Safdie Architects is set to double the size of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas with a design that includes two new galleries connected by a bridge. The architecture firm, which has its headquarters in Boston, will return to build an extension for the museum that it designed a decade ago. Construction will
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A collapsible camera obscura and a bamboo tensegrity structure have been revealed as the two winning designs of the 2021 Antepavilion architecture commission in Hackney, London. The Antepavilion competition, which takes place annually in the UK capital, invites experimental designs and structures for construction at Hoxton Docks on Regent’s Canal. This year’s brief called for demountable
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This week on Dezeen, a video fly-through showed architecture studio Abiboo’s proposal for Nüwa city, which was designed to be the first permanent city on Mars. The city, which was envisioned to house up to 250,000 people, would be embedded into a cliff face. It was designed by Abiboo for non-profit organisation the Mars Society to be a self sufficient and
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The virtual world and the real world will become one and the human body will merge with fashion and architecture, according to speakers at Dezeen Club’s metaverse meet-up event held at a virtual rooftop bar earlier this week. “The virtual world and the real world will integrate,” said Amber Slooten of virtual fashion studio The
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Toronto architecture firm Shim-Sutcliffe has been named the recipient of the 2021 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal. Here are six key projects from the studio. The architecture practice, which was founded by Brigitte Shim and A Howard Sutcliffe in 1994, won the 2021 edition of Canada’s most prestigious architecture award. Awarded annually, the
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The coronavirus pandemic has helped encourage a return to regional architectural styles, according to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf. The Dutch architect said Covid-related travel restrictions have hastened the demise of “indiscriminate international architecture” designed by globe-trotting starchitects. “I think there might be an increasing localism again emerging in architecture,” de Graaf said. “Maybe a
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New York City planners are working on secret plans for a controversial new pedestrian walkway on top of the High Line, dubbed “The Even Higher Line”. The plans, which were leaked to Dezeen, involve turning the former elevated railway into a multi-storey attraction, increasing visitor capacity while allowing for social distancing. The development would also
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Construction technology company Mighty Buildings has announced plans to build 15 homes using prefabricated 3D-printed panels in Rancho Mirage, California. The project is a collaboration between California-based Mighty Buildings and developers Palari Group. Construction will begin at the end of this year with the homes set to be finished by Spring 2022. Once complete, Mighty
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Wooden and ceramic louvres that reference musical scores will decorate the Shenzhen Conservatory of Music, a group of buildings that Spanish studio EMBT has designed in China. The 129,700-square-metre complex will be built on the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen campus and include a theatre, concert halls and rehearsal spaces. It was designed to be a
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Photos reveal the Museum of the Future in Dubai, which was designed by architecture studio Killa Design and engineered by Buro Happold, with its exterior largely complete. Created for the Dubai Future Foundation, the Museum of the Future will contain exhibitions on innovative design and was designed to have a dynamic form that represents the Dubai government’s view
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