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Google and Jahn release images of Thompson Center redesign

December 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Tech company Google and architecture studio Jahn have released visualisations of the planned revamp of the James R Thompson Center, an iconic postmodern-style building in Chicago’s Downtown. The plans for the redesign retain the original rounded form and the 17-storey atrium inside. Its glass curtain wall will change, moving from the slightly darkened patterned glass

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Studio Gang nestles Kresge College expansion in Pacific forest

December 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the

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Kengo Kuma unveils colourful structure for Miami Design District

November 30, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is set to create a sculptural block of buildings that will serve as retail locations for the Miami Design District. Called Mirai – Japanese for “distant future” – renders of the development show a series of colourful fluted pillars wrapped around a retail building on a corner in

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Mexican design and architecture undergoing a “renaissance” says Héctor Esrawe

November 27, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Mexico is experiencing a “renaissance” in architecture and design because of its embrace and promotion of artisanal practices, says designer Héctor Esrawe in this exclusive interview. According to Esrawe, who runs a studio in Mexico City, the last 10 years have seen Mexican creativity being taken more seriously at home and abroad. “There is this

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

November 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot. Its name marks the celebration

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Jones Studio designs education centre to show “preciousness” of water in Arizona

November 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture firm Jones Studio has designed an educational centre in Arizona with the aim of raising awareness about water resources and infrastructure in the region. The Water Education Center will form part of a Central Arizona Project (CAP) facility north of Phoenix and highlight the “contested topic of water in the west”, according to Jones

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Provencher Roy mixes recycled glass into concrete of sculptural Quebec bridge

November 20, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian architecture studio Provencher Roy has created Darwin Bridges, a curved bridge on Nuns’ Island outside of Montreal constructed with concrete that utilises recycled glass in its mixture. The structure replaces a set of two-lane bridges constructed in the 1960s to service the growing suburban community and connect it with the highway system. The original

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Ross Barney Architects creates pavilion exploring “layers” of early Chicago

November 17, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion dedicated to Haitian entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler of Chicago, for the city’s architecture biennial. Parallel Histories is a pavilion made up of small, temporary structures representing the footprint of DuSable’s homestead, on a park that Ross Barney Architects is revamping where the Chicago

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KPF creates skyscraper with “aqueous form” in Vancouver

November 15, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has created a glass-clad skyscraper with an undulating facade and parapets on a sloped site in downtown Vancouver. Located on a sloping site near Vancouver’s waterfront, 320 Granville is a 30-storey skyscraper designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to host offices in the Canadian city’s urban core. The building,

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Wildfires diverting resources from earthquake-proofing buildings in California warns John Lesak

November 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Lesak, a principal at California architecture studio Page and Turnbull, has spent decades making older buildings more resilient to seismic activity. But he warned that rising costs associated with

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