We continue our review of 2021 with a look at the 10 most interesting office interiors this year, including a workspace that doubles as a wine bar and an office in a former 1960s medical laboratory. Samsen Atelier, Sweden, by Note Design Studio Stockholm-based Note Design Studio designed the office for Swedish digital technology consultancy
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Turner Prize-nominated duo Cooking Sections is creating a series of architectural installations to draw attention to the impact food production and consumption has on the environment. In this interview, they explain their obsession with food. Spatial practitioners Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe – who operate under the name Cooking Sections – told Dezeen that
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After Foster + Partners’ design for the Tulip tower was recently rejected by the UK government, we round up 10 other high-profile building projects that were never actually built. Mexico City airport by Foster + Partners The Tulip is not the first time Foster + Partners has seen its design efforts go unrealised. Construction on
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Architects, designers and policymakers should join forces to write a manifesto for Canadian design that platforms indigenous communities, according to Andrew King of architecture studio Lemay. A cohesive and inclusive Canadian design identity would help unify the country around shared values, promote local traditions, skills and materials and distinguish the country from its southern neighbour
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Figures from architecture and the built environment who attended COP26 have given the climate conference low marks while praising the energy of the fringe events and hoping that politicians’ words will now be followed by action. “It’s just a start when it’s almost too late,” said Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton Architects, who gave the
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Speakers at a climate summit organised by Architects Declare and RIBA last week called on architects to take responsibility for decarbonising their buildings, rather than blaming clients and the lack of regulations. Instead, they should actively lobby lawmakers, turn down projects and materials that contribute to climate change and challenge clients rather than prioritising profit
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Speakers at a climate summit organised by Architects Declare and RIBA last week called on architects to take responsibility for decarbonising their buildings, rather than blaming clients and the lack of regulations. Instead, they should actively lobby lawmakers, turn down projects and materials that contribute to climate change and challenge clients rather than prioritising profit
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This weekend the world’s governments come together to move forward plans to tackle climate change at the COP26 summit. Ten architects and designers who are heading to Glasgow told Dezeen about their hopes and fears for the conference. The hugely anticipated 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), also known as the UN Climate Change Conference,
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The UK’s strategy for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 “does not go far enough” and ignores embodied carbon according to the RIBA and other industry groups. More funding plus regulations to establish embodied carbon targets are needed, they say. RIBA president Simon Allford said the proposals are “overshadowed by the lack of adequate funding and the
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Brutalist buildings around the world are in danger of demolition due to attacks from right-wing politicians, according to architecture historians. Tim Verlaan, an assistant professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History, said that an association between brutalism and left-leaning social policies has caused opposition to the architectural style from the right. “Today, criticism on
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