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HTA Design completes Europe’s tallest modular residential tower in Croydon

October 13, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a 163-metre-tall apartment building in Croydon that it claims is “Europe’s tallest residential tower to be completed using volumetric construction methods”. Named College Road, the building is made up of two adjoining 50 and 35-storey towers wrapped in a pleated ceramic facade. It sits across the street from

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Cake Houses is an “architectural recipe” to create wooden homes in the Czech Republic

October 11, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Presented at this year’s Designblok festival in Prague, Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. Founded by Matyáš Švejdík, Pavel Špringl and Šimon Marek, the team behind the Cake Houses project describes it as an “architectural recipe for modular wooden houses”. The project was conceptualised

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WilkinsonEyre set to open London’s secret world war two tunnels to the public

October 10, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio WilkinsonEyre has unveiled designs to turn London’s Kingsway Exchange Tunnels into an experience centre, revealing their wartime history as a secret government communications exchange. Located 40 metres below the street of High Holborn in central London, the passageways were built in the 1940s to provide shelter from the Blitz during world war two. After

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Eight restful bedrooms decorated in the colours of autumn leaves

October 8, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

In this lookbook, Dezeen has selected eight bedrooms that feature shades of green, yellow, orange, red and brown to create cosy environments with an autumnal feel. As the northern hemisphere settles into the autumn season and the days get colder, this roundup showcases examples of how to create serene and restful bedrooms by using colours similar

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MVRDV transforms Shenzhen skyscraper into colourful women and children’s centre

October 4, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a colourful gridded facade to a skyscraper in Shenzhen, to create a hotel and centre dedicated to the welfare of women and children. Aiming to set an example of adaptive reuse in the city, the Shenzhen Women and Children’s Centre contains a library, auditorium, children’s theatre, therapy rooms and staff

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Stanton Williams unveils UCL East building where “structure is the architecture”

October 2, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Named UCL East Marshgate, the concrete building has teaching and study space for 4,000 students and 700 staff and is roughly six times bigger than the university’s next largest building – the UCL

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Dezeen’s top five houses of September 2023

September 29, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

An East Hampton home with a sloping fibreglass roof and a corrugated metal-clad relocatable dwelling are among Dezeen’s top five houses of the month for September 2023. Also featured in the roundup is a black brick home in Seattle, a terrace of townhouses in a converted Oslo workshop and a farmhouse-informed structure in Melbourne. This is

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Seven architecture and design events in October from Dezeen Events Guide

September 29, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Design Miami’s first event in Paris and the month-long Archtober festival in New York City are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in October include an exhibition on how design can help social and environmental peace, and design weeks in Eindhoven, Prague and Barcelona.

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Open Architecture designs “extraterrestrial-looking” space museum in China

September 20, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Chinese studio Open Architecture has revealed its design for a space museum and experience centre in Yantai, China, which will appear like a mysterious black object in an oceanfront park. Named Space Crystals, the building will have a glossy black exterior and a faceted stone-like shape that rises at one end to point towards the ocean.

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Haworth Tompkins unveils “UK’s first multi-storey light-industrial scheme”

September 19, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio Haworth Tompkins has completed a three-storey industrial building in London named Industria, which the studio claims is the first multi-storey light-industrial scheme in the UK. Industria is made up of two grey and yellow checkerboard-patterned wings with 26-metre-wide service decks in between. A 30-metre-diameter helical ramp provides vehicle access to each deck.

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