Dusit Le Palais Tu Hoa Hotel / Baumschlager Eberle Architekten
The Dusit Le Palais Tu Hoa Hotel, slated for 2025, will span 14,152 m² in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district, bridging the city’s tranquil residential core with its fast‑growing northern quarters. Designed by Baumschlager Eberle Architekten under lead architect Dat Cung, the project reinterprets the traditional Vietnamese courtyard into a vertical atrium that runs from the basement to the rooftop. The atrium, animated by three glass shuttle elevators, organizes dining, meeting, wellness and rooftop bar spaces around a continuous public spine. A parametric roof adds layered facades that modulate light and shadow, creating a “melody of shadow” experience for guests.
Renovation of the Ground Floor of the Prudência Building / Gui Paoliello Arquiteto
The Prudência building, a landmark of Brazilian modernism completed in 1948, underwent a comprehensive ground‑floor renovation completed in 2022. Guided by original drawings from Burle Marx and Rino Levi, the project restored the Portuguese mosaic flooring, recreated Burle Marx’s sinuous garden, and introduced...
Wave 4 & 5 - ECR Health Care Complex / FAAB
Wave 4 and 5 of the ECR Health Care Complex in Sopot, Poland, are slated for completion in 2025, adding an analytical laboratory, outpatient clinic, day‑surgery hospital, and specialist hospital to the campus. The development reclaims five hectares of flood‑prone brownfield land...
House in Penumbra / Teleno Studio
Casa en Penumbra, a 56 m² Madrid apartment renovated by Antonio Cordero Castro and Cristian Álvarez Blanco, redefines a historic 19th‑century unit through a compact oak core that houses the bedroom and bathroom. The surrounding program—kitchen, dining, living and storage—flows around...
Designed Comfort, Purchased Comfort: Passive Design and Air Conditioning in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s post‑war public housing originally relied on passive design—thin blocks, opaque façades, concrete mass, and atrium ventilation—to achieve thermal comfort. As air‑conditioning became affordable in the 1970s‑80s, window units proliferated, reshaping façades into a patchwork of condensers. This shift altered...
Toward the Sun Summerhouse / Tassos Biris - Sofia Tsiraki & Associate Architects
The Toward the Sun Summerhouse, designed by Tassos Biris and Sofia Tsiraki, is a 200 m² residence perched on a windswept cape in Antiparos and slated for completion in 2025. Its layout is driven by a cross‑shaped geometry inspired by seagull flight,...
Apartment A / Heros
Apartment A reimagines a 1970s duplex on Paris’s 7th floor, adding two generous planted terraces that blur the line between interior and exterior. The renovation strips away partitions, exposing raw concrete and integrating technical functions within anodized‑aluminium‑clad volumes. Wooden, polished‑concrete platforms...
The Illusion of Lightness: Designing Civic Voids for Public Life
Urban density and soaring land values force cities to choose between large civic buildings and open public space. The article examines how the modernist pilotis concept, introduced to create a sense of lightness, enables the design of civic voids that...
Flow Third Place / Office Zola Architectes
The Flow Third Place in Vannes repurposes a 19th‑century industrial complex into a 1,800 m² mixed‑use hub for wellness, work, culture and dining. Architects removed an entire roof section, creating a light‑filled patio and doubling the building’s occupancy capacity. The design...
Real House / HK Associates Inc
Real House, designed by HK Associates Inc., reimagines a modest arroyo lot in Tucson’s Sonoran Desert into a 3,223 ft² family residence that captures sweeping views of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The architects employed strategic siting, topographic cut‑and‑fill, and reflective framing...
V House / 23o5Studio
V House, a 400 m² residence by 23o5Studio and lead architect Ngô Việt Khánh Duy, reimagines Vietnamese domestic architecture through seamless indoor‑outdoor flow. The design replaces a conventional rectangular layout with a continuous ground‑level living zone, a dual‑aspect garden, and a...
Hopetoun House / FGR Architects
FGR Architects' Hopetoun House showcases understated elegance, merging a calm exterior with animated interiors. The design emphasizes liveability through a geometric form, extensive glazing, operable doors, and fresh‑air ventilation that blur indoor‑outdoor boundaries. Material choices focus on monolithic concrete panels...
Pamba Bike Shelter / URLO Studio
URLO Studio’s Pamba Bike Shelter, slated for 2025, anchors a 899 m² refuge at the foot of Pambamarca Hill in Ecuador. The structure pairs two pigmented‑concrete service volumes with a lightweight laminated‑wood roof, creating a seamless indoor‑outdoor experience for cyclists. Native...
Paula's House / Luciano Kruk
Paula’s House, a 753 m² residence designed by Luciano Kruk in 2019, sits on the outskirts of São Paulo amid a landscaped lagoon and golf course. The architect achieved a low‑profile, single‑level layout with a hidden technical floor, central patio, and a gallery...
Albuquerque Foundation / Bernardes Arquitetura
The Albuquerque Foundation in Sintra, Portugal, has unveiled a new 4,000 m² cultural complex designed by Bernardes Arquitetura, slated for completion in 2025. The project restores the historic Quinta de São João estate while adding underground galleries, glass‑walled pavilions, and a...
BROWNIE/Project / Offhand Practice
BROWNIE/Project transformed a 290 m² former woolen mill in Shanghai’s M50 Creative Park into a hybrid gallery‑café, preserving industrial elements like concrete columns and reclaimed bridge timber. The design introduced a floating bridge, a darkroom tunnel, and a reoriented staircase to...
A Community Art Ecosystem in Practice / MINOR Lab
MINOR lab’s Jiadu Art Center transforms a 2021 residential complex in China into a three‑pronged community art ecosystem, converting an ancillary building into a flexible art center, adding a café, and repurposing a unit as an adaptable artist studio. The...
Cabin Above the Valley / System Recovery Architects
System Recovery Architects completed the Cabin Above the Valley, a 293 m² timber‑frame residence in Strážné, Czech Republic, designed for three generations. The project complies with Krkonoše National Park’s stringent building codes by preserving the original house footprint and employing a...
Summerhill Village / TANDEM Design Studio
Summerhill Village, designed by TANDEM design studio, delivers 49 medium‑density apartments around a generous communal courtyard in West Footscray. The project prioritises community, sustainability and dignity, offering dual or triple aspect units that provide natural cross‑ventilation and daylight. Durable, low‑maintenance...
Gio Kitchen Atelier / NMDM.ARQ - Nádia Manssur
Gio Kitchen Atelier repurposes a 300 m² Pinheiros townhouse into a hybrid culinary studio, completed in 2025 for a chef blending authorial gastronomy with brand collaborations. The redesign removes interior walls, adds a metallic support system, and replaces the roof with...
El Born Loft / Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge
Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge transforms an 85 m² former commercial unit in Barcelona’s El Born into a minimalist loft slated for 2026. The design treats the space as a series of voids, articulated through four dimensions: time, space, material and program. A decade‑old...
Beyond Circulation: Stair Solutions for Small-Footprint Living in Asia
In high‑density Asian cities, architects are reimagining staircases from hidden necessities to multifunctional assets. Taiwanese loft apartments now embed storage, utilities and spatial hierarchy within the stair core, while projects like CH House employ floating treads to keep visual volume...
LPS Residence / Davidov Architects
The LPS Residence, completed in 2022 on the Mornington Peninsula, reimagines a family’s outgrown home through three distinct volumes for sleeping, living, and dining. Steep skillion roofs create vaulted interiors and improve thermal performance, while limited openings frame vineyard views....
Guest Lounge 350.000 Ha / Manuel Bouzas + Salazarsequeromedina
The 45th ARCO 2026 fair will host Guest Lounge 350,000 Ha, a dual‑space installation that juxtaposes a constructed lounge with the memory of north‑western Iberian wildfires that scorched 350,000 hectares in 2025. Designed by Manuel Bouzas and Salazar Sequeromedina, the lounge is built entirely from...
Villa Färingsö - Artist's House / Strombro Building Workshop
Villa Färingsö, a 210 m² artist’s residence completed in 2024, showcases a fully bio‑based construction using straw‑bale, CLT slabs, Glulam arches and timber‑fiber insulation. The design respects the sloping, oak‑lined site with four staggered volumes and arching roofs, creating a Gothic‑inspired...
Artist Residence and Studio in NY / Horizontal Design
Emily’s Home, a 1,026 m² residence in upstate New York, was realized after a six‑year design journey that began in 2018 and concluded in 2025. The project blends Eastern philosophical concepts with the site’s natural landscape, using a hybrid steel‑timber frame...
Compass Bonfire / Messina | Rivas
Architects messina | rivas are renovating the Bonfire of Paiol Grande in São Bento do Sapucaí, Brazil, slated for completion in 2025. The new design transforms the fire pit into a compass‑like structure with twelve directional supports and a south‑facing stage that points...
Designing for Obsolescence in an Age of Perpetual Upgrades
Designing for obsolescence argues that buildings outlive the technologies they host, creating a mismatch between durable structures and rapidly evolving systems. Historical examples—from 19th‑century railway gauge wars to 20th‑century telephone exchanges and early data centers—illustrate how infrastructure becomes functionally obsolete...
OMA’s Metropolitan Village Advances Toward Completion in Taipei’s Xinyi District
OMA’s Metropolitan Village, a 23‑storey, 95‑metre residential tower in Taipei’s Xinyi CBD, is advancing toward completion with construction now at the highest structural element. Developed for Continental Development Corporation, the project broke ground in 2024 and targets a 2027 finish,...
Unearthing the Ground: Architecture and the Politics of Oil
Petroleum’s extraction, transport and petrochemical by‑products form a hidden architectural layer that reshapes cities worldwide. From Baku’s early oil‑filled coastline to Texas fields and Gulf complexes, oil infrastructure converts geological depth into economic value, dictating land division, road placement and...
Overlap No Ma House / IGArchitects
The Overlap no Ma house in Uruma, Okinawa, is a 72 m² residence designed for a retired couple seeking a living environment that adapts to their evolving lifestyle. Rather than partitioning spaces by function, the design treats the structure as a flexible...
Home Pavilion / MRTN Architects
The Home Pavilion, designed by MRTN Architects, is a 280 m² residence completed in 2024 that centralises the kitchen, dining and living areas within a distinct corner pavilion. Inspired by the client’s memories of Eichler homes, the design adopts California Modern...
Anglesea House / Eckersley Architects
Anglesea House, a 350 m² two‑storey residence overlooking Victoria’s Southern Ocean, reinterprets 1950s‑60s coastal modernism for a couple and their extended family. Replacing a 1970s structure on a 720 m² sloping site, the home uses an H‑plan to create two sheltered courtyards...
Vespa House / Habitat Studio Architects
Vespa House, designed by Habitat Studio Architects, is a 2024 subtropical family retreat that blends raw concrete, timber, and black accents with biophilic principles. A monolithic western façade and floating roof with deep overhangs provide privacy and passive solar control,...
GM House / Frederico Bicalho Arquitetura
The GM House, a 600 m² residence designed by Frederico Bicalho for 2025, tackles a steep site with a longitudinal layout that frames mountain views and safeguards privacy. Access is routed over a reflective water mirror to social spaces that open...
Auga Optical Salon / Znamy Się
Migdal Studio’s Auga Optical Salon translates the human visual system into architecture, guiding visitors through a spatial journey that mirrors light’s path through the eye. The design features a biconvex glass lens, a burl‑wood counter symbolizing the macula, and blue‑gradient...
Chr. Tomters Veg House / Rever & Drage Architects
Rever & Drage Architects expanded the modest red‑painted cottage in Chr. Tomters veg, Rælingen, by adding two new volumes that double the living space for a large family. The design links the original house with a winter garden and a...
De Hartenrust Residential Building / Van Bergen Kolpa Architects
De Hartenrust, designed by van Bergen Kolpa architects, will add 36 affordable social‑housing units to Rotterdam’s Rotte riverbank in 2025. The 4,160 m² development combines a nine‑storey tower, three‑storey townhouses and four‑storey corner houses, creating a sculptural presence that links the dense Oude Noorden district...
Xindu • Herbal Fragrant Cottage / Archermit
Herbal Fragrant Cottage, a 1,015 m² project in Xindu District, Chengdu, reinterprets traditional Linpan settlements through a contemporary architectural lens. The design weaves agrarian scenery into the building fabric, using criss‑crossing paths, a sunken tea room, and a sloped roof that...
Concrete Curtain House / FGR Architects
FGR Architects’ Concrete Curtain House, a 500 m² residence completed in 2023, interprets suburban complexity through a layered façade of rippling concrete columns and expansive glass. The concrete “curtain” functions as a brise‑soleil, delivering thermal performance while preserving privacy and allowing...
Casa La Ladera / Estudio Diagonal
Casa La Ladera, designed by Sebastián Armijo Oyarzún, is a 220 m² residence built in 2021 on a steep hillside overlooking Lake Puyehue in southern Chile. The project organizes two stepped volumes that follow the natural slope, reducing earthworks and creating...
Wooden Blocks / YH2 Architecture
YH2 Architecture’s 2020 Wooden Blocks residence spans 3,750 ft² on a rocky outcrop above Lake Memphremagog. The house consists of two offset cedar volumes – a lower block anchored to the slope and a floating upper block – creating a double‑height overlap...
Lake Views / JA Joubert Architecture
Lake Views is a 100,000 m² mixed‑use development by JA Joubert Architecture on Tirana’s lakefront, completed in 2024. The project stacks residential units above commercial spaces and parking, using sloped volumes that guarantee every apartment an outward view of the lake, city...
XiaoZhuo Flagship Store / Offhand Practice
Emerging fashion label XiaoZhuo opened its flagship store in a 1930s heritage garden house on Shanghai’s Wukang Road. The 760 m² renovation preserves the historic façade while introducing a continuous green path that links two outdoor yards and five storeys, blurring...
Corner Apartment / Prokop Hartl
Prokop Hartl renovated a 115 m² corner apartment in a 1930s Prague building, creating a family‑friendly layout that preserves the era’s character while adding modern functionality. The design opens the floor plan to capture expansive Vltava River views and incorporates a...
Kéré Architecture Designs Healthcare Center in Burundi Using Regional Materials and Community-Based Construction
Kéré Architecture is designing a 3,000 m² healthcare centre in Burundi’s Bubanza region, using ten pavilions that follow the hillside terrain. The clinic, commissioned by NGO Ineza Clinic, focuses on maternity and specialized surgical care and relies on locally sourced clay...
Evenly Lit, Not Overlit: Rethinking Brightness in Subtropical Cities
In subtropical Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, western‑facing sunlight is increasingly seen as a source of glare, heat and visual fatigue. Architects and interior designers are moving away from the default strategy of flooding spaces with downlights,...
Form, Function, and Funding: The High-Tech Urbanism of San Francisco
San Francisco’s urban fabric is being reshaped by the tech economy, driving a wave of high‑tech architecture and material refinement while sidelining existing residents. The city faces a mandate to add more than 82,000 housing units by 2031 under California’s...
Villa Modda / Depaolidefranceschibaldan Architetti
Villa Modda, a 300 m² residence in Val di Noto completed in 2026 by depaolidefranceschibaldan architetti, restores a cluster of abandoned rural structures and adds a contemporary extension that respects bioclimatic principles and local craftsmanship. The project preserves the original stone...
Adaptive Cabins in Costa Rica: Designing for Humidity and Ventilation in the Jungle
Adaptive cabins in Costa Rica are being designed to withstand extreme precipitation and high humidity typical of the jungle environment. Architects employ minimal site invasion, thermal gradients, and passive ventilation to achieve structural durability and low-maintenance operation. The cabins use...