Articles by Karen Anderson

The first edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features honeybee specialist Paula Carnell, who says that putting beehives in cities is “very dangerous to other pollinators”. Bee expert Carnell told Dezeen that efforts to put beehives in cities actually harms native pollinators such as solitary bees and bumblebees. Architects should include wild areas in their

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The latest edition of Dezeen Debate, the new name for our Dezeen Weekly newsletter, features a minimalist white house in Mexico. Commenters are amazed by the Mexican villa, which Cotaparedes Arquitectos designed as “introspective architecture” focused on a pair of courtyards. The house is located in La Piedad, a city that sits roughly halfway between

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the Merdeka 118 skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Australian studio Fender Katsalidis has designed what is now the world’s second-tallest building, standing at 678.9-metres-tall. Located in downtown Kuala Lumpur, the 118-storey megatall skyscraper reached its full height with the completion of its pointed spire. One reader

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features ODDO Architects’ design for a family home in Hanoi, Vietnam. ODDO Architects has built a five-storey home on a small site in Hanoi. The plot is just four metres wide and six metres deep. Readers are wowed. One said: “This is what architecture is all about”.

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