Christie Hemm Klok

Christie Hemm Klok is a photographer working across science, wildlife, manufacturing, technology, health and documentary imagery. We created a flexible identity and website built around a precise dot-grid system, allowing her varied work to sit together as one cohesive portfolio. The grid informs the typography, spacing and image placement, while the layout changes with every visit. Images appear random in scale and position but always follow the same underlying structure, creating a visual system that feels technical, editorial and constantly evolving.

Mosley Thorold mixes salvaged and natural materials in De Beauvoir home renovation

Local architecture studio Mosley Thorold has updated and extended a Victorian home in east London, using a textured palette of concrete, brick, tiles and metal intended to patina over time.

Named De Beauvoir Townhouse after the neighbourhood in which it is located, Mosley Thorold renovated the two-storey home and added a rear extension that reorients its layout towards a generous garden.

"So many of these houses prioritise the front elevation, the arrival, the public face, inherently – it's all about curb appeal," co-founder Nathan Mosley told Dezeen.

"We wanted to turn that...

Typsa Arquitectura weaves library in Luanda around existing trees

Spanish studio Typsa Arquitectura has completed a library in Luanda, Angola, with a curving concrete roof punctured by openings that encircle existing trees on the site.

Located at the centre of Luanda's technology park, the 1,915-square-metre library was designed around the site's existing mature trees, which determined its footprint, spatial organisation and roof design.

Rather than clearing the plot, Typsa Arquitectura organised the library around a series of planted courtyards, allowing the existing trees to become part of the design.

"Across cultures and throughout history, the shade of a tree has provided a natural place for...

Contemporary Retreat Blends Triathlon Lifestyle with Coastal Atmosphere

Designed by architect Mariana Maisonnave, this 140 m² apartment in Florianópolis, southern Brazil, was conceived as a vacation retreat for a couple deeply connected to sports and outdoor living. Passionate about triathlon, the homeowners envisioned a welcoming, practical and timeless space where they could relax between training sessions and seasonal stays by the beach. The [...]

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While Away An Architect’s Travel Sketches

An intimate and inspiring journey through the travel sketches of renowned architect Steve Ziger. Part mernoir, part travel guide, part drawing manual and architectural history, this captivating book features 240 ink, pencil, and watercolor sketches rendered over five decades. Ziger’s personal experiences are blended with insightful observations about the built environment and the wondrous potential of human-made design. This timely collection of sketches reminds us of the value of being present to the world around us, and the power of drawing to help us see, learn, and understand a place.

Music and Architecture in Harmony Opera Houses and Concert Halls of Europe, 1672-2022

This generously illustrated survey of 90 halls from the past three centuries is a personal selection by the authors, enriched by recommendations from leading musical authorities. These auditoria combine consistently high standards of performance with architectural and acoustical excellence.

Our survey focuses on three periods. Earliest, the court theaters that served rulers and the aristocracy in the 18th century, jewel boxes that now draw music lovers to summer festivals. Secondly, the explosive growth in size of theaters, orchestras, and audiences in the 19th century. Finally, the dramatic advances in design and technology over the past 30 years, as leading architects have

Capturing Essence Virginia Burt Designs

The award-winning landscape architecture firm Virginia Burt Designs is widely celebrated for a diverse body of work—including landscapes and gardens for private individuals, therapeutic gardens for hospitals, estate master plans, and native landscape restoration, in both the United States and Canada—that is at once beautiful and profoundly meaningful. A holistic approach to design and realization serves as the foundation to each project, expressing a respect for people and place while also attending to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience of space.

Published upon the firm’s thirtieth anniversary, Capturing Essence features seventeen projects that collectively express the firm’s ethos and encapsulate

2026 Suseong International Architecture & Landscape Visual Artwork Competition

2026 Suseong International Architecture & Landscape Visual Artwork Competition

[Overview]
1. Theme: What does "Living Ground" mean to you?
2. Eligibility: Open to anyone worldwide interested in architecture and landscape design (Submitted by category)
- Youth Division: Ages 10 to 18 (Elementary, middle, high school students, or youth of equivalent age)
- General Division: Ages 19 and older (College students, general public, etc.)
3. Competition Period: July – September 2026
* Submission Deadline: Friday, September 11, 2026

[Website]
https://m.site.naver.com/2ekrp

[How to Submit]
1. Submitted Work: Original visual artworks expressing the theme, including architecture/landscape-related sketches, graphic designs, illustrations, etc.
2. File Format: Digital files

Wildlands: Stories from the Wildland Urban Interface

A diverse group of professionals, residents, and others will share their individual stories, taking stock of what is happening in the city more than a year after the fires.

An accompanying exhibition will explore interventions at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and the boundary conditions working between the scales of architecture, urbanism, and the rural landscape. The exhibition highlights the student work of David Eugin Moon of N H D M at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Research finds Star Homes housing reduces malaria in children by 44 per cent

A study has found that children living in Star Homes, a housing initiative in Tanzania, have lower rates of malaria, diarrhoea and respiratory infections compared to those living in mud-and-thatch houses.

The study, which was published in Nature Medicine, found that cases of malaria in children were 44 per cent lower for children residing in Star Home residences, diarrhoea was 30 per cent less and acute respiratory infections were reduced by 18 per cent.

The research also found that children living in Star Homes had greater height-for-age growth trajectories, indicating a reversal of stunting, which is a consequence of repeated childhood infection.