Architecture | Euronews

English Newsletters Events Podcasts Videos Africanews Search

Design

Japan has a new tallest building - but its height may surprise you

While Asia and the Middle East are full of towering skyscrapers, Japan's tallest buildings are of a slightly different stature due to the increased risk of earthquakes in the Japanese archipelago.

24 November 2023

Design

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia illuminates four new towers

Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia basilica celebrates a significant milestone with a dazzling light show marking the completion of the newest towers and a step closer to completion 141 years after construction started.

13 November 2023

Climate

How should architects build as climate change takes hold?

From energy efficiency and Passivhaus to retrofits and carbon handprints, here are some sustainable design basics.

6 November 2023

Design

Day care centre in London wins prestigious architecture award

Judges said the John Morden Centre was uplifting, sustainable with a strong social programme – ‘a place of joy and inspiration’.

23 October 2023

ADVERTISEMENT

Design

Meet the man who used art therapy in an Italian town to help his son

To celebrate World Mental Health Day, the international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma, we bring you the story of Giovanni Casale, who came up with the idea of transforming his ancestral town into an art therapy project for his son.

10 October 2023

Lifestyle

Ruins and reform: Istanbul hothouse show explores historic hammam

The wellness benefits of creating and consuming art are well documented. One historic bathhouse in Istanbul, however, is taking the crossover of creativity and wellbeing to a new level and unexpected directions.

Design

Old to the new: Were ancient civilisations better at building stuff?

Structures built by ancient civilisations are still standing thousands of years later. Could they hold secrets to help us build more sustainably?

Design

Greece's 2004 Olympic Stadium shut down over roof safety risk

The stadium designed to host the 2004 Athens Olympics has been temporarily closed over concerns that its roof is unsafe.

Austria

Work begins on Hitler's house to turn into police station

Activists and historians welcome the transformation but want the building to be turned into a permanent exhibition.

Lifestyle

Arc 1950: The made to measure ski resort celebrates its 20th birthday

To mark World Architecture Day, we visited Arc 1950 in the French Alps. The 'faux' village was built by a North American mega-developer who bucked the 20th-century trend for high modernist designs and returned to its Savoyarde roots.

Design

What to see at London Design Festival 2023

More than 300 events celebrating design, art and architecture will take over the city of London through till September 24 for the 21st London Design Festival.

18 September 2023

Design

Le Corbusier, 100 years on: Celebrating the architect's iconic designs

The Swiss-French starchitect's foundational book, 'Toward an Architecture', turns 100 this year. The source of both revilement and adoration, Euronews Culture looks at "Le Corb" and the indelible legacy he left behind.

16 September 2023

Design

What will Rome’s new Science Museum look like?

The construction will cost around €75 million and will start in 2025.

9 September 2023

Design

See: Shortlist for 2023 Stirling Prize for best UK building

The nominees are chosen as examples of the greatest contributions to architecture in Britain.

7 September 2023

Design

Great Wall of China 'irreversibly damaged by construction workers

Two construction workers have been arrested for deliberately making an enormous hole you can drive through in the Great Wall of China.

6 September 2023

Home

How Tokyo quake-proofed itself 100 years after a deadly disaster

A century on from a devastating natural disaster, Tokyo has embraced seismic safety technology. But can its buildings withstand future earthquakes?

1 September 2023

Design

Could these luxury modular homes ease Europe's housing shortage?

When his employees' homes were destroyed in the war with Russia, one Ukrainian entrepreneur designed easy-to-build houses they could live in instead.

Design

The Leaning Tower of Pisa celebrates its 850th birthday

Designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, together with the whole of Pisa's Piazza del Duomo, the tower is a fundamental example of the Romanesque style, in particular Pisan Romanesque, and a fine example of medieval engineering.

Design

Culture Re-View: Is the Louvre's famous pyramid an occult symbol?

On this day in 1793, the Louvre Museum opened in France. But what’s behind its infamous pyramid and does a darker symbol lurk?

Art

Which are the most artistic cities in Europe?

Wondering which European cities are the best when it comes to art? Check out the rankings...