This week on Dezeen, we announced all 50 of the winners of this year’s Dezeen Awards, including the overall project winners and six Designers of the Year. At the awards ceremony in London Simba Vision Montessori School by Architectural Pioneering Consultants (above) was named architecture project of the year, Restaurant Xokol by Ruben Valdez Practice
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To kick off our review of 2023, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft takes a look back at this year’s top architecture and design stories. January – Energy savings from home insulation “vanishing” after four years The year began with news that a University of Cambridge research study had found that energy savings initially achieved by insulating UK homes
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Saudi mega project Neom has unveiled images of a development named Siranna that will contain apartments and a hotel within a hexagonal structure designed to “blend into the adjoining mountain”. The latest region to be announced as part of the Neom development in the north west of Saudi Arabia, Siranna will be located on a
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French studio Lacaton & Vassal has been named the winner of this year’s Soane Medal for producing “some of the most important buildings of our time”. Social housing specialist Lacaton & Vassal, which is led by French duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, was honoured for its 30-year body of work that focuses on reuse.
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Neom in Saudi Arabia has registered a series of trademarks including Treyam, Aquellum and Jaumur, which could hint at the names of future developments in the region. The Neom mega project, which is under construction in the north west of Saudi Arabia, has recently registered a series of names at the US Patent and Trademark
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The second Sharjah Architecture Triennial focused on architecture created from scarcity. Here are 12 intriguing pavilions and installations from the event. Titled The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability, the triennial featured 29 contributors who largely focused on strategies of reuse and reappropriation driven by scarcity in the Global South. It was curated by Nigerian
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Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has designed an aluminium-disc-topped pavilion as the 10th MPavilion in Melbourne, Australia. Created as the Japanese architect’s first-ever project in Australia, the concrete pavilion was designed as a space to reflect on the surrounding Queen Victoria Gardens. “The design for the MPavilion began with a desire to find a
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The Sharjah Architecture Triennial aims to show the positives of architecture created using scarce resources, says its curator Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo in this interview. Titled The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability, the triennial focuses on the innovations and strategies of re-use and re-appropriation often driven by scarcity in the Global South. “The
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Tashkent’s modernist architecture was the focus of the recent Where in the World is Tashkent conference. Here the organisers pick 10 significant buildings in Uzbekistan’s capital from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. Created as part of the wider Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI research and preservation project led by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, the
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British designer Thomas Heatherwick has recently launched a book, radio series and campaign calling for more “humanised” architecture. Here he picks 10 buildings that are “givers rather than takers”. In his book named Humanise, along with the Radio 4 series and recently launched initiative, Heatherwick takes aim at boring buildings. The publication aims to promote the
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