Researchers have discovered that the mass of buildings in New York City is contributing to it subsiding by one to two millimetres a year, adding to the city’s flood risk. Researchers from the government’s US Geological Survey and the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island calculated the mass of all the buildings in New
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Artificial intelligence is “not the end of the universe” and instead is building a better understanding between stakeholders in architecture projects, experts said at a discussion hosted by Dezeen and Autodesk. Moderated by Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft, the talk saw three experts discuss the role of data and AI in the architecture industry, in an
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German architecture firm Henn and the Technical University of Dresden have completed the world’s first building made of carbon concrete – a form of concrete reinforced with carbon fibre instead of steel. Called the Cube, the 243-square-metre building was constructed as a test of the new material and will provide a laboratory and event space
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IKEA’s innovation lab Space10 has worked with interior designers Spacon & X to transform the ground floor of its headquarters into a library and community space, with a look that is meant to recall a simple kiosk. Located in a former fish factory in the city’s Meatpacking District, Space10’s offices now include a library of
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Studios White Arkitekter and K2S Architects are set to turn an underutilised area alongside Helsinki harbour into a cultural precinct incorporating several historic buildings. Local practice K2S Architects and Sweden’s White Arkitekter won the competition to revitalise the Makasiiniranta area on the city’s South Harbour with a proposal called Saaret, or “The Islands”, developed with
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Avanto Architects and interior designer Joanna Laajisto have designed a logistics centre for retailer Finnish Design Shop that features warm timber, a foraged-food restaurant for staff and visitors, and views of the surrounding forest. Located on the outskirts of Turku, west of Helsinki, the logistics centre is the hub for storage, management and dispatch of
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French architect Jean-Christophe Quinton has decorated a Parisian social housing project built on the site of a demolished police station with a curvy limestone facade. The housing units are located at 12 Rue Jean-Bart in Paris’ wealthy sixth arrondissement, one of the city’s central districts, and were designed to destigmatise social housing by giving it
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Palestinian studio AAU Anastas has completed the first phase of a restoration of a historic stone building in Bethlehem that emphasises the beauty of its “hosh”, the central courtyard in Arabic architecture. Located near Manger Square in Bethlehem, the Dar al Majous project is made up of several residential buildings, some dating back to the
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British company Seratech has won the architecture-focused Obel Award with its prototype carbon-neutral concrete, which it says is low-cost and easy to scale. Founded by PhD students Sam Draper and Barney Shanks to commercialise their research at the Imperial College London, Seratech replaces part of the cement content of concrete with a type of silica
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University of Virginia researchers have invented a method of 3D printing with seed-impregnated soil, which could be used to create walls and roofs teeming with plant life. Prototypes built by the researchers start off looking like ordinary raw-earth structures. But over the course of a few days, they sprout and become covered in greenery, leading
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