Architecture
Dramatic drop in skyscrapers built in 2020 as coronavirus impacts global construction
Foster + Partners reveals quartet of aluminium-clad skyscrapers in Qatar
Supertall skyscrapers linked by planted terraces to be built in Shenzhen by Zaha Hadid Architects
Most “nice architecture” built before 1900 says Alain de Botton’s The School of Life collective
Zero Energy Design Lab creates Girls’ Hostel Block with hollow concrete facade
New York announces High Line extension to connect to Penn Station
Six examples of reversible architecture and design that can be taken apart and repurposed
Feilden Fowles adds pointed arch extension to Carlisle Cathedral’s fratry
This week we looked forward to architecture in 2021
Various Associates designs C2 Cafe & Bar as a wooden “cabin in the city”
Edmund Sumner shares photos of Louis Kahn’s IIMA including its recently saved dormitories
Zaha Hadid Architects designs student housing topped with rooftop walkway in Hong Kong
Heatherwick Studio’s Vessel closes after third suicide death
Saudi Arabia announces plans for a 100-mile, car-free linear city called The Line
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ No 33 Park Row nears completion in New York
Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris to become “an extraordinary garden”
i29 completes angular floating house as part of sustainable Amsterdam community
Opposite Office proposes turning US Capitol into “fortress to protect democracy”
Former Shanghai airport transformed into Xuhui Runway Park
House of Many Courtyards incorporates sheltered terraces along its entire length
MAD unveils Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing
Manuel Cervantes builds his own home and studio on a Mexican hillside
Three proposals for Covid-19 vaccination centres designed to speed up the immunisation process
