Category: Architecture

Our latest roundup looks at houses that respond to the tight constraints of infill sites with designs that either complement or contrast with the neighbouring buildings. From Dublin to Buenos Aires, these infill houses demonstrate the clever ways vacant plots in built-up cities can be transformed into unique homes. Photo by Rory Gardiner Spruce House, […]

This week on Dezeen, Grimshaw founder Nicholas Grimshaw passed away at the age of 85 and we reported from events in Copenhagen, Singapore, Helsinki, Oslo, London and Lake Como. Nicholas Grimshaw, whose best-known projects include the Eden Project and the International Terminal at Waterloo Station, died this week aged 85. The winner of the RIBA Gold Medal […]

Metal mesh screens for climbing plants form a leafy arbour that shades the interiors of this home in Melbourne, designed by Australian practice Studio Bright. Tucked into a green site concealed by a large hedge in the suburbs of Melbourne, the home, aptly named Hedge and Arbour House, was designed by Studio Bright as a […]

A retired mother enlisted the help of her daughter, a principal at Best Practice Architecture, to convert a neglected home into a wooden shingle-clad “multigenerational home base” with a basement level that can serve as its own apartment. The house, called Lil Shingle, involved the renovation of a 1950s house in Seattle’s Mt Baker neighbourhood, […]

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a masterplan for an urban district in Baghdad. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Architecture studio Gensler‘s Baghdad Sustainable Forests project in Baghdad, Iraq, will include landmark towers alongside residential, retail and commercial spaces, surrounded by parks, green corridors and one million trees. High-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw […]

The credit system in the United States has long leaned away from the very people it was designed to serve. For more than 100 million working Americans, fair credit remains out of reach, locked behind outdated metrics that punish past missteps instead of recognizing potential. Now, with a new name and brand identity crafted by […]

Reclaimed bricks, timber and ventilation pipes determined the form of the Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion, hand-built by architecture studio Slaatto Morsbøl for the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial. Opened today at Søren Kierkegaards Plads, the pavilion was designed by Slaatto Morsbøl as a demonstration of the value of salvaging, processing and repurposing discarded materials and […]

Connecting Dots is a monthly column by writer Amy Cowen, inspired by her popular Substack, Illustrated Life. Each month, she’ll introduce a new creative postcard prompt. So grab your supplies and update your mailing list! Play along and tag @print_mag and #postcardprompts on Instagram. Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Colette Into […]

As you might gather from the publisher’s description below, Open Wide is an … unsettling (!) book. I’ve always been fascinated by how cover designers can lean into the darker sides of a narrative without spilling into full-on genre territory—and Eli Mock absolutely nails the vibe on Jessica Gross’ Open Wide. Below, he tells us […]

I’ve been following Cj Hendry’s work since 2013, when she was drawing in black and white pen with painstaking precision. Back then, her focus was on surface and detail. Over the years, I’ve watched Hendry push her practice outward, moving from colored pencils into immersive experiences that swallow you whole, each new project less about […]