ArchDaily Global ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[FN House / Anonym]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040692/fn-house-anonym Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040692/fn-house-anonym Located in a dense residential district of Bangkok, Prachauthit Road, FN House reveals a bold, massive front yet humbly connects with the neighborhood through its materials. The rigid stacking geometric form on the exterior gives bold and noticeable visuals, whilst inside the house is activated by the factor of contrast of its form by having a curved mezzanine balcony as a surprise architectural element. Together with using light tone materials, this creates a pleasant ambience for the premises to blend with the natural existing and surrounding context.

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  • architects: Anonym
  • Location: Bangkok, Thailand
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: DOF SKYGROUND
  • Area: 650.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Eucalyptus House / Julia Yako + Laura Marino]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040398/eucalyptus-house-julia-yako-plus-laura-marino Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1040398/eucalyptus-house-julia-yako-plus-laura-marino Located in the neighborhood of Martínez, north of Buenos Aires and just meters from the Río de la Plata, a contemporary residence is developed within a subdivision landscaped by Carlos Thays on an old estate from the early 20th century. The presence of a large white eucalyptus tree defines the implantation and organizes the project, which is conceived as a volume that embraces an interior courtyard.

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  • architects: Julia Yako
  • architects: Laura Marino
  • Location: Martínez, Argentina
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas
  • Area: 200.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Stand for Circo de Ideias / fala]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040408/stand-for-circo-de-ideias-fala Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Andreas Luco https://www.archdaily.com/1040408/stand-for-circo-de-ideias-fala One among many standard stands at the book fair, a 3-by-3-metre footprint tasked with holding little more than shelves and a counter. the budget, predictably, was limited. within this almost generic brief, the project accepts its condition as an installation, but refuses its expected neutrality. it works instead with what is already there: leftover metal profiles of different sections, repainted in a deliberately fresh, almost excessive palette.

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]]> <![CDATA[Gort Uí Ghaoithín / Fuinneamh Workshop Architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040447/gort-ui-ghaoithin-fuinneamh-workshop-architects Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1040447/gort-ui-ghaoithin-fuinneamh-workshop-architects Four squares dictate the spatial layout for this extended family home in Co. Clare. The house is broken into three simple block forms around these squares.

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]]> <![CDATA[Reimagining the Complete Neighborhood through Urban Renaturing]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040595/reimagining-the-complete-neighborhood-through-urban-renaturing Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Olivia Poston https://www.archdaily.com/1040595/reimagining-the-complete-neighborhood-through-urban-renaturing The ReGreeneration project, led by C40 Cities and supported by ARUP, Placemaking Europe, Climato Sfera, Inetum, and many others, operates at the intersection of urban ecology, public health, infrastructure, and neighborhood-scale design. Its premise addresses how European cities are built and maintained and how they experience a changing climate, arguing that cities must fundamentally change to remain livable under accelerating climate pressures.

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The ReGreeneration project, led by C40 Cities and supported by ARUP, Placemaking Europe, Climato Sfera, Inetum, and many others, operates at the intersection of urban ecology, public health, infrastructure, and neighborhood-scale design. Its premise addresses how European cities are built and maintained and how they experience a changing climate, arguing that cities must fundamentally change to remain livable under accelerating climate pressures.

The European Commission launched Horizon Europe in 2021 as its most ambitious research and innovation program to date, committing over 95 billion euros to accelerate scientific discovery and address the defining challenges in European cities. Among the initiatives that Horizon Europe funds is ReGreeneration, a transnational consortium uniting nine cities, their governing bodies, leading research institutions, and technology partners in the region.

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]]> <![CDATA[Prostir Business Hub / Aranchii Architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040641/prostir-business-hub-aranchii-architects Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040641/prostir-business-hub-aranchii-architects PROSTIR Business Hub in Zymna Voda, near Lviv Circular Road, redefines the typology of logistic hubs by merging office, warehouse, and commercial spaces into a unified modular ensemble. The project bridges the domestic scale with industrial tectonics through dynamic gabled roofs.

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  • architects: Aranchii Architects
  • Location: Zymna Voda, Ukraine
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Alik Usik
  • Area: 12000.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Kengo Kuma & Associates Unveils Its First Project in Ecuador with Qapital Tower]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040686/kengo-kuma-and-associates-unveils-its-first-project-in-ecuador-with-qapital-tower Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:30:00 +0000 Reyyan Dogan https://www.archdaily.com/1040686/kengo-kuma-and-associates-unveils-its-first-project-in-ecuador-with-qapital-tower Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled plans for Qapital, a 32-story mixed-use tower set to rise in Quito, Ecuador, in collaboration with local developer Uribe Schwarzkopf. Scheduled for completion in 2029, the project marks Japanese architect Kengo Kuma's first work in the country, extending the studio's international portfolio into the South American context. Located opposite La Carolina Park in Quito's central business district, the 125.8-meter tower introduces a vertically organized program that brings together residential, commercial, and shared amenities.

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Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled plans for Qapital, a 32-story mixed-use tower set to rise in Quito, Ecuador, in collaboration with local developer Uribe Schwarzkopf. Scheduled for completion in 2029, the project marks Japanese architect Kengo Kuma's first work in the country, extending the studio's international portfolio into the South American context. Located opposite La Carolina Park in Quito's central business district, the 125.8-meter tower introduces a vertically organized program that brings together residential, commercial, and shared amenities.

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]]> <![CDATA[Paramedical Training Institute and Parking Structure / VIB Architecture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040504/paramedical-training-institute-and-parking-structure-vib-architecture Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1040504/paramedical-training-institute-and-parking-structure-vib-architecture A school attentive to living systems
Training for healthcare professions implies designing a place capable of supporting demanding learning processes, intense work rhythms, and a daily relationship with people. In Évreux, the new Eure Paramedical Training Institute (IFPE) embodies this ambition through architecture that integrates state-of-the-art educational and technological facilities, attentive to its young users, its landscape context, and current environmental challenges, where the human dimension of the project is closely intertwined with landscape and living systems.

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]]> <![CDATA[V&A East Museum by O’Donnell + Tuomey to Open in East London’s Cultural Quarter]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040679/v-and-a-east-museum-by-odonnell-plus-tuomey-to-open-in-east-londons-cultural-quarter Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1040679/v-and-a-east-museum-by-odonnell-plus-tuomey-to-open-in-east-londons-cultural-quarter V&A East Museum, designed by architects O'Donnell + Tuomey, will open to the public on 18 April 2026. Assigned to the firm in 2015, the new building is located in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, near its recently opened sister facility, the V&A East Storehouse, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Located in East London, the UK's newest cultural quarter supported by the Mayor of London, the two-building complex aims to "spotlight the many ways global artists, designers, and makers use creativity to shape the world." Dedicated to creative opportunity and its power to bring change, the museum's five public levels contain two permanent galleries, a 900 sqm temporary exhibition gallery, a top-floor project and event space, learning facilities, and a café.

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V&A East Museum, designed by architects O'Donnell + Tuomey, will open to the public on 18 April 2026. Assigned to the firm in 2015, the new building is located in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, near its recently opened sister facility, the V&A East Storehouse, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Located in East London, the UK's newest cultural quarter supported by the Mayor of London, the two-building complex aims to "spotlight the many ways global artists, designers, and makers use creativity to shape the world." Dedicated to creative opportunity and its power to bring change, the museum's five public levels contain two permanent galleries, a 900 sqm temporary exhibition gallery, a top-floor project and event space, learning facilities, and a café.

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]]> <![CDATA[What Lies Beneath: 10 Projects Reshaping the Ground Level]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040213/what-lies-beneath-10-projects-reshaping-the-ground-level Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1040213/what-lies-beneath-10-projects-reshaping-the-ground-level Architecture has long been drawn to the idea of lightness. From early modernist experiments that sought to preserve landscapes, elevating buildings has been understood as a way to preserve the ground while maintaining continuity across the terrain. Volumes are lifted on columns, infrastructures detach circulation from the surface, and entire programs are suspended above the ground.

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Architecture has long been drawn to the idea of lightness. From early modernist experiments that sought to preserve landscapes, elevating buildings has been understood as a way to preserve the ground while maintaining continuity across the terrain. Volumes are lifted on columns, infrastructures detach circulation from the surface, and entire programs are suspended above the ground.

This was formalised in the early twentieth century through Le Corbusier's concept of the pilotis, which proposed the liberation of the ground floor from enclosure. By raising buildings on columns, architects sought to maintain continuity with the terrain, allowing movement, vegetation, and collective use to unfold beneath constructed volumes. The building would occupy the air, while the ground would remain open, accessible, and shared.

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]]> <![CDATA[Dexamenes Seaside Hotel Extension / K-Studio]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040638/dexamenes-seaside-hotel-extension-k-studio Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040638/dexamenes-seaside-hotel-extension-k-studio The project of Dexamenes is one that matures gracefully over time, like wine—a story of continuity, gentle projection into the future, and constant entropy. Quiet reinvention has become part of its character: the hotel evolves in modest gestures, extending itself, layer by layer, season by season.

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  • architects: K-Studio
  • Location: Kourouta, Greece
  • Project Year: 2026
  • Photographs: BREBA Claus Brechenmacher & Reiner Baumann
  • Area: 2760.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Nojoor / Hive Architecture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040636/nojoor-hive-architecture Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040636/nojoor-hive-architecture Located on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, Nojoor was inspired by both our client's enthusiasm for design and the beauty of the bushland site. From the outset, the brief was clear — create a home that feels deeply connected to its place, while offering genuine privacy and refuge for the family within.

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]]> <![CDATA[Shanghai Jiao Tong University Student Service Center / TJAD/Zeng Qun Architecture Design Studio]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040510/shanghai-jiao-tong-university-student-service-center-tjad-zeng-qun-architecture-design-studio Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Valeria Silva https://www.archdaily.com/1040510/shanghai-jiao-tong-university-student-service-center-tjad-zeng-qun-architecture-design-studio Under the contemporary educational philosophy that places "student-centeredness" as a core principle in universities, the student center has emerged as a significant new building type on campuses in recent years. This particular project sits at the edge of the campus. Originally not part of the university's initial master plan, it had to be accommodated on a site chosen as opportunities allowed—long and narrow, running north to south. To the west, it already brushes against the campus boundary, backing onto a busy urban expressway; to the east, it neighbors a scenic lake with lush, water-close greenery. Unlike the ample, orderly land reserved for academic and research functions, this site carries an inherent quality of being at the "edge." How to respond to the character of this marginal zone and unlock its hidden potential became the key to the design.

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]]> <![CDATA[Vesp House / Story Architecture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040614/vesp-house-story-architecture Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1040614/vesp-house-story-architecture The homeowner is a young man, but has a great love for old Vespas. He and his friends often travel on old Vespas throughout the provinces and cities of Vietnam. But then the time came for him to build a house and get married. He confided to the architect that he probably won't travel much anymore, and he will spend more time in the house. He also wants to build a house not only for him and his wife to live in, but also for his parents, grandmother, and younger sister to live with. The idea started from the homeowner's bedroom.

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]]> <![CDATA[Itaipava Farm / Lucas Jimeno Dualde]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040399/itaipava-farm-lucas-jimeno-dualde Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1040399/itaipava-farm-lucas-jimeno-dualde There are projects that begin long before the design. In Itaipava, in the Fluminense mountains, an old stable from the São João de Icaraí Farm stood as the last vestige of a rural past: an isolated, silent volume, surrounded by vegetation. When we were invited to intervene in the property, the central question was not just to renovate a building that is almost 80 years old, but to understand how to transform this agricultural space into a contemporary country house, without erasing the geography and identity of the place.

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  • architects: Lucas Jimeno Dualde
  • Location: Itaipava, Brasil
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Ruy Teixeira
  • Area: 572.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Collège des Parcs School Extension and two Sport Halls / Stoa architectes]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040439/college-des-parcs-school-extension-and-two-sport-halls Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1040439/college-des-parcs-school-extension-and-two-sport-halls The school extension of the Collège des Parcs in Neuchâtel, a building with a contemporary expression, pays particular attention to the city's architectural tradition and heritage.

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  • architects: Stoa architectes
  • Location: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Paola Corsini
  • Area: 3500.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Mozart House / Studio DERA]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040494/mozart-house-studio-dera Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1040494/mozart-house-studio-dera A rare opportunity to extend an historic property in Belgravia, Studio DERA adds 85m2 of modern architecture to this period home

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  • architects: Studio DERA
  • Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Lorenzo Zandri
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]]> <![CDATA[Contemporary Ecuadorian Architecture: Connecting Materials, Environment, and Culture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040353/contemporary-ecuadorian-architecture-connecting-materials-environment-and-culture Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Agustina Iñiguez https://www.archdaily.com/1040353/contemporary-ecuadorian-architecture-connecting-materials-environment-and-culture Ecuador's territory embraces a remarkable diversity of landscapes, ranging from the Pacific Coast to the peaks of the Andes, the vast expanse of the Amazon rainforest, and the volcanic Galápagos Islands. Each region of the country presents its own distinctive characteristics, reflected in its varied environmental, cultural, and social contexts. While Latin American architecture is rooted in rich ancestral traditions, native construction techniques, and local materials, contemporary Ecuadorian architecture expresses an evolving identity that blends these elements with actual demands. Tradition and innovation, local resources and modern techniques, along with social responsibility and aesthetics, interact with the natural environment, urban conditions, and social contexts.

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Ecuador's territory embraces a remarkable diversity of landscapes, ranging from the Pacific Coast to the peaks of the Andes, the vast expanse of the Amazon rainforest, and the volcanic Galápagos Islands. Each region of the country presents its own distinctive characteristics, reflected in its varied environmental, cultural, and social contexts. While Latin American architecture is rooted in rich ancestral traditions, native construction techniques, and local materials, contemporary Ecuadorian architecture expresses an evolving identity that blends these elements with actual demands. Tradition and innovation, local resources and modern techniques, along with social responsibility and aesthetics, interact with the natural environment, urban conditions, and social contexts.

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