Articles by Rupert Bickersteth

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the last major project by late architect Frank Gehry, who died last week aged 96. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The Canadian-American architect’s last major building, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, has been pictured nearing completion on Saadiyat Island, UAE. This week’s newsletter also included the latest

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a mass-timber building by Studio Gang in San Francisco. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. The addition at the California College of the Arts San Francisco campus consists of three mass-timber buildings featuring an exposed, black-toned bracing system and a large, elevated board-marked concrete terrace. Commenters debated the

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Architecture photography has become repetitive as architects are less interested in photographers producing artistic interpretations of their projects, Hélène Binet tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview. For 40 years, Binet has photographed both contemporary and historical architecture, collaborating with influential architects such as Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Zumthor. Arguably the world’s pre-eminent female

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July’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter explores concerns that rammed earth’s carbon impact is misunderstood and features an interview with an architect involved in the Paris Olympics as part of our new Olympic Impact series. “People are using rammed earth to sell something that is essentially concrete,” said Rowland Keable, CEO of the charity Earth Building UK and Ireland and founder

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The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features plans to renovate the Foster + Partners-designed HSBC Tower in Canary Wharf, London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Kohn Pedersen Fox aims to turn the office building into “one of the world’s largest redevelopment projects” by carving out set-back terraces from the highest levels of the

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Fletcher Crane Architects’ pale brick home overlooking Richmond Park in London. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects completed Kingston Villa in London, offering what they suggest is a contemporary “evolution” of the area’s typical suburban architecture in pale brick and metal. Readers were split, with some

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