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Newcastle Puts Spillers Quay Land Sale to Cabinet as Ouseburn Scheme Returns at Reduced Scale
Newcastle City Council is seeking cabinet approval for a conditional Spillers Quay land sale as a reduced-scale Ouseburn riverside plan moves toward a new planning stage.
Bury’s C3 Housing Grade Puts Repairs and Safety Data Under Regulatory Scrutiny
England’s housing regulator has assigned Bury Council a C3 grade after identifying serious weaknesses in safety assurance, repairs and tenant scrutiny.
Northern Rivers temporary housing enters reuse and decommissioning phase
New South Wales has set out a site-by-site transition for the six temporary housing villages still operating in the Northern Rivers after the 2022 floods. The decision moves the emergency…
Singapore opens care apartments to buyers from 55: housing plans for ageing earlier
Singapore’s Housing & Development Board has opened its first Community Care Apartment launch since the eligibility age was lowered from 65 to 55. The November sales exercise includes 256 such…
Nine prefabricated terraces in Schofields cut reported build time to eight months
Nine architecturally designed terrace homes using off-site construction have been completed at Schofields in north-west Sydney. The New South Wales government says the two-storey, three-bedroom homes took about eight months…
Australia keeps four defence heritage sites public as 11 properties move toward divestment
Australia has transferred 11 defence sites to the Department of Finance for divestment while deciding that four heritage-heavy properties will remain in public ownership. The update, issued by the Australian…
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Funes House: Designing a Home in Two Construction Phases
Funes House competition review: phased housing in Argentina, prize currency, finalist rights and a conflicting extension notice. Deadline 30 April…
Courtyard Stories: A Contemporary Home in Calcinate
Courtyard Stories invites adaptive reuse proposals in Italy. Review fees, cash versus coupons, finalist rights and the 7 May 2027…
ArchDaily Student Project Awards 2027: Making the City
ArchDaily Student Project Awards 2027 invites urban interventions and prototypes. Review eligibility, Campus subscription, prizes and the 31 January deadline.
Farouk Hosny Foundation Architecture Award 2027
The Plaza and AI: Egyptian eligibility, six-board submission, named jury, EGP 225,000 prizes, image-licence terms and the 1 January 2027…
iF DESIGN STUDENT AWARD 2027
Free student design award: eligibility, EUR 50,000 prize fund, submission requirements, rights checks and the 3 February 2027 deadline.
Rework by xFigura
Rework by xFigura invites proposals that give an existing building a new use. Entrants can select a building anywhere in…
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When Numbers Beat Courage: The Reality of the Solo Architect Today
This article explores the professional tension between the visionary "Solo Architect" and the corporate safety of "Large Firms," framing the shift as an evolution from building-centric design to asset management. It contrasts the poetic Modernism…
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The Art of Heritage
There is a phrase that has drifted into wide use without ever being defined with care, and the drift has…
The Temple You Must Descend Into
An analytical study of Sikh architecture through the Golden Temple, color, ornament, material conservation and everyday use. It distinguishes documented…
Islamic Ornament Is Not the Final Layer
Islamic ornament in architecture and interiors: geometry, calligraphy, materials, light and a practical guide to designing beyond surface decoration.
The Mosque Begins Before the First Row
A practical guide to mosque design: courtyards, women’s prayer spaces, access, ceiling heights, acoustics, climate and maintenance.
Laundry Takes Space: Clothes, Shared Laundries and Water Reuse
Clothes need more than storage. A research guide to laundry room design, indoor drying, shared laundries and responsible wastewater reuse.
Design Museum Gent: A New Wing That Reconnects the Whole
The new wing at Design Museum Gent addresses a problem larger than a shortage of exhibition space: how to make…
Casa Malonic: From a Sheltered Courtyard to the Pacific
Casa Malonic, a 497-square-metre house by HW Studio in Punta Garrobo, Zihuatanejo, makes the journey towards the Pacific as significant…
The Building Between Rulebooks: Fire Safety Before Occupancy
Research on construction fire safety, changing site conditions and shared responsibilities, with an architectural framework for protection before occupancy.
The Stadium Begins Before the Touchline: Designing for Fans, Teams and the Future
A research guide to stadium design, crowd movement, team spaces, event operations and future sports buildings, with a field reading…
The Drawn World That Travels Without a Passport
How anime travels across cultures, reshapes visual imagination and offers an analytical lens for local identity, design and architecture.
The Green That Could Not Survive Its Own Purity
What fragile green paint on Coromandel screens reveals about conservation, matt finishes and the relationship between colour, care and interior…
The Object That Is Dry and Fragile at the Same Time
Why historic leather can lose flexibility and cohesion together, and what evidence is needed before testing a sesame oil and…
EquipHotel 2026 Closes: Hospitality’s Serious Fair Goes Quiet for Two Years
On 5 November 2026 EquipHotel closed its doors at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, ending four days that began on…
The Wall That Rewrites the Play
How textual scenography and theatre architecture shape action, visibility, time and audience knowledge, with a practical framework for rehearsal and…
This Is Me, Not My Father
Municipal investments in culture yield complex, multidimensional value rather than simple economic returns. Relying solely on historical heritage can blind…
The Night I Fled Europe
A Chinese robot, a French strike, and a taxi that rearranged the world in the small of my backBy Ibrahim…
Do Not Disturb: At EquipHotel 2026, Privacy Becomes the Exhibit
On 2 November 2026 the doors of Paris Expo Porte de Versailles opened on EquipHotel, the international hospitality salon that…
Zi Museum: Four Buildings That Turn a Meadow Into the Main Public Room
Zi Museum in Xianning distributes a museum, workshop, bookshop and tower across a lakeside meadow, separating exhibition routes from everyday…
Before the First Note: The Concert Hall’s Hidden Footprint
The hidden footprint of a concert hall begins with materials, maintenance and the systems that make performance possible. An architectural…
Oxford Street: The Benches Are the Easy Part
ArchUp News Desk — ArchUpOn the morning of Monday 26 October, the first thing that disappeared from Oxford Street was…
A Scratch Should Not End a Chair: Designing Furniture for Refurbishment
Furniture refurbishment begins in the first design. An analysis of joints, surfaces, interiors and the practical conditions that let useful…
The Body That Wears Our Identity
How clothing, mannequins, uniforms and exhibition spaces help construct identity. An analytical reading of effigies and embodied representation, with practical…
The Poster Must Explain
Architectural poster design connects images, drawings and words into a readable argument. An analysis of presentation boards, social posts, bilingual…
Watching the New Rolls-Royce Showroom Take Shape in Jeddah
Over several months in Jeddah, a passer-by photographed the renovation of an existing commercial building into a new Rolls-Royce Motor…
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