ArchDaily Global

Curicó House / Armstrong Arquitectos + PAR Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

"A house overlooking the Curicó Valley, whose roof shapes the different spaces of its interior."

Piódão Plaza and Tourist Office / Branco-DelRio Arquitectos

Nana Dokua — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000

The village of Piódão, nestled on a steep slope, forms an amphitheater of schist houses traversed by steep, narrow streets, also made of schist. The Largo Cónego Manuel Fernandes Nogueira, in the lowest part, is the only open, flat, and unobstructed space, serving as the main entrance to the village. Through this square pass the residents, many tourists throughout the year, and the necessary deliveries to supply this isolated spot in the Serra de Açor.

Cottage / Archicraft

Nana Dokua — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The site already had a cottage on it, but the existing structure was beyond saving and had to come down. Local regulations set the terms for what could replace it: the new building had to sit on the same footprint as the original, keep to one above-ground floor plus a residential attic, and any sheds or verandas added on top of that could not exceed 10 percent of the existing built-up area, and none of it was allowed to face the forest side of the property. Rather than treat those rules as a constraint to work around, we used them to set the whole massing of the house, a simple gabled form close in size and shape to what stood there before.

Grey House / Adam Kane Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The Grey House is a testament to the power of simplicity and harmony. Grey, symbolizing neutrality and introspection, dominates every surface, creating a sense of calm and clarity. The mottled grey surfaces are complemented with monolithic stainless steel elements softened with a cloudy finish, adding a touch of modern sophistication.

SPAZIO VILLALTA / Artico Fracassi + Marco Zito

Cristina Popescu — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The renovation of the former Dormisch industrial complex in Udine combines historical heritage, architectural innovation, and sustainability, restoring to the city an educational center and a covered plaza with public and commercial functions.

Beyond Affordable Housing: Integrating Civic Infrastructure in US Mixed-Use Developments

Olivia Poston — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000

For much of the twentieth century, affordable housing in the United States was conceived as a distinct residential category, shaped by financing structures and development practices that separated housing for lower-income residents from the broader civic and commercial functions of the city. Federal housing legislation and subsequent urban renewal policies contributed to the construction of large residential developments that were frequently financed and managed independently of surrounding urban infrastructure. The consequences of this approach, including concentrated poverty, deteriorating buildings, unequal access to services, and the eventual demolition of prominent public housing projects, are extensively documented.

Umodzi Epicentre Community Center / Kamuna Design Studio

Pratik Mour — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000

'Mutu umodzi susenza denga' — one head cannot carry a roof. The Chichewa proverb gives Umodzi its name, and describes how it was made. In Vubwi District, on the border of Malawi and Mozambique, a community hand molded bricks, raised walls and carried the roofs of a place that now supports education, training and care for more than 26,000 people in 126 villages.

From Atoms to Universes: The Architecture of Everything in the Age of AI

Rene Submissions — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:45:00 +0000

AI has become a consumer product faster than it has become a discipline. Each week brings new models and more information than anyone can absorb, and the easy response is uncritical consumption. Architecture needs a different strategy, built on criticism and method. AI is now acquiring spatial intelligence, the capacity to understand how physical space behaves, and architects can test a project against its environment while they design it. Used with judgment, AI can bring architects closer to nature and its complexity, and make them better builders. We simulate the world to learn how to inhabit it.

Antalya Prepares to Host COP31 and Foster + Partners Unveils World Trade Center Yerevan: This Week’s Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:30:00 +0000

This week's architecture news covers a range of projects addressing the changing needs of cities, from the adaptation of existing sites to the development of new cultural and public spaces. As Antalya prepares to host COP31, projects in Rotterdam and Pittsburgh focus on the renovation of established cultural institutions, while developments in Copenhagen, Chicago, and Tbilisi explore new approaches to recreation, public access, and urban regeneration. Elsewhere, Foster + Partners has revealed plans for a mixed-use development in Yerevan, VG13 Architects has won the competition for a new stadium and sports district in Zagreb, and Aria Property Group has unveiled a residential and public precinct in Brisbane ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Island House / Agis Mourelatos

Nina Vuga — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The house is located on a Cycladic island, on a plot with a vineyard, and consists of two enclosed volumes—the main residence and a guest house—organized around a courtyard.

The Human Shelter Documentary Asks What Makes a Home from Japan to Uganda

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:30:00 +0000

The Human Shelter: Expedition into What Makes a Home is an exploration of the feeling of home. Directed by Boris Bertram and funded by IKEA, the film looks at present ways of living in Norway, Iraq, the United States, Nigeria, Japan, Uganda, and Iceland, interrogating the role of home in order to project it into the future. Through imagery and personal narratives, the documentary connects the concept of home with landscape, movement and settling, time, migration and security, vulnerability, and nature. How do displaced populations create a home? When does a shelter become a home? Portraits, stories, and shelters across four continents give viewers a glimpse of an answer to these big questions in a one-hour film tour.

Obra Blanca 2026 Explores the Connection Between Materials and Design

Rene Submissions — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Direct contact with a material allows one to appreciate textures, compare finishes, and observe how its appearance changes under different lighting conditions. At an exhibition, these possibilities are complemented by exchanges with manufacturers and professionals, helping to understand applications and resolve questions about their use. This relationship between material exploration and architectural practice was one of the central pillars of the seventh edition of Obra Blanca, which drew more than 23,000 professionals to Expo Santa Fe in Mexico City.

Constructed Fictions: Inside the Work of Balsa Crosetto Piazzi

Moises Carrasco — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Balsa Crosetto Piazzi is an architecture practice founded in 2015, based in Córdoba, Argentina, and Boston, USA. Led by architects Juan Manuel Balsa, Rocío Crosetto Brizzio, and Leandro Piazzi, the core of their work is the material side of architecture. For them, a building is not just a finished object, but rather a way to organize everything that goes into making it. Their work is shaped by a slow process; during the construction and design stages, they pay attention to where the materials come from, who does the work, what skills those people already have, and what's actually available nearby. This allows their built work to become a platform that serves as a starting point, bringing all of these pieces together. In that sense, they also describe their projects as opportunities to "deconstruct entrenched conditions."

Meriden Senior School, Design and Creative Arts Building / Architectus

Pratik Mour — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Meriden Senior School's new Design and Creative Arts (DaCA) building is designed to inspire student creativity by crafting a building that reflects the process of making, prototyping, and the creative arts disciplines.

Kocaeli Fair Park / Özer/Ürger Architects

Pratik Mour — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Led by architects Ahmet Mucip Ürger and Ali Özer, Özer\Ürger Architecture is known for award-winning architectural and public-space projects that focus on the relationship between the built environment and people, and aim to strengthen individual participation in urban life. With Kocaeli Fair Park, the practice introduces an integrated public-space approach that reinforces continuity among the city, waterfront, and natural landscape.

5 Things to Consider When Planning Interior Thresholds

Kiana Buchberger — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:30:00 +0000

An opening between two rooms shapes how people move through a building, what they see from one space to another, and whether an area feels connected or separate. Although doors are among the most frequently used interior architectural elements, their impact on the interior organization is often considered late in the design process. Yet their movement and relationship to surrounding surfaces influence circulation, furniture placement, and the perception of space.

Yakisugi House / Estudio Mazara

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Designed by Mazara Estudio Arquitectura, this private residence establishes a close dialogue between its built spaces and the surrounding tropical landscape. The architectural composition brings together elongated horizontal volumes, lightweight pitched roofs, and a restrained material palette of natural stone, wood, and dark-toned structural elements.

MIAA - Iberian Museum of Archaeology and Art / Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The city of Abrantes is, materially and historically, a landmark within a broader territory—an expression of the geostrategic opportunity found on a promontory at the geometric center of a region defined by geopolitical conventions, while simultaneously marking the transition between two landscape units of distinct morphologies. Standing watch over the landscapes on which it rose, Abrantes developed as both an eye and a beacon, a fortified outpost and an obligatory crossing point, in times of peace or war. Atop a telluric, foundational topos, human occupation established its opportunity to dwell, creating its locus, both systemically and inextricably linked.

A Geometric Ruin / 00L

Cristina Popescu — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Inhabiting the open landscape of the Córdoba hinterland calls for an act of spatial delimitation and the establishment of a domestic order. Located in La Bolsa, this low-cost residential project adopts the patio as the generative principle of its architectural layout, drawing on a dwelling type deeply rooted in the history of architecture. Its references include Jørn Utzon's celebrated Kingo Houses and Alvar Aalto's Muuratsalo Experimental House, both of which explore the L-shaped house organized around an open space, establishing an articulated relationship between domestic intimacy, landscape, and collective life.

MAS House / SUITE

Nana Dokua — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Located in São Paulo, Casa MAS is the result of a complete renovation designed with spatial integration as its starting point and materiality as its structuring element. Developed by SUITE, the residence was redesigned to respond more precisely to the family's dynamics, promoting fluidity, comfort, and a consistent connection between indoors and outdoors.

Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

For decades, the riverfront at Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park was a hard industrial edge: sheds, trucks, and security fencing separating residents and visitors from the Mississippi. After Hurricane Katrina, the Reinventing the Crescent plan reframed the waterfront as a tool for recovery, resilience, and long-term economic development, envisioning more than six miles of continuous public space along the river.

Coliseum Place Affordable Housing / David Baker Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The six-level building includes 59 affordable homes and social services for low-income and formerly unhoused families, including households gaining assistance through the Oakland Housing Authority.

MIND Museum / C.F. Møller

Nina Vuga — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

MIND Museum is a former psychiatric patient building transformed into a contemporary museum that both preserves the site's history and creates new, flexible settings for communicating the development of psychiatry in Denmark.

Dust Egypt's Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition

Rene Submissions — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:15:00 +0000

Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with local design influences and materials. Today, many lie empty and neglected, rapidly succumbing to time, a real-estate frenzy, and an ongoing population crisis.

In 2006 Russian-born photographer Xenia Nikolskaya began the process of documenting these structures. She gained exceptional access to them, taking photographs at some thirty locations, including Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Minya, Esna, and Port Said. These photographs were documented in