Amy Peacock

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Twelve defining projects from Norman Foster's long career

6 days ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

In celebration of his 90th birthday today, we've rounded up 12 key projects from the nearly six-decades-long career of Norman Foster. From his beginnings as a high-tech pioneer to leading an international architectural powerhouse, Foster's portfolio includes airports, skyscrapers, high-profile offices, cultural landmarks and record-breaking infrastructure.
Dezeen's top five houses of May 2025

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

Coastal homes perched on sloping and rugged terrain in Spain, the UK and the USA feature in Dezeen's houses of the month for May. Also included in our monthly roundup is a home in Singapore informed by the Japanese spatial concept of oku, and an angular home in Germany with furniture built into the structure.
Carlo Ratti and Höweler + Yoon design floating AquaPraça plaza for Amazonian bay

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and US firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture have unveiled their design for a floating plaza, which will form part of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale before relocating to Belém, Brazil. Named AquaPraça, the 400-square-metre platform is designed as a sheltered gathering space for discussing the climate, architecture and the environment.
Single layer of stone brick forms arched installation by Hawkins\Brown

1 week ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

Architecture studio Hawkins\Brown and engineering firm Webb Yates have created two hyperbolic arches made from bricks of unwanted stone at Clerkenwell Design Week in London. Named Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival, the two arches were installed on Clerkenwell Green with the aim of celebrating the beauty and versatility of British stone.
Zaha Hadid Architects begins construction on its first adobe building

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for a mud-brick museum named Asaan in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, which will be the studio's first adobe building. Construction recently commenced on the Asaan museum in the At-Turaif district, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Riyadh that contains vernacular Najdi architecture and mud-brick structures.
Kengo Kuma models Qatar Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka on sailing boats

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

Architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates stretched white fabric over a scalloped timber structure for the Qatar Pavilion at the Expo 2025 Osaka, which contains an exhibition designed by Dutch studio AMO. Aiming to evoke maritime forms, Kengo Kuma and Associates drew upon traditional dhow sailing vessels for the pavilion.
Ten Venice Architecture Biennale exhibitions that are off the beaten track

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

With the Venice Architecture Biennale underway, we collect 10 exhibitions and pavilions outside the event's Giardini and Arsenale venues that you might have missed. A live restoration site, a kinetic shading structure by MVRDV and a pavilion exploring building shelters in outer space are just some of the highlights from this year's biennale taking place across the city.
Dezeen shortlisted for seven leading industry awards

2 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Tom Ravenscroft |Cajsa Carlson |Nat Barker |Amy Peacock

Dezeen Awards has been shortlisted for three awards, while Dezeen's editor Tom Ravenscroft, deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, features editor Nat Barker and architecture reporter Amy Peacock are all in the running for editorial awards. Dezeen has been shortlisted for a pair of prestigious Professional Publishers Association (PPA) awards, with Ravenscroft a finalist in the Editor of the Year category and Dezeen Awards a finalist in the Event of the Year category.
Jean Nouvel unveils design for Fondation Cartier relocation in exhibition

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

French architect Jean Nouvel has created an exhibition showcasing his plan to transform a Haussmann building in Paris into the new home of the Fondation Cartier art gallery. The exhibition included models, drawings and screen displays revealing Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Nouvel's design, and was exhibited at Fondazione Giorgio Cini as a collateral event in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
Canada proposes "printing living structures" at Venice Biennale

3 weeks ago | dezeen.com | Amy Peacock

Alien-like structures that sequester carbon emerge from shallow pools at the Canada Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Named Picoplanktonics, the pavilion's exhibition was curated by architecture and science group Living Room Collective, which wanted to showcase how the built environment can evolve to help the planet, rather than contribute to its destruction.