architecture trends 2022

Architecture trends 2022

This List covers trend insights about the future of architecture, insights curated in 2022.

This List covers trend insights about the future of architecture, insights curated in 2022.

Curated by

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Last updated: 13 January 2023

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Out of this world crystalline structure unveiled
Designcurial
MAD Architects has revealed its latest show-stopping design: the Harbin Opera House in northern China.In 2010, MAD Architects won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a...
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A Vertical forest towers above Milan's skyline
The Science Explorer
Bosco Verticale (Italian for "vertical forest") is a breakthrough in sustainable architecture.
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Future skyscrapers start underwater
Designcurial
As we reach the final stage to our future cities tri-series, we consider part three: vertical cities.Read parts one and two.Much like the growing number of skyscrapers in the world today, this...
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Beehives and moons, our future cities?
Designcurial
Based on an innovative project from Luca Curci Architects the group works with three futuristic concepts - organic, vertical and desert cities - to support a forward-thinking, sustainable way of...
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The buildings of the future will keep rearranging themselves
Aeon
Nanobots would create a programmable architecture that changes shape, function and style at command or even independently.
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Renderings vs. Reality. The improbable rise of tree-covered skyscrapers
99 Percent Invisible
In a world of online design competitions and social image sharing, many architects have taken to crafting ever more extreme models and renderings for public consumption. Some have even started covering their rendered buildings, from groundscrapers to high-rises, with gorgeous-looking trees. The effect can be breathtaking, but are these designs truly green or simply a fresh form
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Small Home Smart Home
LAAB
Hong Kong architects, artists, interior designers, and makers led by Yip Chun Hang and Otto Ng. Our awards-winning studio designs public space, interactive art, architecture, and interiors, with projects ranging from gallery, museum, office, retail, hotel, and cafe.
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Fabric cast concrete is the construction method of the future, say designers
Dezeen
Ron Culver and Joseph Sarafian have developed a method of robotically casting concrete in fabric, which could be used in architecture
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Facadism: is it an architectural plague or preservation?
Now Magazine
As a last-gasp practice aimed at saving whats left of our heritage buildings, Toronto has turned to building above, behind and inside them with results that are often bizarre and grotesque
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Coffin cubicles, caged homes and subdivisions ..life inside Hong Kong’s grim low income housing
SCMP
Coffin cubicles, caged homes and subdivisions … life inside Hong Kong’s grim low income housing
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Reverb, the evolution of architectural acoustics
99 Percent Invisible
There are two primary ways to control the sound of a space: active acoustics and passive acoustics. Passive acoustics are the materials in a space, like the padding in our studio or wooden floors or plaster walls. Materials like carpeting and drapery soak up sound, while materials like glass and porcelain make a room more echoey. Active
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Virtual reality and post architecture
Bullshitist
It is hard to find VR content that doesn’t derive at least some of its value from the technological novelty that the medium represents. The so-called “gimmick” value still stops us from perfecting a…
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Machines for living in, how technology shaped a century of interior design
99 Percent Invisible
In today’s hyper-connected world, we are more interested in interior design than ever before. Websites like Houzz and Pinterest allow us to amass digital collages of decorating ideas. Television networks such as HGTV and DIY transform the otherwise rather mundane activity of redecorating our living spaces into prime time TV. However, most people would be
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World's first fully rotational skyscraper allows residents to control how much their apartments spin
The Independent
'How many stars? This "hotel" will be beyond stars,' reads the website
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Forest cities, the radical plan to save china from air pollution
The Guardian
Stefano Boeri, the architect famous for his plant-covered skyscrapers, has designs to create entire new green settlements in a nation plagued by dirty air
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Ikea partners with NASA to build furniture that’s out of this world
The Next Web
Ikea is working with NASA to design furniture for people in densely populated cities
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This new urban jungle in Singapore could be the future of eco friendly buildings
CNBC
A development in Singapore, Marina One, combines 160,000 plants with office and residential towers. It could be a model for the future of urban living.
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Architecture awakens let the evolution begin
Deloitte
With technology architecture growing in strategic importance, we expect to see more architects playing a large role in system operations.
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Automation finds home in building design
Financial Times
Algorithmic modelling offers new blueprint for smart building creation
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Why covid 19 raises the stakes for healthy buildings
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
Like it or not, humans have become an indoor species, so buildings have a major impact on our health. That's why the Healthy Building Movement is gaining momentum, say John Macomber and Joseph Allen.
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Why every city feels the same now
The Atlantic
Glass-and-steel monoliths replaced local architecture. It’s not too late to go back.
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NFT-funded pavilion at Tallinn Architecture Biennale aims to promote decentralisation
Dezeen
Iheartblob's NFT-generative tool is used to mint objects that fund a unique physical twin pavilion. The pavilion, made of puzzle-like pieces, will grow over the course of its installation until the next Tallinn Architecture Biennale in 2023. The idea behind the project is to promote decentralization in architecture by allowing anyone to design a piece that becomes part of the pavilion. The structure is co-owned by and reflective of the community that designed it. To read more, use the button below to open the original external article.