American studio The Brooklyn Home Company has designed a Brooklyn townhouse using Passivhaus principles in New York's Carroll Gardens neighbourhood.
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TOB Architect has added a monolithic extension to a Victorian townhouse in Dublin, Ireland, with exposed concrete interiors that are intended as a protective shell for its inhabitants. More about Concrete house extension in Dublin recreates feeling of "being a child under a very robust table"
This week on Dezeen, architecture studio Opposite Office envisioned fortifying the US Capitol in response to the invasion of the building by Donald Trump supporters. More about This week Opposite Office proposed turning the US Capitol into a fortress
Seattle firm LMN Architects worked with the Coast Salish tribes to design the Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal on a sacred waterfront in Washington State. More about Washington ferry terminal informed by Native American longhouses
The walls of this Italian villa, designed by Giordano Hadamik Architects, are formed of natural stone excavated from the home's site. More about Giordano Hadamik Architects builds hillside Villa Nemes using stone excavated on site
A ribbon of steel and aluminium winds around the Suzhou Bay Cultural Center, which French architect Christian de Portzamparc has completed on the shore of Lake Tai in China. More about Sweeping metal ribbon enfolds Chinese cultural centre by Christian de Portzamparc
London's Antepavilion charity has launched its fifth annual pavilion competition without former partner the Architectural Foundation, which has withdrawn due to ongoing battles with the local planning authority. More about Architecture Foundation pulls out of controversial Antepavilion competition following legal wrangles
Italian studio Network of Architecture has completed an extension to a hotel in South Tyrol comprising ten gabled guest suites elevated on stilts to preserve access to the scenic grounds. More about Network of Architecture raises "treehouse" hotel on stilts above park in South Tyrol
Oslo-based Jon Danielsen Aarhus has designed Cabin Son, a holiday home set on the water's edge overlooking the Oslofjord and Jeløya island on the south coast of Norway. More about Jon Danielsen Aarhus designs spruce-clad holiday home overlooking the Oslofjord
The total number of skyscrapers completed in 2020 fell by 20 per cent as the coronavirus pandemic affected construction, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's annual tall buildings report. More about Dramatic drop in skyscrapers built in 2020 as coronavirus impacts global construction
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for four skyscrapers called Lusail Towers in Qatar near the studio's Lusail Stadium, which is being built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. More about Foster + Partners reveals quartet of aluminium-clad skyscrapers in Qatar
The 16-storey Vessel viewpoint designed by Heatherwick Studio for New York's Hudson Yards development has been temporarily closed after a man reportedly committed suicide by jumping from it. More about Heatherwick Studio's Vessel closes after third suicide death
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has unveiled plans for a 100-mile belt of zero-energy walkable communities for a million people. More about Saudi Arabia announces plans for a 100-mile, car-free linear city called The Line
A pair of supertall skyscrapers united by planted terraces will define the mixed-use Tower C development, which Zaha Hadid Architects is designing for Shenzhen, China. More about Supertall skyscrapers linked by planted terraces to be built in Shenzhen by Zaha Hadid Architects
A collective led by author and Living Architecture founder Alain de Botton has attacked the "dispiriting, chaotic and distasteful" architecture of urban environments in an essay titled Why is the Modern World So Ugly? More about Most "nice architecture" built before 1900 says Alain de Botton's The School of Life collective
No 33 Park Row, the first residential project in New York from British architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is nearing completion in Downtown Manhattan. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' No 33 Park Row nears completion in New York
Plans to convert the iconic Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris into a pedestrian-friendly public space have been announced by the capital's mayor Anne Hidalgo. More about Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris to become "an extraordinary garden"
New Delhi-based design studio Zero Energy Design Lab has completed a girls' hostel building with a perforated concrete facade and an exterior staircase in Gurugram, India. More about Zero Energy Design Lab creates Girls' Hostel Block with hollow concrete facade
New York's government has revealed plans for a 366-metre-long elevated walkway that will connect the High Line in Manhattan to the recently extended Penn Station. More about New York announces High Line extension to connect to Penn Station
Dutch architecture office i29 has completed a floating home on a canal in Amsterdam that features angled openings and cutaway corners providing views across the watery neighbourhood. More about i29 completes angular floating house as part of sustainable Amsterdam community