A barn in rural England and a lakeside cottage in Poland feature in this roundup of homes with highly textured facades, finished with scaly-looking shingles. Shingles are a type of roof and wall cladding formed of small overlapping elements, favoured for their durable and tactile qualities. They can be made from everything from slate to
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Conservation group Twentieth Century Society has selected seven photos from its latest book that reveal the sculptural yet little-known features of the UK’s under-threat cooling towers. Simply named Cooling Towers, the book explores the cultural significance of the concrete megastructures through the lens of art and design, photography and pop culture. It has been curated
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A public winter garden sits at the heart of this cylindrical office in Copenhagen, designed by Danish studios Cobe, Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and Third Nature to evoke the city’s historic silos. Named Tip of Nordø, the building is intended as an “anchor point” for Nordhavn, a former industrial port on the coast of the Øresund
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A public winter garden sits at the heart of this cylindrical office in Copenhagen, designed by Danish studios Cobe, Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects and Third Nature to evoke the city’s historic silos. Named Tip of Nordø, the building is intended as an “anchor point” for Nordhavn, a former industrial port on the coast of the Øresund
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As Donald Trump’s championing of classical architecture resurfaces the traditional-versus-modernist style debate, Lizzie Crook explores what the public wants from the way buildings look. The US president is on a mission to make federal architecture “Great Again”, passing orders prioritising classical and traditional styles for civic buildings, commencing work on an ostentatious new ballroom for
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Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has reached completion on the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, more than three decades after plans for the project were announced. Sprawled across a 50,000-square-metre site close to the Pyramids of Giza, the colossal museum houses more than 100,000 pharaonic antiquities – many that have never been made public
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The last building designed by the late Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has reached completion at the Vitra Campus in Germany, with a snake-like form crafted from weathered steel. Named Doshi Retreat, the structure offers a space for solitude and contemplation at furniture brand Vitra’s iconic base in Weil am Rhein, on a plot adjacent to
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The first building to ever win the RIBA Stirling Prize, the 29-year-old Centenary Building at the University of Salford, is threatened with demolition. Completed in 1995 by British studio Hodder+Partners, the university building could be demolished as part of a major redevelopment of the surrounding area called Adelphi Village. The Centenary Building was labelled Britain’s
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Wood is the dominant material throughout Karaka Tower, a vertical house extension in Wellington, New Zealand, designed by local studio Arête Architects to evoke a treehouse. Located on a densely vegetated and sloped site, the tower-like structure comprises an art studio and bedroom, which connects to the main house via a polycarbonate corridor. Karaka Tower
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Following the completion of architect Piers Taylor’s remote House in Olive Grove in Greece, we’ve curated a collection of 10 tranquil houses hidden off the beaten track. From an isolated mountainside home to a secluded coastal retreat, the list captures the ways that architects are making habitable havens of the world’s quietest corners. Read on
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