Architecture
Advances in materials and design continue to expand the architect's play book with buildings that reach for the skies and connect us to the earth in imaginative and increasingly sustainable ways. New Atlas brings you the latest developments.
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From broken TV sets to renovated cow sheds: UK's best new houses revealed
October 26, 2023RIBA has revealed the 2023 House of the Year shortlist. Celebrating the best of British residential design, it includes a house clad in crushed TV screens, a renovated cow shed, and a greenery filled home fronted by polycarbonate roofing sheets. -
Futuristic sci-fi museum forms a nebulous star cloud in China
October 25, 2023Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, and it looks just as extraordinary as the renders previously promised. The building's amorphous form is envisioned as an expanding nebula cloud with a star at its center. -
Communist pyramid transformed into scalable tech hub with superb views
October 23, 2023MVRDV's renovation of Albania's Tirana Pyramid is now finally complete and has officially opened to the public. The building has been transformed from a communist-era brutalist landmark into a scalable technology center focused on young people. -
Subtle and sensitive children's home wins 2023 Stephen Lawrence Prize
October 20, 2023Alongside the 2023 Stirling Prize, RIBA has also revealed the winner of this year's Stephen Lawrence Prize. The Lighthouse Children's Home, by Conrad Koslowsky Architects, has got the nod for its subtle and sensitive design of a children's home. -
Seniors' day care center wins UK's top architecture award
October 20, 2023The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the recipient of the 2023 Stirling Prize, the most prestigious award in UK architecture. Mæ has won for its superb work designing the John Morden Centre, a day care center for elderly people. -
Earthquake-resistant house 3D printed in just 26 hours
October 19, 2023Cement company Progreso has completed Guatemala's first 3D-printed building. It's designed to withstand local seismic activity and combines modern 3D-printing construction techniques with traditional local craftsmanship in the form of a thatched roof. -
Europe's largest thatched roof crowns island health resort
October 17, 2023Following its work creating Europe's largest green facade, Ingenhoven Associates has topped a large health resort nestled into some dunes on a German island with what it hails as Europe's largest thatched roof. -
Recycled fishing nets form Tiffany's 3D-printed coral-inspired facade
October 16, 2023MVRDV has completed work on a retail store for jeweler Tiffany's in Singapore's Changi Airport. It aims to catch the eyes of weary travelers with a 3D-printed coral-inspired facade made using recycled plastic partly sourced from fishing nets. -
Gleaming glass office inserted into historic 19th century building
October 13, 2023PAU recently completed an ambitious renovation of Brooklyn's 19th century Domino Sugar Refinery. The firm retained the main brick shell of the historic building and inserted an all-new modern and energy efficient glass office building inside. -
Public given clearance to explore London's top secret spy tunnels
October 11, 2023Hidden 40 m below London's streets lies a fascinating network of tunnels. Originally conceived as a bomb shelter during WWII, they also hosted a high-tech telecommunications system, and even a spy HQ. Now there's a plan to open them up to the public. -
Tired old house goes green with masterful modern renovation
October 06, 2023Austin Maynard Architects is adept at transforming dilapidated homes into attractive modern residences. Its Helvetia project has breathed new life into an old terrace house, adding lots of natural light, an atrium and multiple garden spaces. -
Futuristic eVTOL vertiport readies for takeoff in Melbourne
October 05, 2023If we're going to reach the point of flying around our cities in eVTOLS then we're going to need infrastructure to support them. Contreras Earl Architecture has revealed plans for a new vertiport on the waterfront in Melbourne's Batman Park. -
Curving cultural center's layered roofs form "sails in a sea breeze"
September 29, 2023ZHA has unveiled plans for a new cultural district in China, with a cultural center at its heart that showcases the firm's trademark style, and is defined by a series of eye-catching layered roofs that are likened to sails in a sea breeze by the firm. -
Algae-based blocks could make for a more sustainable building
September 28, 2023Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and cinder blocks make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by SOM, in collaboration with Prometheus Materials, showcases an alternative block made from algae. -
Sleep like an ogre in Airbnb's Shrek Swamp
September 28, 2023If you've ever wanted to stay in a hovel that's home to an antisocial green ogre – and, let's face it, who hasn't? – now might finally be your chance. Airbnb has recreated the swampy home from the Shrek movies in the Scottish Highlands.
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