Building & Construction

With just three weeks left until entries close, Dezeen Awards judges architect Simon Allford and designers Tatjana von Stein, Giorgia Lupi and Benjamin Hubert offer advice on what a winning entry should look like. Alongside their advice, for our 2025 edition we’ve created a series of short videos outlining key information about this year’s awards […]

Chiselled stone walls and vast stretches of glass define a coastal California home by US studio Field Architecture, which was designed to “bring the residents closer to nature with every turn”. The house sits on a rugged peninsula in Big Sur, a scenic region in central California that stretches along the Pacific Ocean. The house

Boston architecture studio Safdie Architects has designed a reimagined downtown “urban heart” for Portland, Maine, USA, centred around a 30-storey skyscraper designed to reference coastal architecture. Located on four acres in the historic Old Port neighbourhood of Portland, the Old Port Square development will include the addition of a 380-foot tall (115 metre) mixed-use tower

Proposals by Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio and WilkinsonEyre for a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II near Buckingham Palace in London have been revealed. Five proposed design concepts for the Queen Elizabeth II memorial in St James’s Park are now being displayed in an online gallery for the public to provide feedback. All of the

London’s Victoria and Albert museum and American studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro have collaborated on an exhibition on the architecture of storage at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, unveiled exclusively here. Named On Storage, the exhibition was designed ahead of the opening of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s V&A East Storehouse on 31 May, which will function

Dezeen Showroom: designer Vincent Van Duysen looked to 1950s American modernism to inform this indoor-outdoor garden room for Spanish furniture brand Kettal. Pavilion V intendeds to create a dialogue between architecture and the natural environment through its modular structure, which is both light and visually open to the surrounding garden. Pavilion V is an indoor-outdoor

Curators from the UK and Kenya have overhauled the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed as part of our day of exclusive online openings, with installations that aim to reconnect architecture with the earth. Titled GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair, the pavilion aims to explore themes related to colonialism, the

A video and sound installation exhibited at the Finland Pavilion documents the history of the structure at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, revealed exclusively on Dezeen. Originally designed by architect Alvar Aalto for the event’s 1956 edition, the Finnish pavilion has undergone continuous maintenance and three major restorations since its construction. Ella Kaira and Matti

With just three weeks left till entries close for Dezeen Awards 2025, we spoke to past winners about how their success brought new visibility and helped promote sustainability-focused projects. “Inspiring, affirming and uplifting” were the words US practice Mass Design Group used to describe winning sustainability project of the year for its Rwanda Institute for

A school in Arkansas, USA designed by studios Marlon Blackwell Architects, Eskew Dumez Ripple, and Andropogon Associates has won the fifth Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for its “campus steeped in the rural culture of its place”. Awarded biennially, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) awards excellence in built works throughout the Americas, focusing