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NYMA Water Tower / Eek en Dekkers

Cristina Popescu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The adaptive reuse of the NYMA Water Tower demonstrates how industrial heritage can be transformed into a vibrant destination while preserving its unique historical identity. Once an essential part of the former NYMA artificial silk factory, the tower has been reimagined as a public landmark that brings together hospitality, culture, and community. Today, it accommodates a restaurant, flexible meeting spaces, and a panoramic bar, creating a place for gathering, creativity, and social interaction.

“Building a Swiss Watch Out of Concrete”: Clark Construction on LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries

Jonathan Yeung — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0000

The recently opened David Geffen Galleries at LACMA are the result of more than a decade of effort across many fronts: the city, the county, the public, the architect, the engineers, the general contractor, and the many builders involved in translating an ambitious and visionary design into built form. The project has also been subject to unusually intense scrutiny, with responses ranging from admiration for its meticulous construction and architectural ambition to criticism of its scale, cost, concrete mass, and engineering complexity in earthquake-prone Los Angeles. Whatever one's position, the building remains an exceptionally sophisticated case study in how architecture is negotiated through construction.

Maida Hill Public Toilet / Studio Weave

Valeria Silva — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000

In Maida Hill, North Paddington, Studio Weave has completed a distinctive building: a small public toilet pavilion composed of reclaimed stone taken from a demolished office building at Broadgate in the City of London. Material that once formed the cladding of a corporate headquarters has been recut and assembled as the structure of a modest civic building serving a neighborhood market. Stone that has effectively traveled from the financial district to a local square.

Australian Pavilion Explores Multi-Dwelling Housing Through "Lived In" at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale

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

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced "Lived In" as Australia's official contribution to the 20th Venice Architecture Biennale, to be held in Venice, Italy, from May 8 to November 21, 2027. Developed by Kerstin Thompson, Maryam Gusheh, Lee-Anne Khor, and Louise Wright of Monash Urban Lab at Monash University, the exhibition is based on the ongoing Housing Atlas of Australia research initiative. Presented in response to the Biennale's theme, Do Architecture – For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality, curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, the exhibition will present a selection of Australian multi-dwelling housing projects through drawings, photographs, film, and data.

Sawtooth House / Francesco Pierazzi Architects

Cristina Popescu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Sawtooth House transforms a Victorian terrace in Kingston upon Thames through the replacement of an outdated rear extension with a contemporary addition inspired by the town's industrial heritage. Rather than replicating the language of the existing house, Francesco Pierazzi Architects reinterpreted the distinctive sawtooth roof profile of Kingston's former manufacturing buildings to create a new architectural identity rooted in place.

19 New UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the Restoration of Hollywood's Cinerama Dome: This Week's Review

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

This week was marked by recognition and major announcements for the cultural industry. Amid international reports of both deliberate and natural destruction, UNESCO added 25 new sites of Outstanding Universal Value to its World Heritage List, protecting a diverse range of places that includes funerary landscapes and landmark works of modern architecture. Beyond heritage, contemporary architectural practice also received renewed recognition through Alejandro Aravena and Smiljan Radić, while new developments were announced for cultural projects across the United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, China, India, and the United States. Recent updates include the restoration of a landmark cinema in Los Angeles, a new museum dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship in Bengaluru, and the topping out of a 39-story hybrid timber tower in Sydney.

What Is Metamodern Architecture? Between Postmodern Irony and a New Sincerity

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In a slim volume with a yellow-edged cover, recently published by the Porto-based imprint Circo de Ideias, the architect Paulo Martins Barata (a founding partner of Promontório) makes a deceptively bold claim that the architecture produced in Europe since the Great Recession belongs to neither of the two camps that structured the twentieth century's fiercest disciplinary debate.

Bring Up Midori Children’s Development Center / OOOarchitecture

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:00:00 +0000

The Bring Up Midori Children's Development Center reimagines therapeutic architecture as a landscape of discovery, where children with developmental disabilities are invited to engage with the world through play. Rather than treating sensory differences as something to be managed, the project embraces them as a source of curiosity, transforming everyday movement into opportunities for exploration and growth.

Mueonga House / Snow AIDe

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:00:00 +0000

This project is a small hideaway house harmoniously integrated into its natural surroundings of woods and streams. The location, just an hour away from Seoul, offers a unique opportunity to experience the change of lights and views in four different seasons.

Catalejo / Tololo Ugarte

Hana Abdel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Catalejo is a work of architecture that arises from its context. Upon first encountering the land, a point of interest was immediately evident: a kind of oasis of four trees over 300 years old. The rest of the land appeared as a very fertile pasture, highly sensitive to the seasons of the year. In summer, it presents a rather desert-like landscape; however, in winter and spring, meters of so-called weeds sprout from the ground, flanking the house and making it float in an environment that, at ground level, is flat, but where the vegetation provides an irregular and unexpected relief that shifts.

Caju Apartment / CODA Arquitetura

Nana Dokua — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The project was initially conceived for a client looking to build her first home, with the capacity to host occasional guests and welcome family and friends in a spacious social area. Due to personal reasons, she had to relocate and rented the apartment to one of the firm's architects, who now lives there with her partner, also an architect. The client's choices aligned perfectly with what the couple was looking for in their new home.

RB Tapalpa Cabin / ALMA de Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

On a steeply sloping plot of 38,750 square feet (3,600 m²), surrounded by the Tapalpa forest and offering privileged views of the Tapalpa valley, lies a vacation cabin with a building footprint of only 10% of the site, where architecture finds its primary design tool in the topography.

Mooca House / André Guerra Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000

The renovation of the Mooca House is based on respect for the existing structure, proposing a contemporary reading without erasing the past, but rather revealing and reinterpreting elements already present in the architecture.

SONO House / Atelier Carle

Nana Dokua — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

This residence organically articulates a unified composition, oriented toward northern light, framing landscapes found within a vast panorama that opens onto the site. Three long concrete walls of varying heights, in scale with the landscape, form the approach to the building. They resonate with the permanence of the now architectured site and anchor it in time. A narrow gap between the walls reveals the entrance. Beyond this threshold, the spaces organize the living areas according to a flexible layout and timber structure, thereby signaling their capacity to adapt over a more distant temporal horizon.

WPP Headquarters Mizal / Eller + Eller Architekten GmbH

Cristina Popescu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The MIZAL office campus, designed by Eller + Eller Architekten, is characterized by Germany's largest closed-cavity facade (CCF) and a sophisticated sustainability concept featuring extensive roof gardens. The energy-optimized facade frames the campus, which rises to a height of up to eleven stories and offers 52,000 m² of usable floor space. The project has been awarded DGNB Gold certification.

Nature & Architecture Ambasz's Vision

Rene Submissions — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:05:00 +0000

Fulvio Irace's Nature & Architecture: Ambasz's Vision published in English by Electa/Rizzoli

New York, July 2026 — Electa/Rizzoli has published the English edition of Nature & Architecture: Ambasz's Vision, Professor Fulvio Irace's major critical study of the architectural work of Emilio Ambasz.

Originally issued in Italian, the volume now makes available to an international readership one of the most comprehensive scholarly assessments yet devoted to Ambasz's contribution to contemporary architecture.
Widely recognized as one of Italy's foremost architectural historians and critics, Professor Irace examines the full breadth of Ambasz's architectural production, from his realized buildings to the visionary projects developed over more than

The Oasis Is Not a Destination: Architecture Along the Routes of the Desert

Ananya Nayak — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture has long been defined by permanence. Buildings are celebrated because they endure, cities because they establish permanence against uncertainty, and monuments because they resist the passage of time. Some of humanity's oldest urban traditions emerged in landscapes where permanence alone could never guarantee survival. Across the deserts of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, oasis settlements developed not as isolated refuges from an empty wilderness, but as carefully maintained pauses within landscapes already shaped by movement. Long before highways and airports connected continents, caravans, pilgrims, pastoralists, and merchants traversed these territories through networks of wells, irrigation systems, cultivated groves, and market towns. The oasis was never the end of a journey. Wells, shaded palm groves, irrigated fields, and caravan markets allowed the next stage of the journey to begin.

Redhill Early Learning Centre / Hubo Studio

Pratik Mour — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The Redhill Early Learning Centre reimagines the school as a child-scaled city: a protected and nurturing environment that reflects the energy of Johannesburg while adapting it to the sensory and developmental needs of young children. The design journey began in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where Hubo Studio studied the origins of the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy. Its constructivist, child-centered principles informed a distinctly South African interpretation in which architecture becomes an active participant in learning.

International Design Competition Launched for Sydney's Newest Waterfront Neighbourhood

Rene Submissions — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:45:00 +0000

The White Bay Power Station precinct and Glebe Island, two key sites in one of the last major redevelopment sites on Sydney's inner harbour, are the focus of a new international design competition launched by the New South Wales Government. The open, two-stage Bays West International Design Competition seeks a design-led Urban Framework that will guide the transformation of the precinct into a new waterfront neighbourhood.

From Aalto Works to Tashkent Modernism: Discover the 19 New Cultural Sites Added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2026

Reyyan Dogan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:30:00 +0000

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has announced 25 new inscriptions to the World Heritage List during its 48th session, expanding the international register with sites that reflect a wide range of architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. The 2026 additions include 19 cultural properties, five natural sites, and one mixed property, alongside approvals for two significant boundary modifications and one revision to the criteria of an existing inscription. Spanning every inhabited continent, the newly recognized places range from archaeological landscapes and historic urban centers to modernist architecture and industrial heritage, underscoring the diversity of the built environment and the evolving scope of heritage conservation.

CNC & Active Offices / Studio Reaktor

Andreas Luco — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor administrative complex on the border of the Vinohrady, Strašnice, and Žižkov districts, directly connected to the Želivského metro station. Developed by Crestyl and designed by Bogle Architects, the project consists of a nine-story office building featuring an organic shape with cascading terraces.

Alejandro Aravena and Smiljan Radić Receive Chile's 2026 National Architecture Prize

Antonia Piñeiro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0000

On Monday, 27 July, the shortlist of finalists for the 2026 National Architecture Prize was presented at an extraordinary session of the National Board of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile (Chilean Institute of Architects). Representing the institution, the five board members jointly awarded the prize to architects Alejandro Aravena Mori and Smiljan Radić Clarke, in recognition of their contributions to positioning Chilean architecture internationally. Both architects have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize: Aravena in 2016 for his work with ELEMENTAL, and Smiljan Radić Clarke this year. The institution also recognised the quality of their work and the contribution of both professionals to the local development of the discipline, as two major figures in architecture from the context of a small country at the southern end of the world.

Shenzhen Natural History Museum Designed by 3XN, B+H Architects, and Zhubo Opens in China

Reyyan Dogan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:30:00 +0000

Designed by the 3XN, B+H Architects, and Zhubo Design consortium, the Shenzhen Natural History Museum has opened to the public in Shenzhen, China. Covering more than 100,000 square meters, the institution is the largest natural history museum in South China and among the largest recently completed museums of its kind worldwide. Developed as part of Shenzhen's expanding cultural infrastructure, the project brings together exhibition, research, education, and public space within a single civic destination. 3XN led the architectural design, B+H Architects served as lead consultant, executive architect, and landscape architect, and Zhubo Design provided local technical expertise and regulatory coordination throughout the project's development.

Inside Hostels: How Shared Spaces Reshape the Rhythm of Nomads' Lives

Agustina Iñiguez — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Examining the evolution of dwelling throughout history reveals that concepts of space, time, identity, and home extend far beyond architecture itself. From the early twentieth century to the present, human development has been shaped by accelerating economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations. Advances in information and communication technologies have fostered a world of constant connectivity, a phenomenon that can, at times, disconnect individuals from the physical spaces they inhabit. Amid an ever-growing flow of stimuli, interactions, and digital platforms, shared living across multiple architectural scales and programs presents both a challenge and an opportunity to reconnect people with their surroundings through design strategies that support the freedom of movement and flexibility demanded by contemporary life.