This week on Dezeen, we kicked off our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings editorial series by naming some of this century’s most significant buildings.
The series launched with Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern in London from the year 2000, which was followed by Diébédo Francis Kéré’s Gando Primary School, Zaha Hadid’s Bergisel Ski Jump and Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The series will continue throughout January with a significant building announced for each year of the 21st century, so far, giving an overview of the key buildings, studios and architecture trends of the past 25 years.
In Las Vegas, the CES technology fair returned this week, with Canadian start-up Eli Health launching a home testing kit that can test and monitor hormone levels.
Also at the fair, Chinese technology brand Lenovo unveiled a laptop with a display screen that doubles in size and Japanese robotics startup Yukai Engineering debuted a cat-shaped robot that blows air on hot food and drinks.
In design news, automotive brand Nissan revealed an electrified version of its popular R32 Skyline GT-R sports car, which was originally created in 1989.
Named R32EV, the concept model maintains the nostalgic angular 1980s appearance but has an electric motor and charging socket.
Thousands of structures were destroyed this week as deadly wildfires spread in Los Angeles, including projects by architects Ray Kappe, Martin Fenlon, and John G Wallis.
Modernist icons the Eames House and Case Study House No.18, located in the south of the fire’s incident zone, remain intact despite being under threat.
A series of staggered wooden housing located at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji was completed as the first phase of car brand Toyota’s Woven City this week.
Designed by architecture studios BIG and Nikken Sekkei, the project’s first phase accommodates up to 360 residents, who will be testing vehicles and products from companies including Toyota. Woven City will eventually house 2,000 people once it is complete.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week include a monastery in India clad in hand-chiseled bricks, a home in Australia covered in fibreglass screens and an apartment renovation in Paris informed by the 1970s.
Our latest lookbooks include 10 living room design ideas from the Dezeen archive and bathrooms with sculptural stone basins.
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