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  • Watch our Architecture Project Talk about NCaved by Mold Architects

    The first instalment of Dezeen and Gaggenau's Architecture Project Talks focussed on NCaved by Mold Architects. The webinar has ended but you can watch it back by registering here. More

    Siufan Adey | 21 November 2022
  • MAD completes Quzhou Stadium as part of world's "largest earth-sheltered building"

    Architecture studio MAD Architects has completed a sinuous concrete stadium embedded into the ground and covered in grass roofs in Quzhou, China. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 5 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Junya Ishigami hides mud-covered house and restaurant below ground level in Japan

    A Japanese house and restaurant are contained within this mud-covered building by architect Junya Ishigami, which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground. More

    Lizzie Crook | 19 September 2022 | Leave a comment
  • KRAK Architects imagines subterranean house on Cretan coast

    Greek studio KRAK Architects has conceptualised an angular underground house on the south coast of Crete with semi-open living spaces and an infinity pool that looks out to the Libyan sea. More

    Lizzie Crook | 25 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Roundups

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    Ten half-buried houses hidden from the outside world

    Last month Dezeen featured Villa Aa, a concrete house in Norway made "invisible" by being nestled into a shallow hill. Here, we round up 10 other half-buried and underground homes partially hidden from view. More

    Nat Barker | 7 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Foster + Partners shelters subterranean art gallery with pyramidal roofscape

    Four peaks clad in weathering steel cover the underground galleries at the Datong Art Museum, which British architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed in northern China. More

    Lizzie Crook | 6 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • CF Møller Architects hides "invisible villa" in Norway under green roof

    Danish studio CF Møller Architects has nestled a concrete villa into a shallow hill on a Norwegian farm, creating a pair of stepped terraces with views of the nearby Oslofjord. More

    Jon Astbury | 26 December 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Francisco Pardo tucks Casa Aguacates into hillside in rural Mexico

    Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has created a partly underground weekend home that is meant to exist in "pleasant tension" with the natural landscape. More

    Jenna McKnight | 25 November 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Dennis Christian Schmidt proposes underground cities to protect humanity from "the hardships our future holds"

    The next finalist project in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Dennis Christian Schmidt's proposal to create a network of underground cities built around climate-regulating lakes. More

    Amina Amber | 11 November 2021
  • Elon Musk submits bid to build beach tunnel transport system in Florida

    Fort Lauderdale has voted to approve a proposal from Elon Musk's tunnelling firm Boring Company to build an underground transit loop connecting the downtown part of the Florida city to its beachfront. More

    India Block | 8 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Clayton Korte embeds hidden wine cave into Texas hillside

    San Antonio architecture firm Clayton Korte has nestled a wine cellar into the rolling hills of Texas, tucked away in a limestone cave so it disappears into the surrounding landscape. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 23 March 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Mold Architects embeds cave-like house in hillside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea

    Greek studio Mold Architects has completed a house on the island of Serifos that is partially submerged into a rocky hillside and features glazed openings that look straight out to sea. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 16 February 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Heusch adds underground concrete office to Beverly Hills house

    Architect Gerhard Heusch has completed a subterranean extension for his own 15-year-old home that sits atop pilotis over a hillside in California. More

    Jenna McKnight | 25 January 2021 | Leave a comment
  • MAD unveils Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

    Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing, China, which will see the studio rebuild a historical railway station and complement it with a new underground terminal. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 8 January 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Game On's neon-filled exhibition design pays homage to 80s video games

    Spanish practice Smart & Green Design has re-designed the Barbican's touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 23 October 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Glass corridor connects underground concrete extension to house in Spain

    Architecture studio Jordi Hidalgo Tané has extended a small stone building in rural Navarra, Spain, with a subterranean concrete annex accessed via a glass corridor. More

    Jon Astbury | 18 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Herzog & de Meuron designs motorway chapel in Switzerland

    Angled white walls will mark the entrance to underground contemplation spaces at Herzog & de Meuron's roadside Autobahnkirche chapel in Switzerland.
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    Lizzie Crook | 21 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Amezcua transforms cave into subterranean addition for Mexico City dwelling

    Rugged walls, domed ceilings and reflective surfaces feature in this underground lair that was designed by Mexican studio Amezcua for an existing 1960s residence on a hill. More

    Jenna McKnight | 14 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus

    An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards. More

    Jon Astbury | 29 December 2019 | Leave a comment
  • MDDM to revive Oscar Niemeyer's abandoned fairground in Tripoli

    MDDM has revealed visuals of a subterranean business park that is set to reinvigorate Oscar Niemeyer's unfinished Rashid Karame International Fair expo site in Lebanon. More

    Lizzie Crook | 6 September 2019 | Leave a comment
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Apple Store Mumbai by Foster + Partners

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Two black timber barn-style buildings by Worrell Yeung

Aron Himmelfarb extends Hudson Valley brewery with Corten-steel tasting room

Two-storey Corten steel tasting room at the Lasting Joy Brewery

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Render of the Dubai International Airport vertiport
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