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  • Students create Night Train party pavilion for former brewery in Latvia

    Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow) More

    Eleanor Gibson | 31 August 2016 | 6 comments
  • Rotating and tilting ReActor house accommodates two artists for five days

    A pair of artists built and lived in this house balanced on a pole in upstate New York, which spun around and inclined as they moved around it during their week-long residency (+ movie). More

    James Brillon | 15 August 2016 | 1 comment
  • Sliding and spinning walls animate facade of house by Matharoo Associates

    At the touch of a button, the chunky marble walls that surround this house in India divide up into spinning and sliding panels, revealing a more lightweight glass facade behind (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 4 July 2016 | 6 comments
  • Cloud Seeding Pavilion by MODU features canopy made of 30,000 plastic balls

    This pavilion in Holon, Israel, designed by New York-based architects MODU with Geotectura, has a dynamic canopy made of mesh fabric and small balls that move with the wind (+ movie). More

    Alan G Brake | 24 August 2015 | 1 comment
  • The Wild Thing is a "creature-like" cabin that stands tall above a Latvian wildflower meadow

    The sides of this 4.5 metre-high stilted cabin lift open to offer inhabitants an uninterrupted view of the Latvian landscape (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 21 August 2015 | 1 comment
  • New Pinterest board: moving buildings

    We've created a new Pinterest board full of moving buildings that roll, spin, twist and hinge open, following the publication of Henning Larsen's Danish university facility with a climate-responsive kinetic facade.

    Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more moving buildings

    Ross Bryant | 19 July 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Olson Kundig's Tacoma Art Museum wing has movable screens that "roll like railroad box cars"

    Olson Kundig Architects has extended a Washington art museum, adding a facade of movable hand-wheel operated screens to protect the artworks from natural light (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 15 July 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Today we like: kinetic architecture and moving buildings

    This week Bjarke Ingels unveiled plans to enliven Battersea Power Station with electric sparks (after designing a power plant that blows smoke rings) while Henning Larsen completed a building with a moving facade.

    Here's a reminder of all our stories about architecture that moves, including a building that flaps its wings like a giant insect and a house with rotating bedrooms. See all our stories about moving architecture »

    Marcus Fairs | 15 July 2015 | 1 comment
  • Henning Larsen's university building has a facade that moves in response to changing heat and light

    Henning Larsen Architects aimed to set a benchmark for green design with this university building in Kolding, Denmark, featuring a climate-responsive kinetic facade and a triangular form (+ slideshow). More

    Alan G Brake | 14 July 2015 | 1 comment
  • Expanding micro homes could move around on a network of railway tracks

    Polish architecture students Tomasz Zablotny and Paweł Maszota have unveiled a concept for a community of mobile micro homes that move around an old shipyard on railway tracks. More

    Amy Frearson | 8 July 2015 | 4 comments
  • Rotating rooms give Sharifi-ha House by Next Office a shape-shifting facade

    Swivelling pods allow the owners of this house in Tehran to adapt to Iran's fluctuating temperatures by opening up rooms in summer, or turning them inwards during winter. More

    Luke Tebbutt | 22 August 2014 | 14 comments
  • Origin Architect transforms Beijing factory into a theatre complex

    A huge folding wall lifts up to reveal the contents of a weathered steel auditorium at this abandoned printing factory in Beijing, which Chinese studio Origin Architect has converted into a theatre complex (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 25 May 2014 | Leave a comment
  • Tom Kundig hoists California gallery facade using gears and pulleys

    A wall of windows winches up and down to reveal the interior of this gallery renovation in Los Altos, California, by Seattle architect Tom Kundig (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 20 March 2014 | 3 comments
  • Open House by Matthew Mazzotta

    This house in Alabama folds open to provide seating for an open-air performance space (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 20 August 2013 | 2 comments
  • Caja Oscura by Javier Corvalán

    The roof of this house in Paraguay can be lifted open like the lid of a box (+ movie). More

    Amy Frearson | 16 August 2013 | 6 comments
  • Zoomlion Headquarters International Plaza by amphibianArc

    Californian firm amphibianArc was inspired by images of spacecrafts to come up with two different skyscraper proposals for the headquarters of a Chinese machinery company in Changsha (+ slideshow + movies). More

    Amy Frearson | 28 November 2012 | 26 comments
  • The Dynamic D*Haus by The D*Haus Company

    UK designers David Ben Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson have devised a concept for a shape-shifting house that morphs to deal with changing times of day, seasons and weather conditions (+ movie). More

    Amy Frearson | 6 November 2012 | 37 comments
  • Dezeen archive: moving buildings

    Dezeen archive: a proposal for an observation deck that slides up and down two new skyscrapers above Grand Central Terminal (bottom left) was one of our most popular stories this week, so our latest archive features moving buildings that roll, spin, twist and even flap. See all our stories about moving buildings »

    See all our archive stories »

    Dan Howarth | 27 October 2012 | Leave a comment
  • SOM proposes floating observation deck over Grand Central Terminal

    News: while Foster + Partners think simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York's Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 23 October 2012 | 43 comments
  • Zoomlion's shape-shifting exhibition centre features a winged facade

    One-minute movie: AmphibianArc's concept exhibition centre for Chinese vehicle manufacturer Zoomlion features a facade with huge flapping wings that open and close in the style of a Transformer. More

    Calum Lindsay | 13 July 2012 | Leave a comment
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  • Concrete columns, Ceramic Art Avenue Taoxichuan by David Chipperfield Architects

    Architecture


    Chipperfield's work "bland"

    Architecture


    Chipperfield's work "bland"

  • A pavilion by Shahed Saleem

    Pavilions


    Mosque pavilion

    Pavilions


    Mosque pavilion

  • Exterior of a one-storey open-plan home with glazed walls overlooking the sea

    Architecture


    Chilean beach house

    Architecture


    Chilean beach house

  • Black and white photo of a brutalist residential and commercial building complex with blocks aligned at different angles

    Architecture


    Parisian brutalist buildings

    Architecture


    Parisian brutalist buildings

  • The interior of a bedroom in Blueberry Nights

    Interiors


    Tbilisi hotel

    Interiors


    Tbilisi hotel

  • Industrialised Building system Prototype

    Architecture


    Modular building system

    Architecture


    Modular building system

  • Balbek Bureau creates Ukrainian "home away from home" in Antarctica

    Architecture


    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

    Architecture


    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

  • Denim vanity by Harry Nuriev at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

    Furniture


    Denim furniture

    Furniture


    Denim furniture

  • Nokia and iFixit G22 repair kit

    Technology


    Smartphone with repair kit

    Technology


    Smartphone with repair kit

  • superkul library

    Interiors


    Brutalist library renovation

    Interiors


    Brutalist library renovation

  • Interior of an entrance hall

    Interiors


    Inviting entrance halls

    Interiors


    Inviting entrance halls

  • Exterior of Chuzhi house in India by Wallmakers

    Architecture


    Snake-like house

    Architecture


    Snake-like house

  • Anrealage runway show

    Design


    Clothes that change colour

    Design


    Clothes that change colour

  • Technology


    Carbon-capture solution

    Technology


    Carbon-capture solution

  • Render of Timber House by Adjaye Associates

    Timber Revolution


    Upcoming mass-timber buildings

    Timber Revolution


    Upcoming mass-timber buildings

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