This week on Dezeen, we rounded up the best architecture, design and interiors posts of the year, taking in the most controversial stories, the best quotes from Dezeen’s many interviews and a slew of interesting interiors. The biggest trends in architecture this year ranged from the serious to the playful. Responses to big topics, such
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What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? Ahead of the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), titled “Urban Interactions,” ArchDaily is working with the curators of the “Eyes of the City” section at the Biennial to stimulate a discussion on how new technologies – and Artificial Intelligence in particular – might impact architecture and urban life. Here you can read the “Eyes of the City” curatorial statement by Carlo Ratti, the Politecnico di Torino and SCUT.
The world’s first 3D printed community is currently underway in a remote area in Mexico. The printer has been created as a solution to minimise homelessness and provide safe and adequate shelter for individuals.
UK architecture practice nex– has designed a restaurant and roof garden in chelsea, an area of south-west london. located on duke of york square, the building is the final element of the plaza’s redevelopment. conceived as a new landmark for the district, the sculptural structure aims to respect and enhance its prestigious surroundings, while incorporating […]
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CHAPEL FOR ALL SAINTS The garden-oriented chapel design provides relaxation and meditation. Its elements are full of references and meanings. Built in noble materials such as marble, wood and stone, in an ecological version, with Portobello porcelain. The chapel greets visitors with an illuminated cross giving it its church icon. It consists of an altar with several images of Santos, where the idea is that each visitor fined their protector.
Log 47 reconceives architecture’s role in climate change away from sustainability and solutionism and toward its formal complicity and potential agency in addressing the crisis. In this excerpt from her introductory essay, guest editor Elisa Iturbe defines carbon form as a necessary new way of understanding architecture and urbanism in order to develop a new disciplinary paradigm.
A house anchored in the cliff.
This newly built house facing the sea opens itself up to the sun during the day and closes for intimacy during the evening. It is located in a village along the Alabaster Coast (Côte d’Albâtre). It is one of several villages on this coast dense with flint, brick, and sandstone; both old and homogenous. Wartime destruction disrupted the homogeneity of the homes closest to the sea, but this home again reaches for coastal uniformity.
Our project located in Kyiv, Ukraine. One of the main characteristics of the architectural solution of the building named SkyLine in which the apartment is located – Rounded floor plan and exterior walls. It was a test for our team to create no ordinary space in such an unusual flor plan. This apartment designed for the businesswoman who exactly knows what she wants from her own home – functionality and little cute things.
The 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) is officially opening today in Shenzhen, China. Hosted at both the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning (MOCAUP) and the Futian Railway Station, the event is the most visited architecture biennale in the world, and holds the distinction of being the first major architectural event where all materials for the exhibitions were sourced in the host city of Shenzhen.
New York has passed a bill that updates the city’s building code with requirements to make new glass structures safer for migratory birds. New York City Council’s bill requires the surface of new glass buildings rising 75 feet (23 metres) or more – approximately seven storeys – to be patterned to make them more visible
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