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Alexandra Hagen to step down as CEO of White Arkitekter

December 12, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Swedish studio White Arkitekter has announced that architect Alexandra Hagen will step down as the company’s CEO in 2026. Hagen will remain in the position for six months from now, by which time her replacement is expected to have been selected. The recruitment process is now underway. The move aligns with White Arkitekter’s next strategy

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White Arkitekter references farmsteads for wooden Hoofddorp housing

December 9, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Wood will be the dominant material through The Erven, a housing development in the Netherlands for which Swedish studio White Arkitekter is designing several buildings. Planned for the southeast of Hoofddorp, a town just outside Amsterdam, The Erven will provide 519 homes across a series of buildings informed by traditional Dutch farms. It is being

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Photos reveal Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi nearing completion

December 8, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Late Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry’s last major building, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, has been pictured nearing completion on Saadiyat Island, UAE. Located in the island’s cultural district, the long-awaited museum will encompass 42,000 square metres and become the largest of the four Guggenheim outposts, which include Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It is the last major project

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Dezeen’s top 10 Indian architecture projects of 2025

December 8, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

As India continues to cement itself as a hotspot for contemporary architecture, we look back at 10 of the country’s most memorable buildings from the past year for Dezeen’s Review of 2025. Raj Sabhagruh, Gujarat, by Serie Architects A total of 800,000 hand-cut bricks cloak the exterior of this vast Jainism complex, which forms the

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Foster + Partners unveils long-awaited Zayed National Museum on Saadiyat Island

December 2, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Soaring ventilation towers modelled on the wings of a falcon signal the Zayed National Museum, completed by British studio Foster + Partners on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. The long-awaited museum by Foster + Partners is the centrepiece of Saadiyat Island’s cultural district, where the Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel and the upcoming Guggenheim

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Mecanoo completes rock-like Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi

December 2, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Pixelated white-concrete forms resembling rock formations define this sprawling museum by Dutch studio Mecanoo, located in the cultural district on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Encompassing 35,000 square metres, the vast Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi was created to encapsulate 13.8 billion years of natural history, with a special emphasis on the UAE. It is

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Snøhetta creates “Thailand’s largest elevated lawn” at Cloud 11 creative hub

December 2, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

A public park is the centrepiece of Cloud 11, a creative hub in Bangkok, Thailand, recently completed by architecture studio Snøhetta with local firm A49 Architects. Set to open in the South Sukhumvit innovation district in March, the 250,000-square-metre complex is intended to bring together creative companies and entrepreneurs in the capital. It takes the

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This week we revealed the Dezeen Awards 2025 winners

November 29, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

This week on Dezeen, we revealed all 60 winners of the Dezeen Awards 2025, including the architecture, interiors and design projects of the year. A children’s hospital by Herzog & de Meuron was named architecture project of the year, with the Symbolplus Office and the J39.5 seating collection receiving the awards for best interior and

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Junya Ishigami places cloud-like kiosk “on the verge of falling over” in Fukuyama

November 25, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

Junya Ishigami is one of three Japanese architects to have designed sculptural, mobile kiosks for the Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025, currently taking place in Fukuyama, Japan. Architects Yasushi Horibe and Hideyuki Nakayama have also each created a kiosk for the architecture and art event, which is being held in Hiroshima Prefecture until 30 November. Ishigami’s

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Snøhetta unveils plans for cavernous opera house in Düsseldorf

November 24, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

A cave-like ground floor accessible on all sides will be the focal point of this opera house, which architecture studio Snøhetta is designing for Düsseldorf, Germany. Designed for the opera company Oper am Rheins, Düsseldorf Opera House will have a fully glazed ground floor and an “organically shaped interior” designed to entice passersby. According to

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