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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

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
covid memorial uruguay - gomez platero

Gómez Platero designs world’s first large-scale memorial to victims of the pandemic

The renowned architecture firm will create the ‘World Memorial to the Pandemic’ in Uruguay to honour those affected by COVID-19

Architecture
27.08.20

Golden rooftop added to old cider factory to create new Japanese art museum

The Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art was designed by Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects to inhabit a brick cidery in Japan's apple capital

Architecture
26.08.20

Naomi Milgrom Foundation releases MPavilion: Encounters with Design and Architecture

Exploring how each architect addressed the design of MPavilion, the new book reflects a growing and much needed broader conversation about design today

Architecture
21.08.20

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A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

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Panter&Tourron unveils cosmic-themed window displays for Hermès

The art of Italian living: Marelli arrives in Shoreditch

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‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

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Wood for the Trees: AHEC brings an exploration of forests to Shoreditch Design Week