Architecture studio Grimshaw and landscape architect Aspect Studios have completed a visitor experience centre for one of Australia 's most-visited natural landmarks, the Twelve Apostles in Victoria. Located at the top of the site in Port Campbell National Park, the 3,300-square-metre visitor centre is designed by Grimshaw and Aspect Studios with rammed-earth walls intended to resemble a "landform

Cloaked in layers of white disks, architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mixed-use building in Tirana containing apartments , offices , cultural spaces and water features. Named Tirana Fountain Plaza, the cloud-like building will be raised on slim white columns over Rinia Park, designed to keep the ground level largely open as a public space. BIG has won the competition to design the Tir

Nota, the company behind hotelier Not a Hotel , is set to create its first cultural space with the opening of Not a Museum, which will be designed together with Tokyo creative collective SKWAT. The mixed-use space will be located in the Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo, a 2,000-square-metre commercial centre that is set to be torn down due to the reconstruction of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo tower. Not a M

Architecture studio Roomoor has completed Monastic Field, a concrete home within a temple precinct in Baleshwar that recalls the rock-cut monk's dwellings of the Deccan Plateau. Set within the site of a Jain temple, the homes was designed for the family that originally donated the land for the temple in 2005. Monastic Field is a concrete home informed by monk dwellings in the Deccan Plateau As the

From hastily installed sheds and tents to more intricate structures with signage and considered design, author Penny Hardy highlights the absurdity, delight and ingenuity of dining sheds installed in New York during the Covid-19 pandemic . Collected in Hardy's recently announced book, Pandemic Architecture: NYC Dining Sheds 2020-2024 , the sheds represent a very specific time in the landscape of t

Prague-based Facha Architekti has unveiled House With a Red Addition, a striking, red- corrugated-metal extension to a small family home in the Czech Republic . Located in the central Příbram region of the Czech Republic, the 26-metre extension enlarges the family's living space and improves the structure's connection to the outdoors with seating steps, a larch terrace and colour-matched retractab

Architecture firm Acronym Collective Studio has transformed a former brewery near Brno into a community centre, which addresses its corner site with a curved, perforated brick facade. Named Kulturní Centrum Pivovar or Brewery Cultural Centre, the building in the town of Velká Bíteš contains a library, information centre, family centre, multi-purpose community hall and creative workshop spaces. Acr

This week on Dezeen , we revealed Jaguar's Type 01 electric car , which was designed to "inaugurate a new era" for the British car brand. Created as the first car in a new era for Jaguar, the Type 01 was unveiled at an exclusive event in New York. The car is the production version of the Type 00 concept car that was revealed alongside a highly controversial rebrand two years ago. Dezeen visited Ja

An expansive gabled ceiling illuminated by clerestory windows shelters the open living spaces of Sugi House, a home in Kyoto designed by Japanese studio Ujizono Architects. Ujizono Architects co-founders Kazuki Ujigawa and Mirai Ozono aimed to "subtly rearrange" the form of east Kyoto's typical homes, contrasting an enclosed ground floor with an expansive first floor. "Sugi House is composed of or

The world's most wildly ambitious architecture project appears dead in the water. What went wrong? Listen to the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly now. This week, the team plot the strange story of Saudi Arabia's effort to build a linear skyscraper, mega-city in the desert, called The Line . They explain why news that Neom Stadium has been shelved looks to be the final nail in the coffin for The Lin

Architecture studios NH Architecture and Snøhetta have refurbished the Ian Potter State Theatre in Melbourne , Australia, revitalising its 2,000-seat auditorium and cascading brass ceiling. Australian studio NH Architecture and Snøhetta 's Melbourne updated and expanded the theatre , which was originally completed in 1984 by architect Roy Grounds and interior designer John Truscott. The revamp inc

Giant shutters close off the towering facade of Wardrobe House, a rectangular wooden home in the Czech Republic designed by local studio Šépka Architekti. Located in Prague's Ořechovka district, the home is modelled on a footed wardrobe, with a tall and narrow form that is raised on legs and openable on one side. Šépka Architekti has completed Wardrobe House in Prague Šépka Architekti design

TV show Grand Designs is still going strong after 27 years. In this interview , the show's host, Kevin McCloud , considers how British architecture has changed over that time. First aired in 1999, Grand Designs follows the self-build projects of individuals and families creating their dream homes, through the highs as well as the lows. Having been the programme's presenter from the beginning, McCl

Ahead of Oxford Street closing to traffic later this month, local architecture studio East has released its latest renders revealing how the popular London shopping destination will look when pedestrianised. East is working with landscape architecture studio JL Gibbons and urban design studios Gehl and Publica on the first phase of Oxford Street's transformation, which will span about one kilometr

The Zaha Hadid Foundation is set to open a public arts venue within the former headquarters of the late Zaha Hadid 's eponymous studio in London . Located in London's Clerkenwell area, the new venue will serve as "a dynamic new hub for architecture and design" within the Grade II-listed Victorian school that was home to the studio for more than 30 years. Architecture practice Studio KA has refurbi

British studio John McAslan + Partners has transformed and extended a disused power station into a learning space and accommodation for the University of Oxford 's Saïd Business School. John McAslan + Partners restored the brick facades of Osney Power Station, which opened in 1892 as Oxford 's first electrical power plant, while its metal-clad upper levels were rebuilt and extended. Named the Glob

Multi-coloured, earth-toned bricks wrap the facade of this eight-storey residential project on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn , which is shown in this Instagram carousel created by Dezeen for Glen-Gery. Designed by Brooklyn-based NA Design Studio , the development features Danish colour bricks supplied by North American brick manufacturer Glen-Gery . View this post on Instagram A post sh

Real estate developer Tishman Speyer has released plans to restore the facade of the Chrysler Building in New York and redesign at least 75 per cent of the interiors, after taking over the building's lease. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ( Cooper Union ), which has owned the ground under the Chrysler Building since 1902, recently signed a lease agreement with Tishman Speye

Local studio Architects Office has used leftover glued-laminated timber of varying sizes and traditional joinery methods to construct a pavilion between apartment buildings in São Paulo , Brazil. The 661-square-metre structure, known as IZ Pavilion, spreads out in a 0.6-acre plot between apartment buildings in the Rua Francisco Leitão residential development in the city's Pinheiros neighbourhood.

Dramatic bamboo vaults form a series of teaching and research spaces at Maestro Ilaiyaraaja Centre for Music Learning and Research, completed by Indian studio Ekarth Studio in the state of Tamil Nadu . Located on the 250-hectare IIT Madras university campus in Chennai, the centre comprises a series of bamboo pavilions used by student musicians, engineers and mathematicians, primarily for music-rel