Architectural designer Caspar Schols has created a modular cabin at the De Biesbosch National Park in the Netherlands, incorporating sliding walls that allow it to be opened up to the elements. It is the latest iteration of the flatpack Cabin Anna model, which Schols first developed in 2016 as a prototype garden room for his
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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban explains how his egg-shaped music auditorium acts as a western gateway to Paris in the last instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. The video features La Seine Musicale, a music complex that houses a large multipurpose concert hall and a smaller auditorium. The musical facility is located on
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The Striatus bridge makes use of historic masonry construction techniques and modern technology explains Zaha Hadid Architects associate director Shajay Bhooshan in this instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons video series produced in collaboration with Holcim. The video features Striatus, a freestanding 3D-printed concrete footbridge designed to demonstrate how 3D printing techniques can be used to build with
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Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how his stacked-cube learning centre in Switzerland is one of the most significant projects of his career in this instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. The video features The Square, a higher-education learning centre for the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. The concept was
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Architecture practice Studio Bark has collaborated with a group of students to build an accessible wooden house on a farmstead in Herefordshire, UK, using its modular U-Build system. Named Nest House, the single-storey dwelling was designed by Studio Bark in 2015 for a retired couple who wanted a low-impact and accessible home in a rural
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Workspace brand NeueHouse has opened a work and social space in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, which is revealed in this video created for the brand by Dezeen. The club is the third community and co-working space that the brand has opened in Los Angeles, California, with other locations in Hollywood and in Downtown’s historic Bradbury
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This video shot by architectural photographer Edmund Sumner shows the pebbledash-covered rooftop studio that architect Sean Griffiths recently added to the postmodern Blue House in London. The extension is designed “in the spirit” of the much-lauded original house, which Griffiths designed in 2002 as his own home alongside FAT partners Charles Holland and Sam Jacob. Clad in pink-toned pebbledash, the addition
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Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao explains how her concrete Casa Ventura house responds to the topography of its hilltop site in the latest instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. The video features Casa Ventura, a large family home that emerges from a forested hillside overlooking the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Speaking
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Vivid shades of blue and turquoise characterise this school in Shenzhen, China, which has been overhauled by People’s Architecture Office to offer more creative forms of learning. Beijing-based People’s Architecture Office (PAO) has reorganised and extended Fuqiang Elementary School to expand the range of facilities and create more outdoor teaching spaces. The design, called Learning Terraces,
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Architect Elizabeth Diller explains how The Broad museum in Los Angeles was designed to feel “extremely welcoming” in the next instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. The video features The Broad in Los Angeles designed by Diller’s studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a three-storey museum that houses an expansive collection
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