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Aerial photos reveal repetitive housing of Neom workers camps

November 10, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Satellite photography has revealed the numerous settlements containing thousands of identical housing blocks that have been built for those working on Neom in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. Taken from Google Maps, the satellite images show a series of large camps surrounded by desert that have been built alongside Neom’s major construction sites. The images

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Nike and Palace Skateboards unveil transforming skatepark in Victorian public bathhouse

November 4, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Jam has designed the Manor Place sports hub in south London for brands Nike and Palace Skateboards, which includes a skatepark that can be transformed into a football pitch. Set to open on November 11, the sports hub by Jam occupies a 19th-century bathhouse and swimming pool complex near Elephant and Castle. The

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“We want love stories between architects and Albania” says prime minister Edi Rama

October 29, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama explains why he is paying so much attention to architecture in this exclusive interview. The small Balkan nation is currently an unlikely hotbed of statement architecture – with major projects being delivered by big-name international studios including MVRDV, BIG and Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. “An architecture festival is more important than

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Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors

October 21, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a new home for the Fondation Cartier, featuring moveable gallery spaces. Set to open to the public this Friday, the building for the art foundation of luxury brand Cartier, established in 1984, is designed as a contemporary art

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Neom names Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and Gensler as The Line architects

November 11, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Austrian studio Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and global studio Gensler have been named as the architects for phase one of The Line megacity, which is being built as part of the controversial Neom project in Saudi Arabia. Neom announced that Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA) is the urban planner for phase one of the project,

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This week construction began on the world’s largest building

October 26, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, work started on the 400-metre-high cube-shaped Mukaab skyscraper in Riyadh, which is set to be the world’s largest building. Designed by architecture studio AtkinsRéalis, the cuboid skyscraper is being built as part of a new downtown district in the northwest of the Saudi capital. When completed, it will overtake the Boeing Everett Factory

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Ten record-breaking buildings from the skinniest to the heaviest

October 25, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Following the news that construction has begun on the world’s largest building in Saudi Arabia, we have rounded up 10 record-breaking structures, including the tallest, the narrowest and the heaviest. Largest building: Boeing Everett Factory (1967) Although the Mukaab in Saudi Arabia is set to become the world’s largest building, the current record-holder is the

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Melike Altınışık Architects unveils spaceship-like robot museum in Seoul

October 23, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Turkish studio Melike Altınışık Architects has unveiled the Seoul Robot & AI Museum in South Korea, where visitors can “explore the endless possibilities of robotics and AI”. Located in the north of the city, the 7,400-square-metre museum dedicated to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) opened to the public earlier this month. The Seoul Robot &

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Construction starts on world’s largest building in Saudi Arabia

October 22, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Construction has begun on the 400-metre-high, cube-shaped Mukaab supertall skyscraper in Riyadh designed by AtkinsRéalis, which will be the world’s largest building when it completes. Designed as the centrepiece of the 19-square-kilometre New Murabba development in northwest Riyadh, Mukaab is now officially under construction with excavations underway, according to its development company. The developer, named

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This week the Elizabeth Line was named the UK’s best new building

October 19, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, the Elizabeth Line in London designed by architecture studios Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis won the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building. The largest expansion to London’s underground railway network for more than a century was described as “a flawless, efficient, beautifully choreographed solution”, by the award jury. Also

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