Messner Architects clads RVTK apartments in Italy with contrasting facades
Italian studio Messner Architects has extended and reconfigured a house in South Tyrol to create three apartments, each with a contrasting exterior finish of plaster, wood and metal. Named RVTK, the building overlooking the town of Silandro was originally built…
BIG opens Los Angeles office in renovated 1920s building
Danish architecture studio BIG has opened an office in Santa Monica in a renovated 1928 Spanish revival building designed by iconic Los Angeles architect Paul R Williams. The 1928 building was refurbished by the team, many of whom will be…
MAD tops “clover-like” conference centre in Beijing with green roof
Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing, which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. Located in the Haidian district, the 65,000-square-metre conference centre has an organic shape with rounded, petal-like corners that extend…
Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin theatre reopens after five-year restoration
The Hillside Theatre by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin has reopened following an extensive five-year restoration that addressed “significant structural and functional challenges”. Located on Taliesin, the Wisconsin estate Frank Lloyd Wright called home for nearly 50 years, the Hillside…
Dezeen’s top five houses of May 2024
A rammed-earth townhouse, a renovated modernist kit home and a concrete house in Switzerland feature in Dezeen’s houses of the month for May. Also included in our monthly list of the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen are houses…
Scorpios Bodrum overlooks the Aegean Sea from every angle
Mykonos club Scorpios is opening a second location in Bodrum, Turkey, where a team of architects and designers has created a series of stone bungalows and a wellness “temple” featuring a dramatic coffered ceiling. Set to open in June 2024,…
SOM unveils skyscraper with “handmade surfaces” in Guadalajara
American studio SOM has unveiled images of a skyscraper in Guadalajara, Mexico, which will be clad in red-toned concrete with interiors designed by Mexico City-based Héctor Esrawe. Designed in collaboration with Esrawe and Mexico City architecture studio Estudio AMA, the…
Agricultural sheds inform metal home in Taiwan by Studio Tngtetshiu
The “anonymous” metal buildings found in rural Taiwan were a visual reference for Double Roof House, which local practice Studio Tngtetshiu has created in Tainan. Double Roof House comprises a home, warehouse and playground, located alongside a red-brick church previously renovated…
Dream completes mass-timber office building for Athletes’ Village in Paris
French architecture studio Dream has completed an office building in Paris, which is clad with terracotta tiles to “evoke the history” of the industrial site in the Saint-Ouen district. Situated within one of three Olympic villages, the mass-timber structure by…
F+G Architectes creates “deliberately restrained” timber stable near Lyon
French studio F+G Architectes has created a stable outside Lyon that is formed of wooden structures designed as a modern take on the area’s typical agricultural buildings. Called Les Écuries de la Roche, the building in the commune of Vourles…