Building & Construction

Statuemania is back, but the political weaponisation of memorials will not end happily, writes Robert Bevan. There’s a short, cobbled street in Munich still known as Shirkers’ Alley. It was the route locals took during the Third Reich to avoid passing a Nazi war memorial around the corner. Performing a respectful Hitler salute at the […]

Yellow accents enliven the viewing platforms, performance areas and play spaces at this urban park in Kunshan, China, completed by local studio SoBA. Named The Orchestra Park, the project has transformed a vacant urban lot in the Huaqiao Economic Development Zone into an 8,500-square-metre park, designed to preserve an existing area of wetland and trees

Earthquake-proof joinery, 10-micrometre-thin wood shavings and a scale model of Kyoto’s Sa-an Teahouse are on display at Japan House London’s exhibition The Craft of Carpentry. Opening today, the show explores over 1,000 years of Japanese woodworking through a collection of tools, installations and videos. The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests was curated

Architect Carlo Ratti, designer Sofia Lagerkvist and interior designers Matthew Williamson and Sarah Sham have joined the judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2025. Dezeen Awards in partnership with Bentley, champions the best architects and designers from around the world, recognising those individuals and studios producing the most outstanding work across architecture, interiors, design and sustainability.

Loom-woven coats and screen-printed skirts feature in fashion brand Loewe’s latest collection created in collaboration with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation. The Fall Winter 2025 collection, conceptualised by the Spanish fashion house’s creative director Jonathan Anderson, was presented as part of Paris Fashion Week. Five loom-woven coats were presented as part of the collection

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a residential tower in Amsterdam completed by OMA. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Dutch studio OMA revealed a concrete-clad residential tower on the site of a former prison in Amsterdam, called The Jay. The residential building underwhelmed commenters, with one calling it “the most dull project

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed a house in southern Chile with native oak cladding and faceted roofs laid out along a V-shaped plan to provide the best views of a lake. The project was designed for a couple who wanted a holiday home with plenty of space for visits from their three adult daughters.

Anchorage Museum CEO Julie Decker and designer Noa Haim discuss the importance of design as an interactive experience in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for the museum’s latest exhibition. Titled Frozen Forms, the exhibition explores the influence of Alaska’s winter landscape using snow and ice as a motif. The presentation includes three towering cardboard

Dezeen Showroom: offering both noise control and a clean aesthetic, Autex Acoustics’ Grid ceiling tiles are designed to transform standard dropped ceilings in offices and other large buildings. The Grid ceiling tiles can be easily installed over a ceiling grid system, replacing a cold look and echoey acoustics with visual interest and a pleasant auditory

Swiss office Localarchitecture has completed Daillens Sports Facility near Geneva, creating a barn-like timber form insulated with straw bales and clad in green-stained wooden battens. Located alongside a football pitch in the municipality of Daillens, the sports centre replaces an outdated cluster of 1970s buildings with modern changing rooms, showers, a bowls club and a