ArchDaily Global ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 1 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[Eclipse House / Etea + Ghostframe]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041477/eclipse-house-etea-plus-ghostframe Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1041477/eclipse-house-etea-plus-ghostframe Casa Eclipse was born as a dreamlike idea in the north of the city of Mérida, Mexico. The clients commissioned a sculptural architectural space that is open to the outside, where vegetation takes center stage and evokes surreal forms. On the site, where existing trees were considered in the design, an unconventional program is distributed; the beauty of domestic architecture lies in its ability to reflect on the act of living.

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  • architects: Etea
  • architects: Ghostframe
  • Location: Mérida, México
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Manolo R. Solis
  • Area: 385.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[O-day'min Park Pavilion / gh3*]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041971/o-daymin-park-pavilion-gh3-star Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1041971/o-daymin-park-pavilion-gh3-star Located in downtown Edmonton's rapidly evolving Warehouse Campus district, O-day'min Park transforms a former surface parking lot into a vibrant new public space. Commissioned by the City of Edmonton, the park helps catalyze the neighbourhood's transition from low-intensity industrial lands into a dense, mixed-use, residential community. The park and its pavilion represent early, highly visible public investments intended to establish identity, support downtown living, and signal a new standard for the public realm.

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  • architects: gh3*
  • Location: Edmonton, Canada
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Raymond Chow
  • Area: 270.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Yard House / Exbrayat Enrico architectes]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041780/yard-house-exbrayat-enrico-architectes Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1041780/yard-house-exbrayat-enrico-architectes Exbrayat Enrico Architects transforms 1,600 m² of former industrial halls in Montreuil to host the headquarters of YARD. The project goes beyond simple rehabilitation; it invents a place that is at once productive, narrative, and collective.

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]]> <![CDATA[Designed to Repeat, Forced to Adapt: The Parallel Architecture of Socialist Housing]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041867/designed-to-repeat-forced-to-adapt-the-parallel-architecture-of-socialist-housing Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Ananya Nayak https://www.archdaily.com/1041867/designed-to-repeat-forced-to-adapt-the-parallel-architecture-of-socialist-housing A housing block in New Belgrade appears orderly from a distance. Concrete slabs repeat with disciplined consistency, windows align into measured grids, and balconies stack with the confidence of a system certain of itself. However, proximity changes the reading. One balcony is enclosed in aluminum glazing, another softened with improvised shading. Insulation thickens part of a façade while laundry frames another edge like an accidental elevation study. The district still reads as planned, though occupation has made its order less uniform. Within that order, repetition has gradually been rewritten through occupation.

]]> Novi Beograd (New Belgrade), a planned city built in 1948. Photo © Piotr Bednarski Novi Beograd (New Belgrade), a planned city built in 1948. Photo © Piotr Bednarski

A housing block in New Belgrade appears orderly from a distance. Concrete slabs repeat with disciplined consistency, windows align into measured grids, and balconies stack with the confidence of a system certain of itself. However, proximity changes the reading. One balcony is enclosed in aluminum glazing, another softened with improvised shading. Insulation thickens part of a façade while laundry frames another edge like an accidental elevation study. The district still reads as planned, though occupation has made its order less uniform. Within that order, repetition has gradually been rewritten through occupation.

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]]> <![CDATA[Prairie Ark and Nomads' Beacon Tower / BUZZ/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041939/prairie-ark-and-nomads-beacon-tower-buzz-buro-ziyu-zhuang Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000 韩爽 - HAN Shuang https://www.archdaily.com/1041939/prairie-ark-and-nomads-beacon-tower-buzz-buro-ziyu-zhuang Ulanqab Grassland belongs to a cultural context that is, by tradition, nomadic. No building is native here. The design challenge is threefold: avoid reducing the project to a cultural costume through symbolic copying; avoid the intrusion of imported urban architectural language; and on completely flat terrain, produce buildings that are both visually legible at distance and genuinely absorbed into the ground they stand on. BUZZ Architects answers with two buildings that establish opposite formal logics — one horizontal and embedded, one vertical and suspended — and through their contrast, frame the site.

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  • architects: BUZZ/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang
  • Location: Ulanqab, China
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Shengliang Su
  • Area: 1360.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Is Concrete Ruining the Promise of Mass Timber?]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041741/is-concrete-ruining-the-promise-of-mass-timber Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:45:00 +0000 Eduardo Souza https://www.archdaily.com/1041741/is-concrete-ruining-the-promise-of-mass-timber Mass timber has shifted from an experimental niche to a central part of the contemporary debate surrounding sustainable construction. The combination of lower embodied carbon, prefabricated systems, and faster construction timelines has helped position solutions such as CLT (cross-laminated timber) and DLT (dowel-laminated timber) as viable alternatives to concrete and steel in residential buildings, offices, schools, and public facilities around the world. Added to this are the predictability of construction processes and the environmental qualities associated with wood, often linked to user comfort and spatial experience.

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Mass timber has shifted from an experimental niche to a central part of the contemporary debate surrounding sustainable construction. The combination of lower embodied carbon, prefabricated systems, and faster construction timelines has helped position solutions such as CLT (cross-laminated timber) and DLT (dowel-laminated timber) as viable alternatives to concrete and steel in residential buildings, offices, schools, and public facilities around the world. Added to this are the predictability of construction processes and the environmental qualities associated with wood, often linked to user comfort and spatial experience.

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]]> <![CDATA[Safdie Architects Completes Expansion of Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1042050/safdie-architects-completes-expansion-of-crystal-bridges-museum-in-arkansas Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:30:00 +0000 Reyyan Dogan https://www.archdaily.com/1042050/safdie-architects-completes-expansion-of-crystal-bridges-museum-in-arkansas Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will open a major 114,000-square-foot expansion to the public on June 6–7, 2026. Designed by Safdie Architects, the project extends the museum's original architecture while introducing new galleries, educational facilities, public gathering spaces, and landscape connections across the institution's 134-acre campus. The addition represents the completion of a long-term development strategy for the museum, enhancing both its exhibition capacity and its engagement with the surrounding Ozark landscape.

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will open a major 114,000-square-foot expansion to the public on June 6–7, 2026. Designed by Safdie Architects, the project extends the museum's original architecture while introducing new galleries, educational facilities, public gathering spaces, and landscape connections across the institution's 134-acre campus. The addition represents the completion of a long-term development strategy for the museum, enhancing both its exhibition capacity and its engagement with the surrounding Ozark landscape.

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]]> <![CDATA[Nanterre Housing / AQMA]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1042027/nanterre-housing-aqma Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1042027/nanterre-housing-aqma Located at the entrance of the Les Groues district in Nanterre, at the interface between La Défense, the future Grand Paris Express station, and a major university hub, the project explores a contemporary vision of the mixed-use city. Developed within the FOCD block alongside housing and educational programs, the building combines 43 social housing units and flexible ERP workspaces within a single architectural composition.

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]]> <![CDATA[Studio NEiDA Designs The Falcon Cinema in Ghana, a Community Art Centre Dedicated to African Film]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1042031/studio-neida-designs-the-falcon-cinema-in-ghana-a-community-art-centre-dedicated-to-african-film Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1042031/studio-neida-designs-the-falcon-cinema-in-ghana-a-community-art-centre-dedicated-to-african-film Designed by Studio NEiDA, The Falcon Cinema is a community and art centre located in Berekuso, Ghana, commissioned by film curator and Founding Director Jacqueline Nsiah. The cinema's mission is to create a home for cineastes to preserve Africa's cinematic legacy while hosting critical and creative thinking about contemporary filmmaking on the continent, designed and curated with a pan-African approach. The programme includes a 250-seat and a 150-seat screening room, a restaurant, an archive, communal spaces, an education hub, and an outdoor cinema. A second compound is planned for a future phase, to house living quarters for filmmakers in residence. Still in the design phase, the project started in 2024 and is expected to be completed in 2027.

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Designed by Studio NEiDA, The Falcon Cinema is a community and art centre located in Berekuso, Ghana, commissioned by film curator and Founding Director Jacqueline Nsiah. The cinema's mission is to create a home for cineastes to preserve Africa's cinematic legacy while hosting critical and creative thinking about contemporary filmmaking on the continent, designed and curated with a pan-African approach. The programme includes a 250-seat and a 150-seat screening room, a restaurant, an archive, communal spaces, an education hub, and an outdoor cinema. A second compound is planned for a future phase, to house living quarters for filmmakers in residence. Still in the design phase, the project started in 2024 and is expected to be completed in 2027.

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]]> <![CDATA[Thick Walls and Deep Openings: When Architecture Rediscovers Mass]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041295/thick-walls-and-deep-openings-when-architecture-rediscovers-mass Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1041295/thick-walls-and-deep-openings-when-architecture-rediscovers-mass For much of the twentieth century, architectural culture was shaped by the pursuit of lightness. Steel structures and curtain walls reduced the building envelope to a thin layer separating interior from exterior, while façades became smooth, continuous surfaces where windows were cut as precise openings within an abstract plane. But for centuries, buildings were conceived as bodies of mass; walls possessed depth, windows were recessed within thick masonry, and space was often experienced as something carved from the solidity of construction. In recent years, several contemporary projects appear to revisit this older spatial logic, reintroducing thickness as an architectural condition through deep openings, monolithic volumes, and heavy envelopes.

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For much of the twentieth century, architectural culture was shaped by the pursuit of lightness. Steel structures and curtain walls reduced the building envelope to a thin layer separating interior from exterior, while façades became smooth, continuous surfaces where windows were cut as precise openings within an abstract plane. But for centuries, buildings were conceived as bodies of mass; walls possessed depth, windows were recessed within thick masonry, and space was often experienced as something carved from the solidity of construction. In recent years, several contemporary projects appear to revisit this older spatial logic, reintroducing thickness as an architectural condition through deep openings, monolithic volumes, and heavy envelopes.

This shift does not imply a rejection of modern construction technologies, nor does it represent a nostalgic return to historical forms. Instead, it reflects a renewed interest in the fundamental relationship between material, mass, and void. By reintroducing thickness into the architectural vocabulary, these buildings reconnect contemporary practice with long-standing traditions in which space was inseparable from the weight and depth of construction.

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]]> <![CDATA[Mosso / Nomos]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041982/mosso-nomos Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1041982/mosso-nomos Erected on the family plot owned by the client, which once housed his grandfather's printing press, Mosso is a 6-story building designed to accommodate mixed activities, in line with what is nowadays understood as "craftsmanship". Located in the centre of the rapidly evolving new neighborhood around the emergence of the Léman Express station in Chêne-Bourg, this project is a tool provided for the activities it hosts. Thus, it aims to be as "low tech" and sustainable as possible, both in its design and implementation.

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  • architects: Nomos
  • Location: Geneva, Switzerland
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Paola Corsini
  • Photographs: Courtesy of Nomos
  • Area: 4100.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[The House Veiled In Brick / LIJO.RENY.architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1042007/the-house-veiled-in-brick-lijenrchitects Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1042007/the-house-veiled-in-brick-lijenrchitects The design of the House Veiled in Brick originates from the careful balance of seemingly opposing needs—privacy and openness, shade from the sun, and connection to the outdoors. A distinctive brick veil defines this residence, enveloping a diverse array of spaces, built and unbuilt, private and public, shaded and open to the sky. This veil ensures privacy and tranquility while still embracing openness and natural light.

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]]> <![CDATA[Zhuhai Chillong Dreamland Barn Restaurant / SHUISHI]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041793/zhuhai-chillong-dreamland-barn-restaurant-shuishi Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Andreas Luco https://www.archdaily.com/1041793/zhuhai-chillong-dreamland-barn-restaurant-shuishi Site Integration: A Living Vessel Embedded in the Fields — Located at Shirong Zhaoye Ecological Park in CaoLang Village, Doumen District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, the site was originally a large-scale nursery before being transformed into an experiential agro-cultural tourism complex centered on seasonal crops. Surrounded by expansive rice paddies on three sides and adjacent to a pond, the site embodies the classic Pearl River Delta water-town typology of integrated paddy fields, water bodies and architecture. This distinctive natural backdrop defines the fundamental context for the design.

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  • architects: SHUISHI
  • Location: Zhuhai, China
  • Project Year: 2026
  • Photographs: Guowei Liu
  • Area: 1800.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Eternity House / APOLLO Architects & Associates]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041999/eternity-house-apollo-architects-and-associates Sun, 31 May 2026 21:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1041999/eternity-house-apollo-architects-and-associates Eternity is situated in a quiet, upscale residential enclave within central Tokyo. Occupying a 560-square-meter corner lot, the project was conceived as a hospitality-oriented residence where both the inhabitants and their guests can engage in creative pursuits. The exterior presents a rhythmic composition made possible by the corner site, with volumetric layers shifting and overlapping across each floor, while its appearance is defined by a closed facade designed with the utmost attention to security and privacy.

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]]> <![CDATA[Dazhou Atelier and Its Surrounding Area Renovation / SpActrum]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1019633/dazhou-atelier-and-its-surrounding-area-renovation-spactrum Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Valeria Silva https://www.archdaily.com/1019633/dazhou-atelier-and-its-surrounding-area-renovation-spactrum The Chaichanglong Dazhou Atelier & Its Surrounding Area Renovation in Shaoxing is a crucial component of the city's organic regeneration. The site features a collection of self-built structures from the time the notion of planning was not existed. The area have experienced timing, decaying, and fragmentation. These remnants, along with scattered bricks, form the site for SpActrum's architectural practice in Chaichanglong.

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  • architects: SpActrum
  • Location: Shaoxing, China
  • Project Year: 2022
  • Photographs: Shengliang Su
  • Photographs: Di Zhu
  • Area: 4586.64 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[AAM Residence / Ximenes Leite Arquitetura]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041688/aam-residence-ximenes-leite-arquitetura Sun, 31 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1041688/aam-residence-ximenes-leite-arquitetura Located in São Paulo, the residence is based on a precise reading of the lot and the landscape to define a horizontal architecture that is discreet and deeply integrated into its surroundings. The project is organized into two levels — ground and lower — structuring the program clearly and efficiently while enhancing the relationship between internal and external spaces.

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  • architects: Ximenes Leite Arquitetura
  • Location: Granja Viana, Brasil
  • Project Year: 2020
  • Photographs: André Mortatti
  • Area: 724.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[SMK Thy and The Nature Village / Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041961/smk-thy-and-the-nature-village-reiulf-ramstad-arkitekter Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1041961/smk-thy-and-the-nature-village-reiulf-ramstad-arkitekter At the edge of the Limfjord in Northern Jutland, Denmark, Doverodde Købmandsgård is being transformed into a new cultural and landscape destination. Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has designed two closely intertwined projects for the site: SMK Thy and the Nature Village, together forming a new meeting point between art, landscape, and community. The historic merchant estate at Doverodde is one of the region's most significant cultural heritage environments. The project builds upon the site's existing structures and spatial qualities, carefully transforming the former trading complex while preserving its historic character. Through a strategy of adaptive reuse and minimal intervention, the architecture reactivates the ensemble of warehouses around a courtyard and harbors spaces while opening them towards the fjord and the surrounding landscapes of Thy.

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  • architects: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
  • Location: Thisted, Denmark
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Ramus Hjortshøj
  • Photographs: Courtesy of Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
  • Area: 3300.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Knowlton Prairie / L. McComber ]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041925/knowlton-prairie-l-mccomber Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1041925/knowlton-prairie-l-mccomber A New Chapter in a Victorian Village. On a quiet street lined with welcoming verandas and finely crafted woodwork, two women from Montreal found the perfect place to begin anew. Drawn by the village's timeless charm and tranquil atmosphere, they purchased a neglected 1970s bungalow with a vision in mind.

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