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#architecture

The Whale's design adopts a site-responsive approach, avoiding a distinct volumetric expression in favor of a form that extends the existing terrain, minimizing visual separation between land and water.

The jury highlighted his 'unorthodox approach to design,' which 'may initially appear unusual, unexpected, even rebellious; yet, far from producing alienation or estrangement, his anti-canonical stance feels fresh and unprecedented.'

The 376-square-meter plot was once simply a green lawn, not a space actively used so much as one appreciated from a distance, offering a restful patch of green for the eye.

The architectural language borrows from and updates agrarian architecture and extends it across all volumes, creating a modern interpretation of traditional farmsteads.

"Elevation allows architecture to adapt without fully taking over: water can pass below, vegetation can remain, and slopes can keep their original condition."

Located by the edge of a reservoir in Minas Gerais, the house was designed to open entirely to the landscape. Discreet lines follow the terrain, dissolving the architecture between water, sky, and vegetation.

My only concern is that my work must have a positive impact on the communities in which it is embedded. This commitment values materiality, collective learning, and the exchange of knowledge.

The Prospect Lefferts Gardens house tour was started by the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association in 1969 with the express purpose of integrating the neighborhood and countering the block busting that was going on at the time.

The house is approached from the road above, making the roof a prominent fifth facade. Clad in aluminium sheets, the roof softly reflects the surroundings.

The Little Aesthetic Hub transforms a secondary school foyer in Taiwan into a shared spatial core where circulation becomes an active part of learning.

Casa Cosmos, a name coined by its owner upon seeing it standing on the land, is located at the foothills of the Punilla Valley, in Capilla del Monte, Cordoba province.

The Mohammed VI Tower, inaugurated on April 23, 2026, in Salé, Morocco, rises 250 metres across 55 floors, making it the tallest building in Morocco and the third tallest in Africa.

The challenge was to design a fully functional weekend dwelling within a mere 20-square-meter footprint, achieving uncompromising comfort alongside complete energy autonomy in local climatic conditions.

'Plaza Mahou' is the first and only brewery-branded space in Spain to produce beer inside a sports stadium, located at the Santiago Bernabeu.

The outer layer of Powerhouse Parramatta's facade is a steel exoskeleton made from repeating diagonal members, forming a dense lattice that carries loads while sitting off the main envelope. It performs as sun control, especially in the Sydney light where the western exposure can be intense.

Each year, the ArchDaily Next Practices Awards highlights emerging studios that are expanding the scope of architecture through new methods, materials, and ways of working.

"The story of architecture is not wrong, but it is incomplete. For most of the 20th century, architectural history spoke in one tongue: a singular, dominant narrative centered on a handful of movements, names, and cities."

The new Radio Télévision Suisse headquarters is designed to function as both a broadcasting center and a public venue, integrating educational and research facilities.

Installed beneath the portico of the Università degli Studi di Milano, approximately twenty thousand cans of Mutti tomato pulp were supported by a steel substructure that allows them to be stacked and gradually removed without compromising their stability.

Rudolph sketched a home built around a two-story great room, whose glass façade would gaze down a hill, over the sweep of land, under a roof with a pleated 'Googie' design.

Creativity is an extraordinarily powerful tool, capable of providing solutions to almost any challenge. In architecture, imagination and unique solutions shouldn't be the exclusive preserve of grand public buildings or those dream homes we'd all love to live in.

Daryan Knoblauch approaches installations, stages, and event architectures as full disciplinary problems, where enclosure, stability, light, and movement must be resolved with the same seriousness as any building.

The exhibition establishes a dialogue between contemporary research and historical experimental practices, integrating panels from the Venice installation with works from the collection, highlighting radical proposals from the 1960s and 1970s.

Glass is an amorphous solid, meaning its atoms are not arranged in a regular crystalline structure. This structural configuration explains one of its most distinctive qualities: transparency.

The project defines itself through shared living spaces and a generous upper terrace that becomes the center of everyday life.

California's architecture mirrors its terrain: Diverse, dramatic, and as varied as the shift from towering ocean cliffs to arid inland valleys. Western design hinges on expansive potential, marrying seamless indoor-outdoor transitions, framing views of sun and sea, and creating a minimalist aesthetic that puts dense tropical settings or desert landscapes centerstage.

The two guest houses, their roofs sown with living grass, sink back into the dune habitat they occupy, extending the ecological logic of the site rather than interrupting it.

The brownstone hit the market this month for $15 million - the first time it has been on the market since the 1960s. A fair amount of work was done before it was ready for showings, broker Vicki V. Negron told Brownstoner during a tour.

Ceramic factories mark the transition from manual knowledge to serial production, expanding its scale without entirely severing its material origins. Scattered across different territories, these structures record the relationship between technique, landscape, and time.