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  • Restored Arsenale Warehouses House New Biennale Historical Archive

    La Biennale di Venezia recently unveiled the new headquarters for its Historical Archive – International Center for Research on Contemporary…

  • Nest Chapel Reorganizes Private Landscape Through Sinuous Concrete Forms

    Felipe Caboclo Arquitectura completed a 10-square-metre religious space on a residential property in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2024. The project,…

  • LANZA Atelier Completes Undulating Brick Pavilion for Serpentine

    Mexico City-based studio LANZA atelier completed the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens ahead of its scheduled opening on…

  • Nine Architects Reveals Open Book Design for New Taipei City Library

    Nine Architects recently revealed the design for the New Taipei City Library Second Main Branch, an eight-story cultural facility planned…

  • Delcy Morelos installs monumental soil structure at the Barbican

    The Barbican Centre recently unveiled Origo, a 24-meter-wide installation by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos at the Sculpture Court in London….

  • K-Studio and Arup Unveil Expansion Plans for Grigoris Lamprakis Stadium

    Architectural practice K-Studio and engineering firm Arup revealed plans to renovate and expand the Grigoris Lamprakis Stadium in Athens. The…

  • Crystal Bridges Museum Completes Major Campus Expansion

    Safdie Architects has completed a 114,000-square-foot expansion of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, increasing the campus footprint by fifty percent. The project adds two galleries, a bridge café, and a learning hub, completing a figure-eight circulation loop through a forested site while maintaining material continuity with the original 2011 pavilions through steel roofing and regional glulam timber.

  • The Wattle Building expands paediatric healthcare capacity in Westmead

    Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) recently completed the Wattle Building at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, marking a major expansion of…

  • ZHA Venice Studio Proposes New Civic Gateway at Piazzale Roma

    Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) directors Michele Pasca di Magliano and Clemens Lindner will lead the upcoming ZHA Studio at Venice…

  • Falun Red Envelopes Prostir Business Hub in Western Ukraine

    Aranchii Architects recently completed the Prostir Business Hub in the village of Zymna Voda near Lviv. This 12,000-square-meter logistics hub…

  • Inflatable Cave Architecture Transforms Paris Pont Neuf Bridge

    The Pont Neuf inflatable cave transforms a historic Paris bridge into an artificial limestone landscape. The temporary installation stretches across…

  • Shanghai Tubular Glass Art Gallery Redefines Cultural Urban Planning

    Designers completed the Jia Art gallery in Shanghai recently. This cultural hub anchors the massive Changfeng development zone. The structure…

  • Weathering Steel and Pigmented Concrete Shape a New Wing for Arizona’s Cocopah Museum

    A new 1,200-square-foot gallery extension to the Cocopah Museum near Yuma, Arizona, designed pro bono by EYRC Architects, uses weathering steel, pigmented cast concrete, and woven willow ceilings to honor Indigenous Cocopah traditions. Shaped through community consultation at every stage, the project demonstrates how culturally grounded architecture can serve heritage preservation within tight budget and climate constraints.

  • Dubai MODA: Digital Art Museum Redefines DIFC Cultural Landscape

    Dubai unveiled the region’s first Museum of Digital Art (MODA) within the DIFC Zabeel District. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed announced…