ArchDaily Global

Architecture as Translation: Africanfuturism in Folklore, Film, and Speculative Art

Maisa Elamein — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000

"Take your dream suppressants." The opening line in Wanuri Kahiū's Pumzi, directed at our protagonist Asha, enforces the order of severing ties with hopeful futures and ancestral memories in pasts shared to compel her focus on the perpetual present in the Maitu Community's heterotopia of an enclave. The bird's-eye view shot of the Maitu reveals a sterile, drone-like structure with a panoptic sphere at its center where normal human behavior is medicalized. The layout is built around closed-loop recycling systems as apt as a self-sufficient organism, designed to escape the toxic environment of a sickly Earth, where every pipe and corridor is engineered to harvest human excretion for water generation, thereby absorbing the roles of nature and state both. The community's architecture perfectly translates the film's message with its physicality.

Bare Brick House / Yuuga Design Collective

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Bare Brick House responds to a steep rural site in Koppam through a restrained architecture that preserves the terrain while balancing privacy, openness, and climatic comfort. Located on a 30-cent plot surrounded by paddy fields and dense vegetation, the 3,560-square-foot residence occupies land that rises nearly 10 feet from the main road. Instead of leveling the site, Yuuga Design Collective retained its natural contours and used them to guide the planning of the house.

Yumoto Electric INC. Factory / YKAD ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OFFICE

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Small-scale factories in semi-industrial districts often have minimal setbacks from the street, resulting in urban environments that can feel somewhat monotonous and utilitarian. In response, we explored a factory that could engage more closely with the surrounding city by incorporating greenery into the building's frontage.

Renovation Project in the Heart of Shanghai’s Historic Area / dongqi Design

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

dongqi Design has renovated three different buildings into a multi-functional complex that integrates retail, exhibition, F&B and office spaces in downtown Shanghai. The project consists of a three-story brick-concrete building facing the street on the south side, an 8-meter-high factory building, and a single story brick-concrete building on the north side. The ground floor of the three-story building serves as a leisure area, while the second and third floors are office areas. The factory building accommodates a retail area and an independent VIP room. The single-story building on the north side contains a catering area.

HIKARI House / Estudio PK

Valentina Díaz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Casa Hikari is conceived as a residence developed predominantly on the ground floor, designed for a couple whose children have already left the family home. This new stage of life opens the way to a more horizontal, intimate architecture linked to the landscape, where the pathway and the views—rather than the walls—become the true organizers of the project.

House 258 / Cornetta Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Built on a steeply sloped lot, House 258 arises from the principle of designing appropriately for the place, occupying the land and landscape with subtlety and respect while preserving the existing grove on the property. The result is an architecture that, on one side, opens up to the sunset and the surrounding valley, with its facade marked by the golden tones of concrete under the evening light, and on the other, immerses itself in the shaded and silent forest, illuminated by the filtered light of the treetops.

Casa Nova / TAC Taller Alberto Calleja

Valentina Díaz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Casa Nova is built on a 1,732 m² lot, featuring a unique condition of a beachfront measuring only twelve meters wide—a particular constraint that we used as the design premise.

Ammodo Architecture Announces First Edition of Architecture Days in Amsterdam

Reyyan Dogan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Ammodo Architecture will launch the first edition of Ammodo Architecture Days in Amsterdam on November 9 and 10, 2026. Organized by Ammodo Architecture, a programme of the Ammodo Foundation, the event will bring together architects, landscape architects, urban planners, artists, communities, collectives and multidisciplinary design teams, alongside recipients of the 2024 and 2025 Ammodo Architecture Award. Taking place at Westergas, a former industrial complex now used as a cultural and public venue, the two-day programme will combine a symposium, exhibition, publication launch and award ceremony, creating a setting for exchange between practices working across different geographic, cultural and disciplinary contexts.

Restoration and Enhancement of the Patriarchal Cathedral of Lisbon, Installation of the Archaeological Center, and Restoration of the Upper and Lower Cloisters / Adalberto Dias Arquitecto lda

Andreas Luco — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Romanesque, Gothic, Mannerist, Baroque, Neo-Romanesque, Neo-Gothic, and Neo-Manueline are the countless classifications that historians use for the Sé, the building that marked the foundation of Portugal, commissioned by D. Afonso Henriques, after the conquest of the city from the Moors, on the southern slope and halfway up the hill of the Castle.

Call for Entries Open | 1st Design + AI Hackathon URP 2026: Transformable Multifunctional Furniture

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

On Friday, October 9, 2026, Ricardo Palma University will host the 1st URP Design + AI Hackathon 2026, an intensive one-day event where students and alumni will work in multidisciplinary teams to propose multifunctional and transformable furniture that addresses a real-world need. The activity is organized by the Research Unit of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and the Central Office for Alumni Tracking and Employability (OCSEE) at Ricardo Palma University. The event is sponsored by the College of Architects of Peru - Lima Region.

Ausma Hotel / Field Studio

Nina Vuga — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Ausma Hotel reuses more than 200 years old building in the historic center of Kuldīga into a contemporary boutique hotel, continuing the story of the existing building through restoration, local crafts and a new layer of design.

Rural Futures | Future Rurals International Symposium

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:20:00 +0000

RURAL FUTURES | FUTURE RURALS
International Symposium
October 15–16, 2026
Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

The rural is increasingly being declared as a ‘new common ground for humans and all nonhuman living and non-living entities,’ and highlighted as a ‘new’ space for living alongside the city—a shift that calls for reconsidering rural geographies from within their own contexts, challenging conventional views from the city to the countryside, and rethinking rural futures through new perspectives, lines of inquiry, and unconventional models and projects. In response, the international and transdisciplinary symposium Rural Futures | Future Rurals aims to bring together ongoing studies on rural

Photography and Architecture: Light, Space, and Expression With Paul Clemence and Rodrigo Ohtake

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:15:00 +0000

Architecture has been a subject of photography since the camera was first invented. Thanks to the medium's ease of use and precision, photography has long served as a tool for documenting architectural and urban works. Yet, as with any subject matter, architectural photography also offers an opportunity for artistic expression. In this session, visual artist and photographer Paul Clemence joins architect and designer Rodrigo Ohtake to explore the nuances and expressive, artistic possibilities of architectural photography as art—broadening our perspective and deepening our understanding of both photography and architectural space.

Paul Clemence shares a long history with architects Rodrigo and Ruy

Biselli Katchborian Exhibition – 40 Years of Practice

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:10:00 +0000

Four decades of architecture, gathered in an exhibition that invites a look at the processes behind the projects and the various ways in which architecture influences the city. This is the premise of “Biselli Katchborian – 40 Years of Trajectory,” an exhibition celebrating the firm's 40th anniversary, which will open on September 29 at 7:00 PM at the Centro Universitário Senac – Santo Amaro.

Founded in 1986 by architects Mario Biselli and Artur Katchborian, Biselli Katchborian has built a trajectory over four decades marked by work across different scales and programs of the

Student Charrette AIA UK

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:05:00 +0000

Are you a second or third year student enrolled in a RIBA-accredited Part 1 course? The Student Charrette is for you! Hosted at Gensler, it's a one-day design competition that brings together teams of Part 1 students from around the country for an entirely analogue event.

Please note: this event is open to students aged 18 and over only.

When: Saturday 7 November 2025, 9am-6pm

Where: Gensler, Thomas More Square, Thomas More St, London E1W 1YW

Cost: £5, entry fee refundable for students that attend

Description

There's no computer to fall back on, so you'll be sketching and thinking on your feet, testing your drawing and

Unearthing the Ground: Architecture and the Politics of Waste

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000

In 1948, Robert Moses established the Fresh Kills Landfill on the western shore of Staten Island. The site, chosen for its remote marshland and cheap land value, was meant to be temporary, but by 1955 it was the largest landfill in the world, receiving up to 29,000 tons of refuse per day at its 1991 peak. By 2001, after more than fifty years of continuous operation, Fresh Kills covered 2,200 acres, roughly three times the area of Central Park, and was, unspectacularly, visible from space. When it started, Moses didn't expect to design a dump but, without calling it that, a new landform with four artificial hills rising up to sixty meters above sea level built entirely from the accumulated residue of eight million daily lives.

Amherst College / Herzog & de Meuron + Sasaki

Andreas Luco — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Ambherst College has long been recognized for its commitment to academic excellence and the holistic development of its students. The new Student Center & Dining Commons is designed to enhance the student experience by fostering a sense of community and maximizing opportunities to improve well- being. Strategically located at the intersection of the elevated historic quad and lower new greenway, the building will become the heart of Amherst - a place where students can take a short break while commuting between classes, as well as a destination for gathering and developing the social bonds crucial for an individual's development. All spaces in the new building are connected by a crossroads, a vertical and horizonal network of shared spaces linking the upper quad to the lower greenway, student center to dining, and old to new.

TAELON7’s Limbo Engawa Installation Moves From Accra to Art Omi in New York

Reyyan Dogan — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Art Omi and Limbo Museum have presented Limbo Engawa, a two-part site-specific installation by TAELON7, led by architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer. First presented at Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana, on March 12, 2026, the project was reconfigured for Art Omi's Sculpture & Architecture Park in Ghent, New York, where it opened on September 19, 2026. Developed as a joint commission between the two institutions, the project uses a modular architectural system to explore how spaces for gathering and exchange can respond to different landscapes, climates, and cultural contexts.

The expanded Ensemble of the Fondation Beyeler / Atelier Peter Zumthor

Nina Vuga — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The Fondation Beyeler is expanding its ensemble – both physically and conceptually – further strengthening the unique interplay between art, architecture and nature for which it is internationally renowned. During the preview phase (26 September 2026 to 14 January 2027), first visitors are able to experience Peter Zumthorʼs new buildings, the expanded and restored Beyeler Park and the redesigned historic buildings alongside the existing museum building by Renzo Piano.

On World Architecture Day 2026: A Call to Build Better, Build Differently, and Share Resources

Antonia Piñeiro — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

The International Union of Architects designates the first Monday of October as World Architecture Day each year, aligning it with the United Nations' World Habitat Day. This year, both occasions are drawing attention to the global housing crisis as a fundamental element of human dignity, inclusion, and well-being. The UIA's motto reads: "Housing is a Human Right. Build It." The organization calls on architects to contribute to advancing equitable access to housing through design, research, and advocacy. From a holistic perspective, the crisis consists not only of a shortage of residential buildings, but of multiple, interconnected barriers to accessing an adequate place to live. The challenge calls on the dual nature of the architect's work: the capacity for abstract design thinking, and the practical knowledge to transform material reality. For architecture to make the right to housing a reality, both capacities must be put into practice: building new governance structures, different models of shared ownership, designs for alternative forms of cohabitation, and new, environmentally sustainable construction systems.

The Future as Propaganda: Soviet Architecture in Kazakhstan and the Imagery of a New Era

Camilla Ghisleni — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Practically every history book records 1961 as the year man first reached space, an achievement that placed the Soviet Union at the center of the space race. What not everyone knows is that Yuri Gagarin's journey began in a seemingly unlikely place, more precisely in Kazakhstan. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Gagarin set off beyond Earth, inaugurating not only a new era of space exploration but also a history of technology and ambition that would transform this landscape.

From Colombia to New Markets: What La Feria De Diseño Medellín 2026 Left Behind

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000

The 13th edition of La Feria De Diseño Medellín, powered by idd cologne, highlighted an evolution extending far beyond scale: over three days, Plaza Mayor brought together design, architecture, interior design, business, and knowledge on an increasingly international platform. Welcoming over 18,500 visitors and more than 22,000 participants across the city's broader ecosystem, the fair connected professionals, brands, and buyers around new ways of designing, specifying, and inhabiting spaces.

House Beyond the Mango Trees / inLe architects

Pratik Mour — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Located along a highway in Kannur, House Beyond the Mango Trees, designed by inLe architects, is shaped around two mature mango trees that stand near the centre of the site. Rather than removing them, the design allows them to become the organizing element of the house, informing movement, orientation, light, and privacy.

Fengyuan Residence / Mao, Shen-Chiang Architecture Studio

Pratik Mour — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Surrounded by neighboring buildings and city roads, the site offers few external views. Rather than seeking scenery outward, the design turns inward, creating a sheltered space of security, calm, and comfort, and bringing in a man-made nature, a "second nature" belonging to its residents.