ArchDaily Global

Screened Space Office Building / Studio UF+O

Pratik Mour — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Screened Space is the headquarters and experience centre of an electrical switches company, located within the densely packed historic core of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. It is conceived as an architectural response to its complex urban condition where streets are narrow, services are exposed and buildings line tightly with little to no space between them. Within this setting, the project establishes a distinct presence by negotiating visibility, climate control and privacy.

B Nesta Residence / UOS Architecture Studio

Pratik Mour — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Located in an urban area in western Denpasar, Bali, B Nesta is a residential complex comprising 20 apartment units and five private-pool townhouses. The program is complemented by shared facilities, including a communal kitchen, a meeting room, a multifunctional rooftop, and a 25-meter public swimming pool. More than simply providing a place to live, B Nesta is conceived as a residential environment that encourages relaxation, interaction, and a sense of community.

Jiashan Dayun Landison Manor / HB ARCHITECTS + NATURE TIME ART

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located in Shangxia Village, Jiashan, Zhejiang Province, with a total site area of approximately 15,600 square metres. It stretches 367 metres from east to west, with a maximum width of approximately 54 metres from north to south and a minimum of 21 metres. The site originally housed a village. When we first visited the site, the village had already been largely demolished, leaving only two houses. The long and narrow site is generally flat, with little undulation. One side borders an irrigation canal, and the whole site is enveloped by agricultural land.

Audiovisual Experimentation Center / Dirección General de Arquitectura + Secretaria de Planificación + Municipalidad de Avellaneda

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0000

The Audiovisual Experimentation Center (CEA) is located in the city of Avellaneda, within an urban fragment shaped by redevelopment and infrastructure. Rather than a passive restoration, the project repurposes the facilities of a former oil mill as a critical reactivation, transforming it into the municipal archives for the preservation, restoration, and dissemination of audiovisual heritage.

Yoshi House / AR Arquitetos

Nana Dokua — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Taking advantage of the slope toward the forest at the back of the property, the ground was redesigned into split levels made of solid brick to accommodate the social areas. Above this, supported by a slender engineered wood structure that gives rhythm to the overall design, the horizontal plane of the roof rests lightly and continuously at street level.

Casa Ínsula / TANAT + PEMO + Carlos García Noriega

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Mérida knows how to consume itself, especially if we look away for a moment.

Fradique Building / GRUPOSP

Nana Dokua — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

The project is part of an initiative to revive the "predinho" typology—low-rise residential building models common before the 1970s—reassessing their qualities of scale and community life in contrast to market logics focused solely on maximizing profitability.

Trilogy House / Waechter Architecture

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Trilogy House reimagines a traditional Portland vernacular, creating a private refuge that engages the street while reconnecting to nature through carefully oriented living spaces.

Underground Spa / KIP arhitekti

Nina Vuga — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The tourist farmstead complex, a former mill, comprises a cluster of five buildings. They stand in a forest-encircled clearing, with a stream running between them. The entire estate is designed, both architecturally and aesthetically, in a classic rustic manner, and the setting's scenography is romantic and idyllic.

The Public Kitchen: How Asian Markets Turn Eating Into Civic Life

Jonathan Yeung — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000

In many Asian cities, eating has never belonged entirely to the private home. It spills into markets, hawker centers, street stalls, and wholesale districts embedded within larger buildings or areas. These are places where the city exchanges information and watches other people pass through. They are not restaurants in the conventional sense, nor are they simply markets. In some way, their vibrancy and usage reflect the society's conditions at that moment. They are public kitchens: shared infrastructures where domestic routines are partially transferred into collective space.

Chenhu Migratory Bird Observation Tower / Xiang Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Situated within Wuhan's Chenhu Wetland, the Migratory Bird Observation Tower is perched on Xianglushan, a natural promontory rising 22 metres above sea level. This vantage point offers sweeping views of Tonghu, the Tongshun River, and a sprawling marshland that serves as a vital sanctuary for over 100,000 migratory birds every winter. Rather than treating the tower as a mere functional route to a viewpoint, the project reimagines the act of ascending as a core part of the landscape experience. The design moves away from the efficiency of a "quick climb," focusing instead on how the body moves through space to build a deeper connection with the surroundings.

Lina Bo Bardi's First Exhibition in China and GXN's Reclaimed-Material Community Space: This Week's Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

This week's stories explore how architecture engages with questions of culture, access, and collective life, from new cultural institutions and exhibitions to public spaces and housing. This week, the 2026 NCARB by the Numbers report provided a broader perspective on the profession itself, showing that people of color accounted for 49% of licensure candidates in 2025 and women for 47%, compared with 21% and 28% among the overall architect population. The report offers one perspective on access within the profession, while projects and cultural initiatives further examine how architecture responds to different forms of public and collective life.

Centro Piacentiniano / CN10 architetti

Nina Vuga — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The project was based on an extensive preliminary analysis which combined the study, mapping and measurement of the material city (shapes, stratifications, layouts, measurements, constituent elements of the landscape…).

ZHA Designs 198-Hectare Urban District Around Baku Expo Center in Azerbaijan

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0000

ZHA has been selected to design a new 198-hectare urban district in Baku, Azerbaijan. The project surrounds the existing Baku Expo Center events venue in a pine forest area that is planned to be preserved. The plan responds to the city's population growth over the past decade with a masterplan to organize the provision of a wide variety of residences. This is the firm's second project in Baku, after the Heydar Aliyev Center cultural venue, completed in 2013. On a different scale, the buildings in the new district appear to follow the geometric style inherited from Zaha Hadid, in a series of white buildings with rounded edges that convey an idea of fluid architecture.

Building a National Image: Architecture, Capital, and Political Power

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

The Pyramid of Tirana opened as a museum to Enver Hoxha in October 1988, three years after his death and three years before the regime collapsed. In the decades that followed, it served as a radio station, a conference venue, a nightclub, and a base for NATO during the Kosovo war. In 2023, MVRDV reopened it as a park and technology school, adding steps to the façades so that the building could be walked over. The inauguration was timed to the Western Balkans Summit on 16 October, a date that some critics pointed out was Hoxha's birthday. Two projects of national self-definition, thirty-five years apart and built on opposite political premises, have used the same structure.

Casa PR21 / Alventosa Morell Arquitectes

Cristina Popescu — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Built on a narrow terraced plot facing the sea in Badalona, Casa PR21 occupies the full width of the site and unfolds across four stories and an accessible roof terrace. Designed for a family of three, the house organises everyday life through a sequence of spaces in which structure, light and voids shape the interior experience. A restrained material palette and white surfaces allow natural light to flow from one facade to the other, making it the project's primary organising element.

Strathmore Courtyard House / Studio Ceravolo

Pratik Mour — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:00:00 +0000

A three-level extension to an existing solid brick Art Deco home, this project is anchored around a courtyard garden at its core, creating a zone around which circulation becomes an essential aspect of the design, guiding the experience of the space and allowing for a fluid transition between the various living nodes.

Canopy Design at Starfire Discovery Camp / CM Design

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Shenzhen Dapeng New District Starfire Discovery Camp is a comprehensive outdoor practice base integrating research-based education, agro-cultural tourism, and leisure experiences. It is adjacent to Dongshan Temple, with Dapeng Fortress and Jiaochangwei to the west. To meet diverse outdoor needs, the owner planned to add a canopy space beside the existing old buildings, serving both as shade and shelter from rain.

Topographies of Encounter - Concordia Square / AR-AR Martínez Arquitectura y Paisaje + María Paula González Bozzi

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Located in the heart of the historic La Candelaria neighborhood, Plaza de la Concordia is a site of high heritage value and a natural meeting point for students, residents, and tourists due to its strategic location next to Colegio La Candelaria and the gateway to Chorro de Quevedo.

House in São Paulo / André Vainer Arquitetos

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The house occupies a flat, well-oriented lot, with the building set along the neighboring property line and the front setback to form an L-shaped floor plan This leaves a large open courtyard at the center of the site. Openings face east, north, and west, bringing sunlight into the interiors throughout the day.

Chocó Pambil Refuge / Minqa Atelier

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Chocó Pambil Refuge transforms a challenging slope into the spatial structure of a minimal house within the forest.

Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music / COOKFOX

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music is dedicated to telling the story of music in this country and celebrating Bruce Springsteen's contributions to that tradition. COOKFOX's design seeks to express those interwoven themes and their composite parts—song, poetry, the myth of the American dream—as cultural placemaking. The building's weathering steel façade references New Jersey's industrial legacy and the protagonists of Springsteen's music, and the mass timber structure creates authentic and welcoming interiors. Located at Monmouth University, the building balances the institution's programmatic needs as an exhibition, educational, and archival space with a design concept that is rooted in the uniquely American drama of Springsteen's music.

Woonhuis Heenvliet / Studio Brandvries

Cristina Popescu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Woonhuis Heenvliet is located on the edge of the historic village of Heenvliet. When the owners bought the plot, it had an existing house that was partly built on the footprint of a barn that had once been part of a historic ensemble.

Call for Entries : International Design Competition for the Redevelopment of the Hwamyeong Outdoor Swimming Pool

Rene Submissions — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:10:00 +0000

The competition aims to create synergy with Busan’s waterfront redevelopment initiatives and transform the existing summer-only facility into a year-round family-oriented destination, developing it as an eco-friendly waterfront leisure space.
Under the theme “Establishing a Spatial Service Model for a Year-Round Family Water Recreation (Swimming Pool) and Leisure Complex,” the competition invites design proposals that reflect the ecological, environmental, and cultural values of the aging outdoor swimming pool located within Hwamyeong Ecological Park.

All submissions must be made through the official competition website(https://hwamyeong-idc.kr/).

1. Competition Process
This competition proceeds as a two-stage international design competition.
- Stage 1: Three(3) teams will be selected through an