Concrete is usually associated with an industrial-looking shade of grey, but it doesn’t always have to be that way. Here, Dezeen rounds up 10 concrete houses that bring colour to the material. Seabreeze, UK, by RX Architects This holiday home on the English south coast is covered in smooth pink concrete. Given an open brief, British studio RX Architects opted for
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Architecture studio Penoyre & Prasad has completed a huge Corten steel-clad research laboratory for UCL which will be used to simulate life-sized urban environments such as railway stations, high streets and town squares. The Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL) in east London was described by the director of the Centre for Transport Studies at University College
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Following The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh being named the world’s best building, we have rounded up 10 other architecturally impressive medical facilities from across the globe. Tambacounda Maternity and Paediatric Hospital, Senegal, by Manuel Herz Architects Characterised by its lattice-like brickwork, this maternity and paediatric clinic designed by Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects, is an extension to an existing
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With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics due to commence on 4 February, Dezeen rounds up the most architecturally significant venues, including a new stadium by Populous and the world’s first permanent structure for big air extreme snow jumping. The majority of the venues for the upcoming Winter Games are not new, with some built as
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Brexit is a “disaster” that is leading to less overseas work and a loss of talented workers, according to leading UK architects. Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton Architects spoke of the “sense of isolation” his studio has felt since the UK left the European Union, while Sarah Wigglesworth of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects said her business
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A planning application for a 52-storey tower in London’s Canary Wharf designed by Morris + Company has been delayed just hours before it was due to be determined amid fire brigade concerns over safety. The 172-metre residential skyscraper on Cuba Street would only have one staircase under its current design. Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development
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In the third of the video Dezeen interviews filmed with Richard Rogers in 2013, the late architect discussed the Lloyd’s building in London and the backlash prompted by its radical design. Rogers, who passed away on 18 December aged 88, spoke to Dezeen to coincide with a retrospective of his work at the Royal Academy
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Homebuilders in England have been told by the government that they must agree to fund the replacement of unsafe cladding on mid-rise blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. UK housing secretary Michael Gove wrote to the “residential developer industry” to request that developers agree to “fund and undertake all necessary remediation of buildings
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Last month Dezeen featured Villa Aa, a concrete house in Norway made “invisible” by being nestled into a shallow hill. Here, we round up 10 other half-buried and underground homes partially hidden from the rest of the world. Casa Aguacates, Mexico, by Francisco Pardo Located on an avocado field sloping down to a forest in
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The city of Venice is set to replace the glass floor of Santiago Calatrava’s Ponte della Costituzione bridge over the Grand Canal with stone, due to the high numbers of pedestrians slipping and falling. The Spanish architect’s 94-metre Ponte della Costituzione – Constitution Bridge in English – opened in 2008 and is made from steel
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