Amy Peacock

Amazon River becomes permanent home for Carlo Ratti and Höweler + Yoon’s AquaPraça plaza

November 28, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

A floating plaza designed by Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and US firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture has anchored in Belém, Brazil, following its residency at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Named AquaPraça, the 400-square-metre plaza was transported to Belém at the mouth of the Amazon River, where it formed part of the Italian Pavilion at the COP30 climate conference

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RSHP among studios to complete stations for Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel

November 27, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studios RSHP, Hassell and WW+P Architects have created the five stations for the Metro Tunnel rail network in Melbourne, designed to provide enjoyable spaces for commuters. Set to be fully operational in February 2026, Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel aims to ease congestion on the City Loop underground infrastructure by connecting the Sunbury line in the west

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes waterfront stadium and sports centre in Guangzhou

November 26, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangzhou, China, which includes curved stadiums for sporting and cultural events. Located in a 70-hectare waterfront park in Guangzhou’s Nansha district, the centre includes a 60,000-seat stadium, a 20,000-seat arena for basketball and indoor events, and a 4,000-seat aquatic centre with a

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Construction starts on UK’s largest Christian monument

November 21, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Work has begun on a looped Christian landmark named the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which was designed by UK studio Snug Architects to rise over 50 metres in Warwickshire. Snug Architects designed the sculptural, ribbon-like structure as a Möbius strip – a continuous concrete band that curves and twists in a loop. The Eternal Wall

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Novembre Studio completes Golden Goose Arena at the CityLife development in Milan

November 14, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Italian architecture firm Novembre Studio has completed a polycarbonate padel centre at Milan’s CityLife development, which was designed in response to the adjacent CityWave office by BIG. Named the Golden Goose Arena, the 12-metre-tall sports centre contains seven indoor padel courts, a cafe, lounge area, clothing shop, as well as two outdoor padel courts. Clad

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Viral video captures London’s Olympic velodrome “reflecting fireworks as farts”

November 11, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

A video of London’s Olympic velodrome, designed by local studio Hopkins Architects, has gone viral on social media for echoing fart-like sounds while fireworks exploded nearby. Passerby Matt McClafferty captured the footage of the unusual sounds coming from the velodrome, now named Lee Valley VeloPark, last Thursday as firework displays went off in celebration of Bonfire

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Herzog & de Meuron transforms Breuer Building into Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters

November 10, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and local studio PBDW Architects have completed a “quasi-invisible” renovation of Marcel Breuer’s brutalist 945 Madison Avenue for auction house Sotheby’s. Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects aimed to preserve the building, which was built in 1966 for New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, while updating the interiors

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Video reveals Sagrada Familia becoming tallest church in the world

November 6, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has become the world’s tallest church with the latest addition to the tower of Jesus Christ, which has been captured in this video. The footage shows the lower portion of a cross being lifted into place on the central and tallest tower, marking the start of the final phase of

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Rippling charity headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects tops out in Shenzhen

November 5, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has released photos of a sinuous high-rise building under construction in Shenzhen, which is set to become the headquarters for education charity Chen Yidan Foundation. The Yidan Center, which has topped out, features two towers with curving floor plates that join at the top, and a bridge element providing a

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“Sinuous structural system” supports Hangzhou footbridge by Zaha Hadid Architects

October 31, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled the Grand Canal Gateway Bridge, a curving footbridge in Hangzhou that weaves around a trio of arches. Set to open to the public later this year, the tied-arch bridge is designed as the centrepiece of the Seamless City masterplan, which contains a park, housing and civic and commercial districts, also

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