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Construction Begins on Thirty-Six Million Dollar Expansion of Historic Brooklyn Library
Crews have broken ground on a thirty-six million dollar expansion of a historic public library in Brooklyn. The project adds a three-story wing that increases the building’s floor area by…
New Hilltop Residential Studio in Yugawara Frames Pacific Views
A new residential studio in Yugawara, Japan, known as the lookout house, provides a quiet retreat and workspace for a local sculptor. The hilltop building frames panoramic views of the…
New Narrative Art Museum Previews Curved Aerodynamic Structure Ahead of Los Angeles Opening
A new 300,000-square-foot cultural institution in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park reveals its completed aerodynamic form ahead of an official public opening on September 22, 2026. The structure elevates its main…
New Waterfront Museum Scheme Updates Plans for Downtown Jacksonville
A five-story science and history museum in downtown Jacksonville has reached sixty percent completion in its schematic design phase. The 125,000-square-foot project shifts the cultural institution from the river’s south…
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…
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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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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, new developments like the Shard…
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Recycled Materials Pavilion
Competition Brief The Recycled Materials Pavilion Competition is an international open-call organised by Archiol Competitions, inviting architects, students, and independent…
Living Markets
Competition Brief Living Markets is the sixth edition of the NowNow Design Competition, organised in partnership with ICLEI Africa and…
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,…
Wege Prize 2027
Competition Brief Wege Prize 2027 is an annual international competition organised by the Wege Center for Sustainable Design at Ferris…
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…
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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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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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Sydney Contemporary 2026
Sydney Contemporary 2026 is Australasia’s premier international art fair, bringing together leading galleries, emerging artists, and contemporary art enthusiasts from...
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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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Brda House: A Modern A-Frame Defined by Light and Material
Visual Extension and Volumetric Effect The contemporary version of the Brda house treats the natural landscape as an extension of…
Crescendo: Multigenerational Housing and Resident Independence
Spatial Dynamics and Redefining Multigenerational Living The Crescendo project approaches multigenerational living as a challenge that extends beyond simply adding…
Grandvillard Farmhouse: Restoring a Lost Composition
Dialogue Between Mass and Memory: Spatial Composition and Revitalization The project involves the rehabilitation of an eighteenth-century rural farmhouse in…
Otway Beach House: Bushfire Protection and Coastal Views
Topographic Integration and Scenographic Framing Otway Beach House takes shape as a monolithic concrete volume that uses the regulatory requirements…
When the Building Becomes a Forced Stage
How Modern Architecture Reproduced Humanity’s Oldest Fears in Every Glass Wall and Open-Plan Office Imagine standing before a thousand people…
Architectural Imagination: When the Sketch Becomes Spatial Knowledge and the Render Passes Judgment on Reality
How the philosopher Kant overturns the concept of design, and why architecture schools need to rethink their relationship with imagination…
The Infected City: When a Landmark Building Hijacks the Identity of Its Urban Host
When the “Bilbao Effect” becomes a structural infection that reorganizes the city’s urban DNA In entomology laboratories, researchers observe a…
Façades Electrically Dead… Alive at the Nanoscale
What the physics of confined water reveals about the water-repellent layers we wrap our towers in and assume to be…
Skovsporet: 3D Printing in Student Housing
Spatial Scenography and Everyday Passage Technology in this project transcends the boundaries of demonstrating construction capabilities to become an integral…
Coral Installation: Repetition and Human Interaction on the Coast
Spatial Scenography and the Deconstruction of Mass The art installation takes shape through the repetition of twelve white-painted stainless-steel cylinders,…
Pracownia Integrates Mass, Space, Light, and Nature
Spatial Dynamics and the Redefinition of Circulation The spatial experience of Pracownia for OMNI KAISER Patisserie is founded on reorganizing…
210 South 12th: Volumetric Transformation and Residential Design
Spatial Dynamics and Volumetric Transformation The reading of the building begins from the moment of approaching it, as its peripheral…
Veil House and Its Transformable Architectural Envelope
Spatial Gradation and the Transition from Forest to Coast The single-level architectural volume maintains a modest presence within the surrounding…
Casa em São Paulo: Interior Openness and Existing Structure
Reframing Spatial Organization and the Sensory Progression of the Entrance The organization of the interior space relies on redirecting movement…
Los Navegantes House: Renovation and Timber Addition
Environmental Context and Spatial Dialogue with the Terrain The project begins with the renovation of a house dating back to…
The Pattern That Nature Also Solved
Islamic geometric patterns share deep structural and generative mathematical logic with natural systems like quasicrystals, plant growth, and cellular structures….
Beacon School Blends Industrial Structures with New Architecture
Architectural Dialogue and Experimental Adaptive Reuse The Beacon School campus in the Vila Leopoldina neighborhood of São Paulo is based…
Sony Sonic Max 10: Balancing Movement and Precision
Movement Dynamics and Spatial Transformation The tool’s user experience is grounded in freedom of movement and ease of control during…
Muskoka Island Spa: Thermal Transformation
Scenography of Transformation: From Material Memory to Spatial Experience The critical reading of the project emerges from the contrast between…
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…
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…
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