This week on Dezeen, we revealed the vast ceremonial spaces, presidential palace and gateways of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital.
Captured by Johan Blasberg, the photos of Egypt’s new capital city show the monumental scale of the project, which also includes the largest mosque in Africa.
We also investigated the continued dominance of fully glazed skyscrapers despite criticisms about their environmental impact.
“There’s strong evidence we are over-glazing our buildings,” head of the school of the built environment at UNSW Sydney Phillip Oldfield told Dezeen.
Although numerous architects are designing all-glass skyscrapers, Revery Architecture is one of those bucking the trend with a sculptural skyscraper in Vancouver.
The cylindrical facades of the 178.6-metre-high Butterfly are wrapped in concrete balconies.
We continued our Art Deco Centenary series by looking at the life of muralist Hildreth Meière, whose legacy was eclipsed by her better-known male contemporaries.
We also looked at nine key designs by Britain’s forgotten queen of art deco, Betty Joel.
In design news, we revealed that future Apple Watches could feature foldable screens.
A patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office this month shows a smartwatch that hinges open to reveal a second screen.
In an interview with Dezeen, the curators of the Brutal Capitalism exhibition in Washington DC said that they wanted “to complicate people’s ideas of brutalism”.
We also shared photos of eight of the city’s most notable brutalist buildings taken by photographer Ty Cole, who was one of the curators of the exhibition.
Projects that caught readers’ attention this week include a brutalist hilltop home that evokes an “ancient ruin”, a maroon holiday cabin in woodland in Barcelona and a cafe by Kengo Kuma wrapped in a mesh net.
Our latest lookbooks featured interiors that offer a contemporary take on art deco and breezy living rooms that embrace the Mediterranean landscape.
The main photo is by Zoshua Colah via Unsplash.
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