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Tallinn bus shelter “an experimental fragment” built from reclaimed materials

October 27, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Brussels-based architecture duo Brasebin-Terrisse have erected a bus shelter made using waste materials as part of this year’s Tallinn Architecture Biennale. Titled No Time to Waste, the pavilion at the Balti Jaam transit hub was mostly made from offcuts sourced from suppliers around Tallinn and includes discarded concrete paving slabs from a construction site, chunks

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Seven transparent bathrooms for households who share everything

October 20, 2024 Nat Barker 0

In this lookbook we collect bathrooms with see-through walls, best suited to those who take a more relaxed attitude to privacy in the home. In most homes the bathroom is designed as a private space. But as the interiors listed below demonstrate, deciding against encasing the washroom in opaque walls can bring in natural light,

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Trauma of Ukraine war “was crucial for me as an architect” says Tallinn Architecture Biennale curator Anhelina Starkova

October 18, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Anhelina L Starkova explains how her experience of living through the Ukraine war has shaped her approach to curating the 2024 Tallinn Architecture Biennale in this interview. Starkova, who was chief curator of this year’s biennale, is from Kharkiv in north-east Ukraine – a city that has suffered heavy bombardment since Russia launched its invasion in

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Tell Dezeen about your experience of working in architecture and design

October 14, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Dezeen is conducting research about people’s experiences of working in architecture and design and we need your help! Click here to fill in our short survey. We have launched a survey that is open to anyone working in architecture or design, or who has worked in the field in the last five years. The survey

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Ten houses with gloriously impractical features

October 8, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Featuring transparent walls, unorthodox plans and giant staircases, we’ve rounded up 10 houses that may be trickier to live in than they are to look at. Sabater House, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitecto The vast Sabater House zigzags its way across a gently sloping site in Alicante. According to Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, the elongated plan

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Eight interiors that show the versatility of futons and daybeds

September 29, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Our latest lookbook explores how futons and daybeds can offer a tempting spot for relaxation in different residential interior settings. By providing a place to sit, lie down or take a nap with a compact footprint, the humble futon, and its more sophisticated cousin the daybed, can be a useful tool for interior designers. Our

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Why UK architecture’s gender pay gap isn’t improving

September 26, 2024 Nat Barker 0

With UK architecture failing to make progress on closing its gender pay gap, what more can be done? Nat Barker reports. “Every year people say ‘we must do better’, but then actually have no plan, no strategy, no vision for how to actually do this stuff better,” said Marsha Ramroop, a diversity and inclusion consultant

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“The shadow of Grenfell Tower’s burnt-out husk will follow the refurbishment architect forever”

September 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

As the long-awaited final report from the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire is published, Nat Barker reflects on the role of the lead architect on the building’s notorious refurbishment project. And so we come to the end. I watched hundreds of hours of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Among the dozens of witnesses I

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Grenfell Tower Inquiry concludes that architect “bears a very significant degree of responsibility”

September 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

The architecture studio that refurbished Grenfell Tower has been excoriated in the final report of the long-running public inquiry into a devastating fire at the building in 2017. London-based Studio E was determined to have “demonstrated a cavalier attitude to the regulations affecting fire safety” during its work on the project, which included the installation

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One Za’abeel voted best skyscraper of the past year by Dezeen readers

September 3, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei’s skyscraper in Dubai with a 230-metre-long skybridge has pipped BIG’s first supertall to be named Dezeen readers’ favourite new skyscraper. To mark World Skyscraper Day today, we invited readers to vote for the best tall building completed in the past year from a shortlist of 10 that included projects by Snøhetta,

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