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UTT Empower crowns community centre in South Africa with rooftop greenhouse

January 6, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

A sawtooth greenhouse framed in red steel acts as “a beacon” atop Soweto Caracas Community Centre in the South African township of Khayelitsha, recently completed by non-profit Urban-Think Tank Empower. Combining childcare, educational and sports spaces with a kitchen and rooftop vegetable garden, the centre is part of a community-led development to upgrade an informal

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Industrial port informs metal exterior of home in Perth by Philip Stejskal

January 5, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

The Fremantle cargo port informed the corrugated metal cladding and steel-framed awnings of Henville Street House, a family home in Perth, Australia, by local studio Philip Stejskal Architecture. Located on a compact urban site, Philip Stejskal Architecture designed the home to have a close relationship to its garden while avoiding overlooking. It is organised around

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Mecozzi Verdini connects Italian villa to concrete annexe using red-steel walkway

November 26, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A red-steel walkway links this 1960s villa in Italy’s Marche region to a concrete-framed annexe called Annesso Rosso, completed by local architecture studio Mecozzi Verdini. Annesso Rosso, or Red Annexe, is named after the deep red colour of its painted steelwork and replaces a cluster of disused agricultural sheds at the back of the home

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Archermit creates “playground to pursue thrills” above Tibetan canyon

November 24, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A glass-floored cantilevering viewpoint features at Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area, a project by Chinese studio Archermit that transforms a perilous landscape in Tibet into a visitor destination. The viewpoint sits in an infamous stretch of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, or G318, known as The Devil’s Road due to its dangerous hairpin turns above

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Bright green stairwells bookend school workshops in Belgium

November 2, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Staircases and walkways framed in bright green steel wrap the concrete frame of Atelier PPW, a studio block created for a school in Belgium by local studio NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte and architect Kris Broidioi. Named Atelier PPW, the building is located on the campus of VTI Oostende in Ostend and replaces a structurally compromised block that

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Dezeen Agenda features Gare de Mons station in Belgium by Santiago Calatrava

October 30, 2025 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the Gare de Mons station in Belgium by Santiago Calatrava. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Swiss-Spanish architect Calatrava has completed the Gare de Mons station in Belgium, a 165-metre-long glass and steel structure that traverses platforms and bus stops. This week’s newsletter also included the

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Santiago Calatrava arranges Belgian station around “monumental bridge”

October 28, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Swathes of glass and steel make up the sinuous exterior of the new Gare de Mons station in Belgium, which has been designed by Swiss-Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Located along the international Paris to Brussels train line in Mons, the station’s sculptural structure is organised around a raised gallery volume that stretches 165 metres across

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Steel slats form sculptural shelves at Tianjin Zhongshuge bookstore by X+Living

October 26, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm X+Living has renovated a large bookstore in Tianjin, China, using layered brickwork and slatted steel to form wave-like shelves, steps and seating that flow around its central hall. The project, which is shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2025 in the retail interior (large) category, involved the transformation of a building in Tianjin’s Italian style

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Surfacedesign “celebrates material reuse” at San Francisco waterfront park

November 4, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local landscape design studio Surfacedesign has completed Bayfront Park waterfront park in San Francisco using steel elements from a recently demolished portion of the Oakland Bay Bridge. Located along the eastern shore of the Mission Bay neighbourhood, the park was constructed in a formal industrial site across from the city’s Chase Center arena. “Bayfront Park

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“Simple, elegant and taut in form and detail” says commenter

October 11, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Paddington Square, a contentious mixed-use building in London with curtain walls and an exposed steel structure completed by architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The 55-by-55-metre cube contains private offices, which make up the bulk of the building, while its base incorporates public amenities and a plaza

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