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Mass Timber and Rooftop Farming Meet Academic Life in Toronto

Mass Timber and Rooftop Farming Meet Academic Life in Toronto

Trinity College's Lawson Centre combines 357-bed student housing with zero-carbon design and a teaching farm in a hybrid timber structure.

23 Sept · 5 min read

When Infrastructure Becomes Threshold: Kaohsiung's Polyfunctional Port Gateway

When Infrastructure Becomes Threshold: Kaohsiung's Polyfunctional Port Gateway

RUR Architecture DPC reimagines the cruise terminal typology as a civic seam between urban fabric and maritime horizon

23 Sept · 5 min read

When Architecture Withdraws: Casa Cieno and the Turn Inward

When Architecture Withdraws: Casa Cieno and the Turn Inward

On Oaxaca's coast, TAC Taller Alberto Calleja forgoes ocean spectacle for a quieter proposition - a house that recedes into terrain and builds its world within.

23 Sept · 6 min read

Can Robotic Construction Build Community? A Danish Student Village Tests the Limits

Can Robotic Construction Build Community? A Danish Student Village Tests the Limits

At Skovsporet, SAGA Space Architects explores whether additive manufacturing can scale beyond novelty to create meaningful residential environments.

22 Sept · 6 min read

Concrete's Parallel Evolution: A Regional Reading of Brutalism Across Asia

Concrete's Parallel Evolution: A Regional Reading of Brutalism Across Asia

Blue Crow Media's latest monograph reframes brutalist architecture not as Western export, but as a response to local climates, materials, and cultural imperatives across twenty-eight countries.

22 Sept · 5 min read

When Horizontal Architecture Reads the Land

When Horizontal Architecture Reads the Land

A residence in Brazil's Triângulo Mineiro treats the horizon as both constraint and compositional device, filtering light through tradition-inspired screens.

22 Sept · 5 min read

Reframing the Guest House: Irregular Geometry and Social Space in Semarang

Reframing the Guest House: Irregular Geometry and Social Space in Semarang

Tamara Wibowo Architects turn site constraints into architectural strategy with a women-only residence that rethinks boarding-house typology.

22 Sept · 5 min read

What a 9-Acre Plot in California Can Teach Us About Rethinking the Single-Family Home

What a 9-Acre Plot in California Can Teach Us About Rethinking the Single-Family Home

Hafsa Burt's Null house in Jackson, California, strips residential architecture down to its essentials, testing whether climate resilience and modest living can coexist without sacrificing comfort.

22 Sept · 6 min read

The Low-Tech Paradox: A Shanghai Coffee Space for an AI Robotics Firm

The Low-Tech Paradox: A Shanghai Coffee Space for an AI Robotics Firm

HCCH Studio navigates the tension between embodied intelligence and everyday materiality in Bothaus, a 300-square-metre project that questions what technology should look like when it stops performing.

22 Sept · 5 min read

Lifting a House to Let the Ground Breathe

Lifting a House to Let the Ground Breathe

José Pedro Vicente Groetaers' hillside retreat in Algarrobo inverts convention, elevating the entire programme above an open-air living domain.

21 Sept · 5 min read

Light, Time, and the Pedagogy of Cracks

Light, Time, and the Pedagogy of Cracks

How a student-built pavilion in northern Mexico turned material scarcity into a lesson about architectural time and shadow

21 Sept · 6 min read

Building with the Storm: How One Puerto Rican House Negotiates Hurricane Architecture

Building with the Storm: How One Puerto Rican House Negotiates Hurricane Architecture

Casa Bajura, a hospitality project on Isabela's exposed northern coast, demonstrates how climate realities can drive material choice and spatial logic without resorting to fortress design.

21 Sept · 5 min read

Timber and Glass Meet Climate Education in Northern Germany

Timber and Glass Meet Climate Education in Northern Germany

DBCO's Climate Experience World Visitor Center balances pedagogical clarity with tectonic restraint on a low-lying coastal site.

20 Sept · 5 min read

How Light and Structure Shape a New Retail Interior in Chengdu

How Light and Structure Shape a New Retail Interior in Chengdu

Hui Pan Architects transforms a 400-square-metre space into an art container, reinterpreting the original building fabric and the city's material character.

18 Sept · 5 min read

The Moulds Were Covered in Moss: Bringing Suuronen's Futuro Back to Life

The Moulds Were Covered in Moss: Bringing Suuronen's Futuro Back to Life

A Facebook listing, decaying fibreglass moulds, and a five-month fabrication push have yielded the first new Futuro House in half a century.

18 Sept · 6 min read

The Geometry of Calm: How a Veracruz House Reclaims Domestic Ritual

The Geometry of Calm: How a Veracruz House Reclaims Domestic Ritual

López González's Casa Tlaloc in Xalapa strips residential design to its tectonic core, proving that austerity and liveability need not be opposites.

18 Sept · 6 min read

How Subtraction Shapes Space in RHAD Architects' Two Bay House

How Subtraction Shapes Space in RHAD Architects' Two Bay House

On Cape Breton Island, a Nova Scotia residence demonstrates that the voids carved from mass are as critical to experience as the forms themselves.

18 Sept · 7 min read

When Simplicity Demands Complexity: A Villa in Mazandaran

When Simplicity Demands Complexity: A Villa in Mazandaran

Super Void Space's 450-square-metre residence began as a sloped volume and became a study in negotiating northern Iran's climate, terrain, and domestic ritual.

18 Sept · 5 min read

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