This week on Dezeen we listed key examples of the influential art deco style, which is celebrating its centenary this week, ranging from the Chrysler Airflow car to ziggurats.
Concluding our Art Deco Centenary series, the A to Z guide aimed to provide an overview of the style.
First catapulted onto the global stage with the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, which opened 100 years ago this week, art deco was the defining style of the 1920s and 1930s.
Other examples in the A to Z include Russian-French artist and fashion designer Romain de Tirtoff, better known as Erté and Betty Joel, likely the most successful designer you’ve never heard of.
We also revealed exclusive photos of two new Canadian projects this week. Construction is underway in Toronto on the Hariri Pontarini Architects-designed SkyTower, which is set to be Canada’s tallest supertall skyscraper with a planned height of 351 metres.
Also in Toronto, Danish studio BIG’s mountainous King Toronto Residences development is taking shape, with move-ins planned for next year. The building comprises clusters of stacked concrete cubes that encircle a central courtyard and wrap around several historic buildings.
As Expo 2025 Osaka continues we looked at the 12 most architecturally significant Expo buildings of all time. Examples include pavilions by architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Heatherwick Studio and a housing block by Moshe Safdie.
Our latest guide tells you everything you need to know about expos and world’s fairs.
London’s latest IKEA store, designed for Londoners “living in super small spaces”, opened on Oxford Street this week. The store is located in a 1920s Grade II-listed building renovated by UK architecture studio BDP.
On the ground floor, visitors are met by small room layouts designed by people from London, while the upper basement level has a deli and IKEA’s classic showrooms. The lower basement level holds a market hall where customers can pick out products.
In the US, Selldorf Architects unveiled the renovation and expansion of a historic Upper East Side mansion that houses The Frick Collection of art.
The project added 2,500 square metres of new construction to the museum, which also received new galleries and amenities.
A new report from the Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed low pay, poor mental health and a culture of unpaid overtime across the architecture industry in Britain.
According to the survey, which gathered data from over 1,450 people in practice, many architecture professionals in the UK are not being paid the Real Living Wage, despite this being a requirement for all RIBA chartered practices.
Popular projects this week included a cork-clad 1970s house in London, a Singapore home modelled on traditional shophouses and a pavilion with leaf-like sails on a Chinese island.
Our latest lookbooks featured residential kitchens enhanced by banquette seating and homes with decorative terracotta floors.
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