Articles by Ben Dreith

Brazilian studio Estúdio Campana has created a park near São Paulo that includes pavilions made with live plants on land once farmed by the founders’ grandfather. Estúdio Campana created the park on 130 acres of land inherited by the studio’s co-founders – Humberto Campana and his brother Fernando, who passed away in 2022. Originally, Estúdio

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Architecture firm AO never set out to design America’s tallest skyscraper when it began work on the 581-metre Legends Tower planned for Oklahoma City, studio partner Bruce Greenfield tells Dezeen in this interview. Legends Tower recently gained approval from the city to have an unlimited height, and after a series of changes, the skyscraper is

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Walls are the wrong architectural response to mass migration and violence in border cities, says Mexican architect Gabriela Carrillo in this interview. “[Migrants] are running away from very complex issues in the places where they are from,” Royal Academy Dorfman Prize 2023 winner Carrillo told Dezeen. “We believe that this phenomenon has an impact on

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Architecture studios such as SO-IL and Studio Jahn/ will collaborate with artists including Torwase Dyson and Alice Aycock to design 18 pavilions as galleries for Art Omi in Chatham, USA. Called Art Omi Pavilions at Chatham (AOP), the project will incorporate 18 pavilions placed to house art and amenity spaces for the compound. Each pavilion

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Architecture firm Studio Gang has broken ground on the Marlboro Agricultural Education Center in southern Brooklyn, USA, which will be topped with a greenhouse. Earlier this week, New York City officials announced the beginning of construction on the Marlboro Agricultural Education Center at the Marlboro Housing Project in Gravesend on land under the authority of the

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American studio SOM has unveiled images of a skyscraper in Guadalajara, Mexico, which will be clad in red-toned concrete with interiors designed by Mexico City-based Héctor Esrawe. Designed in collaboration with Esrawe and Mexico City architecture studio Estudio AMA, the Legend development will hold offices, retail, a hotel and apartments. The development will consist of

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