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BIG completes solar education centre for renewed East River park in New York

October 29, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio BIG has announced a milestone in the ongoing construction of parks along the East River in New York with a timber-clad building with built-in solar infrastructure. The Solar One Environmental Education Center is a two-storey timber-clad building designed to harvest solar energy and store it in case of emergency in Stuyvesant Cove Park.

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Buildings become “dance partners” at Snøhetta’s Dartmouth arts centre extension

October 28, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

International architecture studio Snøhetta has completed an expansion to the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, fitting two new cubic volumes onto an existing 1960s building. Located on the Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire, the Hopkins Center for the Arts (The Hop) is a sprawling complex that serves as the school’s arts

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps Cartier Miami in glass for “sense of mystique”

October 28, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed an expansion to the Miami flagship store of jewellery brand Cartier, which has a bulbous facade informed by a vintage Cartier piece. Located in Miami’s Design District, on the corner of NE 39th St and the walking corridor Paseo Ponti, the building has a wraparound facade

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Tadao Ando unveils twisting design for Dubai Museum of Art

October 28, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled the design for an art museum in Dubai, which will be housed in a rounded, twisting building overlooking the emirate’s natural saltwater creek. Renders of the five-storey Dubai Museum of Art reveal a curving building finished with white walls, punctuated by triangular windows as they swoop and twist upwards. Designed by

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Santiago Calatrava arranges Belgian station around “monumental bridge”

October 28, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Swathes of glass and steel make up the sinuous exterior of the new Gare de Mons station in Belgium, which has been designed by Swiss-Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Located along the international Paris to Brussels train line in Mons, the station’s sculptural structure is organised around a raised gallery volume that stretches 165 metres across

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Seven double-height living rooms with a sense of high drama

October 26, 2025 Jennifer Hahn 0

From a Japanese book lover’s house to a brutalist holiday home in Mexico, the living rooms compiled in this lookbook feature lofty ceilings and interiors to match. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides curated visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring homes with built-in sofas, secret rooms and

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Hawkins/Brown and East to lead pedestrianisation of London’s Oxford Street

October 24, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studios Hawkins/Brown and East have been selected to lead the pedestrianisation plans for Oxford Street, initiated by London mayor Sadiq Khan. The news, revealed by the Greater London Authority (GLA) this morning, follows Khan’s announcement in June that plans for the redevelopment would move ahead “as quickly as possible”. More than 1.1 kilometres of the

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Doshi Retreat snakes through Vitra Campus in Germany

October 24, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

The last building designed by the late Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has reached completion at the Vitra Campus in Germany, with a snake-like form crafted from weathered steel. Named Doshi Retreat, the structure offers a space for solitude and contemplation at furniture brand Vitra’s iconic base in Weil am Rhein, on a plot adjacent to

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Stacked culinary hub by BIG and Bat Architecture “liberates the ground”

October 23, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Sloping walkable roof terraces stretch over GOE, a food research centre that Danish architecture studio BIG and Spanish studio Bat Architecture designed as a continuation of the landscape at San Sebastián, Spain. GOE, which stands for Gastronomy Open Ecosystem, was designed by BIG and Bat Architecture for the Basque Culinary Centre as a hub for

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Photos reveal James Turrell’s “largest and most ambitious Skyspace” ahead of opening

October 23, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Images have been released of James Turrell’s soon-to-be-completed Skyspace at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, which will be the American artist’s largest yet. Set to open to the public on 19 June 2026, the As Seen Below installation is housed in a 40-metre-wide domed extension beside the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. It completes

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