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Rippling Glass Extension Transforms Historic Rotterdam Warehouse into Major Dance Center
An updated design reveals a curving four-story glass foyer attached to a 1923 warehouse along the River Maas in Rotterdam. The intervention converts the former industrial building into Europe’s largest…
Créateurs Design Awards Selects 2027 Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Honoree
The Créateurs Design Association selected an international Japanese studio to receive the 2027 Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award in Paris. The recognition honors more than three decades of work that…
Old Trafford Before the Whistle
An architectural perspective on Old Trafford highlights how the stadium balances operational demands with its historical legacy. Key features include maintaining the biological pitch surface, adapting dugout spaces for modern…
Swarm Robots Invert Timber Construction from the Ground Up
A research consortium develops an inverted robotic system that builds modular timber structures from the top down. Ground robots assemble each floor at ground level and then lift it upward…
New Cultural Center in Paris Creates a Platform for Cross-Border Heritage and Exchange
Plans emerge for a new cultural center in the French capital to showcase historical heritage and contemporary artistic practices. The facility establishes a direct urban presence to foster international creative…
Riyadh Metro Secures New Fleet Contract for Lines 3 and 6
Riyadh has locked in a 500-million-euro contract for extra metro cars on lines 3 and 6. The deal also backs a local assembly plant that will serve the planned seventh…
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The Yards, Covent Garden: The City That Whispers
The Yards is an urban design project occupying over five acres in London’s Covent Garden. Rather than acting as a singular landmark building or commercial…
Old Trafford Before the Whistle
An architectural perspective on Old Trafford highlights how the stadium balances operational demands with its historical legacy. Key features include maintaining the biological pitch surface,…
Prospect Place: When Gehry Learns to Live Within a Grid
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp I recognized him before I knew he was there. Walking out of Battersea Power Station, turning east along Electric Boulevard, the…
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The Yards, Covent Garden: The City That Whispers
The Yards is an urban design project occupying over five acres in London’s Covent Garden. Rather than acting as a singular landmark building or commercial…
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Urban Planning Competition for the Kłodnica Boulevards in Gliwice
Summary One-stage open contest for the Kłodnica River valley in Gliwice, Poland. Deliverables: urban planning and landscape concept. Deadline: 12…
The Design Discovery Awards 2026
Competition Brief The Design Discovery Awards (D&A) is an international, multidisciplinary design award programme operating on a season-based annual calendar,…
Yong Ding Chang’an Pavilion International Architectural Design Competition
An open international call for young architects to design a 200 m² reversible waterfront pavilion in Beijing. Free entry. €65,000…
The Architecture of Play
Competition Brief The Architecture of Play 2026–27 is the seventh edition of a kindergarten design challenge organised by MindRain, an…
AI x Gaudi
AIxGaudi pairs an AI design course with an international ideas competition centred on Barcelona’s Sagrada Família plaza. Teams submit one…
Arch Design Award 2027
International design recognition program honouring innovative solutions in Architectural, Interior, Lighting, Furniture, Product, and Graphic Design. Five award levels across…
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The Century of Gehry 2026
Overview The Century of Gehry 2026 is an exhibition dedicated to the life, creative process, and architectural legacy of Frank...
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CyberSecAsia 2026
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DiWine Path Summer School 2026
Overview DiWine Path Summer School 2026 is an international educational program organized by Politecnico di Torino that explores the relationship...
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Helsinki Design Week 2026
Helsinki Design Week 2026 is one of Finland’s leading design festivals, taking place across Helsinki, Finland, from August 28 to...
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Busan Biennale 2026
The Busan Biennale 2026 takes place from August 29 to November 1, 2026, marking its 14th edition under the artistic...
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Frieze Seoul 2026
Frieze Seoul 2026 is a leading international contemporary art fair bringing together more than 125 renowned galleries from 30 countries...
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Kiaf SEOUL 2026
25th edition of Kiaf SEOUL**, one of South Korea’s leading international contemporary art fairs, will take place from **September 2...
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Habitare 2026
Habitare 2026 will take place from September 2 to 6, 2026, at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre (Messukeskus) in...
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Gwangju Biennale 2026
The 16th edition of the Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s oldest and one of the most prestigious contemporary art biennales, will take...
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FESQUA 2026 Overview FESQUA 2026 is one of Latin America's leading trade exhibitions dedicated to windows, doors, façades, glass systems,...
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KAYA: Volumetric Deconstruction and the Public Realm
Textile Deconstruction: Porous Architecture Listening to Context At the intersection of Third Avenue and Nutmeg Street in San Diego, KAYA…
Casa em São Paulo Balances Concrete Volumes and Open Spaces
Spatial Scenography and the Deconstruction of the Movement Path The project’s scenographic exploration begins from the very first moment of…
LTR1: Vertical Housing Connected to Nature and Ground-Level Life
Reframing the Vertical Block and Restoring the Neighborhood’s Horizontal Memory Many contemporary residential towers reduce the concept of housing to…
Erra Kota Residence: Space, Light, and Privacy
Dialogue with Space and Urban Density The “Erra Kota” residence responds to the dense urban context of Warangal, where built…
London After Twenty Years: The City That Grows While Standing Still
A twenty-year photographic comparison reveals how London evolved between 2006 and 2026. While iconic landmarks like Big Ben remained preserved,…
Campus Deleers: Education, Production and Topography
From Industrial Character to Interactive Space Along the Canal The project takes shape as a direct architectural response to its…
Luanda Library: Architecture, Trees, and Natural Light
Scenographic Interaction and Framing the Natural Landscape The architecture here is based on adapting to the site rather than displacing…
Tychowo Public Library: Timber Architecture & Community
From the Residential Fabric to the Cultural Extension The library offers an architectural solution aimed at providing a public space…
Ripples Become Everyday Ground: Reframing the Embankment
Turning the Protective Wall into Undulating Terrain The architectural concept of the project is based on reframing the rigid concrete…
Etchegoyen House: Privacy, Openness, and Climate
Mass Composition and Climatic Response The architectural composition begins with a reading of the natural conditions of the beaches of…
Etchegoyen House: Timber Framing and Dry Construction
Spatial Experience and the Formulation of the Circulation Path The process of entering and moving through the project is not…
When Neanderthals Lost the Battle of the Map
How the Spatial Organization of Ice Age Food Webs Shaped Human Destiny—and Why It Matters to Urban Planners Today Imagine…
When the State Builds for Itself: How Government Ownership Blinds the Architectural Market
When the owner, the designer, and the evaluator converge into a single entity, “quality informativeness” vanishes from public space, and…
When Therapy Is the Wound
What Makes Psychotherapy Fail, and Which Behaviors Must a Therapist Never Cross? There is a stark paradox at the center…
The Walls That Tell Horror Stories
How the Architect Borrows the Novelist’s Tools to Design Fear, Deliberately or Not We design hospitals to reassure patients, schools…
Scentra: Plant-Fiber Sensory Packaging
From Inert Filler to Sensory Discovery Packaging offers an experience that extends beyond its traditional function of protecting the product,…
Casa ADS Balances Openness and Privacy
Facade Transformation and Visual Connection with the Surroundings The renovation of the front facade of Casa ADS redefined the relationship…
Casa Loto Shapes Space Through Mass, Light, and Seascape
Longitudinal Axis: Directing Movement Toward the Horizon The spatial experience of this residence is organized around a clear longitudinal axis…
Responsive Industrial Envelope Design
Envelope Scenography and the Site’s Environmental Performance The architectural expression of this project begins with a precise reading of the…
Wege Prize 2027
Competition Brief Wege Prize 2027 is an annual international competition organised by the Wege Center for Sustainable Design at Ferris…
The Secret Mathematics Behind Architectural Form
Why Complex Numbers May Be a Hidden Obstacle to Tomorrow’s Parametric Architecture Before an architect places a finger on the…
When the Wall Does the Mind’s Work
How Built Space Functions as an Emotion Regulation Mechanism Before Its Occupant Feels a Thing There is a moment anyone…
The Performance Gap: The Lie Every Green Building Lives
The Building That Betrays Itself: How a Green Certificate Becomes an Unkept Promise Imagine a building that wins the highest…
Aspen Park Model: Vertical Expansion and Visual Openness
Scenography of Passage and Shadows The entry experience begins from the covered front porch, which forms a transitional zone between…
Residence Open: Spatial Flexibility and Hanok
Spatial Dialogue and Movement Flow Residence Open reinterprets the philosophy of the Korean “hanok” and translates it into a spatial…
Boladala House: Architecture, Terrain, and Views
Integration with the Terrain and Visual Orientation The project is shaped through a massing distribution that responds to the site’s…
Courtyard School: Spatial Flexibility and Learning
Spatial Realm as an Extended Learning Environment The project is based on the concept of a courtyard school, where architectural…
Cognitive Load and the Built Environment
The Building That Knew You Before You Knew Yourself What the ADHD Crisis Among Women Reveals About a Deeper Flaw…
Manhattan Detention Facility and Its Role in the Urban Fabric
Vertical Massing and the Spatial Threshold The facility’s test begins from the moment of urban confrontation at the street edge…
Cherokee House: Concrete, Glass, and Light in Spatial Design
Massing Composition and Arrival Sequence Cherokee House consists of two primary cast-in-place concrete volumes, separated by a vertical circulation core…
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