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How Faceted Glass and Stepped Massing Are Redefining Chicago's Lakefront
A 261-meter residential tower by SOM reinterprets the city's bay-window tradition through contemporary curtain-wall geometry.
25 Jul · 5 min read
Six Architects, Three Countries, One Lens: South Asian Women Redefining Practice
A documentary commissioned through the Lilly Reich Grant explores how migration, motherhood, and resistance shape architectural careers across borders.
25 Jul · 5 min read
From Landfill to Workplace: Remaking Industrial Architecture in Rural Croatia
MVA Mikelić Vreš Arhitekti's Dubrovčan facility demonstrates how adaptive site remediation and thoughtful massing can elevate small-scale industrial typology.
25 Jul · 5 min read
When AI Dreams of the Rainforest: Inside Dataland's Omni-Sensory Architecture
Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç have built a 25,000-square-foot data-responsive environment in downtown Los Angeles that challenges the boundary between computational art and physical space.
25 Jul · 5 min read
How Red Deer Translated Cypriot Craft Into a Covent Garden Factory
At Zylia, limestone from the Mediterranean meets Victorian industrial architecture through a deliberate material dialogue that refuses pastiche.
25 Jul · 5 min read
The Terracotta Canyon: How SANAA's Living Strata Emerged from Public Revolt
After citizens rejected a blocky finalist, the Japanese studio's brick-wrapped scheme for Quito's National Museum demonstrates the power of participatory design - and the perils of architectural competition.
25 Jul · 5 min read
How Two Designers Turned Lanterns Into a Dialogue Between Heritage and Home
Kawabi's Aaron and Irisa Chan-Kawabi craft lighting that speaks to diasporic identity, blending Chinese symbolism with contemporary making.
25 Jul · 5 min read
SANAA's Living Strata: A Circular Museum for Quito That Grows from the Landscape
The Japanese studio and its collaborators propose a layered civic institution that reframes Ecuador's national museum as a system of interconnected vertical plazas.
24 Jul · 5 min read
How an Aging Chemical Fiber Factory Became a Model for High-Density Urban Renewal
Line+ studio's LOFT49 project in Hangzhou navigates the tension between preserving industrial memory and meeting the needs of contemporary creative communities.
24 Jul · 5 min read
A New Stadium for Kansas City Rethinks What It Means to Be Enclosed
Manica's $3 billion design for the Chiefs preserves tailgating culture while wrapping 70,000 seats beneath a translucent ETFE canopy.
24 Jul · 5 min read
Building With Landslides: A Chilean Park That Turns Instability Into Infrastructure
In Antofagasta's arid foothills, CAW Arquitectos uses vegetation as living engineering to reclaim degraded slopes and reconnect a neighborhood to its terrain.
24 Jul · 5 min read
How an Aging Football Stadium Became a Year-Round Urban Attraction
The transformation of Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu reveals a pragmatic truth: the future of sports infrastructure lies not in demolition, but in radical adaptation.
24 Jul · 5 min read
Prisms, Mirrors, and the Pulse of Manhattan
How two studios reimagined observation deck design 350 meters above Hudson Yards
24 Jul · 5 min read
The Mackintosh Building and the True Cost of Architectural Legacy
Glasgow School of Art's decision to abandon reconstruction reveals how contemporary economics clash with historic preservation, and what it means for heritage institutions worldwide.
24 Jul · 5 min read
When Buildings Outlive Their Purpose: Demolition, Legacy, and the Changing Life of Architecture
From Tbilisi to Barcelona, the past week revealed how the profession is rethinking permanence, transformation, and what happens after the ribbon-cutting ceremony ends.
24 Jul · 5 min read
What Dallas Owes I.M. Pei's City Hall
A 47-year-old inverted pyramid faces the oldest dilemma in civic architecture: repair what defines you, or build something cheaper.
24 Jul · 5 min read
London's Opera House Opens Its Doors to the Design World
A historic cultural venue becomes the backdrop for one of architecture's most anticipated annual gatherings this November
24 Jul · 5 min read
When Architecture Stops Serving Humans Alone
Insight Architects' Deadwood Hut transforms abandoned timber into a shared habitat for insects, plants, and overlooked life along China's Xutian River.
24 Jul · 5 min read