Renovation Design of Yongping Warehouses / Atelier cnS
The Yongping Warehouses in Dali’s Nanhai District have been reborn as a 4,311 m² waterfront park and mixed‑use complex, slated for completion in 2025. Designed by Atelier cnS, the project lifts a public “cloud‑in‑the‑sky” park onto the rooftops while preserving historic brick facades. Vertical stacking allows commercial rentals below to fund the park, creating a self‑sustaining model. The adaptive‑reuse scheme, named “Yat Gau Wan,” now serves as a landmark linking heritage, leisure and commerce on the Guangzhou‑Foshan border.
How Spanish Ceramics Bridge Culture, Memory and Identity at Milan Design Week 2026
During Milan Design Week 2026, Tile of Spain presented "Spanish Design as a Souvenir," an installation of eleven sculptural objects fully clad in ceramic tiles. Designed by Codoo Studio, the works reinterpret iconic Spanish cultural items such as flamenco tablaos, castanets,...
Earth Tree Installation / Kengo Kuma & Associates + Dinesen
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and his firm Kengo Kuma & Associates, together with Danish timber specialist Dinesen, opened “Earth | Tree” at Copenhagen Contemporary on March 28, 2026. The site‑specific installation transforms a former industrial hall using handcrafted Douglas fir, brick, and...
Bangsue Residence / Patara Architects
Bang Sue Residence, designed by Patara Warathanasin, is a 1,333 m² home built for three generations in Bangkok. The layout centers on a second‑floor common area that opens onto a central pool, while each private unit offers self‑contained living spaces with...
HarPie / Nathalie Thibodeau Architecte
The HarPie residence, designed by lead architect Nathalie Thibodeau and completed in 2025, spans 6,350 ft² on a narrow strip between a lake and an access road. The building leverages the site’s natural slope to position water‑facing public spaces while shielding...
The Babel Community - Coliving Residence / D'HOUNDT+BAJART Architectes&associés
Architects D'Houndt + Bajart unveil the Babel Community, a 304‑room coliving residence slated for completion in 2025 on a 13,524 m² site in Lille’s historic business district. The development replaces inefficient office towers with a U‑shaped building that wraps a sun‑lit...
PUKKUN Residence / REIMS 502
The PUKKUN Residence in Cancun, completed in 2023, adopts a massive blind geometry to shield its 1,100 m² program from direct sun. Inspired by Puuc architecture of Chichen Itzá, the design fuses historic forms with a tropical landscape, featuring a central...
TerraSense Mountain Charm Retreat / Atelier DRK
The TerraSense Mountain Charm Retreat, completed in 2023, transforms two historic buildings in Portugal’s Serra da Estrela Natural Park into a 5,490 ft² rural‑tourism hotel. Lead architect Diogo Aguiar Almeida reimagines the traditional mountain house by preserving schist stone façades while adding bold...
Building Light in a Flood Zone: Architecture for Seasonal Inundation
Architects are redefining flood resilience by designing structures that embrace seasonal inundation rather than resist it. Lightweight, modular systems like Bangladesh’s Khudi Bari use bamboo frames and detachable joints to enable rapid disassembly and re‑assembly after floods. Projects such as the...
24 Affordable Housing Units in Igualada / 4RQ Arquitectura + MBM Arquitectes
In 2025, 4RQ arquitectura and MBM Arquitectes completed a 2,632 m² public‑housing project in Igualada, delivering 24 affordable units. The design pivots around an open, ventilated courtyard that bridges the city, the building, and a neighboring park, prioritising collective space over...
The Embarcadero Freeway: Elevated Infrastructure and Urban Regeneration in San Francisco
The Embarcadero Freeway, an elevated concrete viaduct built in the 1950s, was demolished after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake exposed its structural flaws. The removal opened San Francisco’s waterfront to pedestrians, transit and mixed‑use development, adding roughly 30 acres of public space....
Josephine Baker Dance Hall / Onze04 Architecture
The Josephine Baker Dance Hall, designed by Gustavo Silva‑Nicoletti, will open in 2025 as a 2,500 m² cultural and sports hub adjacent to the Pierre de Coubertin complex and André Blot centre. The project re‑imagines a peripheral city district by introducing a...
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Gateway Centre in West Kowloon Hong Kong Nears Completion, Captured by Paul Clemence
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Gateway Centre in West Kowloon, Hong Kong, is nearing completion, with construction now at roof level and façade work underway. The mixed‑use complex sits directly above the operational West Kowloon high‑speed rail station, linking the Kowloon and Austin...
Stenkløvervej Vacation House / Filip Karl Edward Arkitektur
Filip Karl Edward Arkitektur unveiled a 95 m² vacation house in Denmark for 2025, embracing a “Less is Enough” philosophy. The compact rectangular volume houses four bedrooms, each opening onto a private corner of the landscape, fostering intimacy while sharing a...
From London to Houston: Four Ongoing Pedestrianisation Initiatives Shaping More Walkable Cities
Cities across four continents are scaling up pedestrian‑first projects to reshape streets as public spaces. London’s Oxford Street is moving from consultation to statutory action, with a Mayoral Development Area slated for 2026. New York’s Paseo Park is transitioning from a pandemic‑era...
Bellevue Villa / G8A Architecture & Urban Planning
G8A Architecture & Urban Planning is overhauling the 1980s‑era Bellevue Villa and its 19th‑century annex on the north shore of Geneva’s Leman Lake. The 2,300 m² lakeside residence will receive a geothermal heat pump, a full‑photovoltaic roof, and an upgraded building...
BAN MAA / Geemo Design
Geemo Design’s BAN MAA project, a 120 m² restaurant slated for 2025, interprets Jiulong Lake’s landscape through a “returning to the nest” concept infused with Lingnan dessert culture. Lead architects Kirin, Yi, and Hang employ authentic textures—handmade tiles, washed stone, and a...
Arquivo: Deconstruction and Material Reuse for a Circular Architecture
Arquivo, a Brazilian deconstruction firm and 2025 ArchDaily Next Practices Award winner, turns demolition waste into reusable building components. By operating as a mobile laboratory, it disassembles structures, evaluates each element through a “Reuse Report” that weighs technical and cultural...
Carrickalinga Shed / Architects Ink
The Carrickalinga Shed, designed by Architects Ink in 2021, reimagines an Australian Federation farmhouse for a windswept hilltop in Carrickalinga. By expanding the perimeter into a square and carving out a central courtyard, the design flips the traditional verandah to...
Philo Science Center at Institut Le Rosey / Bernard Tschumi Architects
Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed Philo, a 16,222 m² science and innovation center for Institut Le Rosey near Geneva, slated for 2025. The building features a central 30‑meter atrium with a spiral staircase, double‑helix toboggan slides, and three concentric walkways that blend...
Two Gabled Volumes, One Landscape / BRBB Architects
The Shin‑Dae‑Ri House, completed in 2023, provides an aging couple a quiet retreat in a mountain village of Gangwon Province. Set on a gentle slope, the residence pairs a solid concrete base with two rotated timber gabled volumes, creating distinct...
House SI / Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos
Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos completed a 187 m² prefabricated laminated‑wood house in Algarrobo, Chile, for a couple relocating from Iquique. The single‑story home follows a strict 1 × 1 m modular grid and emphasizes panoramic sea, ravine and horizon views. A future two‑story guest house is planned...
No Solid Ground: Three Approaches to Building Below Sea Level in Rotterdam
Rotterdam, sitting about one meter below sea level, confronts escalating flood risk as climate change intensifies storm surges and erratic rainfall. Architects are responding with three distinct foundation strategies: driven timber piles, rammed‑earth platforms, and poured concrete slabs, each tailored...
Le Grand Bercail House / L. McComber
Le Grand Bercail, a 2,800‑ft² contemporary residence in Charlevoix, was completed in 2023 under lead architect Laurent McComber. The home features a sweeping river‑view gallery, a double‑height central room, and a metal roof engineered for passive solar performance. Designed for multi‑family...
Lakeside Farms Coqueiros Beach / Estúdio Vinicius Macêdo + Novais Arquitetura
Lakeside Farms Coqueiros Beach, designed by Estúdio Vinícius Macêdo and Novais Arquitetura, introduces a two‑level club that frames the lagoon view without obstruction. The upper level features a linear plaza and lookout, while the lower level houses a gourmet deck, party...
Extension of a Primary School - New School Pavilion and Multipurpose Hall / Bakyta Architekti
Architectural firm Bakyta architekti completed a 2024 extension of a primary school, adding a new L‑shaped pavilion and a multipurpose hall covering 3,986 m². The design embeds the new volumes into the terrain, preserving green space and creating a public park...
House Meriportti / LUO Architects
House Meriportti, a 203 m² family residence designed by LUO Architects, sits beside a historic harbour and serves as a literal gateway to the sea. The timber‑clad home creates a sheltered three‑sided courtyard that buffers harsh sea winds while large windows...
How Terraco Enhances Thermal Efficiency and Facade Longevity in Prefabricated Buildings
Terraco’s exterior insulation finishing system (EIFS) and trowel‑applied Terracoat render boost thermal performance and extend façade lifespan in prefabricated buildings. The system reduces annual cooling demand by up to 31% and can achieve combined wall‑and‑roof savings of 47%, while guaranteeing...
On World Health Day: How Architecture Shapes Well-Being in Everyday Spaces
World Health Day 2026, themed “Together for health. Stand with science,” highlights the built environment’s influence on human well‑being. The article links architecture to mental health, showing how light, materiality, acoustics and biophilic design can reduce stress and improve cognition....
81 Housing Units / Ramdam Architectes + Palast
Ramdam Architects and Palast have completed an 81‑unit residential block in Nantes, converting the historic Caserne Mellinet barracks into modern housing. The development features a wooden structural frame clad in prefabricated hemp‑crete panels with lime plaster façades. Designed to dialogue with...
Imported Futures: Global Architecture Shaping Albania’s Urban Transformation
Albania’s capital Tirana is undergoing a rapid urban overhaul, driven largely by internationally renowned architects. Large‑scale projects—from the Durrës Port revamp to the Faith Park by BIG—introduce new formal languages and typologies that aim to reposition the city on a...
The House of Time / Natura Futura
The House of Time, designed by Natura Futura in Babahoyo, Ecuador, reimagines domestic living as a rhythm synchronized with the river, climate, and local craftsmanship. Spanning 180 m² on a 23 × 13 m plot, the building uses interior courtyards, water features, and wooden...
The Brick House / Studio VDGA
The Brick House, a 4,500‑sq‑ft private residence in Pune, tackles tight urban site constraints by stacking living spaces across four levels and inserting micro‑courtyards that act as light wells and ventilation shafts. Brick jali screens envelope the façade, filtering solar...
Curly Cube / People's Architecture Office
Curly Cube, unveiled in 2023 along Shanghai’s Huangpu River, is a modular public‑art installation that blends architecture with interactive sculpture. Designed by He Zhe, James Shen, and Zang Feng, its curvilinear form draws on the Gyroid minimal surface and uses...
YMK House / Takeshi Hirobe Architects
The YMK House in Karuizawa, designed by Takeshi Hirobe Architects, is a 205 m² residence built on a sloping high‑land site for a remote‑working client. Its foundation extends below the frost line, housing a full‑size billiard table and serving as part...
Valle House / DAFdf Arquitectura Y Urbanismo
Valle House, a 425 m² residence in Valle de Bravo, tackles steep, irregular terrain with a sculptural design that appears to float above rock outcrops. The architects split the program into two volumes: a sheltered bedroom wing and a cantilevered concrete...
Scotch Chalet / CARTA. Architecte + Designer
The Scotch Chalet, completed in 2025 in Grenville‑sur‑la‑Rouge, is a sub‑100 m² forest retreat that marries Nordic‑inspired minimalism with the Canadian landscape. Its pale‑grey wood cladding and discreet roofline allow the cabin to dissolve into the surrounding woods, while expansive hidden...
L’appartement Hu / OUJ
The L’appartement Hu / OUJ project transforms a 72 m², 40‑year‑old public housing unit in Taipei into a multigenerational, elderly‑friendly residence. Architects OUJ removed obstructive window grilles and fixed AC units, introducing a birch‑plywood central block that unifies storage, circulation and...
Old Folk House in Iwakura / Td-Atelier
The Old Folk House in Iwakura, a 150 m² farmhouse dating to the late Edo‑Meiji era, has been renovated by architects Masaharu Tada and Shojiro Endo. The design respects the Iwakura‑type minka’s linear doma and timber beam structure while preserving useful...
Kaye Residences / Grzywinski+Pons
Skanska’s new Kaye Residences, designed by Grzywinski + Pons, will rise 31 stories in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, delivering 324 apartments and a mixed‑use podium with retail, co‑working, and hospitality‑grade amenities. The project fuses a masonry‑clad podium that respects adjacent 1920s Tudor and...
House in Cervelló / Arqbag
The Arqbag‑designed house in Cervelló is a 186 m² single‑family home built on a steep slope, split into two stacked volumes linked by a central atrium. Lightweight ceramic block walls provide thermal inertia while the glass‑walled atrium captures winter sun and...
Zdar Wooden Housing / Kuba & Pilar Architekti
Zdar Wooden Housing, designed by Kuba & Pilar architekti, will add a four‑storey, timber‑frame residential block to Žďár nad Sázavou in 2025. The project uses prefabricated CLT panels, glued‑laminated timber trusses, and concrete cores to create modular apartments oriented southwest for optimal...
Senpop / Amass
Senpop, a Chengdu‑based retail brand that started with socks, has opened a 70 m² store that blurs the line between shop, factory and warehouse. The design foregrounds the product lifecycle—knitting, sorting, storage and transport—by arranging the space like a logistics hub...
Abbie Abbotsford Terrace / Eckersley Architects
Architects Eckersley completed Abbie House, a 190 m² single‑level addition to a Victorian weatherboard home in Melbourne’s Abbotsford suburb in 2021. The project replaces a dark, damp lean‑to with a double‑height living space framed by floor‑to‑ceiling windows that open onto a...
Infante House / Blaanc
The Infante House / Blaanc project, led by architects Ana Morgado and Carmo Caldeira, transformed a 1950s Lisbon building into a 154 m² contemporary residence. The renovation preserves the modernist legacy while introducing expressive geometries, a sculptural staircase, and a bold...
Senior Citizens' Home in Nový Bydžov / Architektura
A new senior‑citizen residence is opening in Nový Bydžov, Czech Republic, occupying 46,000 m² of former orchard land adjacent to a hospital and cemetery. Designed for roughly 60 residents, the single‑storey complex splits into four independent, barrier‑free households organized around a...
Waiheke House / Cheshire Architects
Cheshire Architects completed the Waiheke House in 2020, a 40,000 m² residence perched on a ridgeline on Waiheke Island. The design blends solidity and lightness through a serpentine stone wall, a rock‑formed sleeping wing, and a north‑facing glass pavilion that captures...
Casa Komorebi / Studio Saxe
Casa Komoregi, a 470 m² mountain residence in Costa Rica, was completed in 2025 by Studio Saxe. The home consists of modular steel pavilions linked by an expansive umbrella roof and outdoor walkways, creating a fluid indoor‑outdoor experience. Passive bioclimatic strategies—cross‑ventilation and...
Cardwell Clubhouse / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design
The Cardwell Clubhouse, a 151 m² off‑grid structure designed by Heather Dubbeldam, serves as both utility hub and leisure space for an outdoor‑focused family. Powered entirely by a nearby photovoltaic array with battery storage, the building blends a flexible recreation room,...
The Prairie House / Hoem + Folstad Arkitekter
The Prairie House, designed by Hoem + Folstad Arkitekter in 2023, repurposes an old log structure into a modern detached home for a young family on the North Sea coast. The project adds a timber extension with oak‑shingle and brick...