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Foster + Partners designing two-kilometre-high skyscraper in Saudi Arabia

March 4, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK studio Foster + Partners is reportedly designing a two-kilometre-high skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which if completed would be the world’s tallest building. According to a report in UK architecture magazine Architects’ Journal (AJ), the UK studio is designing the megatall skyscraper for a site to the north of the Saudi capital. The AJ

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Preserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture an act of “cultural diplomacy” says cultural foundation’s head

February 26, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Conserving Tashkent’s modernist architecture is a way of boosting the city’s international profile, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation chair Gayane Umerova tells Dezeen in this interview. The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is leading the preservation of more than 20 impressive Soviet-era modernist buildings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. “The foundation was set

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Mark Foster Gage Architects designs “secret garden” spa resort for Neom

February 22, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Saudi mega project Neom has revealed the design of the Elanan spa and hotel that is set to be built on a natural oasis on Gulf of Aqaba as its latest development. Designed by American studio Mark Foster Gage Architects, the Elanan resort will contain 80 rooms and suites along with well-being facilities. It will

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Heatherwick Studio set to turn “extraordinary” BT Tower into hotel

February 21, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK practice Heatherwick Studio is set to turn the 177-metre-high BT Tower in central London into a hotel, following its sale to American hotelier MCR Hotels. MCR Hotels announced today that it had purchased the Grade II-listed tower from the BT Group telecommunications company with Heatherwick Studio and is set to turn the structure into a

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Six activist architects “whose actions help effect social change”

February 15, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Networking platform Archiboo presents an annual Activism Award. Here, its founder Amanda Baillieu selects six architects that embody the ideals of activism. The Activism Award, which is free to enter and forms part of the wider Archiboo awards program, aims to reward an individual, practice or company “whose actions help to effect social change”. According

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Back to the stone age

February 12, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Can stone be a viable modern building material? Dezeen’s Stone Age 2.0 series explores the material’s re-emergence and potential to be a durable, low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete. Starting today, our week-long Stone Age 2.0 series will investigate how a small, but growing, group of architects and engineers are rediscovering the potential of one

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Neom unveils plans for “ultimate members’ club” on the Gulf of Aqaba

February 9, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Saudi mega-development Neom has unveiled Xaynor, which is planned as a beach-side members’ club on the Gulf of Aqaba designed by Mexican studio Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos. The latest in a series of tourist developments announced by Neom on the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest of the country, Xaynor will be a private members’ club set

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Aerial photos reveal work progressing on The Line megacity

February 8, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A set of aerial images has revealed work progressing on The Line megacity, Oxagon port and Sindalah resort, which are being built as part of Neom in Saudi Arabia. The images, shared by The Line’s chief operating officer Giles Pendleton on LinkedIn, show construction underway on the controversial project. Pendleton’s images include aerial photos, that

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This week we revealed the world’s longest cantilever

February 3, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei unveiled a skyscraper in Dubai that includes the world’s longest cantilever. Measuring 67.5 metres, the cantilever projects out from a link connecting two skyscrapers at the One Za’abeel development in Dubai. The cantilever is one metre longer than the 66.5-metre-long observation deck at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore,

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Eric Parry Architects’ One Undershaft skyscraper redesigned to be UK’s joint-tallest building

February 2, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Eric Parry Architects has updated its plans for the One Undershaft skyscraper in the City of London, increasing its height to make it the UK’s joint tallest building. The studio recently submitted a planning submission to update the design and slightly increase the height of the planned building, which was approved to be built

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