Dezeen architecture

OMA to convert Houston coffee plant into music school with instrument-informed architecture

Ellen Eberhardt — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:00:36 +0000

Architecture studio OMA has broken ground on the Frank Liu Jr Academy for Music and Arts charter school in Houston, a pre-K through eighth-grade institution housed in a former coffee plant. Read more

Wheeler Kearns Architects staggers brown-metal house on Lake Michigan shore

Kate Mazade — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:00:35 +0000

US studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a brown-metal and limestone house organised around a courtyard on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Michigan, USA. Read more

Openings "dissolve boundaries" at Sable House by Allan Joyce Architects

Starr Charles — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:30:28 +0000

Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK, to its countryside surroundings. Read more

"Pioneering conservationist" Donald Insall dies aged 100

Cajsa Carlson — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:16 +0000

Architect Donald Insall, founder of Donald Insall Associates and known for his conservation and renovation work, including on Windsor Castle, has died at the age of 100. Read more

Guerrilla Shading Pavilion demonstrates that "shade doesn't need to be expensive or complicated"

Tom Ravenscroft — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:13 +0000

Architecture studio Pearce+ has created a timber pavilion in Camden, London, to draw attention to the need for shade in the UK and encourage people to build their own DIY shading. Read more

Grimshaw completes rammed-earth visitor centre for Twelve Apostles in Australia

Christina Yao — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:30:37 +0000

Architecture studio Grimshaw and landscape architect Aspect Studios have completed a visitor experience centre for one of Australia's most-visited natural landmarks, the Twelve Apostles in Victoria. Read more

BIG designs cloud-like Tirana Fountain Plaza raised above public park

Amy Peacock — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:30:56 +0000

Cloaked in layers of white disks, architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mixed-use building in Tirana containing apartments, offices, cultural spaces and water features. Read more

Not a Hotel to open Not a Museum at Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo ahead of demolition

Cajsa Carlson — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:00:58 +0000

Nota, the company behind hotelier Not a Hotel, is set to create its first cultural space with the opening of Not a Museum, which will be designed together with Tokyo creative collective SKWAT. Read more

"Monolithic" concrete house informed by rock-cut monastic homes

Jon Astbury — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00:19 +0000

Architecture studio Roomoor has completed Monastic Field, a concrete home within a temple precinct in Baleshwar that recalls the rock-cut monk's dwellings of the Deccan Plateau. Read more

Ten pandemic-era dining sheds that show "wildly different tastes" of New Yorkers

Ben Dreith — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:56 +0000

From hastily installed sheds and tents to more intricate structures with signage and considered design, author Penny Hardy highlights the absurdity, delight and ingenuity of dining sheds installed in New York during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more

Facha Architekti adds "deliberately distinct" red extension to former-pigsty home

Tom McAllister — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:30 +0000

Prague-based Facha Architekti has unveiled House With a Red Addition, a striking, red-corrugated-metal extension to a small family home in the Czech Republic. Read more

Acronym Collective Studio transforms former brewery in Czech Republic into community centre

Jon Astbury — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:00:16 +0000

Architecture firm Acronym Collective Studio has transformed a former brewery near Brno into a community centre, which addresses its corner site with a curved, perforated brick facade. Read more

This week Jaguar's much-anticipated Type 01 electric car was unveiled

Tom Ravenscroft — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:00:58 +0000

This week on Dezeen, we revealed Jaguar's Type 01 electric car, which was designed to "inaugurate a new era" for the British car brand. Read more

Home in Kyoto is a "subtle rearranging" of familiar spaces

Jon Astbury — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:30:17 +0000

An expansive gabled ceiling illuminated by clerestory windows shelters the open living spaces of Sugi House, a home in Kyoto designed by Japanese studio Ujizono Architects. Read more

Why Saudi Arabia's wild giga-project The Line failed

Dezeen staff — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:45:05 +0000

The world's most wildly ambitious architecture project appears dead in the water. What went wrong? Listen to the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly now. Read more

Ian Potter State Theatre refreshed "for the next generation"

Starr Charles — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:00:44 +0000

Architecture studios NH Architecture and Snøhetta have refurbished the Ian Potter State Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, revitalising its 2,000-seat auditorium and cascading brass ceiling. Read more

Šépka Architekti models prefab house in Prague on wooden wardrobe

Lizzie Crook — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:30:01 +0000

Giant shutters close off the towering facade of Wardrobe House, a rectangular wooden home in the Czech Republic designed by local studio Šépka Architekti. Read more

Residential architecture is getting more playful says Kevin McCloud

Jane Englefield — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:00:07 +0000

TV show Grand Designs is still going strong after 27 years. In this interview, the show's host, Kevin McCloud, considers how British architecture has changed over that time. Read more

East unveils updated images of its plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street

Amy Peacock — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:19 +0000

Ahead of Oxford Street closing to traffic later this month, local architecture studio East has released its latest renders revealing how the popular London shopping destination will look when pedestrianised. Read more

Former Zaha Hadid headquarters to open as public arts venue in London

Starr Charles — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:30:38 +0000

The Zaha Hadid Foundation is set to open a public arts venue within the former headquarters of the late Zaha Hadid's eponymous studio in London. Read more

John McAslan + Partners revamps Victorian power station for University of Oxford

Amy Peacock — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:53 +0000

British studio John McAslan + Partners has transformed and extended a disused power station into a learning space and accommodation for the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Read more

NA Design Studio wraps residential building in Brooklyn with multi-coloured Glen-Gery bricks

Sonia Singh — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:00:17 +0000

Multi-coloured, earth-toned bricks wrap the facade of this eight-storey residential project on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, which is shown in this Instagram carousel created by Dezeen for Glen-Gery. Read more

Chrysler Building set to be restored and overhauled after being sold

Ben Dreith — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:00:44 +0000

Real estate developer Tishman Speyer has released plans to restore the facade of the Chrysler Building in New York and redesign at least 75 per cent of the interiors, after taking over the building's lease. Read more

Architects Office uses mass-timber scrap as "immense jigsaw" for São Paulo pavilion

Kate Mazade — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:00:39 +0000

Local studio Architects Office has used leftover glued-laminated timber of varying sizes and traditional joinery methods to construct a pavilion between apartment buildings in São Paulo, Brazil. Read more

Sculptural music centre shows bamboo as "a serious construction material"

Lizzie Crook — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:45:57 +0000

Dramatic bamboo vaults form a series of teaching and research spaces at Maestro Ilaiyaraaja Centre for Music Learning and Research, completed by Indian studio Ekarth Studio in the state of Tamil Nadu. Read more