Month: January 2023

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Hyper converts suburban garage into Dark Matter garden studio

January 30, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

London-based architecture studio Hyper has created a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England, featuring a pivoting door and a charred-timber facade that doubles as an insect hotel. Hyper converted a suburban garage to create the work-from-home studio called Dark Matter. The building’s name refers to its facade, formed of 850 pieces of charred wood. The process, called

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Seven alternative bricks made of reclaimed waste and biomaterials

January 30, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine feature in this roundup of brick alternatives, designed to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of the masonry units. After concrete and steel, brick has become the latest focus for architects, designers and material researchers hoping to slash the emissions associated with building materials. That’s because bricks are generally

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“Modest” architecture focused on reuse and biomaterials to dominate in 2023

January 30, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Retrofit, biomaterials and grassroots design are among the trends that architects including Kjetil Thorsen and Samira Rathod predict will define the architecture of 2023 and beyond. Dezeen spoke to 10 architects from a mix of leading and emerging studios around the world about the trends they expect to characterise architecture this year. Architects to “get

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Kazuyo Sejima wins 2023 Jane Drew Prize for women in architecture

January 30, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has won this year’s Jane Drew Prize for Architecture for her contribution to raising the profile of women in architecture. Sejima is best known as the co-founder of the Japanese architecture studio SANAA, which she founded with Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa in Tokyo in 1995. The Jane Drew prize

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Wiik House / DTR_studio

January 30, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

The Wiik family contacted us in 2017, with the sole reference of having seen our work published on the internet, to find them a plot in Estepona’s downtown and to design a house there. It would be a second residence, they live in Oslo but would try to spend long seasons on the Costa del Sol.  Starting from a very similar way of understanding architecture and even life, they fully trusted us

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Office S&M unveils its own colourful office with plastic-bottle-wall enclosed meeting room

January 30, 2023 Nicole Rambla 0

Architecture practice Office S&M has completed its own office inside a former paint-making workshop in Hackney, London. With an entire wall of material samples and areas for modelling and sketching, Office S&M’s workspace aims to act as a laboratory to support its ongoing exploration of materials “that are both practical and fun.” The studio, headed

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