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Amin Taha ordered to demolish his RIBA Award-winning home and office 15 Clerkenwell Close

September 26, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architect Amin Taha has been served a demolition order for his stone-framed 15 Clerkenwell Close housing block in London, which is shortlisted for a Dezeen Award, and has already won an RIBA Award. Islington Council issued the order to demolish the six-storey building, because the natural stone used on its facade is not fully detailed in the planning documents.

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Pablo Escobar’s former Medellín home to be torn down

September 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

The concrete Mónaco building in the Colombian city of Medellín, once home to infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar, is set to be demolished to make way for a public space. The uninhabited structure in the El Poblado neighbourhood will be torn down early 2019, according to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. Medellín mayor Federico Gutiérrez announced

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3XN to design wave-shaped Climatorium on Danish coast

September 26, 2018 India Block 0

Danish architecture studio 3XN has won a competition to design an educational climate centre on the waterfront in Lemvig, on the west coast of Denmark. The Climatorium will serve as an educational resource centre on the challenges posed by urbanisation and climate change for Lemvig – a coastal city that faces an increased risk of flooding from rising sea

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Foster + Partners breaks ground on Shanghai skyscraper

September 25, 2018 India Block 0

Work has begun on a 200-metre-high office tower designed by Foster + Partners in Shanghai, as part of a regeneration programme in the east of the city. The 42-storey tower is being built for property development company China Resources Land in the Shanghai’s Suhewan district. It will be the first office tower in this primarily

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Vote for Dezeen’s movie Elevation to win a Lovie Award!

September 24, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Elevation, Dezeen’s documentary about how drones will transform cities, is a finalist at the Lovie Awards 2018. Vote now to help us win! The 18-minute film, which explores how drones could change how people travel, how goods are delivered and how buildings look and are constructed, is up for the honour in the Technology category.

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BIG’s pixelated complex of “peaks and valleys” for Toronto gains approval

September 20, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Architecture firm BIG’s verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie’s experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. The King West Street development, first revealed in 2016, has gained permission to begin construction in Canada’s largest city. Its design by Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG comprises stacks of cubes, arranged in an undulated

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Montreal Tower to become glazed offices for Desjardins Group

September 20, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

The iconic angled tower of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium is being converted into offices by local firm Provencher Roy. Provencher Roy is overhauling the Montreal Tower for AccèsD, the online payment platform of the Desjardins Group – a leading cooperative financial group in Canada. The iconic structure forms part of the stadium designed by French architect

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Postmodernism pioneer Robert Venturi dies aged 93

September 19, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Pritzker Prize-winning American architect Robert Venturi, who spearheaded the postmodern movement with wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, has died aged 93 following a short illness. Venturi’s death on Tuesday 18 September 2018 was announced in a statement from his family. “Robert Venturi, one of the world’s leading architects, has died at the age of

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Bates Smart plans to suspend a stadium above Sydney’s Central Station

September 18, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Australian architecture firm Bates Smart has revealed a concept for a 45,000-seat stadium, which would be built above Central Station in Sydney. Bates Smart designed the concept stadium as a city-centre alternative to the New South Wales State Government’s plan to rebuild the city’s existing Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park. According to the firm, placing the stadium above the station would tie

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UNStudio unveils modular concept station for European hyperloop

September 17, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UNStudio has presented its vision for a series of adaptable and modular “stations of the future” for a future European hyperloop network. The Ben van Berkel-led practice imagines a concept station made from tessellating components, meaning that it could be adapted and expanded to fit into various locations. The idea is that this system could be quickly and

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