Skinny wooden house | Dieter Rams documentary | Anti-terror barriers

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

Sliding doors and built-in furniture save space inside skinny house by Ana Rocha Architecture

At just four metres wide Ana Rocha Architecture's wooden skinny house in Almere Poort, the Netherlands, has a frame that took only two days to build and occupies less space than a double parking slot. More ›

 
 

Trailers reveal snippets of upcoming Dieter Rams documentary

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit has released a series of trailers offering a preview of an upcoming feature-length documentary that focuses on the life and career of German designer Dieter Rams. More ›

 
 

Modular anti-terror barriers adopted at Premier League football stadiums

Surface Guard anti-terror barriers by ATG Access

A modular barrier system that can be assembled in under an hour to protect event-goers from vehicle-led terrorist attacks has been installed at Burnley and Manchester United football stadiums. More ›

 
 

Watch our talk with Dulux Trade live from the RIBA in London

Dezeen has teamed up with Dulux Trade to host a breakfast conversation with architects Mark Dytham and Dara Huang on the theme of future-proofing design. Tune in from 9:30am UK time to watch it live. More ›

 
 

Light beams create three-dimensional forms at Antony McCall's Solid Light Works exhibition

This installation by British artist Antony McCall invites visitors to walk through planes of light that create illuminated shapes on walls inside the David Chipperfield-designed Hepworth Wakefield gallery. More ›

 
 

Self-sufficient Yin & Yang house incorporates gardens on its interlocking roof

Self-sufficient Yin & Yang house incorporates gardens on its interlocking dual-aspect roof

Architecture studio Penda has released visualisations of a house designed for a tiny plot near the German city of Kassel that show how its owners will be able to grow food on both sides of its terraced roof. More ›

 
 

SOM's modernist Park Avenue skyscraper faces demolition

A 1960s Midtown Manhattan skyscraper by architecture firm SOM will become the largest building ever to be deliberately destroyed, when it is knocked down in favour of a new tower that will soar 150 metres taller. More ›

 
 

Metro adds science building to Niemeyer-designed tech campus in Brazil

Tech Institute of Aeronautics by Metro

A university campus designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil's São José dos Campos has gained a huge new science building, which is intended to echo a nearby education wing built by the modernist architect. More ›

 
 

Casa Perfect showroom opens in Elvis Presley's former Los Angeles home

Casa Perfect

Design gallery The Future Perfect has opened another California location, this time inside a house that once belonged to Elvis Presley in Beverly Hills. More ›

 
 

Virgin unveils first prototype of Hyperloop One passenger pod

Virgin unveils first prototype of Hyperloop One passenger pod

Virgin has revealed a prototype design of the pods that will be used on the Hyperloop One network to transport passengers between Dubai and Abu Dhabi in just 12 minutes. More ›

 
 

Richard Meier's 1960s Smith House captured in new photographs

Smith House by Richard Meier & Partners

One of American architect Richard Meier's earliest projects, the Smith House, is portrayed in a fresh set of images by photographer Mike Schwartz to commemorate the influential project's 50th anniversary. More ›

 
 

Piccolo seed packaging rebranded to look like miniature book collections

Here Design creates seed packaging to look like miniature book collection

London-based studio Here Design has created a new brand identity for Italian seed company Piccolo, including updated packaging designed to look like a miniature book series. More ›