ArchDaily Global ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[The Gable Villa / Next Office–Alireza Taghaboni]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041652/the-gable-villa-next-office-alireza-taghaboni Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1041652/the-gable-villa-next-office-alireza-taghaboni The Gable Villa emerges from a hybridization of an inclined structure—reminiscent of the region's traditional architecture—and an orthogonal framework. The project's structural system also informs the spatial organization (what we refer to as an economy of space), with the public areas located on the lower level, where greater height is required.

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]]> <![CDATA[Sofia Pavilion / Estúdio Leonardo Zanatta]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041367/sofia-pavilion-estudio-leonardo-zanatta Tue, 19 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1041367/sofia-pavilion-estudio-leonardo-zanatta The project begins with the reading of the site as the main conditioning factor, reducing land movement and incorporating the slope into the spatial solution. Situated in a consolidated urban context marked by high-rise residential buildings, the pavilion positions itself as an intermediate-scale element, operating in contrast to its surroundings.

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  • architects: Estúdio Leonardo Zanatta
  • Location: Parque Colonial, Brasil
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Israel Gollino
  • Area: 680.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[In Limine Gatehouse / Caret Studio]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041543/in-limine-gatehouse-caret-studio Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1041543/in-limine-gatehouse-caret-studio In the heart of the province of Lucca, the new entrance to this industrial complex transcends mere functional logic to become a true architectural manifesto. This intervention goes beyond the basic requirements of a gatehouse or a refreshment area; it redefines the concept of the threshold, transforming a security checkpoint into an identifying landmark that communicates the company's values and vision at first glance.

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]]> <![CDATA[Unit 2F / Mutter]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041544/unit-2f-mutter Tue, 19 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1041544/unit-2f-mutter In the heart of Hackney Wick, a neighborhood once at the centre of industry and rave culture—and where the first plastic in the UK was manufactured—stands one of the last original warehouses to survive the wave of generic London architecture. When Helena first moved into the space she now calls home, 11 years ago, there wasn't a crane in sight. The streets were quiet, almost free of CCTV, and buildings looked abandoned at first glance. Behind closed doors, though, life thrived. Underground communities of artists, makers, and eccentrics carved out a life in one of the most expensive cities in the world, coexisting with mechanics, welders, lumber yards, and other industrial neighbors.

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  • architects: Mutter
  • Location: Hackney Wick. London, United Kingdom
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Willem Pab
  • Area: 110.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Case Study Houses and the Myth of a Universal Domestic Ideal]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041599/case-study-houses-and-the-myth-of-a-universal-domestic-ideal Tue, 19 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Eduardo Souza https://www.archdaily.com/1041599/case-study-houses-and-the-myth-of-a-universal-domestic-ideal Sitting on low benches, casually talking, dressed in comfortable clothes, and surrounded by books, design objects, and works of art, Charles and Ray Eames appear in one of the most emblematic images of postwar modern domesticity in the United States. The house does not appear as an explicit architectural manifesto, but rather as an inhabited, appropriated, everyday space. Still, nearly everything in that scene functions as the condensation of a carefully constructed ideal: modern informality, the integration between architecture and daily life with the coexistence of industrial production. The photograph projects a way of living more than it represents a residence. And perhaps that was, from the very beginning, the central ambition behind the Case Study Houses.

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Sitting on low benches, casually talking, dressed in comfortable clothes, and surrounded by books, design objects, and works of art, Charles and Ray Eames appear in one of the most emblematic images of postwar modern domesticity in the United States. The house does not appear as an explicit architectural manifesto, but rather as an inhabited, appropriated, everyday space. Still, nearly everything in that scene functions as the condensation of a carefully constructed ideal: modern informality, the integration between architecture and daily life with the coexistence of industrial production. The photograph projects a way of living more than it represents a residence. And perhaps that was, from the very beginning, the central ambition behind the Case Study Houses.

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]]> <![CDATA[Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center / Studio Gang]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041582/samuel-h-scripps-theater-center-studio-gang Tue, 19 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1041582/samuel-h-scripps-theater-center-studio-gang Led by the renowned architecture and urban design practice Studio Gang, the design of the Scripps Theater extends the theater's year-round functionality, improves circulation across the campus, and enables a wider range of programming. Featuring a curved, timber-framed grid shell, the new theater provides improved rehearsal, performance, education, and amenity spaces; expanded accessibility for more diverse audiences; and technical additions that create new opportunities for Hudson Valley Shakespeare productions.

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  • architects: Studio Gang
  • Location: Philipstown, United States
  • Project Year: 2026
  • Photographs: Jason O’Rear
  • Photographs: Studio Gang
  • Area: 26000.0 ft2
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]]> <![CDATA["Do Architecture": Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu Announce Theme and Title for 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041646/do-architecture-wang-shu-and-lu-wenyu-announce-theme-and-title-for-2027-venice-architecture-biennale Tue, 19 May 2026 06:30:00 +0000 Reyyan Dogan https://www.archdaily.com/1041646/do-architecture-wang-shu-and-lu-wenyu-announce-theme-and-title-for-2027-venice-architecture-biennale Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, curators of the 20th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, have unveiled the first details of the highly anticipated 2027 edition. Titled "Do Architecture - For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality," the exhibition will take place from May 8 to November 21, 2027, across the Giardini, the Arsenale, and throughout Venice.

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Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, curators of the 20th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, have unveiled the first details of the highly anticipated 2027 edition. Titled "Do Architecture - For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality," the exhibition will take place from May 8 to November 21, 2027, across the Giardini, the Arsenale, and throughout Venice.

The curatorial direction reflects many of the ideas developed through the work of Amateur Architecture Studio, founded by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu in 1997. Their projects have consistently explored the reuse of salvaged materials, regional construction techniques, and the continuity between historic and contemporary forms of building. Across both urban and rural contexts, the studio's work often emphasizes craft traditions, collective memory, and the spatial qualities embedded within everyday environments.

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]]> <![CDATA[Gagy Self-Sufficient House / Kareem Aldomiaty + Ehab Aldomiaty]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041522/gagy-self-sufficient-house-kareem-aldomiaty-plus-ehab-aldomiaty Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1041522/gagy-self-sufficient-house-kareem-aldomiaty-plus-ehab-aldomiaty A self-sufficient desert dwelling that reinterprets vernacular architecture through passive design, material authenticity, and a seamless relationship with its landscape.

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  • architects: Ehab Aldomiaty
  • architects: Kareem Aldomiaty
  • Location: Siwa Oasis, Egypt
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: SARA MAGNI
  • Area: 650.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Selldorf Architects, STUDIOS Architecture, and BASE Paysagiste Selected to Renovate the Louvre Museum]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041630/selldorf-architects-studios-architecture-and-base-paysagiste-selected-to-renovate-the-louvre-museum Tue, 19 May 2026 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1041630/selldorf-architects-studios-architecture-and-base-paysagiste-selected-to-renovate-the-louvre-museum The French Minister of Culture announced on Monday, May 18, 2026, the winner of the "Louvre–Nouvelle Renaissance" competition. The team selected to transform the world-renowned Musée du Louvre is led by STUDIOS Architecture, New York-based Selldorf Architects, and landscape architecture firm BASE Paysagiste. The renovation initiative was announced in January 2025 as a major intervention for the historic complex following concerns expressed by the museum's director regarding its deteriorating condition. The first round of the competition took place in June, with a shortlist of five teams revealed in October. According to French authorities, the project has a dual objective: to repair and transform the building to preserve its collections while updating it to meet contemporary public expectations, including sustainability requirements that will pose significant challenges for the museum in the coming decades.

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The French Minister of Culture announced on Monday, May 18, 2026, the winner of the "Louvre–Nouvelle Renaissance" competition. The team selected to transform the world-renowned Musée du Louvre is led by STUDIOS Architecture, New York-based Selldorf Architects, and landscape architecture firm BASE Paysagiste. The renovation initiative was announced in January 2025 as a major intervention for the historic complex following concerns expressed by the museum's director regarding its deteriorating condition. The first round of the competition took place in June, with a shortlist of five teams revealed in October. According to French authorities, the project has a dual objective: to repair and transform the building to preserve its collections while updating it to meet contemporary public expectations, including sustainability requirements that will pose significant challenges for the museum in the coming decades.

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]]> <![CDATA[Architecture and Ideology: How Political Systems Shaped 20th-Century Design]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040931/architecture-and-ideology-how-political-systems-shaped-20th-century-design Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1040931/architecture-and-ideology-how-political-systems-shaped-20th-century-design Architecture is often presented as the visible expression of its time, its desires, its faith in progress, its idea of order. Yet this reading tends to flatten the conditions under which buildings are produced. It suggests that architecture follows history when, in many cases, it actively participates in it. Few periods make this more evident than the twentieth century, when architecture became deeply entangled with political programs, economic systems, and competing visions of how collective life should be organized.

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Architecture is often presented as the visible expression of its time, its desires, its faith in progress, its idea of order. Yet this reading tends to flatten the conditions under which buildings are produced. It suggests that architecture follows history when, in many cases, it actively participates in it. Few periods make this more evident than the twentieth century, when architecture became deeply entangled with political programs, economic systems, and competing visions of how collective life should be organized.

What is commonly grouped under the label of Modernism is often described as a coherent project, defined by formal clarity, technological optimism, and a break with historical styles. But this apparent coherence dissolves when we look beyond its canonical centres. The same spatial principles (standardization, functional zoning, industrial production) were adopted in political and economic contexts that differed significantly in their structures and objectives. A static movement unfolded as a flexible system continuously reoriented according to the priorities of each regime. What appeared as a shared language was, in practice, a set of tools applied to distinct agendas.

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]]> <![CDATA[Delta Business Center / Picharchitects/Pich-Aguilera]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040919/delta-business-center-picharchitects-pich-aguilera Tue, 19 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1040919/delta-business-center-picharchitects-pich-aguilera Delta Business Center redefines the corporate building as a strategic asset: a structure designed to reduce operating costs, adapt to future change, and preserve long-term value.

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]]> <![CDATA[Hide House / MRTN Architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041622/hide-house-mrtn-architects Tue, 19 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1041622/hide-house-mrtn-architects Venus Bay is located in South Gippsland, a narrow peninsula of land with Bass Strait to the southwest and Anderson's Inlet to the northeast. Hide House in Venus Bay is located on the crest of a sand dune amongst coastal Tea Tree. The house enjoys views to the waterways of the inlet to the north and the grassy tidal plains to the east, while turning its back to the strong, predominant south-westerly winds that are a common feature of the area.

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]]> <![CDATA[Apelron Contemporary / Aether Architects + Archigress]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041614/apelron-contemporary-aether-architects-plus-archigress Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 韩爽 - HAN Shuang https://www.archdaily.com/1041614/apelron-contemporary-aether-architects-plus-archigress The project is located within the Qingshuihe Railway Relics in Shenzhen. The original building was a railway warehouse are sandwiched between the road and the railway; however, we believe that this crowded urban relationship is a unique landscape and place phenomenon. How can we transform heaviness into lightness, proximity into distance, darkness into brightness, and discover the unexpected in the everyday landscape? What is scenery? We hope to ponder these questions in our projects.

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  • architects: Aether Architects
  • architects: Archigress
  • Location: Qingshuhe, Luohu district, Shenzhen, China
  • Project Year: 2026
  • Photographs: Chao Zhang
  • Area: 320.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Svatman Farmhouse / HabitArt Architecture Studio]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041628/svatman-farmhouse-habitart-architecture-studio Mon, 18 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1041628/svatman-farmhouse-habitart-architecture-studio Svatman (स्वात्मन्)—literally, to be immersed within oneself—is conceived as a retreat that turns inward even as it remains deeply rooted in its landscape. Set within the undulating terrain of Shoolagiri, where rocky ground and dry vegetation define the horizon, the house resists the urge to announce itself. Instead, it settles quietly into a fertile mango belt, allowing the rhythms of cultivation and seasonality to shape its presence.

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  • architects: HabitArt Architecture Studio
  • Location: Shoolagiri, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Reshma Kamat
  • Area: 2750.0 ft2
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]]> <![CDATA[Office above the Pool / Modulito Estudio + atelier industrial]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041476/office-above-the-pool-modulito-estudio-plus-atelier-industrial Mon, 18 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1041476/office-above-the-pool-modulito-estudio-plus-atelier-industrial On an ancient wine pool, built of reinforced concrete, a volume of antagonistic material tectonics is added to the existing structure, following the industrial logic of the sector.

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  • architects: Modulito Estudio
  • architects: atelier industrial
  • Location: San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Luis Abba
  • Area: 36.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Modular Pavilion / Dietsch Vilaça + Hauptstadt-Studio.Berlin]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041498/modular-pavilion-dietsch-vilaca-plus-lukas-beer Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Pilar Caballero https://www.archdaily.com/1041498/modular-pavilion-dietsch-vilaca-plus-lukas-beer Developed for one of the courtyards of the igus factory in Cologne, the Modular Pavilion creates a space for breaks, informal meetings, shared meals, presentations, and temporary events within the industrial campus. Integrated directly into the daily routines of the factory, the structure introduces a quieter and more open environment alongside the existing production buildings.

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]]> <![CDATA[Between the Rock and the River / Mimosa architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1041499/between-the-rock-and-the-river-mimosa-architects Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Valeria Silva https://www.archdaily.com/1041499/between-the-rock-and-the-river-mimosa-architects The cabin on the banks of the Sázava River replaces its predecessor on the same site. After the original cabin burned down, only the stone plinth remained, which the new structure naturally incorporates. It provides protection from flooding and offers a sense of perspective — over the river and perhaps over everyday haste.

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]]> <![CDATA[The Soft Control of Space: Design for Decision-Making]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1040960/the-soft-control-of-space-design-for-decision-making Mon, 18 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Ankitha Gattupalli https://www.archdaily.com/1040960/the-soft-control-of-space-design-for-decision-making "There is no space without event, no architecture without action." When Bernard Tschumi wrote these words, he was articulating a fundamental principle of the architect's practice. Architecture is about behavior. Every stroke of a pen on a floor plan is a proposition about how occupants will move or what actions become possible.

]]> Philo Science Center at Institut Le Rosey / Bernard Tschumi Architects. Image © Iwan Baan Philo Science Center at Institut Le Rosey / Bernard Tschumi Architects. Image © Iwan Baan

"There is no space without event, no architecture without action." When Bernard Tschumi wrote these words, he was articulating a fundamental principle of the architect's practice. Architecture is about behavior. Every stroke of a pen on a floor plan is a proposition about how occupants will move or what actions become possible.

To draw is to architect a reality. Though with this power, architecture does not command. It does not issue instructions or enforce compliance, but it operates through a soft control — a mode of influence that shapes behavior by structuring perception and guiding attention.

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