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APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. All of the images in the book are in black and white because that is the way I approach architectural photography," Phipps told Dezeen.

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MARCH 4, 2024

To help kick off our Social Housing Revival series, Peter Apps calls for a return to mass public house-building in cities around the world. But housing in urban centres is becoming increasingly unaffordable. What does the future hold for our major cities? Urbanisation has been one of the most important trends of the modern era.

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MAY 13, 2024

In 1894, London restricted buildings to 80 feet (24 metres) tall. At the end of the century, London, too, realised it needed tall buildings and reversed its earlier rejection of them. London's GDP accounts for a whopping 22 per cent of the entire UK economy. By 1921, at least 22 US cities – including Chicago – had height caps.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The interior of London's most recent Aesop store in Marylebone was organised to reference a bookshop and features bespoke timber cabinetry by furniture designer Sebastian Cox. The post Piles of green-hued books characterise London Aesop store appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Alixe Lay.

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2023

German interior designer Peter Heimer and joinery studio Buchholzberlin used a restrained material palette of concrete , oak and aluminium when renovating this flat inside London 's brutalist Trellick Tower. Since Trellick Tower is subject to strict preservation requirements, our hands were tied so to speak.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Colourful tiling, wooden details and tactile textiles as well as an abundance of green plants were used to create inviting living rooms, bathrooms and even workspaces in these brutalist buildings, which include the Barbican in London and Riverside Tower in Antwerp. House of Concrete Experiments, India, by Samira Rathod.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The East London property is located on Florida Street in Bethnal Green and was originally a textiles factory before being repurposed as a commercial office space. AHM London is listing the Florida Street home for £1.675m.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK , but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto. This negativity is so ingrained that anyone familiar with British crime dramas, from Luther to Line of Duty, will know that deck-access housing has become a shorthand for urban dystopia.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2022

Jack Young's book The Council House aims to capture the beauty of London 's council estates, which he photographed to "look like they could be perched on an Italian hillside". Read: Peter Barber Architects' "intelligent, dynamic and original" McGrath Road named UK's best affordable housing scheme.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Also in New York, Dezeen rounded up 10 of the city's recently completed skyscrapers , which featured SHoP Architects' bronze-and-copper Brooklyn Tower, as well as Two Manhattan West situated amongst the mixed-use development of Midtown Manhattan.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a selection of brutalist and modernist churches captured by photographer Jamie McGregor Smith in his book Sacred Modernity. These kinds of giant towers are so devoid of human scale, however cool the design looks, they always feel imposing and ugly to me," they concluded.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Supreme Court's ruling in the Tate Modern privacy case is part of a depressing trend towards London's views becoming increasingly controlled and commoditised, writes Helen Barrett. The point is perspective: from his vantage point, MacInnes's hero sees London's infinite possibilities laid out before him, all for the price of a coffee.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As a vocal critic of modernist architecture, he scuppered schemes by architectural heavyweights including Richard Rogers and Ludvig Mies van der Rohe , and prevented modernist additions from being built at the National Gallery and Royal Opera House. He deprived London of a Mies van der Rohe skyscraper. Image courtesy of REAL.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2022

Tower House, UK, by Dominic McKenzie Architects. Located in the London borough of Islington, Dominic McKenzie Architects looked to lofty structures in rural Italy when designing this brick extension. Find out more about Tower House ›. Book-lined apartment, China, by Atelier Tao+C. Photo is by Will Pryce.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Wilcox Road South Lambeth Competition, New London Architecture Contest, LFA 2022, SW8 Street. London Festival of Architecture and Lambeth Council launch design competition to animate Wilcox Road in South Lambeth. Location: South Lambeth, South London, England, UK. Location: Wilcox Road, South Lambeth, SW8, London, England, UK.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Of architect Denys Lasdun’s Royal National Theatre, a brutalist complex completed in 1976, Charles once stated: "It seems like a clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting." Ouch to the much-beloved architectural city of Chicago.)

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The 90-year-old Albert Kahn book depository was the first to complete this year as the Detroit HQ for Newlab , a Brooklyn-based collective of entrepreneurs focused on prototyping high-tech mobility solutions. They don’t make ’em like they used to. A café in reclaimed wood has become a welcome meeting place for the community.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The book’s 28 homes are dotted across the Japanese archipelago and include the dark timber, midcentury icon Maekawa House by Kunio Maekawa, and works by Kengo Kuma and Nendo. Photography: Mikkel Vang courtesy Pavilion Books. Published by Phaidon. A Kind of Magic: The Kaleidoscope World of Luke Edward Hall. Photography: Phaidon.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2023

There are just over two weeks to submit your project before the entry deadline on 1 June at midnight London time. She holds an MA in curating contemporary design from the Design Museum London and Kingston University partnership programme. Dezeen Awards 2023 , in partnership with Bentley Motors , is open for entries.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In London, this pretty much describes any restaurant that has opened in the centre in the last five years, particularly in Soho which now resembles an 'It's a Small World' theme park of restaurants, all ostensibly precisely the same restaurant just distinguished by a different cuisine. Let me guess. Am I right?

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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

A new book rounds up hundreds of unbuilt structures and city plans from the 20th century to today that show just how different our world could have looked. We’ve lost countless historic and architecturally significant buildings over the course of human history, but there are even more that never made it past the drafting stage.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

At just 32, the self-proclaimed "outspoken" historian Neal Shasore has become the head of the London School of Architecture. Shasore, who was appointed the London School of Architecture (LSA) head and chief executive officer in June 2021, believes that architecture education needs to respond better to today's social and political climate.

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MARCH 4, 2023

The main exhibitions of the museum will be housed in a remarkable 25,000 square foot slab of steel seemingly suspended in mid-air. The 1,396-foot tower building design by Rafael Viñoly is due to become the tallest building in New York City. It is also due to be the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere.

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Deezen

AUGUST 9, 2022

Top: Glass House by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects was also longlisted. Continue reading on for the full interiors longlist: Above: Georgian Dublin by Design Led is longlisted in the house interiors category. House interior. Barwon Heads House , Melbourne, Australia, by Adam Kane Architects. House interior.

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2022

Read on for the full architecture longlist: House Zero in Austin, USA, by ICON is longlisted in the urban house category. Urban house. Shoonya House , Gujarat, India by BandukSmith Studio. › I/S House , Tel Anafa, Israel, by Paritzki & Liani Architects. BD House , São Paulo, Brazil, by Studio Arthur Casas.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 22, 2022

From a hall of zigzagged staircases in China to a yellow-hued grotto in east London, here are 10 bookshop interiors that provide immersive and unusual browsing experiences. Natural oak panels were used to create towering display walls for books. Book Centre Trieste, Italy, by SoNo Arhitekti. Photo is by Hu Yanyun.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s had its share of ups and downs since closing 40 years ago, but London landmark Battersea Power Station has finally relaunched as a retail, food and entertainment hub. Its two turbine halls are now occupied by glass-fronted retail spaces, while a forthcoming food hall, located inside the former boiler house, will open in 2023.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2022

RIBA Award-winning homes are the focus of author Dominic Bradbury's latest book , 21st Century Houses. More than 300 photographs, plans and sketches fill the 21st Century Houses book , published by RIBA Books , to bring readers inside the "best of the best" of modern British homes.

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e-architect

JANUARY 24, 2022

Grenfell Tower Fire London News, Inquiry, Building Photos, Property Development, Expert Witness, Review, Architect. Grenfell Tower Fire West London. Grenfell Tower Inquiry: “those who created and enabled” deserve most blame. Grenfell Tower Inquiry Update in 2022. Grenfell Tower Inquiry Update in 2022.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This year's roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, the other one isn't necessarily so — new, old, or not-so-old, it is related to the first in some manner, as explained in my descriptions. Hey, architectural historians like gift books, too!)

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Following an extensive overhaul, the rue de Richelieu site now houses reading rooms for the National Library of France alongside the Library of the National Institute for Art History and the Library of the École Nationale des Chartes. Bruno Gaudin Architectes has renovated the National Library of France. Photo by Marchand Meffre.

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

Here, we have collected 10 projects on Dezeen that feature Eames chairs, ranging from a penthouse in Belgium to a narrow house in London and the designers' own home. Riverside Tower Apartment, The Netherlands, by Studio Okami Architecten. Find out more about Riverside Tower Apartment ›. Photo by Olmo Peeters.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

First it was with their remarkable transformation of the Palais de Tokyo in 2002 (expanded in 2014), a stripping out of a classical/art deco exhibition hall to create a raw, haunting, cavernous interior which became Paris's riposte to London's Tate Modern. It was, in its way, a pretty revolutionary move. And to leave it was a decision."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bella's house in Poor Things was informed by the Sir John Soanes museum "Her interior world would have been created by [her father] Godwin Baxter," she told Dezeen. "And And he was a maverick doctor, a very precise and artistic man, who had fine taste and was an artist in his way." Lanthimos] was super keen on huge texture," Heath said.

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Deezen

JUNE 14, 2022

Supertall skyscrapers have changed the way that we think about cities, says author of the book Supertall, Stefan Al. The tension surrounding tall buildings goes back as far as the Eiffel Tower and even back to the ancient Egyptians, explained Al author of Supertall. It's not all just sleek glass towers anymore, right?"

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Deezen

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Niall McLaughlin Architects is a London architecture studio that was founded in 1990 by Geneva-born Niall McLaughlin. Auckland Tower, 2021. This larch tower functions as an entrance for Auckland Castle and a viewpoint for the town of Bishop Aukland. Hampshire House, 2019. The New Library at Magdalene College, 2022.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

A new book maps the trajectory of the region’s residential design and the architects who spurred its evolution. A new book from the 20th Century Society and U.K. publisher Batsford, 100 20th-Century Houses , organizes the region’s projects in one volume, bringing us its most significant homes in terms of innovation.

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