Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed the mesmerising House of Music museum in Budapest, topping it with an undulating canopy roof punctuated by trees. Built as part of the Liget Budapest Project, the largest and most ambitious urban cultural development…
American artist and urban planner Theaster Gates has revealed his vision for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, a circular, timber-built structure with community at its heart. Named Black Chapel, the 10.7 metre-tall wooden pavilion with an open oculus in its roof…
The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh, designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA, has been awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021. Prestige surrounds this biennial award which celebrates outstanding, international projects, with the jury looking for works that ‘demonstrate design excellence and social impact’.…
London has won a bid to host the biennial Ecocity World Summit in June 2023. Set to take place at the city’s Barbican Centre, the global conference that was first held in 1990 is pioneering for necessary action, asking the…
Awarded a Best of Best distinction at the 6th annual Architecture MasterPrize, installation art space ‘Fragrance with Lotus Flowers’ by Nakamura Kazunobu Design-Works draws on Japanese cultural symbolism in a thought-provoking way. The artistic installation, designed for Japanese dance in…
The opening of the Winter Park Library & Events Centre in Florida, completed by David Adjaye Associates, has revealed a biophilic-designed civic and cultural hub conceived as a micro-village of three pavilions. Part of the extensive revitalisation of the park,…
CF Møller Architects has built a subterranean villa on protected Norwegian countryside, adding a green roof to Villa Aa embed it into its environment. Villa Aa is the Danish studio’s response to the call from the family, who owns the…
Scottish-Ghanian architect, academic, and novelist Lesley Lokko has been appointed as Curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023, becoming the first black architect to lead the biannual event. Also one of the few women to ever to be appointed…
Polish practice Wiercinski Studio has repurposed two shipping containers, connecting them together to form a portable year-round home and remote workplace that will adapt to its surroundings. Currently positioned in a community garden next to the Szelągowski National Park in Poznań,…
Completing a 110,000 square metre cultural complex in Shenzhen, the Bao’An Performing Arts Centre on Quinhai Bay houses the city’s first performance hall for international operas. Rocco Design Architects Associates realised the masterplan of buildings for the Bao’An Cultural District,…
Converted historic warehouses and red brick new-builds characterise Kampus, a recently completed large-scale development in central Manchester by Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo. The architects saw the design for the Kampus neighbourhood as an opportunity to develop the city at block…
AR Design Studio has been granted planning permission for Riverside House, a bespoke replacement dwelling that will be sensitively unstitched from its historic Victorian walled garden. The studio’s plans seek to sensitively transform an existing collection of converted potting sheds…
Considering the coastal topography of Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, Omar Gandhi has created an accessible viewing deck that brings visitors closer to the sought-after views of the lighthouse and shoreline. Local developer Develop Nova Scotia commissioned Canadian studio Omar…
Foster + Partners has unveiled its latest building Narbo Via, a new museum of Roman antiquities linking history and culture in Narbonne, France. Part of an ambitious programme for the city of Narbonne, the Narbo museum has been designed with…
Sheltered amongst the dense woodland surrounding the Vranov Dam in the Czech Republic, a small larch-built cottage designed by Prodesi/Domesi has been built on existing foundations using modern timber construction to form an enshrouded family retreat. Having acquired the cottage…
