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This New Delhi home was built to look like nothing anyone has ever seen, and honestly? Mission accomplishedCulture

This New Delhi home was built to look like nothing anyone has ever seen, and honestly? Mission accomplished

Spaces Architects Ka designed The Art House in New Delhi, a 9,000-square-foot home defined by curved geometries and an intense level of customisation - because the client literally asked for something no one has ever seen.

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This Dutch school got a glow-up and now it trains judges (which is somehow cooler)Culture

This Dutch school got a glow-up and now it trains judges (which is somehow cooler)

Dutch studios i29 and DP6 have transformed a historic Utrecht school into a judiciary training institute, proving that old buildings and bold ideas are better together.

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250 years of trying to figure out what 'American architecture' actually meansCulture

250 years of trying to figure out what 'American architecture' actually means

America has spent 250 years trying to invent a distinctly national architecture style, and the answer turns out to be complicated, gorgeous, and very loud.

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Baltimore just built the public pool that will make you forget private pools existCulture

Baltimore just built the public pool that will make you forget private pools exist

Baltimore's newly renovated Greater Model Aquatics Center in Poppleton features zero-entry pools, six lap lanes, yellow lounge chairs, and shade umbrellas - proving public pools don't have to be miserable.

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This haunted abbey doesn't need ghosts - it built its own out of steelCulture

This haunted abbey doesn't need ghosts - it built its own out of steel

Belgian design duo gijs van vaerenbergh rebuilt the lost cloisters of Herkenrode Abbey at full scale using translucent steel frames, turning architectural absence into one of the most hauntingly beautiful heritage projects in recent memory.

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The internet has found a mint green building it actually likes, and we're all a little shockedCulture

The internet has found a mint green building it actually likes, and we're all a little shocked

Johnston Marklee's mint green residential building Ray Phoenix has done the impossible - united the architecture comment section in genuine, unironic approval.

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Fish skin lamps and houses wrapped in road barriers: Iceland's design scene is doing what it wantsCulture

Fish skin lamps and houses wrapped in road barriers: Iceland's design scene is doing what it wants

DesignMarch 2026 in Reykjavik featured over 100 exhibitions including a fish-skin lamp and a home wrapped in road barriers, proving Iceland's design scene is operating on its own gloriously eccentric frequency.

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Vancouver built a giant wooden beehive that survives earthquakes by doing the wormCulture

Vancouver built a giant wooden beehive that survives earthquakes by doing the worm

Vancouver's new Hive building is a 10-story mass timber office shaped like a honeycomb that survives earthquakes by wiggling - and it's the tallest of its kind in the world.

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The Sagrada Familia just got its tower of Jesus Christ - and it's still not doneCulture

The Sagrada Familia just got its tower of Jesus Christ - and it's still not done

The Tower of Jesus Christ has been inaugurated at the Sagrada Familia, but lead architect Maurici Cortés wants to set the record straight - Gaudí's legendary basilica is far from finished, despite what those headlines say.

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Slovak architecture students just made 'home' feel like an existential crisis (in the best way)Culture

Slovak architecture students just made 'home' feel like an existential crisis (in the best way)

A student exhibition in Bratislava is breaking down the idea of home into memory, sound, and projected light - using four modular units to make you feel something architecture textbooks rarely manage.

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Tencent's new headquarters looks like someone asked an AI to design clouds and it actually workedCulture

Tencent's new headquarters looks like someone asked an AI to design clouds and it actually worked

MAD architects has completed the Tengyun Center for Tencent in Shenzhen - a trio of curved, glazed 'cloud buildings' that float between two office towers across a 72,000-square-metre campus. It's a lot, and we love it.

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10 out of 16 World Cup stadiums are basically slow cookers, and architects are scramblingCulture

10 out of 16 World Cup stadiums are basically slow cookers, and architects are scrambling

A new report found that 10 of 16 World Cup 2026 stadiums face high extreme heat risk. Sports architects say smarter design can help - but the clock is ticking.

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This London townhouse got a weathered steel ribbon and now the whole street is jealousCulture

This London townhouse got a weathered steel ribbon and now the whole street is jealous

Will Gamble Architects wrapped a London Victorian townhouse extension in weathered Corten steel shaped like a pressed ribbon, and it's easily the most interesting thing happening on its street.

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150+ venues, one big design party: WDC 2026's open week just broke the festival moldCulture

150+ venues, one big design party: WDC 2026's open week just broke the festival mold

The World Design Capital 2026 Open Week ran from June 5 to 14, turning more than 150 venues into a distributed regional design platform - and quietly reinventing what a design festival can be.

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This old civic centre just became a medical school, and it slapsCulture

This old civic centre just became a medical school, and it slaps

Diamond Schmitt has transformed the former Bramalea Civic Centre into TMU's new School of Medicine, complete with warm wood-clad elements, bold blue accents, and an integrated public primary care clinic.

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This CNC-routed plywood installation is basically a Japanese porch having a glow-up in publicCulture

This CNC-routed plywood installation is basically a Japanese porch having a glow-up in public

A digitally fabricated timber installation reimagines the traditional Japanese engawa - the transitional veranda space - as a CNC-routed plywood public gathering structure with seriously satisfying stepped geometry.

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Trump's presidential library is a skyscraper and honestly, what did you expect?Culture

Trump's presidential library is a skyscraper and honestly, what did you expect?

Trump unveiled skyscraper renderings for his presidential library and critics went predictably feral. But according to a Dezeen opinion piece, the real story is how architecture has always been a political branding tool - this one is just less subtle about it.

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Penn Station is getting an $8 billion glow-up and honestly it's about timeCulture

Penn Station is getting an $8 billion glow-up and honestly it's about time

New renderings show Penn Station's $8 billion redesign featuring natural light, bronze accents, and - allegedly - a reason to feel okay about being there.

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Zaha Hadid built four funicular stations in the Alps and made them look like frozen alien podsCulture

Zaha Hadid built four funicular stations in the Alps and made them look like frozen alien pods

Zaha Hadid's four funicular railway stations in Innsbruck, Austria, are topped with parametric canopies designed to resemble ice formations - and they are exactly as wild as that sounds.

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London's underground toilets just got a glow-up and honestly they deserve it more than youCulture

London's underground toilets just got a glow-up and honestly they deserve it more than you

Hugh Broughton Architects has redesigned London Underground's public toilets with pink columns, blue tiles, and art deco details - and the accessibility-focused glow-up is genuinely stunning.

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