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World Cup sustainability claims “built on sand” say experts

November 18, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Amid widespread scepticism about the sustainability claims of the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Dezeen asked experts if carbon-neutral global sporting events are possible. The Qatar World Cup begins this Sunday amid a cacophony of controversy, with the environmental impact of the four-week championship coming under intense scrutiny driven by the organisers’ claim

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Twelve houses designed by world-famous architects

November 10, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Following Norman Foster’s unveiling of the Foster Retreat holiday home, here are 12 houses featured on Dezeen that were designed by the world’s most famous architects, including Zaha Hadid, Mies van der Rohe and David Adjaye. The world’s best-known architects are often associated with mega-projects such as Olympic stadiums or Manhattan skyscrapers. But some who

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“Hard to find causes for optimism” say architects as COP27 begins in Sharm El-Sheikh

November 6, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Architects and built environment sustainability experts have expressed frustration at the slow pace of global action to reduce carbon emissions as the COP27 climate-change summit kicks off in Egypt. British architect and co-initiator of campaign group Architects Declare Michael Pawlyn told Dezeen it was “hard to find causes for optimism”. “It is very hard to

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Four homes haunted by ghostly apparitions

October 31, 2022 Nat Barker 0

To mark Halloween, we have rounded up four homes where ghostly residents have been unwittingly captured by photographers. The life of an architectural photographer might seem rather glamorous, but few people realise it sometimes means coming face-to-face with the undead. This roundup features four homes where a ghostly figure has been caught on camera by the photographer.

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Copenhagen at risk of “becoming homogenous and self-satisfied” warns CAFx director

October 13, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Copenhagen remains a difficult place to live for too many people, despite its reputation as one of the best cities in the world, says Copenhagen Architecture Festival boss Josephine Michau in this interview. “For me – a person with an able, white, cis-gendered and average-sized body – the design infrastructure of the city is great

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Ukrainian studio Bogdanova Bureau’s Kyiv office damaged in missile attack

October 13, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Kyiv architecture studio Bogdanova Bureau has vowed to make its office “even more beautiful than before” after it was damaged in a Russian missile attack. Staff at Bogdanova Bureau arrived at the office on Monday to find the windows blasted into the room and debris and broken glass scattered across the floor. Russian forces had fired

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Copenhagen Architecture Festival exhibition responds to “ridiculous” big-budget building projects

October 12, 2022 Nat Barker 0

An exhibition in Copenhagen showcases work by students who were instructed to develop projects for extreme environments in order to come up with original design solutions not influenced by “castle in the sky” builds and architecture blogs. Named New Methods for Big Challenges: Architecture and Extreme Environments, the exhibition was commissioned for this year’s ongoing

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Twelve dramatic skybridges that push the limits of engineering

October 3, 2022 Nat Barker 0

After Foster + Partners completed a pair of skyscrapers connected by a suspension bridge, Dezeen rounds up a dozen buildings that feature various types of skybridges. Bridge structures that span buildings high up in mid-air are now a common trick for architects to show off in skyscraper projects. Among the earliest examples is the famous

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Solar-harvesting Ecacia by Samuel Wilkinson mimics trees of African savannahs

September 28, 2022 Nat Barker 0

London-based designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a prototype of a tree-like structure called Ecacia that harvests solar energy while providing a public place to shelter during very hot weather. Wilkinson’s studio based the design for Ecacia on a species of acacia tree that grows on the savannahs of eastern and southern Africa and is characterised by

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Ten homes with walk-in wardrobes that store clothes in interesting ways

September 24, 2022 Nat Barker 0

In this lookbook, we pick out 10 home interiors that feature walk-in closets designed to provide bedroom storage that is both practical and appealing. Walk-in wardrobes create a bespoke storage solution that is hard to achieve with standard furniture. Often they are considered a luxurious feature used to declutter the bedroom in large houses, but as

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