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This week Álvaro Siza completed a limestone-clad skyscraper in Manhattan and Reiten Cheng developed an open-source machine that recycles plastic bottles into 3D printing filament. Read on for more...

 

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Álvaro Siza completes limestone-clad skyscraper in Manhattan

Álvaro Siza completes limestone-clad skyscraper in Manhattan

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has revealed the 611 West 56th Street skyscraper in Manhattan, which is the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect's first building in the United States.

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Polyformer is an open-source machine that recycles plastic bottles into 3D printing filament

Polyformer is an open-source machine that recycles plastic bottles into 3D printing filament

California-based industrial designer Reiten Cheng has developed a recycling machine that can be 3D printed using open-source instructions and used to turn PET bottles into filament for additive manufacturing.

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Ten 21st-century underground railway stations from around the world

Ten 21st-century underground railway stations from around the world

London's much-anticipated Elizabeth Line has finally opened. Here is a roundup of 10 metro stations from across the globe that have been updated in recent years.

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First images of Heatherwick's Tree of Trees at Buckingham Palace revealed

First images of Heatherwick's Tree of Trees at Buckingham Palace revealed

A Heatherwick Studio-designed sculpture containing 350 trees, which is being erected to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, is nearing completion outside Buckingham Palace in London.

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Gaggenau to take over Villa Necchi Campiglio during Milan Design Week

Gaggenau to take over Villa Necchi Campiglio during Milan Design Week

Promotion: German luxury kitchen appliance brand Gaggenau will build an interactive installation within the conservatory of Milan's historic Villa Necchi Campiglio during Milan design week that will also host a series of talks live-streamed by Dezeen.

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BIG completes "world's most environmentally-friendly furniture factory" in Norway

BIG completes "world's most environmentally-friendly furniture factory" in Norway

Architecture firm BIG has constructed a mass-timber Passivhaus factory in a Norwegian forest for outdoor furniture maker Vestre, which features a green roof and solar panels as well as an exterior slide.

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Herzog & de Meuron creates building with "modesty" for Royal College of Art

Herzog & de Meuron creates building with "modesty" for Royal College of Art

Tactile brown bricks, flexible teaching spaces and public walkways animate the research and studio building that Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has created for the Royal College of Art in London.

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Haptic and Ramboll develop conceptual timber high-rise for "any city in the world"

Haptic and Ramboll develop conceptual timber high-rise for "any city in the world"

The Regenerative High-Rise is a concept for a modular timber tower by architecture studio Haptic and engineering firm Ramboll that could be used to transform tricky sites in cities worldwide.

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"I want to do less," says Marcel Wanders as he announces his design studio will suspend operations

"I want to do less," says Marcel Wanders as he announces his design studio will suspend operations

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders is to "freeze operations" at the design studio that bears his name and step back from the business for an indefinite period.

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Texas senator proposes design measures to "harden schools" in wake of Uvalde shooting

Texas senator proposes design measures to "harden schools" in wake of Uvalde shooting

US senator Ted Cruz has said that schools should be redesigned to have a single door guarded by armed police to prevent further shootings following the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas.

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Dyson reveals home robot prototypes that can carry out domestic chores

Dyson reveals home robot prototypes that can carry out domestic chores

British manufacturer Dyson has announced that it is "supercharging its robotics ambitions" by developing home robots and building the UK's largest robotics research centre.

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Fentress Architects overhauls Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC

Fentress Architects overhauls Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC

US studio Fentress Architects used copper and mass timber to reconfigure Norway's embassy in Washington DC, which opened to the public this month.

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"The death of George Floyd has become a catalyst for social change and urban redevelopment"

"The death of George Floyd has become a catalyst for social change and urban redevelopment"

A promising new future for Minneapolis is emerging from the trauma of George Floyd's murder by a police officer two years ago, writes a local architect who knew him, James Garrett Jr.

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MIT Media Lab trials modular tiles that self-assemble into "entirely novel type of space architecture"

MIT Media Lab trials modular tiles that self-assemble into "entirely novel type of space architecture"

Researchers at MIT Media Lab have tested modular tiles that autonomously assemble to create habitats in space on the latest mission to the International Space Station.

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