ArchDaily Global ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[MKN House / Triplex Arquitetura]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039327/mkn-house-triplex-arquitetura Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1039327/mkn-house-triplex-arquitetura Set in a wooded area, Casa MKN was designed with the premise of preserving the existing large trees, guiding the layout and configuration of the volumes so that the architecture respects the original landscaping of the lot. The project is based on the principle of maximizing the preservation of vegetation and establishing a direct relationship between the construction and nature. As a result, the house is structured in two main levels and a rooftop, distributed in a horizontal volume characterized by straight lines, continuous planes, and wide eaves that reinforce the contemporary reading of the residence.

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  • architects: Triplex Arquitetura
  • Location: Jardim Paulistano, Brazil
  • Project Year: 2023
  • Photographs: Dândara Nunes Bettini
  • Area: 900.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Kindergarten and Nursery Rosslauf / feld72]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039094/kindergarten-and-nursery-rosslauf-feld72 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1039094/kindergarten-and-nursery-rosslauf-feld72 The rectangular building opens up generously to the south. Direct access to the outdoor area of the common and group rooms enables the children to actively and passively engage with nature.

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  • architects: feld72
  • Location: Brixen, Italy
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus
  • Area: 1310.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Place Tenaquip - Affordable Housing Units / L. McComber ]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039464/place-tenaquip-affordable-housing-units-l-mccomber Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Hana Abdel https://www.archdaily.com/1039464/place-tenaquip-affordable-housing-units-l-mccomber In a transitioning neighbourhood of Lachine, Place Tenaquip transforms a long-abandoned tavern into a warm, dignified place to call home. Designed for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, this new 18-unit permanent housing project is led by the Old Brewery Mission and made possible through the support of the Tenaquip Foundation, the CMHC, SHQ, the City of Montreal and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ.

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  • architects: L. McComber
  • Location: Montreal, Canada
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Ulysse Lemerise
  • Area: 11330.0 ft2
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]]> <![CDATA[Building with Earth: Traditional Knowledge in Contemporary Architecture ]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039425/building-with-earth-traditional-knowledge-in-contemporary-architecture Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Daniela Andino https://www.archdaily.com/1039425/building-with-earth-traditional-knowledge-in-contemporary-architecture In recent years, earthen construction has gained renewed attention in architecture. Materials such as adobe, rammed earth, and compressed earth blocks, once mainly associated with vernacular traditions, are increasingly being explored by contemporary architects. Rather than representing a simple return to the past, this renewed interest reflects a broader reconsideration of how architecture engages with materials, local resources, and environmental conditions.

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In recent years, earthen construction has gained renewed attention in architecture. Materials such as adobe, rammed earth, and compressed earth blocks, once mainly associated with vernacular traditions, are increasingly being explored by contemporary architects. Rather than representing a simple return to the past, this renewed interest reflects a broader reconsideration of how architecture engages with materials, local resources, and environmental conditions.

For centuries, building with earth was part of everyday construction across many regions of the world. Techniques such as adobe, rammed earth, cob, and other soil-based systems developed gradually through adaptation to climate, available resources, and local construction practices. These methods responded directly to environmental conditions while shaping cultural ways of building. This knowledge circulated through collective practices rather than formal architectural education, allowing techniques to evolve through continuous experimentation.

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]]> <![CDATA[Ananda House / Thought Parallels]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039486/ananda-house-thought-parallels Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1039486/ananda-house-thought-parallels Madhu and Mandy, a couple based in Dallas, USA, approached thought parallels to design a residence adjacent to their ancestral home in India. They sought a contemporary architectural interpretation of the region's vernacular style. Both of them, being aesthetically astute and well-traveled, ideated a refined vision of what a home should embody. They broke a stereotype of usually cliched project requirements.

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]]> <![CDATA[Orms Appointed to Lead Redevelopment of London’s BT Tower into Hotel]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039600/orms-appointed-to-lead-redevelopment-of-londons-bt-tower-into-hotel Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:30:00 +0000 Reyyan Dogan https://www.archdaily.com/1039600/orms-appointed-to-lead-redevelopment-of-londons-bt-tower-into-hotel BT Tower, one of London's most recognizable postwar landmarks, is set to be converted into a hotel. London-based architecture practice Orms has been appointed to lead the redevelopment following the acquisition of the Grade II–listed tower by the American hospitality company MCR Hotels in early 2024. The project was initially expected to be led by Heatherwick Studio, though the practice is no longer involved; Orms will now advance the scheme and is expected to present its initial proposals during a first round of public consultations scheduled for May. Construction cannot begin until the decommissioning and removal of telecommunications equipment by BT Group, a process currently expected to conclude around 2030.

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BT Tower, one of London's most recognizable postwar landmarks, is set to be converted into a hotel. London-based architecture practice Orms has been appointed to lead the redevelopment following the acquisition of the Grade II–listed tower by the American hospitality company MCR Hotels in early 2024. The project was initially expected to be led by Heatherwick Studio, though the practice is no longer involved; Orms will now advance the scheme and is expected to present its initial proposals during a first round of public consultations scheduled for May. Construction cannot begin until the decommissioning and removal of telecommunications equipment by BT Group, a process currently expected to conclude around 2030.

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]]> <![CDATA[Nursery School in Muro / BOS Arquitectes]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039456/nursery-school-in-muro-bos-arquitectes Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1039456/nursery-school-in-muro-bos-arquitectes The Muro nursery school, in Mallorca, is located on elevated ground within a transitional area between the urban fabric and agricultural fields. In its immediate surroundings, landmarks of the landscape and collective life can be identified, such as an old marés stone windmill, the stands of the football field, and the built urban skyline. From its position, the site offers wide views of the area and its main references, including the Church of Sant Joan Baptista and the Convent of Santa Anna.

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  • architects: BOS Arquitectes
  • Location: , España
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Del Río Baní
  • Area: 745.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Modular Installation Reimagines Unfinished Structures at Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039596/modular-installation-reimagines-unfinished-structures-at-limbo-museum-in-accra-ghana Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1039596/modular-installation-reimagines-unfinished-structures-at-limbo-museum-in-accra-ghana The recently opened Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana, inaugurated a two-part architectural installation by TAELON7 on March 12th, led by architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer. The installation was commissioned by the museum in partnership with Art Omi, a not-for-profit arts center in New York's Hudson Valley. The project is the first commission of a collaboration between the two institutions and will be installed in both locations, Accra and New York. Titled Limbo Engawa, the modular, lightweight structure dialogues with the formerly abandoned Brutalist building housing the museum, transforming its skeletal concrete structure and its surrounding land into spaces for use, care, and encounter. The project reflects on the boundaries between unfinished urban architecture and the landscape, foregrounding the labor and stewardship often invisible in both urban and institutional contexts, and asserting that even incomplete or overlooked sites are vessels of civic possibility.

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The recently opened Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana, inaugurated a two-part architectural installation by TAELON7 on March 12th, led by architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer. The installation was commissioned by the museum in partnership with Art Omi, a not-for-profit arts center in New York's Hudson Valley. The project is the first commission of a collaboration between the two institutions and will be installed in both locations, Accra and New York. Titled Limbo Engawa, the modular, lightweight structure dialogues with the formerly abandoned Brutalist building housing the museum, transforming its skeletal concrete structure and its surrounding land into spaces for use, care, and encounter. The project reflects on the boundaries between unfinished urban architecture and the landscape, foregrounding the labor and stewardship often invisible in both urban and institutional contexts, and asserting that even incomplete or overlooked sites are vessels of civic possibility.

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]]> <![CDATA[Designing the Sensory City: Architecture, Light Pollution, and Urban Noise]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039436/designing-the-sensory-city-architecture-light-pollution-and-urban-noise Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Ananya Nayak https://www.archdaily.com/1039436/designing-the-sensory-city-architecture-light-pollution-and-urban-noise For most of human history, night arrived as a planetary certainty. Darkness spread across landscapes, and the sky revealed thousands of stars. Today, that sky is disappearing. Artificial light spills upward from cities, scattering through the atmosphere and turning night into a permanent haze. Research mapping global sky brightness shows that more than 80 percent of humanity now lives under light-polluted skies, and the Milky Way has vanished from view for over a third of the world's population. The disappearance of dark skies is usually discussed within astronomy, but the sources of that change are deeply embedded in the built environment. Buildings emit light, reflect it through glass façades, and extend illumination far beyond their walls. In the technosphere, the vast system of infrastructures and materials humans have constructed, architecture now shapes both physical space and the sensory conditions surrounding it.

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For most of human history, night arrived as a planetary certainty. Darkness spread across landscapes, and the sky revealed thousands of stars. Today, that sky is disappearing. Artificial light spills upward from cities, scattering through the atmosphere and turning night into a permanent haze. Research mapping global sky brightness shows that more than 80 percent of humanity now lives under light-polluted skies, and the Milky Way has vanished from view for over a third of the world's population. The disappearance of dark skies is usually discussed within astronomy, but the sources of that change are deeply embedded in the built environment. Buildings emit light, reflect it through glass façades, and extend illumination far beyond their walls. In the technosphere, the vast system of infrastructures and materials humans have constructed, architecture now shapes both physical space and the sensory conditions surrounding it.

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]]> <![CDATA[Good Finance Taichung Downtown Branch / Snøhetta]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039497/good-finance-taichung-downtown-branch-snohetta Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Valeria Silva https://www.archdaily.com/1039497/good-finance-taichung-downtown-branch-snohetta Snøhetta's design for Good Finance's Taichung office branch articulates the firm's ambition to redefine the culture of finance into one that is open, inclusive, and nurturing.

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  • architects: Snøhetta
  • Location: Taichung, Taiwan
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: tudio Millspace
  • Area: 800.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Sports and Cultural Complex IIT Hyderabad / IITH Campus Design Team of the University of Tokyo + NIHON SEKKEI + APL design workshop]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039548/sports-and-cultural-complex-iit-hyderabad-iith-campus-design-team-of-the-university-of-tokyo-plus-nihon-sekkei-plus-apl-design-workshop Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1039548/sports-and-cultural-complex-iit-hyderabad-iith-campus-design-team-of-the-university-of-tokyo-plus-nihon-sekkei-plus-apl-design-workshop In the master plan of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH), a residential zone with clustered student dormitories is located at the northern edge of the campus. Adjacent to this area, a group of facilities supporting athletic and cultural activities is planned as the Sports and Cultural Complex. The complex forms part of the broader campus development realized through a collaboration between the Japanese government and IITH, led by the IITH Campus Design Team at the University of Tokyo, with Hidetoshi Ohno and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe as key members.

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  • architects: APL design workshop
  • architects: IITH Campus Design Team of the University of Tokyo
  • architects: NIHON SEKKEI
  • Location: Hyderabad, India
  • Project Year: 2022
  • Photographs: Masaki Hamada (kkpo)
  • Photographs: Hidetoshi Ohno
  • Area: 30881.0 m2
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]]> <![CDATA[Haining Natural Exhibition Center / Sens Architects]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039575/haining-natural-exhibition-center-sens-architects Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 韩爽 - HAN Shuang https://www.archdaily.com/1039575/haining-natural-exhibition-center-sens-architects The Haining Nature Exhibition Center is a comprehensive public building within the Haining International Flower Industry Park. It can serve as an experience hall for organizing agricultural exhibitions in the park, as well as undertaking industrial docking activities and other functions. It can become a cultural and artistic center for the future development of the surrounding area. The Natural Art Exhibition Center, as a venue for various industrial activities, information exchange conferences, and cultural and artistic exhibitions, is not only an important space for showcasing the achievements of rural industrial revitalization, but also a combination of pastoral art and life culture.

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]]> <![CDATA[Kaleidoscopic House / DOT]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039549/kaleidoscopic-house-dot Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Miwa Negoro https://www.archdaily.com/1039549/kaleidoscopic-house-dot A house is often a portrait of the people who live in it. In many Indian families, the woman of the house spends much of her time looking after others; planning meals, watching over everyone's health, and keeping the household steady. What she rarely has is the chance to sit with her family and share the time she helps create for them. This became clear in our first meeting, and it shaped how the design began to take form.

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  • architects: DOT
  • Location: Surat, India
  • Project Year: 2025
  • Photographs: Ishita Sitwala | The Fishy Project
  • Area: 3400.0 ft2
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]]> <![CDATA[El Retiro Spa / Mendiola Arregui]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1038988/el-retiro-spa-mendiola-arregui Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1038988/el-retiro-spa-mendiola-arregui This project is born as a retreat space, conceived from introspection. A personal and private spa in the mountains of Tapalpa, where the architecture deliberately renounces the idea of a façade: there is no gesture towards the outside, no frontal composition. The building seeks not to be seen, but to be inhabited.

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]]> <![CDATA[Family Tomb in Coimbra / Comoco Arquitectos]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039287/family-tomb-in-coimbra-comoco-arquitectos Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1039287/family-tomb-in-coimbra-comoco-arquitectos Buildings associated with death, conceived or inspired by funerary rituals and practices, have given rise throughout history to some of architecture's most significant achievements. The desire to preserve memory has always inspired the design of funerary spaces that explore territories of ambiguity: between earth and sky; light and matter; the telluric and the ethereal; the present and the timeless. In their materials, textures, scales, and forms, these buildings resist the passage of time and assert themselves as timeless constructions.

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]]> <![CDATA[Lantern House / Bercy Fadel + Partners]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039463/lantern-house-bercy-fadel-plus-partners Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Hana Abdel https://www.archdaily.com/1039463/lantern-house-bercy-fadel-plus-partners Lantern House sits quietly among the oaks of Austin's Bouldin Creek; a study in light, material, and restraint. The design transforms a densely wooded urban lot into a private sanctuary, where filtered daylight and layered transparency define the rhythm of daily life.

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  • architects: Bercy Fadel + Partners
  • Location: Austin, United States
  • Project Year: 2024
  • Photographs: Courtesy of Bercy Fadel + Partners
  • Area: 3841.0 ft2
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]]> <![CDATA[Smiljan Radić Clarke: Get to Know the 2026 Pritzker Winner's Work]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039546/smiljan-radic-clarke-get-to-know-the-2026-pritzker-winners-work Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:15:00 +0000 Valentina Díaz https://www.archdaily.com/1039546/smiljan-radic-clarke-get-to-know-the-2026-pritzker-winners-work The 2026 Pritzker Price Award has been awarded this year to the Chilean architect of Croatian descent, Smiljan Radić Clarke. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1965, his practice evokes a geography of extremes, shaped by the tectonic tension between the staggering weight of the Andes and the seismic instability of the territory. After graduating from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and pursuing further studies in aesthetics in Venice, Smiljan Radić Clarke established his base in Santiago. From there, he has developed one of the most singular visions in contemporary architecture. His work privileges the intensity of the moment through a fragile architecture. Within it, the building operates as a temporary and tactile refuge that places the spectator in a state of aesthetic uncertainty, oscillating between ancestral ruin and avant-garde artefact.

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The 2026 Pritzker Price Award has been awarded this year to the Chilean architect of Croatian descent, Smiljan Radić Clarke. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1965, his practice evokes a geography of extremes, shaped by the tectonic tension between the staggering weight of the Andes and the seismic instability of the territory. After graduating from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and pursuing further studies in aesthetics in Venice, Smiljan Radić Clarke established his base in Santiago. From there, he has developed one of the most singular visions in contemporary architecture. His work privileges the intensity of the moment through a fragile architecture. Within it, the building operates as a temporary and tactile refuge that places the spectator in a state of aesthetic uncertainty, oscillating between ancestral ruin and avant-garde artefact.

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]]> <![CDATA[Who Is Smiljan Radić Clarke? 10 Things to Know About the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Laureate]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1039554/who-is-smiljan-radic-clarke-10-things-to-know-about-the-2026-pritzker-architecture-laureate Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:15:00 +0000 Reyyan Dogan https://www.archdaily.com/1039554/who-is-smiljan-radic-clarke-10-things-to-know-about-the-2026-pritzker-architecture-laureate Smiljan Radić Clarke, the 2026 Pritzker Prize winner, is a contemporary Chilean architect known for his experimental approach to design, with a practice that balances the elemental with the intimate, the monumental with the fragile. Over the course of more than three decades, Radić has developed an architecture that resists repetition and conventional stylistic categorization, favoring instead deeply site-specific, materially attuned, and culturally reflective interventions.

]]> Guatero, Pavilion of the Architecture Biennale 2023, Santiago, Chile. Image © Smiljan Radić, courtesy of The Pritzker Architecture Prize Guatero, Pavilion of the Architecture Biennale 2023, Santiago, Chile. Image © Smiljan Radić, courtesy of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

Smiljan Radić Clarke, the 2026 Pritzker Prize winner, is a contemporary Chilean architect known for his experimental approach to design, with a practice that balances the elemental with the intimate, the monumental with the fragile. Over the course of more than three decades, Radić has developed an architecture that resists repetition and conventional stylistic categorization, favoring instead deeply site-specific, materially attuned, and culturally reflective interventions.

His work negotiates between permanence and impermanence, memory and imagination, creating buildings that are as much about human experience and emotion as they are about structure and form. Across residences, cultural institutions, and temporary installations, Radić's architecture foregrounds the interplay between context, materials, and the subtle gestures that shape how spaces are inhabited and perceived.

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