Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is set to create a sculptural block of buildings that will serve as retail locations for the Miami Design District. Called Mirai – Japanese for “distant future” – renders of the development show a series of colourful fluted pillars wrapped around a retail building on a corner in
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Mexico is experiencing a “renaissance” in architecture and design because of its embrace and promotion of artisanal practices, says designer Héctor Esrawe in this exclusive interview. According to Esrawe, who runs a studio in Mexico City, the last 10 years have seen Mexican creativity being taken more seriously at home and abroad. “There is this
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LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot. Its name marks the celebration
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Architecture firm Jones Studio has designed an educational centre in Arizona with the aim of raising awareness about water resources and infrastructure in the region. The Water Education Center will form part of a Central Arizona Project (CAP) facility north of Phoenix and highlight the “contested topic of water in the west”, according to Jones
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Canadian architecture studio Provencher Roy has created Darwin Bridges, a curved bridge on Nuns’ Island outside of Montreal constructed with concrete that utilises recycled glass in its mixture. The structure replaces a set of two-lane bridges constructed in the 1960s to service the growing suburban community and connect it with the highway system. The original
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Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion dedicated to Haitian entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler of Chicago, for the city’s architecture biennial. Parallel Histories is a pavilion made up of small, temporary structures representing the footprint of DuSable’s homestead, on a park that Ross Barney Architects is revamping where the Chicago
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American architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has created a glass-clad skyscraper with an undulating facade and parapets on a sloped site in downtown Vancouver. Located on a sloping site near Vancouver’s waterfront, 320 Granville is a 30-storey skyscraper designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to host offices in the Canadian city’s urban core. The building,
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Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Lesak, a principal at California architecture studio Page and Turnbull, has spent decades making older buildings more resilient to seismic activity. But he warned that rising costs associated with
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The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial has opened with installations focusing on monumentality, race and material innovations on show at sites throughout Chicago. This year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, its fifth edition, focused on themes of collaboration and community building through architecture, with a series of exhibits adhering to the exhibition’s theme: This Is a Rehearsal. It was
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Norman Teague Design Studios has erected a plywood structure as a full-scale model of the future monument to American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass, for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The studio created the pavilion using wood, plastics and recycled materials to honour the legacy of American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass. A copper version of
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