ArchDaily Global ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[Mennorode Hotel and Conference Center - Phase I. / Namelok]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040070/mennorode-hotel-and-conference-center-phase-i-namelok Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1040070/mennorode-hotel-and-conference-center-phase-i-namelok Mennorode is a phased renovation and masterplan for a former Mennonite community house, now operating as a hotel and conference centre in Elspeet, the Netherlands. Founded in 1925, the site has developed over time into a dispersed ensemble of low-rise buildings embedded among the trees.

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  • architects: Namelok
  • Location: Elspeet, The Netherlands
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Crispijn van Sas
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  • Area: 520.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Infante House / Blaanc]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039988/infante-house-blaanc Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1039988/infante-house-blaanc Situated in the vibrant urban fabric of Lisbon, this 150 m² project unfolds over two floors of an iconic building from the 1950s, recently rehabilitated to embrace the demands of contemporary life. The intervention goes beyond mere restoration; it emerges as a manifesto of respect for the modernist legacy, reinterpreting the sobriety of the era through a bold and current lens. The central proposal was clear: to honor the memory of the original structure while injecting new energy that responds to the fluidity of today's daily life.

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  • architects: Blaanc
  • Location: Lisboa, Portugal
  • Project Year: 2020
  • Photographs: Luis Nobre Guedes
  • Photographs: Courtesy of Blaanc
  • Area: 154.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Choreographing Lagos: Dele Adeyemo on Dance, Cosmology, and Spatial Practices]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039851/choreographing-lagos-dele-adeyemo-on-dance-cosmology-and-spatial-practices Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Romullo Baratto https://www.archdaily.com/1039851/choreographing-lagos-dele-adeyemo-on-dance-cosmology-and-spatial-practices Having thrown a stone today, Eshu kills a bird of yesterday. The Yoruba proverb tells both a story of reparation and of ancestrality by joyfully bending spacetime conventions and accessing subjects from the past with present actions. The saying offers a poetic entry point to broader West African traditions and to the practice of Scottish-Nigerian artist and architect Dele Adeyemo. Named one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, Adeyemo's work brings together ecology, spirituality, dance, and territory, examining how embodied cultural practices can generate alternative spatial possibilities within and against the architecture of racial capitalism.

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Having thrown a stone today, Eshu kills a bird of yesterday. The Yoruba proverb tells both a story of reparation and of ancestrality by joyfully bending spacetime conventions and accessing subjects from the past with present actions. The saying offers a poetic entry point to broader West African traditions and to the practice of Scottish-Nigerian artist and architect Dele Adeyemo. Named one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, Adeyemo's work brings together ecology, spirituality, dance, and territory, examining how embodied cultural practices can generate alternative spatial possibilities within and against the architecture of racial capitalism.

Born in Nigeria and raised in the United Kingdom, Adeyemo has been visiting Lagos for many years. Through this engagement, he has developed an extensive body of research on collective movement practices that predate capitalism and offer distinct, often imaginative spatial intelligences operating alongside dominant systems. ArchDaily spoke with Dele about his artistic and pedagogical practices, and how he identifies design sophistication where architects often perceive deficiency.

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]]> <![CDATA[Senior Citizens' Home in Nový Bydžov / Architektura]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040229/senior-citizens-home-in-novy-bydzov-architektura Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Valeria Silva https://www.archdaily.com/1040229/senior-citizens-home-in-novy-bydzov-architektura The client's brief was to design a new retirement home on the site of a former orchard adjacent to a hospital. The building is conceived as four independently functioning households for approximately 60 residents, fully barrier-free. An orchard and brick walls near a cemetery with a church, a historic town with a beautiful town hall. Tall trees. And then old age as a phenomenon—calm, silence, brick as the archetype of home. The proximity of the hospital and cemetery may invite bitter associations; here, however, we see quality, an image of quiet and contemplation, an image of the peaceful edge of town. A chateau-like, symmetrical, almost classicist layout brings atriums, gardens, views, and abundant daylight into the Home. Old age is one of today's European themes. How do we approach ageing? What do we do for older people, how do we perceive them, what do we offer them, and what do we ask of them? What is it like to be an elderly person in the Czech Republic in 2026?

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  • architects: Architektura
  • Location: V aleji, 504 01 Nový Bydžov, Czechia
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Filip Šlapal
  • Area: 46000.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Single Person / Offhand Practice]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039794/single-person-offhand-practice Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000 韩爽 - HAN Shuang https://www.archdaily.com/1039794/single-person-offhand-practice 185 Yongkang Road formerly was a 60-square-meter street dinner. During our first site visit in November 2018, The venue itself did not leave us a particularly deep impression. The only intuitive feeling is that the venue is long and narrow. In December, client decided to use this venue for a vintage houseware gallery, named 'Single Person'.

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  • architects: Offhand Practice
  • Location: No. 185 Yongkang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
  • Project Year: 2019
  • Photographs: Yiqing Gao
  • Area: 60.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Waiheke House / Cheshire Architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040300/waiheke-house-cheshire-architects Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040300/waiheke-house-cheshire-architects Lightness and solidity, exposure and retreat. On the easternmost reaches of Waiheke Island, a house occupies the crest of a ridgeline - permanence in an otherwise shifting landscape.

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]]> <![CDATA[Casa Komorebi / Studio Saxe]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039923/casa-komorebi-studio-saxe Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1039923/casa-komorebi-studio-saxe Above the Pacific coastline of Costa Rica, pavilions unfold around a garden and connect beneath a single floating roof. Nature becomes the pathway, guiding movement between views of ocean, forest, and sky.

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  • architects: Studio Saxe
  • Location: Bahía Ballena, Costa Rica
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Depth Lens - Alvaro Fonseca
  • Area: 470.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Cardwell Clubhouse / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040000/cardwell-clubhouse-dubbeldam-architecture-plus-design Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1040000/cardwell-clubhouse-dubbeldam-architecture-plus-design Set at the edge of a clearing for the photovoltaic array that powers the main cottage on the site, Cardwell Clubhouse is an off-grid hybrid building that is part utility and part leisure hub. Designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design for an outdoors-oriented family who spend much of their time on the site immersed in nature and active pursuits, the clubhouse functions as the site's central social and activity hub. It combines a multipurpose clubhouse room – doubling as a flexible guest suite – with a garage that stores outdoor leisure equipment for activities like racquet sports, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and more. An adjacent outdoor court for tennis, basketball, and pickleball (created in the clearing necessitated by the solar array), along with areas for bocce, horseshoes, and children's games, reinforce the clubhouse's role as a destination for gathering and play.

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]]> <![CDATA[Strážné Cottage / Mimosa architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040212/strazne-cottage-mimosa-architects Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Andreas Luco https://www.archdaily.com/1040212/strazne-cottage-mimosa-architects On the slope above the Krkonoše village of Strážné, a timber log cottage once stood. It was swallowed by the era of mass recreation, along with respect for ownership, craftsmanship, people, objects, and nature. The original house was concealed beneath layers of alterations, extensions, and makeshift additions, poor repairs, and artificial panel cladding. Unfortunately, almost nothing of the original cottage remained worth saving. The small amount of preserved original structures was, for the most part, in poor technical condition. Rather than merely preserving its material substance, the aim therefore became to rediscover the spirit of the house.

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  • architects: Mimosa architects
  • Location: Strážné, Czechia
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Petr Polak
  • Area: 306.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040131/cultural-centers-beyond-the-building-6-unbuilt-projects-integrating-landscape Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Nour Fakharany https://www.archdaily.com/1040131/cultural-centers-beyond-the-building-6-unbuilt-projects-integrating-landscape Cultural centers continue to serve as a productive ground for unbuilt architectural exploration, reflecting how architects are rethinking the role of public institutions in relation to landscape, experience, and program hybridity. In this Unbuilt edition, submitted by the ArchDaily community, the selected projects bring together a range of proposals that expand the definition of the cultural center beyond a singular building. These works position architecture as a spatial framework that mediates between research, exhibition, retreat, and public life, often embedded within or distributed across natural and urban contexts.

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Cultural centers continue to serve as a productive ground for unbuilt architectural exploration, reflecting how architects are rethinking the role of public institutions in relation to landscape, experience, and program hybridity. In this Unbuilt edition, submitted by the ArchDaily community, the selected projects bring together a range of proposals that expand the definition of the cultural center beyond a singular building. These works position architecture as a spatial framework that mediates between research, exhibition, retreat, and public life, often embedded within or distributed across natural and urban contexts.

Across varied geographies, from northern Norway and Oslo to Łódź, Vienna, Marrakech, and New Tashkent, the projects demonstrate diverse responses to cultural infrastructure. They include landscape-integrated complexes shaped by topography and climate, bridges that combine gallery and public circulation, zoological pavilions structured as immersive sequences, adaptive reuse of military buildings into performance spaces, courtyard-based environments rooted in local traditions, and climate-responsive institutions informed by environmental analysis. Together, these proposals explore how cultural programs can be organized through movement, spatial layering, and relationships between interior and exterior conditions.

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]]> <![CDATA[The Prairie House / Hoem + Folstad Arkitekter]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040034/the-prairie-house-hoem-plus-folstad-arkitekter Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1040034/the-prairie-house-hoem-plus-folstad-arkitekter The house is located on a wide plain by the coast of the North Sea. An old log house forms the core of a new detached house for a young family with small children.

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  • architects: Hoem + Folstad Arkitekter
  • Location: Åkrehamn, Karmøy, Norway
  • Project Year: 2023
  • Photographs: Knut Folstad
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]]> <![CDATA[Kengo Kuma & Associates Present Site-Specific Installation “Earth | Tree” at Copenhagen Contemporary]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040347/kengo-kuma-and-associates-present-site-specific-installation-earth-tree-at-copenhagen-contemporary Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:30:00 +0000 Reyyan Dogan https://www.archdaily.com/1040347/kengo-kuma-and-associates-present-site-specific-installation-earth-tree-at-copenhagen-contemporary Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and his studio Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) have unveiled Earth | Tree, a site-specific installation at Copenhagen Contemporary, developed in collaboration with Danish wood manufacturer Dinesen. Opened on March 28, 2026, as part of the institution's CCreate programme, the project occupies a former industrial hall, introducing a spatial intervention defined by timber, brick, and light. Led by partner Yuki Ikeguchi, with team members Asger T. Taarnberg, Nicolas Guichard, and Yasemin Shiner, the installation marks KKAA's first exhibition in Scandinavia and situates the studio's material-oriented practice within an exhibition format.

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Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and his studio Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) have unveiled Earth | Tree, a site-specific installation at Copenhagen Contemporary, developed in collaboration with Danish wood manufacturer Dinesen. Opened on March 28, 2026, as part of the institution's CCreate programme, the project occupies a former industrial hall, introducing a spatial intervention defined by timber, brick, and light. Led by partner Yuki Ikeguchi, with team members Asger T. Taarnberg, Nicolas Guichard, and Yasemin Shiner, the installation marks KKAA's first exhibition in Scandinavia and situates the studio's material-oriented practice within an exhibition format.

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]]> <![CDATA[Kaloki Nyamai Studio / Adjaye Associates]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040273/kaloki-nyamai-studio-adjaye-associates Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1040273/kaloki-nyamai-studio-adjaye-associates

"The landscape in Karen carries a quiet density, and the studio is conceived as something that settles lightly into that condition. The ambition was to create a space that holds both introspection and production, where material, light and structure move with a certain restraint. The building draws from archetypal African forms as a way of thinking about permanence, climate and memory. It is a place where making unfolds slowly, in dialogue with its environment." David Adjaye

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  • architects: Adjaye Associates
  • Location: Nairobi, Kenya
  • Photographs: Mutahi Chiira
  • Photographs: Kaloki Nyamai
  • Area: 641.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Coldefy Leads Winning Masterplan to Transform Budapest Brownfield into Rewilded Urban District]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040337/coldefy-leads-winning-masterplan-to-transform-budapest-brownfield-into-rewilded-urban-district Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1040337/coldefy-leads-winning-masterplan-to-transform-budapest-brownfield-into-rewilded-urban-district A team led by French architecture practice Coldefy, comprising CITYFÖRSTER, Sporaarchitects, TREIBHAUS.LAND, and Marko & Placemakers, has won the competition to design a masterplan for Rákosrendező in Budapest. The project is developed for the Budapest Capital Asset Management Centre, acting on behalf of the Municipality of Budapest. The design outlines a 15-year scheme to transform a brownfield site long regarded as the city's "rust belt," located on the eastern side of the Hungarian capital. The regeneration plan includes over 10,000 apartments, new transportation links, and commercial and civic spaces, forming a comprehensive urban redevelopment strategy aligned with 15-minute city principles.

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A team led by French architecture practice Coldefy, comprising CITYFÖRSTER, Sporaarchitects, TREIBHAUS.LAND, and Marko & Placemakers, has won the competition to design a masterplan for Rákosrendező in Budapest. The project is developed for the Budapest Capital Asset Management Centre, acting on behalf of the Municipality of Budapest. The design outlines a 15-year scheme to transform a brownfield site long regarded as the city's "rust belt," located on the eastern side of the Hungarian capital. The regeneration plan includes over 10,000 apartments, new transportation links, and commercial and civic spaces, forming a comprehensive urban redevelopment strategy aligned with 15-minute city principles.

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]]> <![CDATA[Off the Mainland: Floating Architecture Projects Redefining the Built Environment ]]> https://www.archdaily.com/884450/15-of-the-best-and-most-ambitious-floating-architecture-projects Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira & Victor Delaqua https://www.archdaily.com/884450/15-of-the-best-and-most-ambitious-floating-architecture-projects Building above water means doing away with a part of construction that is quite literally the basis of most of our built environment: the foundation. In a world dominated by water, currents, and shifting levels are variables that simply cannot be ignored, which is why the most emblematic feature these projects share is their adaptability.

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Building above water means doing away with a part of construction that is quite literally the basis of most of our built environment: the foundation. In a world dominated by water, currents, and shifting levels are variables that simply cannot be ignored, which is why the most emblematic feature these projects share is their adaptability.

Instead of robust, deep bases – such as piles or caissons – designed to anchor architecture into the earth, floating structures frequently employ solutions like concrete pontoons or plastic drums to prevent the building from sinking. These are typically paired with anchoring systems to "fix" the structures, even if only temporarily, to a specific location.

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]]> <![CDATA[Las Vegas Park / Gustavo González Galarza]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039993/las-vegas-park-gustavo-gonzalez-galarza Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1039993/las-vegas-park-gustavo-gonzalez-galarza Las Vegas Park is located in the center of the city of Portoviejo, on the right bank of the river that bears the same name. Its construction took place during an important period of transition, following the earthquake that devastated the city in April 2016. It is considered a symbol of the rebirth that Portoviejo is experiencing. Every weekend, in its generous green spaces, family gatherings and celebrations occur, as well as various cultural events, both organized and spontaneous.

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]]> <![CDATA[Henville Street House / Philip Stejskal Architecture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040250/henville-street-house-philip-stejskal-architecture Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040250/henville-street-house-philip-stejskal-architecture Closely hemmed in by four neighbours and with a narrow street frontage, this new home for a young family on a sub-divided block makes the most of its patchwork setting. The local character is highly variable with a range of materials and styles, and single- and double-storey homes that accommodate families from diverse backgrounds.

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]]> <![CDATA[Flipmod / Ambit Narrative Design (A.N.D)]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040247/flipmod-ambit-narrative-design-and Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1040247/flipmod-ambit-narrative-design-and Flipmod is a manually operated modular shading system that introduces climate-responsive micro-infrastructure into overlooked public spaces in subtropical cities. It responds to climatic conditions through a low-carbon, lightweight intervention while encouraging public engagement with everyday urban space.

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