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Moxon Architects completes new studio nestled in the Scottish Highlands

The Quarry Studios project lies gently in the landscape to provide both workspace and a public cafe

Architecture
27.11.20

Coffey Architects completes silver office building in King’s Cross

22 Handyside Street, the firm's biggest UK project yet, is designed around wellbeing and local context

Architecture
25.11.20
Oslo

Oslo, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Budapest commit to clean construction

The four cities have pledged to halve emissions from all construction activities by 2030

Architecture
24.11.20

JKMM redesigns 1980s Finnish library as new community centre

The building in the southern Finnish town of Kirkkonummi has doubled in size and gained a striking new copper shingle facade

Architecture
24.11.20
Brighton from the air

Brighton gets new linear park from Untitled Practice

The landscape and architecture studio's redevelopment project has created a new 1.5km-long linked park system in the British seaside city

Architecture
18.11.20

Elevated corten steel walkway enlivens 14th-century Czech castle

Contemporary design insertions mix with preservation in the restoration of the Helfštýn Castle in Moravia

Architecture
17.11.20

Latvian cork factory becomes bright orange art museum

Riga-based architecture practice Annvil has transformed a piece of the city's industrial heritage into an active new art centre, Zuzeum

Architecture
09.11.20

‘Architecture needs its own new vaccines’: Peter Cook on experimentation and Archigram’s cities

A month-long series of online events from Hong Kong’s M+ museum explores and celebrates Archigram’s radical approach to citymaking 

Architecture
05.11.20

Építész stúdió designs Budapest sports hall half-buried in the landscape

The Saint Gellért Hall, designed for a high school in Hungary's capital, includes a rooftop sports court

Architecture
03.11.20

Snøhetta completes energy-positive Powerhouse Telemark

The building in southern Norway was designed by Snøhetta as part of an initiative dedicated to reducing construction's carbon emissions

Architecture
30.10.20

Hackney School of Food opens in east London, designed by Surman Weston

Based in the grounds of a primary school, the food education hub hopes to benefit children and the wider community alike

Architecture
28.10.20

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

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

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