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  • AIA bans design of execution facilities and solitary confinement spaces

    AIA bans design of execution facilities and solitary confinement spaces

    The American Institute of Architects has banned members from designing spaces for the US justice system used for execution, torture or confinement of imprisoned people, as part of a commitment to "dismantle racial injustice". More

    India Block | 15 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • "A whole lot has to get built to end mass incarceration" says Deanna van Buren

    Architects need to be designing new building typologies to replace prisons that "were built to hurt people", says architect Deanna van Buren, who established her non-profit firm to bring an end to mass incarceration in America. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 25 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Portrait of Michael Ford

    "Architects aren't going to change it all but they can certainly help" say commenters

    Readers are debating Michael Ford's statement that architects who want to really impact the fight for racial equality should stop designing jails and prisons, and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. More

    Karen Anderson | 16 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Portrait of Michael Ford

    "Stop working on spaces which disproportionately impact African Americans" says architectural designer Michael Ford

    Architects should stop designing jails and prisons, which are representations of systemic racism in the US, if they want to really impact the fight for racial equality, says Michael Ford. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 9 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Minimum security prison in Nanterre by Local Architecture Network LAN

    Prison clad in perforated weathering steel has pastel-coloured sports court

    Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. More

    Jon Astbury | 6 December 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Central Saint Martins students design prison cell furniture

    Central Saint Martins students design prison cell furniture

    The Cell Furniture project sees product design students at London's Central Saint Martins create flexible furniture for prisons, which will be made by the inmates. More

    Augusta Pownall | 19 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Rikers Island jail complex, New York

    "New York's new prisons will be more than just places of incarceration"

    New York's plans for replacing Rikers Island jail will require input from design's brightest minds if the buildings are to integrate with their neighbourhoods, and conditions for inmates and staff are to improve, says Aaron Betsky. More

    Aaron Betsky | 28 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Bodmin Jail by Twelve Architects

    Twelve Architects to turn the ruins of Bodmin Jail into a hotel

    An abandoned and bat-infested 18th century prison in Cornwall, England, is being turned into a hotel and tourist attraction by Twelve Architects. More

    India Block | 1 May 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Distortions and Alterations of the Real by SCI-Arc students

    SCI-Arc students propose self-growing park and parasitic housing to adapt former LA prison

    Dezeen promotion: students at the Southern California Institute of Architecture have suggested ways to transform a former jail in Los Angeles, including a park controlled by artificial intelligence and building models designed by 3D printers. More

    Dezeen staff | 12 April 2018
  • Combas uses natural stone to build "warm and robust" juvenile detention facility in Marseille

    This detention centre for minors in Marseille offers an alternative to oppressive prison architecture through its muted material palette of natural stone and board-marked concrete. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 20 November 2017 | 3 comments
  • University of Bergen students design furniture for prison inmates

    An embracing chair designed to soothe anxiety and a lamp that anyone can be taught to manufacture are among items of furniture designed for prisons by students from Norway's University of Bergen. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 20 February 2017 | 5 comments
  • Forensic Architecture create digital reconstruction of an "architectural instrument of torture"

    Forensic Architecture forms digital reconstruction of Syrian "architectural instrument of torture"

    Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model ofĀ a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts ofĀ survivors (+ movie). More

    Jessica Mairs | 19 August 2016 | 5 comments
  • Bayview Women's Centre by Deborah Berke

    Deborah Berke to turn former New York prison into women's rights headquarters

    New York firm Deborah Berke Partners has won a competition to transform a correctional facility into a permanent home for the girls' and women's rights movement in the city. More

    Dan Howarth | 11 July 2016 | 20 comments
  • Prison architecture opinion by Will Wiles

    "Prison Architect is a graveyard for the utopian spirit where noble ambitions go to die"

    Opinion:Ā controversial computer game Prison Architect offers a grim lesson for real-world architects, whose goodĀ intentions often count for nothing, saysĀ Will Wiles. More

    Will Wiles | 11 November 2015 | 2 comments
  • Seeds prison pods by Karl Lenton

    Karl Lenton designs egg-shaped movable therapy pods for prisons

    Karl Lenton of UK company Safe Innovations has designed these mobile therapy spaces to give prisoners better and more comfortable access to healthcare. More

    Emma Tucker | 29 September 2015 | 6 comments
  • Juvenile detention centre furniture by Kai Lin

    US student Kai Lin designs furniture for youth prison cells

    New York 2015: Brooklyn industrial design student Kai Lin has created a contemporaryĀ furniture set for jail cells in juvenile detention centres in the US. More

    Jenna McKnight | 15 May 2015 | 4 comments
  • Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB and Estudi PSP Arquitectura

    Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB and PSP

    Concrete and stone buildings with sculpted green rooftops are arranged around generous courtyards at this prison complex near Tarragona, Spain, by AiB Estudi d'Arquitectes and Estudi PSP Arquitectura (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 17 April 2013 | 3 comments
  • Het Arresthuis prison now a hotel

    Het Arresthuis hotel in a former prison by Van der Valk hotels

    A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. More

    Amy Frearson | 27 February 2013 | 17 comments
  • Civic Centre in Palencia by Exit Architects and Eduardo Delgado Orusco

    Slideshow:Ā in our second project this week byĀ Madrid studioĀ Exit Architects, the designers teamed up with architectĀ Eduardo Delgado Orusco to create thisĀ civic and cultural centre inside a former prison in Palencia, Spain. More

    Amy Frearson | 20 April 2012 | 8 comments
  • New Danish State Prison by C. F. Moller Architects

    Danish State Prison by CF MĆøller

    Danish architects CF MĆøller have won a competition to build a new state prison on the island of Falster in Denmark. More

    Catherine Warmann | 7 January 2011 | 45 comments
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