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When a Roof Becomes a Horizon: Exploring the Threshold Between Building and Garden

When a Roof Becomes a Horizon: Exploring the Threshold Between Building and Garden

In the Brazilian interior, Leo Romano's Espatódias House questions where architecture ends and landscape begins.

9 Sept · 5 min read

Can a Thousand Tons of Volcanic Rock Replace Concrete in High-Rise Construction?

Can a Thousand Tons of Volcanic Rock Replace Concrete in High-Rise Construction?

A decade-and-a-half research pursuit culminates in a 10-storey London housing block where unreinforced stone carries the entire structural load

8 Sept · 7 min read

When Care Borrows From the Village

When Care Borrows From the Village

A Swiss health centre reimagines medical architecture by translating the spatial rhythms of vernacular settlement into a contemporary care environment.

8 Sept · 4 min read

How MAD Turned a California Museum Into a Biomorphic Landmark

How MAD Turned a California Museum Into a Biomorphic Landmark

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art uses 1,271 curved panels to create a form that floats between landscape and artifice.

5 Sept · 7 min read

When Construction Materials Become Furniture Language

When Construction Materials Become Furniture Language

Yet Design Studio's Strut collection transforms industrial aluminium angles into a coherent design vocabulary across seating and surfaces

4 Sept · 5 min read

How Display Cases Shape the Experience of Deep Time

How Display Cases Shape the Experience of Deep Time

The recent overhaul of Oslo's Natural History Museum reveals the structural and scenographic decisions that allow 2,500 objects to narrate 4.5 billion years without overwhelming the visitor.

4 Sept · 6 min read

When Architecture Becomes Storytelling: Los Angeles Gets a Cloud That Houses 2,000 Years of Visual Narrative

When Architecture Becomes Storytelling: Los Angeles Gets a Cloud That Houses 2,000 Years of Visual Narrative

George Lucas and MAD Architects have built more than a museum. They've created a 300,000-square-foot argument about how images have always been humanity's first language.

4 Sept · 7 min read

A Village of Pavilions: BIG's Suzhou Museum Reinterprets the Chinese Garden

A Village of Pavilions: BIG's Suzhou Museum Reinterprets the Chinese Garden

The studio's first completed art museum reconciles Western museology with centuries-old landscape traditions on the shores of Jinji Lake.

4 Sept · 6 min read

How Restraint Becomes Architecture in a Nelson Renovation

How Restraint Becomes Architecture in a Nelson Renovation

Fineline Architecture strips a South Island home to its essentials, proving that every element must justify its existence

4 Sept · 6 min read

When a Museum Becomes a Garden: BIG's New Suzhou Pavilion Strategy

When a Museum Becomes a Garden: BIG's New Suzhou Pavilion Strategy

Bjarke Ingels Group dissolves 60,000 square meters of exhibition space into twelve interconnected pavilions, reinterpreting the classical Chinese garden for contemporary art programming.

3 Sept · 6 min read

How Tallinn is Rewriting Its Identity Through Waterfront Architecture

How Tallinn is Rewriting Its Identity Through Waterfront Architecture

After decades of restricted coastal access, Estonia's capital is transforming industrial relics and forgotten shorelines into public space, one adaptive reuse project at a time.

3 Sept · 5 min read

When Architecture Learns to Dance: MAD's Rotterdam Extension Blurs Movement and Form

When Architecture Learns to Dance: MAD's Rotterdam Extension Blurs Movement and Form

The Beijing studio's rippling glass foyer for Danshuis reimagines how performance spaces can embody the art they house

3 Sept · 6 min read

When Architecture Gives Back: A Medellín Store That Trades Retail Space for Public Life

When Architecture Gives Back: A Medellín Store That Trades Retail Space for Public Life

Studio Cadena's adaptive reuse project in Colombia demonstrates how commercial architecture can expand the urban commons rather than privatize it.

2 Sept · 5 min read

Kengo Kuma Named Recipient of Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award

Kengo Kuma Named Recipient of Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award

The Tokyo-based architect will be honored at the Créateurs Design Awards in Paris next January, joining a lineage that includes Norman Foster and Tadao Ando.

2 Sept · 6 min read

The Long-Distance Runner: Kengo Kuma and the Architecture of Natural Harmony

The Long-Distance Runner: Kengo Kuma and the Architecture of Natural Harmony

As the 2027 Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes three decades of practice, Kuma's philosophy of connecting people to nature continues to reshape global architecture

2 Sept · 4 min read

Material Memory: Inside the Design Archive of Herzog & de Meuron's Chinese Projects

Material Memory: Inside the Design Archive of Herzog & de Meuron's Chinese Projects

An exhibition at M+ Hong Kong reveals how process-driven thinking shaped a decade of landmark buildings across China.

1 Sept · 6 min read

Living Architecture: How One Studio Turns Forest Ecosystems Into Built Form

Living Architecture: How One Studio Turns Forest Ecosystems Into Built Form

Lindsey Wikstrom's Mattaforma practice treats timber not as inert material but as living system, designing structures that store carbon and evolve alongside the landscape.

1 Sept · 7 min read

Designing With Restraint: A Rice Bran Refinery Built From Ordinary Materials

Designing With Restraint: A Rice Bran Refinery Built From Ordinary Materials

PHTAA's industrial project in rural Thailand demonstrates how environmental observation, not technological spectacle, can drive architectural performance.

31 Aug · 5 min read