Honduras is the second-largest country in Central America, both in territory and population. Today, its urban fabric remains heavily influenced by modernist principles from the 1970s that prioritised high-speed arterial corridors and automobile-dependent "point-to-point" mobility. In addition, the country faced many challenges regarding public safety during the 2010s, which contributed to creating an urban space characterised by blind facades, high perimeter walls, and gated enclosures designed to isolate the interior from the public realm.

We had the opportunity to talk to Alejandra Ferrera, a Honduran architect raised in Danlí, a city in eastern Honduras. With over 15 years of practice across Brazil, the Netherlands, and Australia, she argues that while the security-driven design was a functional necessity of its time, it has resulted in a fragmented urban experience where the street serves only as a transit void rather than a place for social encounter. She suggests that even though this isolation was a justified safety measure, it created detachment between the inhabitants and the city. She also argues that overall, the public safety situation contributed to the creation of a wounded national identity that often looks outward for quality, dismissing the potential of its own context.

• architects: SpActrum
• Location: Tonglu, Hangzhou, China
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Shengliang Su
• Photographs: Courtesy of SpActrum
• Area: 705.0 m2

Milan reactivates its role as a global design capital this week as Milan Design Week 2026 has began on April 20, followed by the opening of the 64th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano on April 21 at Fiera Milano, Rho. Rather than a single event, the week unfolds as a layered system in which the fair and the city operate through different temporalities and spatial conditions. From early openings across urban districts to the formal start of the fairgrounds program, the staggered calendar reinforces a continuous flow of activity that extends across institutions, infrastructures, and public space.

• architects: Constanze Ladner
• Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Robert Rieger
• Area: 185.0 m2

The United Nations' International Mother Earth Day, observed annually on April 22, aims to "promote harmony with nature and the Earth." In light of the urgency posed by climate change, it seeks to raise awareness of the challenges of preserving all forms of life supported by the planet. It is a call to the global community to safeguard biodiversity while striving to balance economic, social, and ecological systems. Crimes against biodiversity include large-scale practices such as deforestation, land-use change, intensified agriculture, livestock production, and illegal wildlife trade, all considered by the UN to be accelerating factors in the destruction of the planet.

ArchDaily is looking for a Projects Team Lead to guide the curation and strategic development of one of the platform's core content pillars: built projects. This role sits at the intersection of editorial and architectural judgment, data-driven strategy, and team leadership, shaping how architecture is selected, presented, and amplified to a global audience.

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Architectural history often advances through iconic gestures or technological breakthroughs, yet some works remain influential precisely because they resist spectacle. Built between 1972 and 1974 in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, the Van Wassenhove Residence stands as one of those quiet but decisive projects. Conceived as a single, continuous concrete volume set within a wooded landscape, the house challenges conventional ideas of domestic comfort, privacy, and spatial hierarchy. Its presence is direct and uncompromising, yet it avoids monumentality, positioning itself instead as a lived structure shaped by everyday rituals and long-term inhabitation.

The house was designed by Juliaan Lampens, a figure who operated largely outside the dominant architectural narratives of his time. Working mostly in Flanders and often on private commissions, Lampens developed a body of work centered on radical spatial reduction, material honesty, and an almost ethical approach to construction. The Van Wassenhove Residence is frequently described as his most complete work, not because it introduces new ideas, but because it consolidates many of the principles that run consistently through his career.

• architects: snkh studio
• Location: 45 Mesrop Mashtots Ave, Yerevan, Armenia
• Project Year: 2023
• Photographs: Daniil Primak
• Area: 73.0 m2

• architects: Compartment S4
• Location: Champawat, Uttarakhand, India
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: The Space Tracing Company
• Area: 250.0 m2

• architects: siarchitecture
• Location: Wuxi Village, Fuliang County, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Yumeng Zhu
• Photographs: Zhechen Yu
• Photographs: siarchitecture
• Area: 720.0 m2

• architects: t + m design office
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Project Year: 2023
• Photographs: Hoang Le
• Area: 157.5 m2

• architects: Studio FP02
• Location: Goiânia, Brasil
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: Denilson Machado – MCA Estúdio
• Area: 545.0 m2

• architects: Miller Hull Partnership
• Location: Olympia, United States
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Lara Swimmer Photography
• Area: 59000.0 ft2

• architects: Margine
• Location: Caprarica di Lecce, Italy
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: ©Marcello Mariana
• Area: 140.0 m2

Using massive s plates, often several centimeters thick and weighing tons, Richard Serra's sculptures convey an almost improbable sense of lightness. This effect does not result from a reduction of mass, but from how that mass is organized: large curved surfaces tilt, narrow passages compress the body, and seemingly unstable elements create a constant sense of imbalance. Serra transforms weight into a dynamic spatial experience.

In architecture, lightness has occupied a central role at least since the modern period. While earlier traditions, such as Greek and Roman architecture, were closely associated with stability, and large churches with monumentality, the twentieth century introduced a decisive shift in how matter is handled, particularly through the separation of structure and enclosure.

• architects: Olson Kundig
• Location: Guadalupe, Mexico
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: César Bejar
• Area: 270.0 m2

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) presents A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis, curated by George Arbid, on view from May 2 to July 12, 2026, at Al Qasimiyah School. Developed as part of SAT's long-term research program, the project continues the institution's commitment to documenting and safeguarding architectural archives across the Arab world. Bringing together archival materials, physical models, and newly commissioned films, the exhibition examines how architectural histories are constructed, preserved, and revisited over time.

• architects: Dolgopiatova Interior Design
• Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Andriy Bezuglov
• Area: 88.0 m2