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News

Global reporting on architecture, projects, cities, design and construction, and the decisions reshaping the built environment. Explore all news.

Milan’s new stadium design puts San Siro’s surrounding district in focus

AC Milan and Inter have unveiled the design of Generali Stadium, a shared 71,500-seat venue by Foster + Partners and MANICA. Announced on 29 October, the proposal places a new…

Amsterdam’s Westerpark West turns an office site into a 921-home neighbourhood

A former office site in Amsterdam is becoming a residential neighbourhood through a phased redevelopment rather than a single building conversion. MVRDV’s latest project update reports the completion this year…

Why the Newsroom Hesitates

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Newsroom caution toward generative artificial intelligence stems from rational economic, psychological, ethical, and professional concerns rather than basic technophobia. Publishers face threats regarding job displacement, uncompensated copyright exploitation, audience distrust,…

ArchUp Events Archive Data Quality Review — October 2026

ArchUp conducted a structured review of its events archive data during October 2026, using AI-assisted automated analysis tools to improve record accuracy and consistency between the Arabic and English editions.Service…

Gainesville starts a six-bay transfer station linking fixed routes and on-demand trips

Gainesville broke ground on 23 October 2026 for the RTS Eastside Transfer Station on Southeast 20th Street. The $5.5 million project is funded by Federal Transit Administration grants and is…

Princeton public safety building moves from foundations to utilities and communications

Princeton reports completed foundations and slab pours for its public-safety building, with buried utilities and dispatch communications now shaping the construction sequence.

Editor’s Selection

The Shoeshine Problem

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Saving on the Back of a Donkey

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The Same Fire That Warms the House Can Burn It Down

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Fawakherji Essays

  • The Cognitive Handoff

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Competitions

Verified architecture and design competitions, including open calls, briefs, deadlines, entry requirements and competition transparency.

A State of the Competition: 75 Calls in October 2026, Read Through Fifteen Doors

In October 2026 ArchUp published seventy-five architecture competitions, a little under one every working half-day. They came from most of…

AIV-Schinkel-Wettbewerb 2027 | Mythos Alexanderplatz

Submission deadline: 8 February 2027, 16:00 as published; indicative conversion 15:00 UTC under the same assumption. Both formats must arrive by the deadline.
Organizer: AIV Berlin-Brandenburg, through its executive board and Schinkel Committee; the association documents the competition series from 1855.
The AIV-Schinkel-Wettbewerb 2027 asks emerging designers to connect the transformation of Alexanderplatz with everyday public life. Its six tracks cover…

Transparence 21.0

Submission deadline: 22 December 2026; closing hour and timezone not announced.
Organizer: Saint-Gobain; educational coordination by Ethos Empowers.
Transparence 21.0 asks students to reconsider workplaces in India. This coverage concerns the architecture category: a campus master plan and…

Project Competition Svanemølleværket DTM 4.0

Submission deadline: Stage 1 design proposal: date communicated only to the three selected teams. Stage 2 final offer is expected on 5 May 2027.
Organizer: Bygnings- og Udviklingsfonden DTM 4.0, the building and development foundation for the new museum.
Prize fund: Professional compensation rather than a conventional prize: DKK 400,000 excluding VAT per compliant Stage 1 team, plus DKK 200,000 for a winner submitting a compliant Stage 2 offer.
A restricted professional competition to transform Copenhagen’s former Svanemølleværket power station into Denmark’s new national technology museum.

Yongsan International Business District AI Smart City Idea Competition

Organizer: Seoul Metropolitan Government, Yongsan Three-Dimensional City Division; supported by the Urban Design Institute of Korea.
Yongsan International Business District AI Smart City Idea Competition is a Seoul Metropolitan Government ideas call for people aged 19–39….

Graines d’Avenir 2027

Submission deadline: 30 April 2027 at 21:59 UTC.
Organizer: Fonds MAJ, a French public-interest endowment fund.
A free student architecture ideas competition for site-specific climate adaptation and inhabited-place transformation in La Réunion or Mayotte through 2050.

Research

The Sound We Stopped Hearing

The Building Is the Argument

Dialysis Centers: How Recurring Visits Shape Architectural Design

The Hospital That Was Designed for Someone Else

Side view of Trestle Cabin showing a dark wood modular volume suspended on a steel framework over a forested slope, with a deep wooden balcony roof.

ArchUp Perspectives

Bridge Cabin and Steep-Slope Construction

The project revives the ideas of Metabolist architecture through a long-life structural framework that separates the permanent infrastructure from replaceable residential units. Rather than treating sustainability as a collection of added technologies, it positions adaptability…

Events

Architecture, design, art and construction events worldwide, from exhibitions and conferences to biennales, festivals and trade fairs.

The ArchUp Briefing

Architecture, projects, research and events, delivered by email.

ArchUp Now

Events, deadlines, art and selected work from the archive.

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Architecture & Design

Projects, design and urban change, examined through space, materials and use.

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

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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

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Over several months in Jeddah, a passer-by photographed the renovation of an existing commercial building into a new Rolls-Royce Motor…

World Trade Center Yerevan: Two Towers, Two Scales of Connection

A spatial reading of WTC Yerevan’s proposed public terraces and shared skybridges, separating visible design intentions from untested performance.

Napa Bistro: How Ceilings, Glass and Seating Turn One Hall into Rooms

A spatial reading of Napa Bistro in Charlotte: curved ceilings, colored glass and changes in seating and flooring divide an…

The Plate That Fulfills Its Purpose by Breaking

A critical essay on dining room design, Greek kefi and the tension between preserving beautiful objects and making room for…

The Dome That Once Held Up the Sky and Now Projects It

Explore how dome architecture moved from monumental structure to immersive projection, and what the shift means for material, meaning and…

The Only Profession That Competes to Begin

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the architectural profession by automating routine entry-level tasks like drafting and visualization. This technological transition exacerbates…

The Discipline That Optimizes the Given

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Industrial engineering applies methods like process optimization to reduce waste, cost, and time in construction. However, its core focus is…

Selected Reading

Curated themes and independent contributions from across ArchUp.

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