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Architecture studio OMA has broken ground on the Frank Liu Jr Academy for Music and Arts charter school in Houston, a pre-K through eighth-grade institution housed in a former coffee plant. The three-storey Frank Liu Jr Academy for Music and Arts (FLAMA) building will be organised around Montessori learning principles, according to the team, a

US studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a brown-metal and limestone house organised around a courtyard on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Michigan, USA. Known as Timber Lane Retreat, the 2026 house is composed of three volumes – two, two-story gabled forms that align with a central courtyard and an offset single-story box with The pos

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal that integrates findings from magpie behavioural research into the landscape design of a Melbourne waterfront is among the projects from students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Also featured are a game designed to educate users about recycling and a proposal to transform Shanghai's North Caoxi Road into a "sp

Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK, to its countryside surroundings. Perched on a verdant plot, the five-bedroom Sable House dwelling replaces a 1950s house that had been home to the client and their family for more than 20 years. Allan Joyce

Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK, to its countryside surroundings. Perched on a verdant plot, the five-bedroom Sable House dwelling replaces a 1950s house that had been home to the client and their family for more than 20 years. Allan Joyce

Architect Donald Insall, founder of Donald Insall Associates and known for his conservation and renovation work, including on Windsor Castle, has died at the age of 100. Insall, whose death was announced in a statement from his studio, was best known for his work in conservation, which he saw as different to preservation. "Preservation he said

Architecture studio Pearce+ has created a timber pavilion in Camden, London, to draw attention to the need for shade in the UK and encourage people to build their own DIY shading. Commissioned by Camden Inspire festival, the simple pavilion is currently situated at the site of the Camden Collective charity in north London. It was The post Guer

Italian studio Formafantasma has created Ocean & Climate Village, an exhibition at fashion brand Prada's Luna Rossa base in Cagliari, Sardinia, that uses "design as an educational tool" to show the importance of the ocean. The show, which Prada describes as a "travelling science exhibition", was developed by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanogr