• Bringing the Sky Closer: 4 Planetariums and Astronomical Observatories

    Bringing the Sky Closer: 4 Planetariums and Astronomical Observatories
    Since the earliest civilizations, the sky has shaped calendars, agriculture, and navigation. It has played a fundamental role in developing human knowledge and shaping our understanding of our place in the universe. To pursue this knowledge, people have created instruments and spaces to interpret the cosmos, linking the positions of celestial bodies, the passage of time, and life on Earth. In architecture, this enduring fascination takes shape in buildings that not only facilitate observation bu
  • HUSTLR Pickleball & Social Club / CYS Architect Sdn Bhd

    HUSTLR Pickleball & Social Club / CYS Architect Sdn Bhd
    An abandoned food court in Taman Taynton View, Cheras, has been transformed into Hustlr Pickleball & Social Club — a new sports and social destination that adapts an existing steel structure while introducing a distinctive identity and a new layer of community life. What can an underutilized building become when its potential is reconsidered? For Hustlr, the answer was not to start again, but to work with what was already there. Inspired by the client's passion for pickleball, the vision e
  • Vanguard House / Ming Architects

    Vanguard House / Ming Architects
    Vanguard House is a spacious residence with privacy and serenity at the forefront of its design. With concealed living spaces and the incorporation of water features at its core, it creates a light and relaxing atmosphere complemented by its use of materials.
  • Sona Listening Practices / Épico Studio

    Sona Listening Practices / Épico Studio
    Sona is a space dedicated to listening practices, designed by Épico Estudio and Panorama. Located in the heart of Mexico City, in the Condesa neighborhood, the 245 mÂČ venue—spearheaded by a group of friends led by Luis LĂłpez (Lulo)—is defined as an environment oriented toward sonic immersion: device-free, alcohol-free, and distraction-free. The concept transforms the act of listening into a conscious, deliberate, shared, and, above all, deeply sensory experience.
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  • Minthis Resort Development / Woods Bagot

    Minthis Resort Development / Woods Bagot
    Minthis is a resort-style development located in the hillside setting of Tsada Village in Paphos. With Cypriot developer Pafilia, Woods Bagot's London studio delivered master planning, architecture, interior design, and branding services to create a unique retreat-style experience, combining the best of local antiquity and premium amenities.
  • LAND OVER WATER / FIRM architects

    LAND OVER WATER / FIRM architects
    In Hoofddorp, the transformation of a 1990s office building into a contemporary workplace for APPM translates the Dutch landscape into an architectural language of water, clay, and vegetation, bringing together sustainability, spatial identity, and new ways of working.
  • Maryland House / Remi C.T.

    Maryland House / Remi C.T.
    A bold example of infill housing architecture, Maryland House redefines urban living through spatial innovation and design precision. It is a dwelling that challenges traditional spatial hierarchy in the home to focus on the reality of modern city living.
  • Vandeuren III-IV / P&P Architectes + Atelier d'Architecture A4

    Vandeuren III-IV / P&P Architectes + Atelier d'Architecture A4
    Winner of the Be-Exemplary Award 2019, Vandeuren III and IV is part of an ambitious renovation strategy for social housing in Brussels. The project transforms 160 dwellings into 132 reconfigured units while integrating shared facilities and a reorganization of outdoor spaces. The intervention combines heritage preservation, quality of use, and circularity, enhancing the existing fabric while responding to contemporary needs.
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  • Minou-On Apartment Renovation / CROSSARCHITECTURE / Mehrdad Makaremi

    Minou-On Apartment Renovation / CROSSARCHITECTURE / Mehrdad Makaremi
    In Minou-On Apartment, a thirty-year-old duplex in Tehran gains a villa-like quality as a former terrace becomes a skylit, planted void. A timber system connects the home's two floors, working with the exposed concrete frame to reorganize rooms, circulation, and everyday life.
  • ItchimbĂ­a Housing / MejĂ­a NarvĂĄez Arquitectos

    ItchimbĂ­a Housing / MejĂ­a NarvĂĄez Arquitectos
    ItchimbĂ­a transforms a void in Quito's Historic Center into six homes that reveal the city through a gradual journey, where material and light make the passage of time perceptible.
  • FM House / Dado Castello Branco Arquitetura

    FM House / Dado Castello Branco Arquitetura
    Located in the Laranjeiras gated community in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, the house needed to accommodate a comprehensive program on a tight lot, without losing its direct connection to the landscape. "Incorporating such a complete program on a limited plot of land was a real challenge," says Dado Castello Branco.
  • Sima House / Dosorozco

    Sima House / Dosorozco
    Casa SiMa starts with a simple premise: the site possessed its own order before architecture arrived.
  • Bachour CafĂ© / Estudio Guto Requena

    Bachour Café / Estudio Guto Requena
    The architectural project draws inspiration from French boulevards and the aesthetic richness of Brazilian design, exploring contrasts between opulence and warmth, tradition and innovation, craft and technology. The concept incorporates references to Art Nouveau — a movement that emerged in Paris during the Belle Époque at the end of the 19th century, a period of great cultural effervescence marked by organic lines, fluid forms, and natural inspiration. These elements are reinterpreted in the
  • Pavilion in the Oaks / Mork-Ulnes Architects

    Pavilion in the Oaks / Mork-Ulnes Architects
    The clients approached Mork-Ulnes Architects with a desire for a flexible space that could provide a meditative, spa-like experience for exercise, yoga, and quiet contemplation, as well as a place for social gatherings with their extended family and friends.
  • Kerena Funeral Services / MYT+GLVDK

    Kerena Funeral Services / MYT+GLVDK
    The fleeting nature of life has been the starting point for Regina Galvanduque and Andrés Mier y Terån in their new architectural, furniture, interior design, and graphic identity project called Kerena.
  • Neuweilerstrasse Development / Volpatohatz

    Neuweilerstrasse Development / Volpatohatz
    VOLPATOHATZ won a competition for the design of an apartment building in Basel, Switzerland. The competition proposal, juried by architect and professor Harry Gugger, includes seven apartments over five levels, plus a basement for bikes, plants, and storage.
  • Argyle House: The Story Behind Edinburgh’s Brutalist Landmark

    Argyle House: The Story Behind Edinburgh’s Brutalist Landmark
    Rising from the rocks that form the base of Castle Rock in Edinburgh, Argyle House stands in stark contrast to the city's most iconic landmark. Built in the late 1960s, this angular, grey building is a quintessential example of post-war Brutalist architecture. A geometric concrete structure stripped of ornamentation that has recently become an unlikely star on screen, serving as the backdrop for the series Dept. Q, based on novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. Yet the 11-story complex, whi
  • Capsule Retreat / East Architecture Studio

    Capsule Retreat / East Architecture Studio
    Overlooking the coniferous forests of Mount Lebanon, Capsule Retreat is a modern home that beds into an ancient landscape of sandstone outcrops and alpine villages. Paying close attention to the flesh of the site, the design process sets aside aesthetic sensitivities in favor of a more physiological reading, one that acknowledges the stratification embedded in its materiality, where incompleteness and low-tech building technologies found in rural settings were the starting point to weave in desi
  • JSWD Wins Competition to Design Mixed-Use RIYMAR Towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    JSWD Wins Competition to Design Mixed-Use RIYMAR Towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    German architecture practice JSWD has been selected to design RIYMAR Towers, a proposed mixed-use development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following an international invited architecture competition organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants on behalf of RIYMAR Real Estate. Located near the intersection of King Fahd Road and Olaya Street, adjacent to the Riyadh Gallery complex, the project is planned as a new development combining residential, hospitality, office, retail, and leisure functions. The pr
  • Maison de l'Environnement et de la BiodiversitĂ© / Bulle, Poirier & Justman Architectes

    Maison de l'Environnement et de la Biodiversité / Bulle, Poirier & Justman Architectes
    On the edge of a municipal estate in Mitry-Mory, between farmland and the town center, the Maison de l'Environnement et de la BiodiversitĂ© occupies a former go-kart track, framed by grassy embankments and already reclaimed by a beekeepers' association and its hives. Next to the communal restaurant and the archery range, the city wished to create a community venue dedicated to environmental education: a multipurpose hall, a honey house, and a covered terrace, within a compact footprint of 225 mïżœ
  • SHAU’s Microlibraries Initiative Expands with a New Project in Jakarta

    SHAU’s Microlibraries Initiative Expands with a New Project in Jakarta
    A new microlibrary project by Indonesian studio SHAU is under construction in Jakarta. The Microlibrary Taman Puring is part of the microlibraries initiative designed and organized by SHAU Rotterdam-Bandung (Florian Heinzelmann and Daliana Suryawinata), in collaboration with the City of Jakarta and the Microlibrary Foundation, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to expanding a network of sustainable, multifunctional community reading spaces across low-income neighborhoods in Indonesia. SHAU's first
  • What Architecture Brings Together: Encounters at Open House Valencia 2026

    What Architecture Brings Together: Encounters at Open House Valencia 2026
    Architectural mediation is also a form of spatial and urban production. Open House Valencia offers a way of understanding it as a relational practice capable of introducing new dynamics into the everyday structure of the city. Its urban dimension takes shape through a temporary infrastructure that redistributes attention, access and urban rhythms, bringing together spaces that usually remain outside the scope of shared experience.
  • Casa Tranquilo / DADO

    Casa Tranquilo / DADO
    Casa Tranquilo is a 10,000 sq. ft. villa in Verla Canca, North Goa, set within dense forest. Our inspiration was not a building or a style but a philosophy of slow living: a home where the day is marked by birdsong and the changing light through the trees. We let the existing forest guide the design, so that every tree that could be saved was woven into the plan and the house feels like it grew from the forest floor rather than being built on top of it.
  • LYNK&CO Motorsport Experience Center Chengdu / MUDA-Architects

    LYNK&CO Motorsport Experience Center Chengdu / MUDA-Architects
    Translating the language of automotive performance into architectural space forms the starting point of the LYNK & CO Motorsport Experience Center (MEC). Located at the heart of Tianfu International Circuit in Chengdu Eastern New Area, adjacent to the main grandstand, the project forms part of Geely's Mintimes Spaceport development.
  • Built99 Brings Together 99 Practices in a Survey of Contemporary Indian Architecture

    Built99 Brings Together 99 Practices in a Survey of Contemporary Indian Architecture
    Multigenerational homes, educational buildings, and workplaces raise different questions about how architecture accommodates everyday life in India. Across the projects featured in Built99, these questions inform decisions about spatial organization, relationships with the landscape, daylight, and materials.
  • Mekong Breeze House / Re: Edge Architecture

    Mekong Breeze House / Re: Edge Architecture
    Mekong Breeze House celebrates Cambodia's tropical spirit — where sunlight dances through patterned terracotta screens, and the river breeze flows freely under and through operable windows, sliding panels, and open spaces. Designed in harmony with nature, its U-shaped formation embraces the landscape and the view of the Mekong, preserving existing trees and creating a living sanctuary of comfort, culture, and calm.
  • Casa de las Lavanderas / RaĂșl SĂĄnchez

    Casa de las Lavanderas / RaĂșl SĂĄnchez
    Barcelona's Eixample bourgeoisie once washed their clothes in the wells of Calle Aiguafreda, one of the city's most picturesque streets today. Narrow two-story houses accommodated the washerwomen and their families, who went out daily to their wells to hand-scrub clothes they only ever touched to wash.
  • Casa de las Lavanderas / RaĂșl Sanchez Architects

    Casa de las Lavanderas / RaĂșl Sanchez Architects
    Barcelona's Eixample bourgeoisie once washed their clothes in the wells of Calle Aiguafreda, one of the city's most picturesque streets today. Narrow two-story houses accommodated the washerwomen and their families, who went out daily to their wells to hand-scrub clothes they only ever touched to wash.
  • ELL House / SUITE

    ELL House / SUITE
    Built with stone, raffia, and local solid hardwood, the expansion of the ELL House in Paraty adds a new volume to a 1980s home without erasing the simplicity of its original architecture.
  • BALSA (Self-Sufficient Boat for Laboratories and Services in the Amazon) / CASA [Ciudades Auto Sostenibles AmazĂłnicas]

    BALSA (Self-Sufficient Boat for Laboratories and Services in the Amazon) / CASA [Ciudades Auto Sostenibles AmazĂłnicas]
    Amazonian living is characterized by the geographical dispersion of its communities and high territorial mobility. In the Peruvian low jungle, river transport is the main connection between riverside populations, but long travel times and high costs make accessing basic services difficult. Furthermore, the small size of many communities limits the state's capacity to provide permanent infrastructure for healthcare, education, identity registration, and other essential services. Consequently, the

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