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

In December 2024, art curator Koyo Kouoh became the first African woman selected to curate the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. She proposed an introspective and sensitive approach to the exhibition, shaped by themes of grief, memory, spirituality, and global exhaustion. Following her premature passing in May 2025, the Biennale decided to continue with the same curatorial project, titled In Minor Keys. Wolff Architects was appointed by Kouoh in early 2025 to realize the exhibition design and scenography, focused on "the transformative spatial power of the threshold as a portal to alternative comprehension and experiences." The event was inaugurated on Saturday, May 9, and will run until Sunday, November 22, 2026, across the Giardini della Biennale, the Arsenale di Venezia, and other locations throughout Venice.

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.

Co-organized by UN-Habitat and the Government of Azerbaijan, the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum 13 will take place in Baku from May 17 to 22, 2026, under the theme "Housing the World: Safe and Resilient Cities and Communities." Convened every two years by UN-Habitat, the World Urban Forum is considered one of the leading international conferences dedicated to urbanization and the future of cities. Bringing together architects, planners, policymakers, researchers, local governments, and civil society organizations, the forum serves as a platform for discussing the challenges shaping contemporary urban environments and the strategies needed to address them.

• architects: Archigrest
• architects: topoScape
• Location: Warsaw, Poland
• Project Year: 2023
• Photographs: Michał Szlaga
• Area: 83000.0 m2

The initial phase of the complete renovation project for the National Historical Museum in Tirana is approaching completion. The project was commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Culture, and Innovation of Albania and UNOPS, and financed by the European Commission through the EU for Culture (EU4C) program in Albania. The full restoration of the museum's 21,400 square meters is planned in two phases, led by Rotterdam-based Casanova + Hernandez Architects in collaboration with local partner iRI. The first phase consists of the restoration of the existing building located in Skanderbeg Square and is expected to be completed this year, enabling the immediate start of the second phase focused on the redesign of the interior spaces.

Modernism is often encountered through built form, photographed facades, canonical plans, concrete manifestos. For most people, its first encounter was far more immediate. It was a chair in an office, a shelf in a living room, a compact unit that reorganized how one sat, stored, or slept. Long before modern architecture could be widely commissioned, it was furniture that entered everyday space, carrying with it a new logic of living. Modernism's promise of transforming life was often delivered through these smaller, repeatable objects.

To understand this shift, furniture has to be read as a condensed form of architecture rather than decoration. Early twentieth-century designers treated it precisely this way. Le Corbusier described furniture as équipement de l'habitation (equipment of living), placing it within the operational system of the building rather than outside it. Similarly, the Bauhaus approached chairs and tables as industrial prototypes, embedding principles of standardization, efficiency, and mass production into their design. As architectural historian Beatriz Colomina has argued, modern architecture did not circulate only through buildings, but through media and objects that translated its ideas into everyday life. Furniture became architecture in miniature: portable, reproducible, and capable of reorganizing space without reconstructing it.

• architects: Comas-Pont arquitectes
• Location: Manresa, Spain
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Adrià Goula
• Area: 643.0 m2