Articles by Ben Dreith

Local architecture studio FGMF Arquitetos has created a multi-use skyscraper in São Paulo named POD Pinheiros that includes an open-air central atrium. The 24-storey tower was constructed in the city’s Pinheiros district as housing that simultaneously creates vertical public space containing shops. It consists of eight storeys of retail, balconies and walkways arranged around an open-air

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Local studio Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados has completed Platina 220, the tallest skyscraper in São Paulo, which has a central block flanked by three shorter volumes. The skyscraper has been completed in Brazil after eight years of construction as part of a 2014 master plan to redevelop parts of the city. It is located in

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New York design studio New Affiliates and architect and historian Samuel Stewart-Halevy have created a prototype of their Testbeds project, which repurposes architectural models used for large projects. Originally announced in 2020, the team has completed a garden shed, greenhouse and community space in the New York City borough of Queens that was made partly

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The racial paradigm in the United States means that Black architects must continue to operate against the grain in order to get projects built, says From the Ground Up exhibition curator Hasaan Kirkland. Kirkland believes that barriers to entry and recognition continue to disadvantage people of colour in architecture, making it important to highlight the

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Local architecture studio Erre Q Erre has created the Environmental Culture Center, a stone-clad pavilion and garden that replaces a parking lot in Bosque de Chapultepec, a large park in the centre of Mexico City. The 90,000-square-metre project was designed as an “environmental node” to strengthen the park’s environment biologically and culturally by adding more

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