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Fifteen supertall skyscrapers being built around the world

September 3, 2022 Nat Barker 0

To mark World Skyscraper Day, Dezeen has rounded up 15 supertall skyscrapers that are set to be built in cities across the globe, including a pair of twisting towers in Australia and the buildings battling to become Africa’s tallest. For some an inspiring beacon of progress and for others emblematic of economic inequalities, neck-craning skyscrapers continue

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“We need to move on from just having the conversation” says ex-RIBA inclusion boss Marsha Ramroop

September 1, 2022 Nat Barker 0

The race between a man of Asian descent and a woman to become the UK’s next prime minister is a cautionary tale for architecture firms about mistaking “tokenism” for true inclusivity, argues former RIBA diversity lead Marsha Ramroop in this interview. “I worry about things like tokenism when we see certain people being chosen to

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Ten buildings that showcase Birmingham’s brutalist history

August 29, 2022 Nat Barker 0

A new book titled Birmingham: The Brutiful Years celebrates the UK city’s brutalist structures. Here Birmingham-based creative Sharonjit Sutton, who designed the volume, picks 10 favourites. The UK’s second city was a hotspot for post-war construction and innovation, though its modernist architecture has not always been widely appreciated. “I think many things from Birmingham are

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Norway to inspect timber bridges after 10-year-old glulam crossing collapses

August 17, 2022 Nat Barker 0

A 10-year-old timber-and-steel bridge in Norway has collapsed into a river while vehicles crossed, causing two drivers to require a dramatic rescue. Tretten Bridge, near Gudbrandsdalen in the Øyer area of southern Norway, gave way on Monday morning causing a car to plunge into the water and a lorry to be trapped on a fallen

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Little Finlandia in Helsinki is a modular conference venue held up by pine trees

August 12, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Ninety-five pine trees that retain their branches support the roof of Little Finlandia, an events centre in Helsinki designed by recently graduated architect Jaakko Torvinen. The temporary structure was developed by the City of Helsinki as a meanwhile space during a three-year renovation of the neighbouring Finlandia Hall, designed by legendary Finnish architect Alvar Aalto

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Sustainability and liveability claims of Saudi 170-kilometre city are “naive” say experts

August 8, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Following the Saudi Arabian government’s unveiling of plans for an enormous linear megacity in the desert, urban design experts have expressed skepticism about whether its utopian vision is realistic. “There would be so many physical and environmental phenomena that would have to be dealt with to achieve the incredible minimal and singular character that the

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BIG designing Ground to Air driverless vehicle for American desert city Telosa

August 5, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a road, air and hyperloop-capable autonomous vehicle for the planned US city of Telosa currently being planned for five million people in an unconfirmed desert location. The Ground to Air, or G2A, would constitute a rhomboid passenger pod that can attach to a set of wheels to become a

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Ten futuristic cities set to be built around the world

August 1, 2022 Nat Barker 0

As a 170-kilometre-long mirrored megacity in the Saudi desert makes headlines around the world, here is a roundup of 10 futuristic cities currently being planned across the globe. Global issues such as the housing crisis and climate change are galvanising ambitions for a new generation of high-tech cities. The Line, a 500-metre-tall skyscraper that will

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“True architecture is life” says RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winner Balkrishna Doshi

July 29, 2022 Nat Barker 0

Architecture should seek to respond to human behaviour and not dictate it, says this year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winner Balkrishna Doshi in this interview. “Design is accommodating lifestyles, merging with them,” Doshi told Dezeen on a video call from his studio in Ahmedabad in western India. “I’m not really saying that this is measurable –

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Ten apartment blocks that break the mould with unusual shapes

July 22, 2022 Nat Barker 0

As BIG and Barcode Architects’ recently revealed Sluishuis building demonstrated, housing blocks don’t have to be cuboid. Here is a roundup of 10 unusually shaped apartment buildings. Advancements in engineering mean architects are able to explore ever-more-outlandish massing in their residential projects. The examples below use cantilevers, stilts and other construction techniques to ensure they

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