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Ten ways that architects used weathering steel in 2025

January 10, 2026 Nat Barker 0

Weathering steel has been a trendy choice among architects for many years, but as this diverse roundup of projects completed in 2025 shows, any reports of it going out of style are greatly exaggerated. EMIT Technologies, USA, by CLB Architects Almost all the weathering steel that wraps this building was custom fabricated and engineered on

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Ten ways that architects used weathering steel in 2025

January 10, 2026 Nat Barker 0

Weathering steel has been a trendy choice among architects for many years, but as this diverse roundup of projects completed in 2025 shows, any reports of it going out of style are greatly exaggerated. EMIT Technologies, USA, by CLB Architects Almost all the weathering steel that wraps this building was custom fabricated and engineered on

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How long should a building last?

December 17, 2025 Nat Barker 0

Concerns about embodied carbon are increasing the impetus to design architecture that stands the test of time. But just how long should we expect a building to last? Nat Barker reports. “When we build, let us think that we build forever,” the 19th-century critic John Ruskin famously said in his seminal book The Seven Lamps

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The 10 biggest building announcements of 2025

December 11, 2025 Nat Barker 0

From record-breaking skyscrapers and stadiums to stalled projects, here are the 10 most significant architecture announcements of the year as part of our Review of 2025. Jeddah Tower, Saudi Arabia, by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Formerly known as Kingdom Tower, Jeddah Tower is aiming to become the tallest building in the world, reaching at

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Most of world’s largest wooden structure The Grand Ring to be burned as “chips for fuel”

December 11, 2025 Nat Barker 0

The Grand Ring in Osaka will be mostly turned into firewood, its architect Sou Fujimoto has told Dezeen. Constructed to encircle the site of Expo 2025 Osaka, which ran from April to October, The Grand Ring was the largest wooden structure in the world, with a circumference of two kilometres and covering more than 61,000

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Bamboo scaffolding under scrutiny following devastating Hong Kong high-rise fire

November 27, 2025 Nat Barker 0

Bamboo scaffolding has been blamed for contributing to the spread of an enormous high-rise building fire in Hong Kong that has claimed at least 55 lives. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon. It then spread across seven of the complex’s

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How architecture fees got so low

November 18, 2025 Nat Barker 0

Low fees are a constant source of frustration for architects. As part of our Performance Review of the profession, Nat Barker delves into the issue. In many countries architects are fed up. They feel underpaid, overworked and disrespected. That was the finding of a major survey Dezeen conducted a year ago, and it echoes other

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Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review

November 17, 2025 Nat Barker 0

With design and architecture seemingly in crisis, our Performance Review editorial series will interrogate the multitude of issues plaguing the industry. Though people don’t say it very often, everyone knows it: design and architecture are broken. In most countries with well-established creative industries, many working architects and people in related roles are exasperated by measly earnings,

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Survey reveals average salaries at UK architecture studios

November 1, 2024 Nat Barker 0

London studio Hopkins Architects has topped a leaderboard of the average salaries at UK architecture firms conducted by anonymous group The Pay 100. Architects or architectural designers with less than five years’ experience at the studio, founded by high-tech pioneers Patty and Michael Hopkins, are paid around £54,500 a year on average, according to the

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