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Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers continue to serve as a productive ground for unbuilt architectural exploration, reflecting how architects are rethinking the role of public institutions in relatio...

Shared Space / 4site architects

Hospitality today is no longer about rooms. It is about experiences that people remember — and return for. Shared Space is conceived as a climate-responsive, large-span gathering p...

Herzog & de Meuron's Nearly Completed Triangle Tower and OMA's Urban Vision for Rome: This Week's Review

This week, we revisited the ideas currently shaping the design of 21st-century cities, with a view toward a longer timeframe than that which characterised modern design. These exam...

The Illusion of Lightness: Designing Civic Voids for Public Life

In our current cities, urban density and rising land values often force a choice between large-scale civic buildings and open public space. Traditionally, plazas have been treated...

Public Space in Use: Región Austral and the Architecture of Everyday Life

Architecture is often evaluated through what gets built. But in many cases, what matters happens after: how spaces are used, adapted, and made part of everyday life. For Región Aus...

Champawat Market Plaza / Compartment S4

Can local crafts move beyond being exhibited within architecture to instead shape architecture itself so that the building becomes a living craft, setting a visible and replicable...

Reversible Cultural Pavilion Activates Public Space in Frankfurt 2026

At a moment when architecture is being pushed to respond more directly to environmental and social pressures, Spain's pavilion for World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhein-Main 2026 po...

Newhouse Building Replacement / Miller Hull Partnership

The Newhouse Replacement Building (Newhouse) redefines the intersection of history and progress on Washington State's historic Capitol Campus, creating a civic workplace where past...

STARTT Designs New Access to the Archaeological Areas Behind the Pantheon in Rome

The Pantheon in Rome is globally known as a major tourist and architectural icon, a built testimony to both Greek culture and Roman technique, and a symbol of the Roman Empire. The...

Spaziu Davia Franceschini - Open-Air Theater and Cultural Center / A FABRiCA architettura + CGZ Architecture

An inhabited terrace facing the great Balagne landscape - In Corbara, facing the Church of the Annunciation and the landscape of Balagne, the project chooses effacement rather than...

Curly Cube / People's Architecture Office

Curly Cube is a modular public art installation that transforms public spaces into vibrant hubs for social interaction and engagement. Set in a park along Shanghai's Huangpu River,...

El Camino: Housing Complex for Older Adults and Formerly Unhoused People / FP Arquitectura

El Camino is the city’s largest public infrastructure for housing and social services, where people receive accommodation, food, clothing, and comprehensive care.

Ameba Branch / BAUEN

A bank is not a building: it is an agreement, an ecosystem of trust. The amoeba is born from this idea: roofs that float, made of thousands of bricks that, together, raise somethin...

「Festival des Architectures Vives 2026」Teams and Projects

Gosford Regional Library / Lahznimmo Architects

The Gosford Regional Library has been designed to generate a civic presence within the Civic Heart of Gosford, directly addressing the public space of Kibble Park. Kibble Park itse...

Noah's Ark Nursery School / C+S Architects

For over three decades, C+S Architects has imagined schools as the piazzas of small towns and villages: civic spaces, open beyond school hours, where education and community life m...

Milan Design Week 2026 and Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Cathedral Precinct in Sydney: This Week’s Review

As major cultural events, institutional transformations, and new architectural commissions unfold across different geographies, this week's discourse highlights how architecture op...

Milan Architecture City Guide: 43 Projects from Historic Landmarks to Contemporary Designs

Milan, a global hub of fashion and finance, increasingly asserts itself as a leading center for architecture and design. Its status as Italy's second-largest city underpins its vib...

Astaka Kota Selera / EA Architects

Astaka Kota Selera is a sensitive architectural intervention that reconciles the preservation of Malaysia's colonial heritage with the vibrant, lived reality of its contemporary st...

Neighborhood School - Pavilion 02 / Ateliê GR

The educational proposal of the Neighborhood School is based on a sense of belonging to the place. The project materializes this premise through open and highly integrated spaces,...

Snapshot: A Squat Tower in Seoul Offers an Artfully Pragmatic Response to Setback Regulations

Simplex Architecture's YP Building features a series of stepped terraces unified by a gridded facade of stone panels.

Playfair House / 43 North Architecture

We believe architecture should speak for itself visually, conveying its principles simply by looking at it.  We also believe residential architecture should be tailored to the clie...

Building Autonomy: Latin American Communities Bringing Life’s Systems Into Architecture

Before a building can be inhabited, many other things need to happen. Water has to arrive, energy has to be generated, food has to be grown or transported, and waste has to go some...

Climate and Collective Use: Architectural Permeability in Latin America

Architecture is often understood as a matter of enclosure. Walls define space, separating interior from exterior and establishing clear limits. Yet across many projects in Latin Am...