Repeat Wellness Club / MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network)
Repeat Wellness Club transformed a former commercial unit in a protected historic building into a fluid wellness hub through adaptive‑reuse. The design preserves the original façade while reconfiguring the irregular interior with curved modular elements, natural clay walls, and a continuous micro‑cement floor. Programmatic zones progress from active Pilates studios and a pop‑up café on the ground floor to recovery spaces such as sauna, cold‑plunge, infrared therapy, and massage on the mezzanine. A custom steel staircase and modular rounded‑square motifs unify structure, lighting, and furnishings, creating spatial continuity without signage.
Point Lonsdale House / Field Office Architecture
Point Lonsdale House, a 310 m² coastal residence designed by Field Office Architecture, blends restrained modernism with historic context near Alfred Deakin’s Ballara estate. The split‑level layout places durable blockwork below and timber‑clad volume above, optimizing north‑sun exposure and southern views....
Shanghai Guohua Finance Center / AI Planetworks Limited
Shanghai Guohua Finance Center, designed by AI Planetworks, delivers a high‑performance office complex that balances dense commercial use with civic responsibility. Two perimeter towers frame a 3,000‑square‑metre public plaza, while a parametric façade adjusts opacity to cut cooling demand by roughly...
Casa NP Renovation / Tésa Architetture
Casa NP, a 140 m² barn renovation in the Reggiano‑Modenese region, was completed in early 2026 after a four‑year restoration. The project retained the historic vaulted structure and central portico while inserting a contemporary open‑plan residence that unfolds across staggered levels. A...
Reach Hospital Lounge / Sherpa
South Korean architects Shin Yeon Ho and Mo Byeong Guk unveiled the Reach Hospital Lounge, an 83 m² patient‑centric space at Rich Oriental Hospital slated for 2025. The design employs high ceilings, a diagonal ceiling plane, and floating furniture to create...
Nafas-E-No (New Breath) Clinic / Event Office
Architect Meysam Hatami has repurposed a decaying traditional house in Babol into the Nafas‑e‑No psychotherapy clinic, covering 1,000 m². The design blends the preserved brick façade with a minimalist interior of white surfaces and muted green accents to foster calm. Indirect...
UNSW Health Translation Hub / Architectus
UNSW’s Health Translation Hub, a 14‑storey landmark, physically links the university’s Kensington campus with the Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct via glazed pedestrian bridges and a permeable ground plane. The building’s adaptive façade reduces solar gain by 60% and delivers...
Casa Branca / NEBR Arquitetura
Brazilian firm NEBR arquitetura unveiled Casa Branca, a 150 m² residence slated for 2026 in Pernambuco’s Zona da Mata. The design emphasizes minimalist, silent geometry, using high‑performance materials from Alcoa, Celite, Lanxess Bayferrox, Tigre and others. A white, prism‑like façade contrasts...
House in Pradet / Clara Crous Arquitectura
Clara Crous Arquitectura’s Casa al Pradet, a 235 m² residence in Vilamacolum, was built on a triangular lot using a lightweight, pre‑machined wooden frame. Construction was synchronized with the local corn harvest, allowing farm labor to participate and embedding agricultural cycles into...
Place Tenaquip - Affordable Housing Units / L. McComber
Place Tenaquip converts a long‑abandoned tavern in Lachine into an 18‑unit affordable housing complex for people experiencing homelessness. Led by architect Laurent McComber and funded by the Tenaquip Foundation, CMHC, SHQ, the City of Montreal and Fonds de solidarité FTQ, the project...
Ananda House / Thought Parallels
Thought Parallels designed Ananda House, a 3,000 ft² residence for a Dallas‑based couple adjacent to their ancestral home in India. The project reinterprets regional vernacular through a contemporary lens, using an expansive overhanging roof as the visual anchor in a tight urban...
Orms Appointed to Lead Redevelopment of London’s BT Tower Into Hotel
London architecture firm Orms has been appointed to spearhead the conversion of the iconic BT Tower into a hotel for American hospitality group MCR Hotels. The Grade II‑listed 177‑metre tower, acquired in early 2024, will undergo public consultation in May,...
Mobility Justice: Urban Equity in an Era of Innovation
Mobility justice reframes transportation planning as a political issue, emphasizing equity, sustainability, and inclusive design. The article outlines three core commitments—accessibility for underserved groups, environmental justice, and community‑driven processes—and showcases global examples from Barcelona, Medellín, Bogotá, Seoul, Montreal, Mexico City,...
L’Ile Folie / MARC FORNES + THEVERYMANY
French architect Marc Fornes has unveiled L’île Folie, a sculptural pavilion that rises from a pond in Downtown Cary Park. The structure reinterprets the 19th‑century park folly using a self‑supporting skin of ultra‑thin folded aluminum panels with thousands of perforations. It...
Living Continuum Studio and House / Damith S Munasinghe Associates
Living Continuum Studio and House, designed by Damith S Munasinghe for 2025, is a 2,400 ft² two‑storey residence‑studio in Malabe, Sri Lanka. Built on a 7.5‑perch compact site, the project merges daily living with design work through flexible, open‑plan spaces and four interior...
HVM Maya / Perkins&Will
Perkins & Will’s HVM Maya, an 18,000 m² luxury tower in Campo Grande, Brazil, reimagines high‑end living by merging the building with the adjacent Parque das Nações Indígenas. The design uses a west‑facing circulation belt and brise‑soleils to achieve passive thermal comfort, while exposed...
Hotel Palácio De Tavira / Fragmentos
The Hotel Palácio de Tavira, slated for 2025 completion, revitalises a historic 18th‑ and 19th‑century palace in Tavira’s centre while adding a contemporary addition called the Medina. Architects Pedro Silva Lopes and Marcus Cerdeira preserved original façades, stone staircase, ceramics...
Facing the Age of Robots? Material Innovation in Architectural Structures
Robotic systems are reshaping architectural construction by moving beyond simple automation to become material makers. Advanced six‑axis arms, mobile platforms and 3D‑printing robots now translate computational designs directly into built forms, enabling complex geometries and on‑site adaptation. Projects such as...
Aurva Illam House / Iki Builds
Aurva Illam, a 5,660 ft² prototype on Hyderabad’s urban fringe, reimagines luxury through reclaimed stone, rammed‑earth walls and passive‑solar geometry. The design stacks ascending vaults that create shade, harness stack‑effect ventilation and eliminate mechanical cooling. Integrated rainwater harvesting and terracotta insulation...
Self-Sustaining Farmhouse / Manoj Patel Design Studio
Manoj Patel Design Studio unveiled a 1,500 ft² self‑sustaining farmhouse on a 30,000 ft² plot near Vadodara, India. The design relies on self‑shading brick walls, curved and angular volumes, and a central glazed volume to maximize daylight, ventilation, and thermal comfort. Materials...
Wood House / JAK Architecture
JAK Architecture transformed a fragmented Barwon Heads home into a cohesive, family‑focused residence while preserving the original footprint. Working with a $600,000 budget and a tight timeline, the firm added modest extensions that sit beneath the existing envelope, emphasizing restraint...
OMA / Shohei Shigematsu Designs Ellipsoidal Pavilion for Mushroom Cultivation at Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico
OMA’s New York office, led by Shohei Shigematsu, opened a 200 m² ellipsoidal pavilion at Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca on 4 March 2026. The concrete‑shell structure serves as an incubator for mushroom cultivation, featuring three climate‑controlled chambers and a central viewing space. Its curved...
Bondi House / Nick Kent Design
Bondi House, designed by Nick Kent Design, showcases a lightweight, steel‑framed structure that hovers above a native garden, creating a sculptural retreat in Bondi. The house uses a modular 150 UC portal‑frame system and a 2000 mm × 900 mm grid to accelerate construction and...
Caetés House / Ateliê GR
Casa Caetés, designed by Gabriel Rodrigues Grinspum, is a 243 m² three‑story residence built on an urban mixed‑use lot for a large family of seven. The compact layout separates work, social, and intimate zones across street‑level, semi‑buried, and upper floors, integrating...
Buildner and Kingspan Launch MICROHOME 2026 With €100K in Awards and Announce 10th Edition Winners
Buildner, in partnership with Kingspan, has launched MICROHOME 2026, the eleventh edition of its global micro‑home competition, offering a €100,000 prize pool. The contest challenges architects and designers to create modular, self‑sufficient homes no larger than 25 m² that prioritize sustainability, affordability...
Kingdee Cloud Tower / HENN Architekten
Kingdee’s Cloud Tower, a 211‑metre highrise slated for 2025, will complete the company’s software park in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district, adding 98,800 m² of office, conference and restaurant space. The pentagonal, cantilevered form maximizes a narrow site, creating an open‑air lobby and...
Architecture as a Platform: What Makes a Building Evolve?
Architecture is increasingly being treated as a product, emphasizing performance, user experience, and scalability over pure aesthetic novelty. Architects now define spatial logic and system behavior before occupancy, embedding predictability and repeatability into buildings. This product mindset drives modularity, standardized...
Understanding U-Value: The Foundation of Energy-Efficient Envelopes
The article explains that a building's envelope acts as a thermal regulator, and its performance hinges on the thermal transmittance, or U‑Value. U‑Value quantifies heat flow per square meter per degree Kelvin, linking directly to insulation quality. The piece outlines...
Valckensteyn - Timber Residential Building / Powerhouse Company
Valckensteyn, Rotterdam’s first mass‑timber residential tower, has been completed, delivering 82 affordable rental homes in the post‑war Pendrecht district. Designed by Powerhouse Company for housing corporation Woonstad Rotterdam, the 7,970 m² building relies on a CL Cross‑Laminated Timber core, with demountable fibre‑cement...
Floating House / CTA | Creative Architects
Vietnam endured 17 back‑to‑back storms in 2025, flooding 22 provinces and prompting architects Bui The Long, CTA | Creative Architects, Nha Xanh and 5G Construction Solutions to develop a Floating Prefab House. The structure operates as a garden bungalow in normal conditions and...
The Machine in the Age of Collective Practice
The article argues that artificial intelligence and generative systems are turning architectural tools into semi‑autonomous agents, reshaping how designers conceive, create, and claim authorship. It traces the evolution from compass to computer, showing that each tool restructured decision‑making, but AI...
Can Shading Become Energy? From Passive Facades to Productive Envelopes
Facades are evolving from passive skins to active energy generators, exemplified by EHRET’s SolarSlide photovoltaic shutters. These movable shading elements embed monocrystalline cells within double‑glazed modules, delivering 500 W‑peak per leaf with 20‑22% efficiency while offering eight color finishes. In a...
Three Schools - One Process / Gmp Architects
gmp Architects completed three new schools in Bremerhaven using the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) model, marking the first public‑sector IPD project in Germany. The facilities, designed for roughly 1,750 pupils, opened between summer and autumn 2025 and replace aging buildings...
A Century of Temporary Housing Experiments: Milano–Cortina and the Evolution of Olympic Villages
The Olympic Village has evolved from a purely logistical shelter in the early 20th century to a strategic urban development tool. Early Games used simple, security‑focused compounds, while the 1960s saw Rome and Grenoble turn villages into residential prototypes for...