A residential skyscraper designed by the late German-American architect Helmut Jahn has topped out in Chicago‘s South Loop. Sited in the city’s Historic Michigan Avenue District, the skyscraper reached its final height of 788 feet (240 metres) after construction began in 2019. It sits on the western edge of Grant…
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust has launched a campaign to raise $1.2 million to purchase modernist architect Marcel Breuer‘s holiday home in Cape Cod, USA, to save it from likely demolition. Non-profit Cape Cod Modern House Trust is aiming to raise the money to purchase the house, which was designed…
The UK government has introduced regulations “to reverse the rise of gender-neutral toilets” in non-domestic public and private buildings. Announced earlier this week by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the regulations are designed to restrict the creation of shared toilets in public buildings and “protect single sex…
With fewer than 15 Deaf people training to become architects in the UK, the Deaf Architecture Front platform has launched to boost accessibility and representation in the industry. The Deaf Architecture Front (DAF) is “an all-in-one platform” aimed at levelling the playing field for Deaf people in architecture through campaigns,…
Architecture bodies including RIBA and AIA are putting together guidance and policy requests to governments to help the profession deal with the potential risks and benefits of AI. Artificial-intelligence (AI) technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, with the emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney raising…
Concave chairs like Arne Jacobsen‘s Egg and Eero Saarinen‘s Womb don’t meet today’s definition of good design, according to the founders of design studio Pearson Lloyd. Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd said furniture with glued upholstery no longer makes sense because it is too difficult to recycle. They argue that…
The iconic San Siro in Milan, which was set to be replaced by a Populous-designed stadium, has been saved from demolition because of its “cultural heritage”. The stadium, which is shared by Italian football clubs Inter Milan and AC Milan, was rescued from demolition by the Regional Commission for the…
This week on Dezeen, we reported that the first supertall skyscraper in Brooklyn had reached completion after finishing touches were finally made to its intricate facade. Named Brooklyn Tower, the 325-metre-tall building by New York studio SHoP Architects topped out in March, but its black and bronze exterior was only…
Architect David Adjaye has lost another large project in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him, as his studio is dropped from the International Slavery Museum redevelopment in Liverpool. Adjaye Associates had been appointed to create the architectural design of the museum last year, with Ralph Appelbaum Associates set…
Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang has been selected to renovate and expand the Clinton Presidential Center, a library and museum in Little Rock, Arkansas. Studio Gang was chosen by The Clinton Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by former US president Bill Clinton, to expand the programming of the current building….