Articles by Chlo̩ Vadot

These are projects that cannot be bought, owned or possessed.

In this ongoing series, we aim to give you a travel guide to cities around the globe — with an archi tectural twist. These tours offer chances to experience great design away from the traditional tourist hotspots and an alternative angle on the world’s metropolises. After New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit and Havana, we go…

This article was cowritten with Joanna Kloppenburg. The project for a public park on Governors Islan d in New York City began in 2006 with an international call for proposals, the commission ultimately being awarded to landscape architecture firm West 8. Recognized for large-scale urban planning and landscape projects responsive to global warming, urbanization and infrastructure,…

Revisiting NOWNESS’s special series “In Residence” leads us to Xavier Corbero’s maze-like house. The Catalan sculptor’s home in Esplugues de Llobregat, a town on the outskirts of Barcelona, is a treasure cove of art and antiques. Among objects of all kinds, his sculptures stand tall, as they do in many museums around the world. Xavier…

“Dubai has become a major tourist attraction and destination,” explains Dr. DJ Armin, managing partn er at ZAS Architects. The Canadian and UAE based firm recently released new renderings for a large-scale luxury development in the city — the Rosemont — which includes, among other amenities, a rainforest and 4D animations. The backbone of the proposal…

The melancholic streets of Tianducheng serves as the backdrop for xx’s apocalyptic beats and lamenti ng melodies.

Faced with the restoration of a tower built in the 13th century by the Arabs of the Nazari kingdom, architects Mercedes Miras Varelas and Luis Castillo Villegas bring a historical building back to life and design a distinctive extension to respect traits of the existing structure. Set on the edge of a cliff in the…

In a video series realized in collaboration with Architizer, Dezeen sat down with Amanda Levete to d iscuss her “all-time favorite building” by the late architect Zaha Hadid: the BMW Building. To Levete, the BMW Building is most representative of “Zaha’s strong preoccupation and obsession with the scale of large infrastructure projects.” The building, located in…

Enrique Norten's architecture aims to completely blur the boundaries between public and private real ms.