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Mecozzi Verdini connects Italian villa to concrete annexe using red-steel walkway

November 26, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A red-steel walkway links this 1960s villa in Italy’s Marche region to a concrete-framed annexe called Annesso Rosso, completed by local architecture studio Mecozzi Verdini. Annesso Rosso, or Red Annexe, is named after the deep red colour of its painted steelwork and replaces a cluster of disused agricultural sheds at the back of the home

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Archermit creates “playground to pursue thrills” above Tibetan canyon

November 24, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A glass-floored cantilevering viewpoint features at Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area, a project by Chinese studio Archermit that transforms a perilous landscape in Tibet into a visitor destination. The viewpoint sits in an infamous stretch of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, or G318, known as The Devil’s Road due to its dangerous hairpin turns above

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Bright green stairwells bookend school workshops in Belgium

November 2, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Staircases and walkways framed in bright green steel wrap the concrete frame of Atelier PPW, a studio block created for a school in Belgium by local studio NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte and architect Kris Broidioi. Named Atelier PPW, the building is located on the campus of VTI Oostende in Ostend and replaces a structurally compromised block that

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Dezeen Agenda features Gare de Mons station in Belgium by Santiago Calatrava

October 30, 2025 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the Gare de Mons station in Belgium by Santiago Calatrava. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Swiss-Spanish architect Calatrava has completed the Gare de Mons station in Belgium, a 165-metre-long glass and steel structure that traverses platforms and bus stops. This week’s newsletter also included the

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Santiago Calatrava arranges Belgian station around “monumental bridge”

October 28, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Swathes of glass and steel make up the sinuous exterior of the new Gare de Mons station in Belgium, which has been designed by Swiss-Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Located along the international Paris to Brussels train line in Mons, the station’s sculptural structure is organised around a raised gallery volume that stretches 165 metres across

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Steel slats form sculptural shelves at Tianjin Zhongshuge bookstore by X+Living

October 26, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm X+Living has renovated a large bookstore in Tianjin, China, using layered brickwork and slatted steel to form wave-like shelves, steps and seating that flow around its central hall. The project, which is shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2025 in the retail interior (large) category, involved the transformation of a building in Tianjin’s Italian style

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Surfacedesign “celebrates material reuse” at San Francisco waterfront park

November 4, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local landscape design studio Surfacedesign has completed Bayfront Park waterfront park in San Francisco using steel elements from a recently demolished portion of the Oakland Bay Bridge. Located along the eastern shore of the Mission Bay neighbourhood, the park was constructed in a formal industrial site across from the city’s Chase Center arena. “Bayfront Park

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“Simple, elegant and taut in form and detail” says commenter

October 11, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Paddington Square, a contentious mixed-use building in London with curtain walls and an exposed steel structure completed by architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The 55-by-55-metre cube contains private offices, which make up the bulk of the building, while its base incorporates public amenities and a plaza

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Renzo Piano Building Workshop completes “big cube” in Paddington

October 9, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Curtain walls and an exposed steel structure define Paddington Square, a contentious mixed-use building in central London by architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Ten years in the making, the building takes the form of a 55- by 55-metre cube, elevated on a podium of public amenities including an entrance to the London Underground. While

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AART cloaks Cold War museum in Denmark with black metal

October 6, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Black-metal panels and shutters bring an “aura of mystique” to the Cold War Museum Regan Vest in Denmark, designed by architecture studio AART. The museum is located on the site of Regan Vest, a hidden Cold War-era bunker that was secretly built 60 metres below northern Jutland’s Rold Forest. In the event of nuclear war,

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