Building & Construction

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

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a black-stained cabin in Ontario by Anya Moryoussef Architect. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Canadian studio Anya Moryoussef Architect created an off-grid cabin in Ontario, clad in black-stained wood to blend into the surrounding landscape. Commenters discussed the project, with one calling it “very moody and dramatic”

Design trade show Shelter has been organised bring the “razzle dazzle” of Milan to New York during NYCxDesign, according to this exclusive interview with showrunners Deirdre Maloney and Minya Quirk. Founded under the umbrella of online design marketplace Afternoon Light, Shelter is set to occupy most of the third floor of the 1931 Starrett-Lehigh Building

Following a construction update on Canada’s tallest skyscraper, we’ve rounded up other skyscrapers in progress in Toronto, designed by architecture studios such as Frank Gehry, Studio Gang and Foster + Partners. Toronto has seen a boom in development in recent years, with many of the city’s first supertall skyscrapers now under construction. According to a recent

Dezeen School Shows: a corten steel staircase leading to a guesthouse is among proposals by YACademy students that redesign the headquarters of interior design firm Cesare Roversi Arredamenti. Also included is a pavilion made using wood that is designed to both filter natural light and to coexist with surrounding vegetation. YACademy Institution: YACademy Courses: Architecture for

Dezeen Showroom: three-dimensional, clay-coloured linear details emerge from the coloured glazes of the Terramater tiles, created by Italian manufacturer Marazzi as an ode to vintage ceramics. The Terramater collection is made with special glazes that blend with the porcelain stoneware tiles’ red body during firing, creating richly textured surfaces. The Terramater tiles have a rich

Dezeen Showroom: Romanian furniture brand Mozea aimed to push the boundaries of what is possible with solid wood by creating this accent chair characterised by dynamic, curved forms. Mozea’s in-house designer Mihaela Shimon set out to create an evolution of the brand’s earlier dining chair design with the Locus armchair, exaggerating the original seat’s proportions

New York-based Selldorf Architects has completed its “dynamic and exciting” transformation of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Sainsbury Wing at London’s National Gallery. Opening to the public on 10 May, Selldorf Architects aimed to make the postmodern gallery wing more welcoming by increasing natural light and sight lines around the space. The remodel, which was heavily criticised when it

Conviction in her design choices guided architect Annabelle Selldorf to complete high-profile renovations of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in London and The Frick Collection in New York amid controversy, she says. Selldorf recently spoke about her experience of working on the art museums in a panel talk at the National Gallery ahead of its