Articles by James Parkes

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BIG and Heatherwick complete Google campus topped with “dragon scale” roofs

May 18, 2022 James Parkes 0
Aerial image of Google's Bay View Campus

Search engine company Google has opened its BIG and Heatherwick Studio-designed Bay View campus in California’s Silicon Valley, which features sweeping, scale-like panels across its roof. Located in the city of Mountain View, California, the Bay View campus contains two office buildings for Google alongside an events centre and 240 short-term employee accommodation units. The 1.1-million-square-feet campus designed by

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Wexner Center for the Arts is “a building that is waiting to be a building”

May 16, 2022 James Parkes 0
The Wexner Center for the Arts features a brick and steel exterior

As we continue our deconstructivist series, we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman, which he claims “has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.” Designed by New York-based architect Eisenman in collaboration with Richard Trott and landscape architect Laurie Olin, The Wexner Center for the Arts

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Jacquemus creates surrealist interpretation of his own bathroom for Selfridges pop-up

May 11, 2022 James Parkes 0
Image of a blue tiled replica changing room at Le Bleu

French fashion designer Simon Jacquemus has opened a series of surrealist pop-up installations at London department store Selfridges, including a luxury-bag vending machine and a swimming-pool changing room. Titled Le Bleu, the installation occupies a number of locations across the store, including its creative retail space The Corner Shop and the Old Selfridges Hotel, a

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Henning Larsen designs tree-like volumes made from mass timber for Volvo experience centre

May 4, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of the exterior of the World of Volvo

Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled its design for a mass-timber building in Sweden that will be used as an experience centre and meeting place for car manufacturer Volvo. Named the World of Volvo and located in Gothenburg, Sweden, the 22,000 square-metre development aimed to combine the traditional craftsmanship of Scandinavian design and

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The Standard and Oskar Kohnen use 1960s style for interiors of Ibiza hotel

May 3, 2022 James Parkes 0

Boutique hotel group The Standard has housed a hotel in Ibiza in a former movie theatre with interiors designed by its in-house design team and Oskar Kohnen. Located in the heart of Ibiza Town in a former movie theatre, The Standard Ibiza contains 67 guest suites, restaurants, a rooftop bar and a swimming pool with panoramic views

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Footage reveals demolition of Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo

April 29, 2022 James Parkes 0
The tower is being demolished

This exclusive video footage by Dezeen shows the demolition and dismantling of Kisho Kurokawa’s metabolism Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo. The dismantling of the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, which was designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, comes after the building fell into disrepair. Built in 1972 in the Ginza neighbourhood of Tokyo, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is

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Balenciaga wraps London store in pink faux fur to celebrate its Le Cagole “it-bag”

April 28, 2022 James Parkes 0
Interior image of the Le Cagole pop-up at Balenciaga

Fashion brand Balenciaga has transformed its Mount Street store in London, creating a maximalist look to launch its Le Cagole collection by blanketing the interior in bright pink faux fur. To celebrate its popular Le Cagole bag, which references Balenciaga’s maximalist It Bags of the past, and launch the line’s collection of accessories and shoes,

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Büro Ole Scheeren designs octagonal supertall skyscraper with shimmering facade

April 27, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of Nanjing Nexus lit at night

Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled plans for the 350-metre-high Nanjing Nexus skyscraper in China. Named Nanjing Nexus, the supertall skyscraper was designed for a site near the Yangtze River in the financial district of the Chinese city of Nanjing. Designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, the supertall skyscraper – a building over 300 metres – will have an

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Japan’s tallest building tops out in Tokyo

April 25, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of Tokyo's skyline with the completed A District tower

Architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners’ 330-metre-tall A District tower has topped out in central Tokyo, making it Japan’s tallest building. Located in central Tokyo’s Toronamon-Azabudai District, the mixed-use tower – one of a complex of three skyscrapers that Pelli Clarke & Partners is designing for developer Mori – has reached its full height. At

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