Local architecture

A market proposal that lies in the concept of organised informality which depending on the participation and collaboration of the local community and fishermen. The architecture includes participatory design, adaptable buildings, sustainable design, space optimisation, improved social life and human scale. # Concept Architecture Competition

Dezeen's China editor Christina Yao continues our review of 2022 with a roundup of Chinese architecture projects completed this year.

This cultural centre in Senegal by Toshiko Mori was constructed using exclusively local materials and techniques – and was recognised in 2017's AIA Awards.

Children Village, a new school complex on the edge of the rainforest in northern Brazil designed by Brazilian architects, Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum, has..

There’s something delightful about homes that incorporate materials harvested on site.

Designed by local architecture office Richards & Spence, the Fish Lane Town Square in Brisbane contributes strongly to the city's evolving character.

RAW Architecture used local materials and traditional building techniques including bamboo construction to create a new studio in Jakarta.

Image 7 of 21 from gallery of New Community Center for Otica Native Community / Semillas. Photograph by Eleazar Cuadros

Image 17 of 19 from gallery of Warrnambool Learning and Library Centre / Kosloff Architecture. Elevations

The shores of Lake Zurich set the scene for the eminent Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier’s Gesamtkunstwerk—his final masterpiece, and his only building constructed entirely from...