Last month Dezeen featured Villa Aa, a concrete house in Norway made “invisible” by being nestled into a shallow hill. Here, we round up 10 other half-buried and underground homes partially hidden from the rest of the world. Casa Aguacates, Mexico, by Francisco Pardo Located on an avocado field sloping down to a forest in
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The city of Venice is set to replace the glass floor of Santiago Calatrava’s Ponte della Costituzione bridge over the Grand Canal with stone, due to the high numbers of pedestrians slipping and falling. The Spanish architect’s 94-metre Ponte della Costituzione – Constitution Bridge in English – opened in 2008 and is made from steel
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The UK’s largest architecture firm, Foster + Partners, has criticised a RIBA sustainability report backed by nearly 250 built environment organisations, claiming that it contradicts the watershed Paris Agreement treaty on climate change. Foster + Partners is one of only two architecture studios among the country’s top 10 largest that have failed to endorse the
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Peter Barber Architects has rejuvenated the post-war Kiln Place social housing estate in London and created 15 new homes. Working with the London Borough of Camden, Peter Barber Architects aimed to update the whole estate and increase its density without demolishing any of the existing homes. “Fundamentally, focused interventions can avoid demolition of existing homes, whilst still
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Fast-food chain McDonald’s has opened what it claims is the UK’s first net-zero carbon restaurant building. Built using natural or recycled materials and powered by a combination of wind turbines and solar panels, the restaurant, in Market Drayton, Shropshire, was designed to meet net-zero standards in both its construction and everyday operation. However, McDonald’s confirmed
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Next in our review of 2021, we round up 10 of the most controversial schemes that made headlines this year, including the Sky Pool and The Tulip. Sky Pool, UK, by HAL A transparent swimming pool suspended between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in London gained huge attention this summer as aerial footage
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Residents at the Embassy Gardens development in southwest London claim its controversial Sky Pool is too cold to be used in winter, despite heating costs of £450 a day. There are calls for the transparent swimming pool, which is suspended 35 metres in the air between two buildings, to be closed during the colder months
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Residents at the Embassy Gardens development in southwest London claim its controversial Sky Pool is too cold to be used in winter, despite heating costs of £450 a day. There are calls for the transparent swimming pool, which is suspended 35 metres in the air between two buildings, to be closed during the colder months
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Architect and designer Neri Oxman and her husband, the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, have been told to modify plans drawn up by Norman Foster for a glass penthouse on a 1920s building in New York. Oxman and Ackman want to demolish the existing one-storey, pink stucco penthouse on the roof of the Upper West
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As part of our ongoing review of 2021, Dezeen rounds up the top 10 most remarkable and intriguing shop interiors of the year – from a cannabis dispensary made to look like an old-fashioned grocery store to a makeup boutique arranged around a large, mossy mound. Apple Via del Corso, Italy, by Foster + Partners
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