Colab-19 builds open-sided church in Bogotá for worship during the pandemic

by | Apr 10, 2021 | all, Architecture, Bogotá, Churches, Colab-19, Colombia, Coronavirus, Cultural, Design, Dezeen, Houses, Renovations, Residential

Colab-19 has built a temporary church shaped like a cross to allow a local congregation to worship together safely during the coronavirus pandemic in Bogotá, Colombia. Called Alhambra Cross, the pop-up church is made from old horizontal frameworks, a system usually...

Carmody Groarke creates “intriguing atmospheric” entrance to Science and Industry Museum

by | Apr 8, 2021 | all, Architecture, Carmody Groarke, Cultural, Design, Dezeen, England, Houses, Instagram, Manchester, Museums, Renovations, Residential, UK

Architecture studio Carmody Groarke has designed a lower-level entrance and gallery space at a science museum in Manchester, UK. Envisioned as the first part of the Science and Industry Museum’s long-term renovation plan, Carmody Groarke revamped the...

Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph colourful Soviet architecture across Central Asia

by | Apr 4, 2021 | all, Architecture, Asia, Brutalism, Cultural, Design, Dezeen, Eastern Bloc architecture, Hotels, Houses, Kazakhstan, Modernism, Photography, Public and leisure, Renovations, Residential, Roberto Conte

Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from Central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. The duo’s Soviet Asia series documents architecture constructed between the 1950s and 1991 in the former Soviet...

Thomas Randall-Page transforms Devon barn into light-filled artist’s studio

by | Apr 2, 2021 | Adaptive reuse, all, Architecture, Architecture videos, Barns, Cultural, Design, Devon, Dezeen, England, Houses, Instagram, Jim Stephenson, Renovations, Residential, Studios, Thomas Randall-Page, UK, Videos

Architect Thomas Randall-Page has renovated and updated an agricultural barn in Devon, England, to create a studio and archive space for his father, the sculptor Peter Randall-Page. Peter Randall-Page purchased the barn in 2011 and commissioned his son Thomas’s...