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Nat Barker named Architectural Journalist of the Year for “excellent and varied work”

December 2, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Dezeen features editor Nat Barker has been named Architectural Journalist of the Year at the prestigious International Building Press Awards 2025. The award, which was given to Barker at a ceremony in central London last week, was presented for his “depth and craft in storytelling”. “Nat won this category because of his excellent and varied work, which

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Zero-Carbon Eco Home / Bindloss Dawes

December 2, 2025 Pilar Caballero 0

Bindloss Dawes Architects has completed a unique zero-carbon eco house created from the adaptive reuse of a former tractor shed on the edge of the idyllic village of Nether Compton in Somerset. The project embodies qualities central to Bindloss Dawes’ approach: agricultural architecture, contemporary design, and exemplary environmental performance. The result is a home that feels both spacious and intimate.

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Athens’ industrial Voulkanizater restaurant features wheel rims and car parts

December 2, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designers George Vlasis Pakalidis and Artemis Valyraki drew on the industrial origins of a tyre workshop when designing the Voulkanizater listening bar and restaurant in Athens. Located in Athens’ inner-city Koukaki neighbourhood, the bar and restaurant took its name from the building’s former use. “The space and location of the current bar was previously a tyre-fixing,

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Writer’s House / em-estudio

December 2, 2025 Valentina Díaz 0

The House of a Writer is born from a central courtyard that articulates and gives meaning to all the spaces around it. The project embraces the traditional concept of the house with a courtyard, where a bookshelf —the protagonist in the double-height of the central space— becomes the axis that connects the various activities of the home centered around writing.

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Urban Regeneration in Greece: The Ellinikon Master Plan and Beyond

December 2, 2025 Reyyan Dogan 0

Greece‘s built environment is shaped by the coexistence of multiple architectural layers, where historic structures, modern interventions, and evolving urban systems intersect. Classical landmarks and their surrounding urban fabrics continue to inform the spatial character of cities, while postwar developments, infrastructural upgrades, and contemporary projects add new dimensions to the country’s architectural landscape. This continuity between past and present provides the foundation for current design approaches, which increasingly focus on balancing heritage, environmental considerations, and contemporary urban needs.

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Lucas y Hernández-Gil references “classical world” for Laconicum store interior

December 2, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil has completed a cosmetics store in Madrid featuring exposed wooden pillars and a material palette intended to evoke the calming atmosphere of an ancient Roman sweating room. Laconicum, a beauty product retailer, approached Lucas y Hernández-Gil to design its first permanent physical store on Madrid’s Piamonte street. The company had

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Parc des Loges – Childhood and Sports Center / HEMAA

December 2, 2025 Pilar Caballero 0

Founded in 2018 by Charles Hesters and Pierre Martin-Saint-Etienne, HEMAA is an architecture firm that embraces a contextual, sobriety-based approach rooted in the living world. Each project emerges from a careful reading of its surroundings, seeking a balance between nature, use, and material. In Evry-Courcouronnes (Greater Paris – France), the Parc des Loges Childhood and Sports Center fully embodies this philosophy: a gentle, landscape-based composition built from bio- and geo-sourced materials, serving a public facility that is open, generous, and sustainable.