models adjoining Dutch homes on "a game of Tetris"
Dutch studio Woonpioniers has completed CoHouse in Utrecht, a pair of interlocking houses designed for two families within a single gabled volume. Amsterdam-based Woonpioniers was tasked with creating adjoining yet distinct residences for the two families, who had bought a verdant riverside plot in the village of Cothen to build homes but were required by the local municipality to fit them within a single volume.
Kengo Kuma backs campaign to turn V&A Dundee into Lego set
A campaign has been launched to turn the V&A Dundee by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma into Lego's first Scottish building set. The campaign follows the creation of a 2,900-piece model replica of the local landmark by founder of web studio 532 Design Brian McNicoll. The small-scale replica, which is currently on show within the museum, has been submitted to the Danish toy brand's Ideas platform where people vote for fan-built prototypes to be developed into official sets.
Loud Mouth LDN translates Nissan car grills into bespoke grillz
Automotive brand Nissan has collaborated with London-based jewellery studio Loud Mouth LDN to create a series of custom grillz that reimagine Nissan car grills. Designed and crafted by Loud Mouth LDN, the four-piece jewellery collection was commissioned by Nissan's Nismo division to celebrate the FIA Formula E World Championship finale taking place in London this weekend.
RTA Studio designs mass-timber groundscraper in Auckland as "continuous ribbon"
Local architecture firm RTA Studio has completed a curve-edged office building in Auckland, New Zealand, built from a diagrid structure of locally grown timber. Situated within a regenerated wetland, the expansive, 11,500-square-metre campus serves as a global headquarters for appliance brands Fisher & Paykel and Haier Australasia, combining their offices and research facilities into a single, three-story volume.
Seven versatile homes that facilitate multi-generational living
For our latest roundup, we look at seven homes and apartments, spanning India, Australia and the UK, designed to accommodate multiple generations under one roof. Photo by Ishita Sitwala LJ House, India, by Studio Saransh and Iksoi Studio Asymmetrical forms define this multi-generational home in Ahmedabad, completed by local practices Studio Saransh and Iksoi Studio.
RIBA reveals four-strong shortlist for UK's best affordable housing for 2026
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced its shortlist for the Neave Brown Award for Housing 2026, which includes the expansion of a 1970s housing estate with 46 homes for social rent in London. Also in London, a landscape-led residential development spanning five brick buildings and a 100 per cent affordable housing block bordering a woodland are among this year's shortlisted projects.
MVRDV designs colourful stacked volumes for Shenzhen cultural complex
Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed designs for the Bihailou Art Village, a cultural development in Shenzhen, China, set to comprise a stack of colourful volumes. Currently under construction in the Shatoujiao neighbourhood near the Hong Kong border, the 6,500-square-metre complex will contain cultural and retail spaces, including a museum and a double-height theatre, within its geometrically shaped volumes.
Data centre approved as part of Truman Brewery masterplan in east London
Plans unveiled by architecture studio Buckley Gray Yeoman for offices, homes and a data centre near Brick Lane in London have been approved. Planned for three sites in the east London neighbourhood, the Truman Brewery masterplan will comprise eight buildings designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY), alongside London-based studios Carmody Groarke, Morris+Company and Henley Halebrown.
Plug-in solar panels to be available in UK by end of summer
The UK government has announced the arrival of plug-in solar panels that can be fitted onto balconies to reduce household energy costs. Expected to be sold in UK stores before the end of summer, the low-cost panels, which are already widely used across Europe, connect directly to a mains socket and can be placed on balconies, roofs or any outdoor space without installation.
Eight record-breaking stadiums from the biggest to the most expensive
Stadiums are often vying to be record-breaking structures. To conclude our Future Stadium series, we look at those that top the lists, from the biggest and tallest to the most expensive. Photo by Shutterstock Biggest by capacity and size: Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea Claiming the title for largest in both size and capacity is North Korea's Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, which is distinguished by its unique roof composed of 16 sweeping, concrete arches.
Industrial-style technology museum set to be built in Bengaluru
Plans have been announced for a technology and innovation museum in Bengaluru, India, designed by a consortium of architects led by Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects. Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects in collaboration with London-based DROO and local studio Cadence Architects, the Museum of Innovation, Startup & Technology will house an innovation hub and exhibition hall within an overhauled factory at the city's historic NGEF campus.
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Handmade bricks, wooden shakes and a cob wall enclose a trio of buildings at this community garden in London, which has been designed by local studio Jan Kattein Architects. Nestled on a triangular plot in King's Cross, the garden serves as an educational space for the local community and permanent home for educational charity Global Generation.
Tiered skyscraper by SOM tops out on Chicago lakefront
A series of cascading terraces outline the North Tower skyscraper by architecture studio SOM, which has topped out on a waterfront site in Chicago. Rising 261 metres at the confluence of Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, the North Tower's recently-completed concrete and steel structure features a stepped silhouette cloaked in glass and topped with a 25-metre-tall crown.
Sunflower Network opens modular children's hospital in Ukraine
Charity organisation Sunflower Network has opened a paediatric clinic in Brody, Ukraine, which it claims is the country's first healthcare infrastructure to open since Russia's invasion in 2022. Built beside the city's Brody Central City Hospital, the clinic provides a new purpose-built children's facility for the existing hospital, complete with modular treatment spaces that can be combined or expanded as needed.
Six tactile homes characterised by stone
Limestone cladding, sandstone bricks and precast stone blocks feature in this roundup of contemporary homes that demonstrate the versatility of both structural and decorative stone. Photo by Lorenzo Zandri Whitberry, UK, by Pend Blush-toned blocks of precast stone enliven the exterior of this extension to a heritage-listed farmhouse in East Lothian, Scotland.
RIBA announces best British buildings for 2026
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced 32 winners of the National Awards 2026, with the majority located in London. Featured among the 32 winners announced by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are a rammed-earth house, a London university campus and a cottage in the Scottish Highlands.
Kéré Architecture creates "vertical playground" for kindergarten at Technical University of Munich
Berlin studio Kéré Architecture has added a weathered steel-clad kindergarten to the Technical University of Munich campus in Germany, complete with a three-storey playground. Named Kinderoase an der TUM, the kindergarten is an on-site childcare facility to support young professionals, particularly women, at the university in balancing work and family responsibilities.
BIG arranges circular Dymak HQ around stepped courtyard
Architecture studio BIG has completed the headquarters for Danish material supplier Dymak in Odense, Denmark, sheltering its rounded mass-timber structure with a roof evoking a Möbius strip. Perched on a verdant site overlooking the city's Glisholm Lake, the 2,800-square-metre circular building combines offices and showrooms around an open-air courtyard.
MAD adds trio of "cloud buildings" to Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen
Three interconnected curved volumes and two office towers comprise the Tengyun Center in Shenzhen, China, which has been completed by architecture studio MAD for technology company Tencent. Built as part of Tencent's headquarters spanning 80-hectares across Qianhai and Da Chan Bay, the 72,000-square-metre complex contains offices and event spaces within three glazed volumes linked by steel-truss bridges.
UNStudio completes Korean Football Association headquarters with two dedicated stadiums
Dutch firm UNStudio has completed the Korean Football Park, a sports venue and new home for the Korean Football Association in Cheonan, South Korea. Designed to "serve athletes at the highest level while also giving football a broader civic presence", its facilities include two stadiums and 11 football fields alongside a sports museum and retail space.
UNS completes Korean Football Association headquarters with two dedicated stadiums
Dutch firm UNS has completed the Korean Football Park, a sports venue and new home for the Korean Football Association in Cheonan, South Korea. Designed to "serve athletes at the highest level while also giving football a broader civic presence", its facilities include two stadiums and 11 football fields alongside a sports museum and retail space.
Dezeen's top five houses of June 2026
A trio of brick-walled homes features in Dezeen's top five houses of the month for June, including a holiday cabin in the Netherlands and a compact British residence built on an infill site. The third is a British home that mimics its 1930s neighbours, while the remaining two are a bamboo-and-steel home in Malaysia and a family home within a former shop in Australia.
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American artist James Turrell has created As Seen Below, a 40-metre-wide Skyspace, for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Opening today, the domed extension realised in collaboration with Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen, is an immersive subterranean space washed in monochromatic colours. A six-metre-wide central aperture sits at the dome's apex to frame views of the shifting sky above.
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