• architects: FAB Architects
• architects: Link architectes
• Location: Saint-Georges-Haute-Ville, France
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Salem Mostefaoui
• Photographs:
• Area: 2000.0 m2

• architects: Archigrest
• Location: Grom, Warmian-Masurian, Poland
• Project Year: 2023
• Photographs: Kuba Rodziewicz
• Area: 163.0 m2

Public space is often designed around a narrow idea of how people move, interact, and respond to their surroundings. ParkTEA starts from a different position. The city can also make room for those who experience space through different sensory and social conditions.

Developed by Ignacio Martínez Pardo at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), the project was conceived within the Master's thesis (Graduate-MHab) program during the 2024 to 2025 academic year, under the guidance of Héctor Fernández Elorza, Jesús Aparicio, Carlos García Fernández, and Jaime Daroca Guerrero. Recognized as one of the winners of the first edition of the ArchDaily Student Project Awards, ParkTEA engages the theme of coexistence through a proposal that brings together care, infrastructure, and urban life.

• architects: RigonSimonetti
• Location: Costabissara, Italy
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Rory Gardiner
• Photographs: Alberto Sinigaglia
• Area: 714.0 m2

Water has always occupied a unique position in architecture: elemental yet elusive, functional yet symbolic. It is both a material and a medium that shapes cities, structures rituals, and influences how space is perceived. Across cultures, water is understood not only as a source of life but as a carrier of meaning, associated with purification, renewal, and continuity. Its presence in the built environment often extends beyond utility, becoming a device through which architecture engages the senses and constructs atmosphere.

The 8th edition of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2026 (TAB 2026) has announced the winners of its Installation Programme Competition and Vision Competition, both developed within the curatorial framework titled "How Much?". Organized by the Estonian Centre for Architecture, the biennale will take place from September 9 to November 30, 2026, with its Opening Week scheduled from September 9 to 13. Curated by Stuudio TÄNA, Mark Aleksander Fischer, and Mira Samonig, TAB 2026 explores the role of money, affordability, and resource allocation in shaping architecture and the built environment, while examining how contemporary practice negotiates economic constraints and cultural value.

• architects: TwoBo arquitectura
• Ubicación: Matadepera, España
• Año Proyecto: 2025
• Fotografías: Jose Hevia
• Área: 250.0 m2

In 2026, Apple marked fifty years since its founding. Over the past two decades, Apple has developed a consistent architectural language that extends its brand into the built environment, transforming stores, workplaces, and public-facing spaces into active components of its identity. These environments guide movement, frame interaction, and condition the ways in which users encounter both products and the company itself.

From the handheld device to the urban interior, Apple has sought to maintain a high degree of control over form, material, and experience. Architecture becomes part of this system when the company begins to define how it is perceived and engaged with in physical space. Research on retail environments has shown how spatial layout, visibility, and circulation patterns can shape behavior and interaction, turning architecture into an interface between brand and user.

• architects: Snøhetta
• architects: USM Modular Furniture
• Location: Milano, Italy
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Courtesy of USM and Snøhetta

• architects: Rushnaiwala Architects
• Location: Kathwada, Gujarat, India
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Niveditaa Gupta
• Area: 8000.0 ft2

• architects: UASZ
• Location: No. 2011, Huafu Road, Huafu Street, Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: Yu Bai
• Area: 73200.0 m2

• architects: Choi Studio
• Location: Macquarie Park, Sydney, Australia
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Thomas Li
• Photographs: Clinton Weaver
• Photographs: Courtesy of Choi Studio

• architects: Nati Minas & Studio
• Location: , Brasil
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Miti Sameshima
• Area: 750.0 m2

• architects: FAB Architects
• architects: Unes Architectes
• Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Salem Mostefaoui
• Photographs:
• Area: 400.0 m2

• architects: BAST
• Location: Toulouse, France
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Courtesy of BAST
• Area: 370.0 m2

Walking into an electrical store can be intimidating. At first glance, all the lights are on, and the thousands of chandeliers and lamps are blinding. When you walk toward the shelves, you see dozens of options, shapes, colors, prices, and uses. On each package, informational tables display numbers that can seem confusing at first. Lumens, color temperature, wattage—there are many unfamiliar terms. Before defaulting to the cheapest option, only to find that it creates an uncomfortable or poorly balanced atmosphere, understanding a few key concepts can make a significant difference.

Lighting design plays a fundamental role in shaping how spaces are perceived and used, influencing comfort, atmosphere, and even productivity. Poorly designed lighting, on the other hand, can compromise these qualities. Rather than approaching lighting as a purely technical decision, it can be understood as an integral part of architectural design. To help clarify these choices, the following overview introduces the most common types of light sources and key concepts associated with them.

• architects: Bruzkus Greenberg
• Location: Mollstrasse, Berlin, Germany
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Robert Rieger
• Area: 1600.0 m2

Artificial intelligence has made its way into almost every corner of professional workflows, prompting the architectural industry to rethink how it works. To adapt to this shift, firms are now facing the limits of a model that has changed very little over the past few decades.

What has shifted, and noticeably so, is the pressure on productivity. Today's studios are expected to deliver more work faster and with greater accuracy, while managing tighter budgets, complex regulations, and rising client expectations. In practice, this translates into compressed timelines and a constant demand for precision that leaves little room for error. Often, much of this pressure falls on a small group of individuals who hold critical project knowledge.