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Powerhouse Company designs undulating red walkway for new Chengdu district

The sculptural 'Loop of Wisdom' is designed by the Dutch practice to catalyse an evolving neighbourhood in the Chinese city

Architecture
26.10.20

Anna Heringer wins 2020 Obel Award for Anandaloy project in Bangladesh

The German architect has been awarded the international prize for her bamboo and rammed earth therapy centre and textile workshop

Architecture
21.10.20

Church on a boat: Denizen Works completes the Genesis Floating Church

A canal barge has become an innovative mobile church in east London with help from architecture practice Denizen Works

Architecture
19.10.20

Why architects need to consider emotional inhabitance

The British poet LionHeart, who collaborates with architecture practices, explains why emotion-centred design is so important

Architecture
16.10.20

Car park in historic French town transformed by Antonio Virga into new cinema and public space

The Grand Palais in Cahors turns an underused space into a pedestrian-friendly cultural complex

Architecture
14.10.20

Translucent exhibition centre inserted into abandoned Shanghai steel factory

The project by Kokaistudios is part of a sustainability-focused, long-term transformation of an old industrial plant on the city periphery

Architecture
13.10.20

Vertical garden in Riga tests out impact of pollution on urban agriculture

Latvian architecture practice Annvil collaborates with scientists to analyse whether food grown in cities is affected by air pollution

Architecture
12.10.20

He Art Museum by Tadao Ando opens in Guangdong

The Japanese, Pritzker Prize-winning architect has designed a museum of stacked circles in China's Shunde District

Architecture
08.10.20

Studio Zhu-Pei completes Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum

A new museum in a series of large-scale brick vaults celebrates the Chinese city's long history of pottery production

Architecture
05.10.20

Carlisle Cathedral opens new pavilion by Feilden Fowles

A 16th-century Fratry in the English city has been refurbished and extended with a contemporary but sensitive café pavilion

Architecture
02.10.20

OMA completes large-scale exhibition centre in Toulouse

Comprising exhibition, convention and event facilities, MEETT is intended as an active piece of urbanism for the southern French city

Architecture
01.10.20

Sir David Adjaye wins Royal Gold Medal for Architecture

The principal of Adjaye Associates has been celebrated by RIBA for his work 'to create a better future'

Architecture
30.09.20

Goats graze on the roof of this concrete office in Jakarta

Designed by RAD+ar, this new climate-conscious office building in the Indonesian capital makes 'tropical architecture' contemporary

Architecture
28.09.20

3XN designs healing-focused extension to Denmark’s largest hospital

The new North Wing at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen was designed with patient wellbeing in mind

Architecture
25.09.20

Uchida Shanghai transforms old linen factory into new public gallery

Led by Mitsuhiro Shoji, the practice created a sleek space celebrating linen production in Zhejiang

Architecture
22.09.20

RUR Architecture completes Taipei Music Center Performance Hall

The bold, geometric building is a celebration of pop music through architecture

Architecture
18.09.20

Unused textile factory in Mexico City redesigned as new housing block

The 1960s concrete building has been transformed by local practice BAAQ' into 35 homes with an industrial yet elegant aesthetic

Architecture
16.09.20

Brixton Windmill gets barn-like community centre designed by Squire & Partners

The Education and Community Centre helps support the future of Brixton's historic – and still active – windmill

Architecture
08.09.20

Loophole city: how one index shapes Mumbai’s rampant development

The exploitation of the Floor Space Index (FSI) is a key factor in Mumbai's increasingly unequal, profit-hungry urbanisation

Architecture
03.09.20

Studio Woodroffe Papa rethinks mews housing in Bloomsbury with The Old Dairy

The London-based practice designed a complex of thirteen homes on a slim triangular site overlooking a historic park

Architecture
02.09.20

A ‘living room’ for a village: Helen & Hard’s timber library in western Norway

The project comprises a library, homes and offices in one distinctive structure

Architecture
31.08.20

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