Architecture

As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. “For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense,” said Arup fellow Andrew Lawrence. “Timber’s natural home is low-rise construction,” he told Dezeen. “The reality that timber is best suited technically to smaller buildings, and

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As part of our Timber Revolution series, we have rounded up the world’s 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures, including an engineered-wood shopping-centre extension and a carbon-negative cultural centre. Compiled using data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the roundup also features apartment towers, hotels and a school, demonstrating the potential of

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In this week’s comments update, readers discussed Specht Architects’ glass pavilion house in the Berkshires and debated a toilet made from wood chips. Specht Architects has designed a residential, symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires, Massachusetts, as a place to showcase antiques. Commenters saw echoes of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, a glass house

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clay tiles dominate distracted house’s exterior appearance, representative of the old indonesian settlements within the local surroundings.
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Foster + Partners, working in collaboration with Petrolina Group, has revealed the design of a new master plan to transform the seafront of Larnaca, Cyprus, into a sustainable and enjoyable area for the city residents, future generations, and new visitors. The resort town of Larnaca aims to redesign one of its main arteries, the Larnaca-Dhekelia Road, to become more pedestrian-friendly, along with its seafront. Foster’s proposal aims to enhance the land’s ecological value and to double the length of the waterfront accessible to the public.

At this year’s International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Australian Institute of Architects will present Unsettling Queenstown. Tackling themes of decolonization, the exhibition is a multi-faceted and multi-sensory installation. Creative directors Anthony Coupe, Julian Worral, Emily Paech, Ali Gumillya Baker, and Sarah Rhode have curated this exhibition as a response to the overarching theme of the Biennale – “The Laboratory of the Future.” Moreover, Unsettling Queenstown will encourage audiences to imagine the future and its possibilities.