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• John Puttick Associates expands St Leonard's Church with glulam porch

  28-10-2024 12:30
  
  British studio John Puttick Associates has refurbished a Grade II-listed church in Hove, East Sussex, introducing a 4.5-metre-tall timber extension that acts as an entrance porch.
  St Leonard's Church has also been updated to provide flexible space for family- and community-focused activities while maintaining the building's historic character.
  According to John Puttick Associates, the goal was to establish the church as an "open and welcoming place", after its congregation had started to dwindle
  
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• Shigeru Ban uses wood "in abundance" at Toyota City Museum in Japan

  31-10-2024 12:30
  
  A large wooden roof with a decorative structure depicting the emblem of the city Toyota tops this museum in Japan, completed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
  Named Toyota City Museum, the building sits alongside the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, which was completed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi in 1995.
  Its structure is built largely from local cedar, including its distinctive 90-metre-long roof that is perched on tall tapered columns.
  Shigeru Ban has topped Toyota City Museum with
  
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• Columbus was built as "an exemplary mid-century city"

  31-10-2024 12:15
  
  The mid-century modern architecture in Columbus, Indiana, is a physical reminder of the post-war belief in design as a tool for progress, says critic Matt Shaw in this interview for Dezeen's mid-century modern series.
  A small town in the American Midwest, Columbus underwent a remarkable wave of building after the second world war that has made it world-renowned, with civic structures designed by modernists such as IM Pei and Eero Saarinen.
  Driven by the Cummins Engine Company, which has its head
  
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• Dezeen's top five houses of October 2024

  31-10-2024 11:45
  
  From a Cornish home styled on traditional farmsteads to a residence in California with the air of a Bond villain's lair, here are Dezeen's houses of the month for October.
  Other houses featured in our monthly roundup of the most popular homes published on Dezeen include an orange villa designed by Álvaro Siza and a Greek getaway created by the founder of Invisible Studio for his own family.
  Read on to find out more about our houses of the month:Photo by Pedro Cardigo
  Colien House, Sp
  
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• RIBA reveals top six British homes of 2024

  31-10-2024 01:01
  
  A self-build project in London and a level-access home for retirees in Sussex are among the "breathtaking pieces of architecture" vying for Royal Institute of British Architect's House of the Year 2024.
  The six-strong shortlist also includes a courtyard house in Cornwall, a residence in Sussex tailored to its ageing clients and a home in London designed for adaptability.
  Outside the south of England, the only project to have made the shortlist is the transformation of a Grade II-listed stable bl
  
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• DataAE and Xavier Vendrell balance Barcelona housing block on steep site

  30-10-2024 19:00
  
  Spanish architecture studios DataAE and Xavier Vendrell haves balanced two rows of social housing on a hillside in Barcelona overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
  The project includes 39 units – a total of 4,785 square metres (51,500 square feet) – broken into three volumes that are oriented towards the water.
  DataAE and Xavier Vendrell designed the project on a Barcelona hillside
  Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo, who run dataAE, and Xavier Vendrell Studio respectively, worked to
  
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• ADEPT and LYTT Architecture elevate lookouts within Amager Nature Park

  30-10-2024 12:30
  
  A series of viewpoints clad in charred-timber shingles have been perched throughout the largest nature park in Copenhagen by Danish studios LYTT Architecture and ADEPT.
  Located along a stretch of coastline east of the capital city, the 35-square-kilometre Amager Nature Park contains a mix of wetlands, marshes and areas of forest.
  LYTT Architecture and ADEPT have introduced a winding wooden boardwalk throughout the park that is dotted with viewpoints and elevated above ground to minimise disrupti
  
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• Mid-century designers and engineers "envisioned the future" at GM's Tech Center

  30-10-2024 12:00
  
  The Warren Technical Center in Michigan, the first solo project by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, showcased the unity of mid-century architecture, design and engineering in the United States.
  Completed in 1956 in a small town outside of Detroit, the headquarters comprises a number of administrative, testing and design facilities for General Motors (GM).
  Driven by GM head of design Harley Earl, the campus was meant to create an environment for innovation, with every aspect reflecting t
  
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• "Is Mercury Tower a saviour or symptom of Malta's urban fate?"

  30-10-2024 11:30
  
  Zaha Hadid Architects' twisting Mercury Tower is a symbol of Malta's confused urban priorities and raises questions about how much influence individual buildings should have over a place, writes Ann Dingli.Mercury Tower is Malta's most recently completed tall building. A boxy, famously twisted tower of 31 storeys designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, it was apparently one of the last projects to be signed off by the late principal herself.
  One of several high rises now sprouting on the islands, it
  
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• Photos reveal Zaha Hadid Architects' completed Mercury Tower in Malta

  30-10-2024 11:00
  
  Photographs shared exclusively with Dezeen show the twisting facade of Malta's tallest building, recently completed by British studio Zaha Hadid Architects.
  At 31 storeys and 122 metres in height, Mercury Tower has been the Mediterranean island's tallest building since topping out in 2020.
  Zaha Hadid Architects has completed Mercury Tower
  Reportedly among the last designs signed off by studio founder Zaha Hadid before her sudden death in 2016, the tower's defining feature is a dramatic twist bet
  
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• Dead Mall Walking captures the "kenopsia" of fading shopping centres

  30-10-2024 10:30
  
  Shopping centres are a fascinating and under-appreciated aspect of urban architecture, according to British journalist Art Anthony, who films himself walking around malls that have fallen on hard times.
  Anthony is part of a sub-culture of YouTube creators making videos about shopping malls, mostly those that are either empty or in decline.
  Having stumbled across the scene while looking for content to help him sleep, Anthony has now explored nearly 80 malls across the US and the UK on his channel
  
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• Turenscape transforms concrete sea wall into "resilient public space"

  30-10-2024 07:00
  
  Chinese landscape architecture studio Turenscape has transformed a concrete sea wall on an abandoned fish farm into a public space in Haikou City, Hainan.
  Named A Breathing Sea Wall, the project aims to help alleviate the local threat of rising sea levels while providing locals with useable outdoor space.
  Turenscape has completed A Breathing Sea Wall in Haikou City
  The concrete structure, which spans a 3.72-kilometre-long beach, has been updated by Turenscape with an improved stormwater manageme
  
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• "Beaux-arts" supertall skyscraper by KPF tops out in Manhattan

  29-10-2024 20:30
  
  An 88-storey supertall skyscraper by architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox that pays homage to New York City's beaux-arts architecture has topped out in Midtown Manhattan.
  Located at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, the skyscraper will rise 1,002 feet (305 metres) and contain 100 luxury apartments, residential amenities, office space and a member's club.
  A beaux-arts style skyscraper has topped out in Manhattan
  The project is being developed by local agency Rabina, which announced its topp
  
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• Dezeen Debate features "simple, strong and poetic" retreat in Greek countryside

  29-10-2024 20:00
  
  The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a rural retreat in Greece designed by Invisible Studio. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
  Architect Piers Taylor, founder of British practice Invisible Studio, has completed a concrete residence named House in an Olive Grove in Corfu, Greece.
  The project sparked discussion among readers. One described it as "simple, strong, and poetic", while another, less enthusiastic, remarked, "I like it, but why so much concrete"?
  Fango designs y
  
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• Omer Arbel proposes surrounding Washington houses with "cedar orb clouds"

  29-10-2024 19:00
  
  Canada-based designer Omer Arbel has unveiled designs for a series of homes in Washington State made from concrete and covered in wooden balls intended to cultivate ecosystems over time.
  Arbel, the founder of lighting brand Bocci, was commissioned to design 16 houses on Governor's Point, a peninsula that juts into Bellingham Bay north of Seattle. The land was purchased by Arbel's business partner, Randy Bishop.
  Omer Arbel has released plans for a residential community in Washington State
  Called
  
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• MJMA Architecture & Design marries wood and mesh for Canadian sports centre

  29-10-2024 12:30
  
  Timber columns and a mesh facade are designed to emulate "a screen of trees" at this sports centre in Canada by Toronto studio MJMA Architecture & Design.
  Named the Churchill Meadows Community Centre and Sports Park, the project in Mississauga involved the conversion of a 20-hectare agricultural field into parkland.
  It is shortlisted in the Health and wellbeing project category in Dezeen Awards 2024.
  MJMA has completed a community and sports centre in Mississauga
  Sports fields, a playground,
  
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• BIG wraps Copenhagen headquarters with 140-metre-long concrete staircase

  29-10-2024 12:15
  
  Danish architecture studio BIG has completed its own concrete headquarters on an industrial harbour in Copenhagen.
  Situated along a pier in the city's Nordhavn neighbourhood, the 27-metre-tall BIG HQ is wrapped by a protruding staircase that connects its seven floors.
  BIG has completed its own headquarters on a harbour in Copenhagen
  Expansive glazed openings arranged in a checkerboard pattern break up the monolithic form, which is built from Uni-Green concrete.
  Uni-Green is a material developed
  
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• Andblack Design Studio designs undulating preschool to "foster creativity and play"

  29-10-2024 11:00
  
  Parametric forms topped with greenery define this preschool in Andhra Pradesh, India, which has been completed by architecture firm Andblack Design Studio.
  Named Cocoon Pre-primary Extension, the preschool was designed as an extension to the existing Bloomingdale International School and has been shortlisted in the education project category for this year's Dezeen Awards.
  Aiming to challenge what schools traditionally look like, Andblack Design Studio designed the structure with a playful, curvi
  
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• Tavs Jorgensen develops cob bricks for low-carbon construction

  29-10-2024 07:00
  
  Researcher Tavs Jorgensen has created a method of extruding cob into brick shapes, in an effort to make the low-carbon biomaterial more accessible.
  Used to create bricks that can be stacked in interlocking patterns, the process involves pushing different samples of cob – a construction material made from earth and straw – through 3D-printed extrusion moulds known as dies.
  It was developed as part of a research project at the University of the West of England's Centre for Print Resear
  
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• Elías Rizo reinterprets vernacular Mexican cabin in concrete

  28-10-2024 18:00
  
  Mexican studio Elías Rizo Arquitectos has balanced a concrete house with a steep gabled roof on a hillside in Tapalpa, Mexico near Guadalajara.
  Known as El Mirador, the 2023 house measures 230 square metres (2475 square feet) and serves as an "ode" to the site's preexisting landscape.
  Elías Rizo Arquitectos has created a concrete cabin outside of Guadalajara
  "We wanted to design a house that became one with the landscape over time and allow time to erase the line between nature and
  
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• Eight lesser-known examples of mid-century modern architecture

  28-10-2024 12:15
  
  Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces is a book of "landmark architecture" built around the world between the 1950s and 70s. For our mid-century modern series, its author Dominic Bradbury picks out eight lesser-known buildings that encapsulate the era.Published by Phaidon, the encyclopedic book features 450 modernist buildings across all continents, many created by the period's trailblazers and others by more under-represented architects.
  "We definitely felt that there was an important gap to
  
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• First Neom region completes as "luxury island" Sindalah opens in Saudi Arabia

  28-10-2024 12:00
  
  Sindalah, an island resort in the Red Sea designed by Italian studio Luca Dini Design and Architecture, has become the first Neom region to be completed in Saudi Arabia.
  The resort, which is described as a "luxury island destination" located five kilometres off the Neom coastline in the Red Sea, has opened to a number of invited guests.
  This makes the 840,000 square-metre project the first part of Neom, a mega-development in north-eastern Saudi Arabia, to be completed.
  Sindalah is a resort islan
  
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• MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects adds concrete extension to Quebec spa

  27-10-2024 19:00
  
  Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has expanded a thermal spa and baths complex in Quebec, adding a concrete plinth that houses an outdoor swimming pool and a hidden relaxation room.
  The Balnea Spa and Thermal Reserve is tucked away close to the ski town of Bromont in the Appalachian Mountains, southeast of Montreal and north of Vermont, USA.
  Balnea Spa's new concrete volume extends the sun terrace and creates a swimming pool on its roof
  As part of a significant expansion project
  
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• IARA piggybacks stone aqueduct with sheltered timber bridge in China

  27-10-2024 12:00
  
  Architecture studio IARA has reinvigorated an abandoned aqueduct in Huangshan, China, by attaching a sheltered timber bridge on top of its stone structure.
  Named FW JI Covered Bridge on Aqueduct, the project in Fengwu Village is shortlisted in the infrastructure and transport project category of Dezeen Awards 2024.
  IARA has added a covered bridge to a stone aqueduct in China
  The narrow stone aqueduct, which crosses over the Fengxi River in the north of the village, dates back to the 1960s and is
  
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• kengo kuma on reconnecting architecture with nature through the ellinikon project - Designboom

  27-10-2024 07:15
  kengo kuma on reconnecting architecture with nature through the ellinikon project  Designboom
  
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• Tallinn bus shelter "an experimental fragment" built from reclaimed materials

  27-10-2024 07:00
  
  Brussels-based architecture duo Brasebin-Terrisse have erected a bus shelter made using waste materials as part of this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale.
  Titled No Time to Waste, the pavilion at the Balti Jaam transit hub was mostly made from offcuts sourced from suppliers around Tallinn and includes discarded concrete paving slabs from a construction site, chunks of stone from a local manufacturer and pieces of brick from a waste-management company.
  The pavilion's design was led by what mat
  
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• How to Embrace Earthy Tones in Architecture and Interior Design - Yanko Design

  27-10-2024 01:30
  How to Embrace Earthy Tones in Architecture and Interior Design  Yanko Design
  
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• Amazing building with astounding aurora wins Architecture Photography MasterPrize award - Digital Camera World

  26-10-2024 20:39
  Amazing building with astounding aurora wins Architecture Photography MasterPrize award  Digital Camera World
  
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• Tenured or Tenure-Track Open Rank Faculty in the Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  26-10-2024 20:11
  Tenured or Tenure-Track Open Rank Faculty in the Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• WiTUnet: A U-shaped architecture integrating CNN and Transformer for improved feature alignment and local information fusion - Nature.com

  26-10-2024 18:35
  WiTUnet: A U-shaped architecture integrating CNN and Transformer for improved feature alignment and local information fusion  Nature.com
  
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