Ben Dreith

Adamo Faiden creates Buenos Aires skyscraper as a “geographical feature”

November 24, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Adamo Faiden has completed Huergo 475, a skyscraper with a green-pigmented concrete facade and a series of cantilevers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tower has an exposed concrete facade that is also structural, and was designed by Adamo Faiden to both be monolithic and to blend in with the cityscape. “The exposed concrete

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Snøhetta showcases “transformative” Ford headquarters building in Michigan

November 21, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta is nearing completion on a massive, interconnected headquarters for automotive company Ford in Michigan, USA, completing an engineering-focused central building. Images show the nearly completed Central Campus Building at Ford’s Global Headquarters within the company’s greater Research & Engineering (R&E) Campus in Dearborn. Clad in glass with overlapping volumes defined by cedar

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Plan to demolish two skyscrapers at Detroit’s Renaissance Center moves forward

November 20, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Detroit developer Bedrock has announced a new round of funding for a controversial scheme to redevelop the John Portman-designed Renaissance Center, with new renderings of the project. Bedrock announced that Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) had committed $75 million to the project, which will see the demolition of two out of seven skyscrapers in the

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Ten American pyramids that show “capitalism’s penchant for nostalgia”

November 17, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

The Pyramids: Special Economic Vortex Zones of North America explores pyramidal structures throughout the continent. Here, the book’s creator Ian James comments on ten of the weirdest and most interesting examples. Photographer James has been travelling around the United States and Canada documenting modern pyramids for years, stringing together road trips to visit both iconic and

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Prospect Berkshires “landscape hotel” features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts

November 15, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins around a lake in Massachusetts, USA, and renovated a historic building to serve as the restaurant. Local design-build company Alander Construction designed the dozens of structures that spread across the shore at Prospect Lake, forming what the team refers to as a “year-round

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Prospect Berkshires “landscape hotel” features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts

November 15, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins around a lake in Massachusetts, USA, and renovated a historic building to serve as the restaurant. Local design-build company Alander Construction designed the dozens of structures that spread across the shore at Prospect Lake, forming what the team refers to as a “year-round

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“Dream-like” Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by MAD nearing completion in LA

November 13, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Photography has revealed the near-complete exterior cladding on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, designed by Chinese studio MAD, ahead of its opening in September 2026. The museum, dedicated to illustrated storytelling, is taking shape in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. Ma Yansong of MAD has led the design of the building, with

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Lanza Atelier shrouds circular pavilion in water dripping chains

November 4, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Lanza Atelier has created a pavilion in the plaza of a famed Mexico City shopping centre, with a wooden platform surrounding a central reflecting pool. Named A10 Pavilion, the eight-metre-tall structure was built directly on top of a fountain in the plaza of El Palacio de Hierro in Mexico City’s affluent Polanco neighbourhood.

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Adjaye Associates-designed Princeton University Art Museum opens

October 31, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

The concrete-clad Princeton University Art Museum has opened in New Jersey, USA, the first major project designed by British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye to open since he was accused of sexual misconduct. The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is a major expansion of the art museum on the Princeton University campus in New Jersey, which includes

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BIG completes solar education centre for renewed East River park in New York

October 29, 2025 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio BIG has announced a milestone in the ongoing construction of parks along the East River in New York with a timber-clad building with built-in solar infrastructure. The Solar One Environmental Education Center is a two-storey timber-clad building designed to harvest solar energy and store it in case of emergency in Stuyvesant Cove Park.

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