Architecture
Fondaco dei Tedeschi restoration by OMA
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Dutch firm OMA have unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. More about Fondaco dei Tedeschi restoration by OMA
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Dutch firm OMA have unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. More about Fondaco dei Tedeschi restoration by OMA
Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture & Design have completed a bank branch in Tokiwadai, Tokyo, with recessed brightly coloured windows. More about Sugamo Shinkin Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux
This sloping Corten steel footbridge by Spanish civil engineers Alfa Polaris straddles a main road to connect two parts of Granollers, Spain. More about Can Gili Footbridge by Alfa Polaris
Danish architects CF Møller have won a competition to design a new ferry terminal in Stockholm, Sweden. More about Ferry Terminal by CF Møller
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: a wooden 1:10 scale model representing a portion of the London 2012 Olympic stadium has been installed at the British Pavilion directed by Muf architecture/art for the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Villa Frankenstein by Muf architecture/art
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Toronto architect Philip Beesley has installed a forest of acrylic fronds that move as though breathing inside the Canada pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens this week. More about Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley
Danish architects COBE have extended this theatre in Taastrup, Copenhagen, by wrapping it in a curtain of translucent prisms that slope away from the existing building. More about Taastrup Theatre by COBE
This visitor centre in Redbridge, England, by UK firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects features a zig-zag roof with oversailing wooden trusses. More about James Leal Centre by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child's bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday and photographed by Happy Lim. More about Playhouse by Aboday
Dezeen are in Venice for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 where Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors, photographed by Nelson Garrido. More about Casa Areia by Aires Mateus Architects
Hong Kong firm Rocco Design Architects are competing with OMA (see our story here) and Foster + Partners (see our story here) to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. More about West Kowloon Cultural District by Rocco Design Architects
Dezeen and publishers FIELL have teamed up to give away five copies Richard Rogers + Architects: From the House to the City, an overview of the architect's work from the beginning of his career to the present day. More about Competition: five copies of Richard Rogers + Architects to be won
This office in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by Fei Wang of Atelier Ten, features a staircase that narrows from four metres wide at its foot to two metes at the top. More about Epean Studio by Fei Wang
This residential building for the riverbank in St. Petersburg by Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has been approved for construction. More about Moika Krukov by Erick van Egeraat
Japanese architect Hiroyuki Miyabe of Speac Inc. has renovated this house covered in ivy by stripping it back to its structural elements.
More about Ivy house by Hiroyuki Miyabe
Here are the latest images of UK architects drdh’s design for a new cultural quarter in Bodø, Norway comprising a library and culture house. More about Kulturkvartalet by drdharchitects
Dutch architects Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten have designed this one-man pavilion made entirely of rubber. More about Rubber House by Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten
Photographer Logan MacDougall Pope has sent us his images of this lakeside retreat in Sri Lanka made using a stray shipping container and timber from weapon boxes. More about Holiday Cabana at Maduru Oya by Damith Premathilake
Lebanon architects Atelier Hapsitus's proposed design for the new headquarters of the BLC bank in Beirut would cantilever over the existing building. More about BLC Headquarters by Atelier Hapsitus
Architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space have sent us this video of a pavilion situated in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, designed by US architects Studio Gang. More about Movie by Spirit of Space: South Pond by Studio Gang