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Ten outlandish architecture proposals unlikely to see the light of day

August 16, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Following British studio Apollodorus Architecture’s proposal for a rugby stadium styled like the Colosseum, Dezeen has rounded up 10 outlandish architecture designs that capture the imagination but are unlikely ever to be realised. From a 93-kilometre cycle highway encircling Dubai to satirical proposals responding to events in the news, the list includes sports centres, skyscrapers,

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ZGF and James Corner Field Operations complete phase one of Amazon HQ2

August 11, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio ZGF has completed phase one of Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia that includes a park designed by James Corner Field Operations. The Metropolitan Park campus completes the first phase of online retail firm Amazon’s headquarters located in Arlington’s National Landing neighbourhood, a 20-minute drive to downtown Washington, D.C. The new 2.1 million square

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Montalba Architects adds sunken garden to Edward Durrell Stone landmark

August 10, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local studio Montalba Architects has renovated American architect Edward Durrell Stone’s Perpetual Savings and Loan Bank building in Los Angeles and added a sunken garden in the building’s plaza. Built in 1961, the eight-storey building now called 9720 Wilshire features a Romanesque facade of repeating arches and remains a landmark of the Beverly Hills neighbourhood.

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Lorenzo Botero and Martín Mendoza convert Bogotá residence into brick-lined restaurant

August 7, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Lorenzo Botero Arquitectos and interior designer Martín Mendoza used a palette of natural materials to transform a three-storey house into a restaurant in Bogotá. Located in the city’s Zona del Nogal, a popular shopping destination, Ideal Restaurant takes cues from the materiality of the deserts of the southern United States and the

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Ludwig Godefroy creates “habitable gardens” using massive skylights in Mexico

August 3, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy has cut circular openings into the slanted ceilings of a series of dwellings in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, to create semi-exposed pools and gardens. Godefroy placed a series of circular openings in a cast-concrete structure to create cave-like interiors that remain open to the tropical climate of the Pacific coast site.

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Jesús Vassallo creates mass-timber pavilion for bird watchers in Houston

August 2, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architect Jesús Vassallo and a team of graduate students at Rice University have added a pavilion made of cross-laminated timber panels to the Houston campus. The Johnson Owl Deck Pavilion was constructed using cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels to demonstrate the material’s potential as a carbon-negative and sustainable building method while serving a specific function. “We

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FGMF covers Brazilian house in translucent shell

August 1, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local studio FGMF has used translucent screens and metallic panels to enclose a residence on a sloping site near São Paulo. Located in the town of Campinas, Casa Brisa stands within an expansive shell-like structure that protects the residence from inclement weather and the high temperatures of the area. “It is an investigation into the inside

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DART Lab creates biodegradable concrete casts using sawdust

July 31, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A research team at the University of Michigan has created biodegradable formwork out of sawdust in an attempt to mitigate wood waste in the process of laying concrete. The wood-based material is a result of the BioMatters project by the Digital Architecture Research and Technologies (DART) Lab at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Kaja Kühl adds pair of hempcrete and timber guesthouses to New York farm

July 28, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Brooklyn-based Kaja Kühl has created a pair of guest houses on a farm in upstate New York that utilize prefabricated hempcrete bricks and timber to reduce carbon impact. Located on the Wally Farms experimental farming incubator, the two buildings were built to demonstrate sustainable building techniques and will be used as guest accommodation. The design of the guest

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Benjamín Murúa Aquitectos creates underground sports centre in Chile

July 27, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Benjamín Murúa Arquitectos has topped an underground sports centre with a dome in the Atacama desert in Chile. The sports facility is located on the campus of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory, a research complex dedicated to the study of deep space. For the design of the complex, the studio was

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