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Architectural Projects
Project documentation and analysis across building types, scales and locations. Coverage examines the brief, spatial organisation, material choices and relationship to place, distinguishing design proposals from work under construction and completed buildings.
Compare projects through building typologies, examine their materials and construction methods, and place individual works within the wider discussion of architecture.
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…
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 public movement.
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.
Pilen: A Zigzag Walk Between Landscape and Construction
Pilen turns a Danish construction viewpoint into a planted ascent. Timber crossings, exposed supports and a narrowing tip shape how visitors read the landscape.
Rusakov Club: When the Auditorium Becomes the Facade
Rusakov Club in Moscow turns a fan-shaped auditorium into three projecting volumes. A reading of audience movement, daylight and the limits of flexibility.
Eco-Oasis Pavilion: Bringing the Greenhouse to the Garden Table
Eco-Oasis Pavilion is an unbuilt concept joining a movable greenhouse enclosure and shaded deck, with proposals for solar use and rainwater collection.
Corner Villa: A Red Route Through a Pitched White Volume
Corner Villa in northern Iran uses red recesses, a visible stair and roof terraces to connect arrival, living spaces and landscape within a pitched white form.
Roig Arena Park: Everyday Routes Around a Major Venue
Roig Arena Park connects arena arrivals with everyday paths, planting, play and rest across a 47,000-square-metre landscape in Valencia.
Kinglet Perch: Keeping the Pines, Carrying the Living Room Across the Slope
Kinglet Perch in Naramata keeps its upper approach and pine grove, using a supported living wing and a grounded courtyard to offer two ways of inhabiting the hillside.
Ellen Browning Building: Shared Living With Room for Independence
Ellen Browning Building in Portland connects private homes, shared amenities and planted terraces in a small co-housing development.
Pacific Library: Restoring Daylight and Reworking Public Access
Pacific Library’s proposed renovation connects historic restoration with accessible circulation, a sunken garden and new community spaces.
Mirador House: A Sheltered Approach and an Open Pacific Horizon
Mirador House in Papudo uses a sheltered approach, angled rooms and terraces to negotiate a steep site and the Pacific outlook.
Spreebogen: A Temporary Presidential Seat Designed for a Second Life
In Berlin, a timber-hybrid federal complex combines office modules, reception halls and a layered ceramic façade with a future change of occupant in mind.
Bellevue Hill House: Updating a 1963 Modernist Plan Through the Garden
In Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Luigi Rosselli Architects has renewed a house designed by George Reeves in 1963. The intervention begins…
The Intersecting House: Two Pitched Volumes That Make Shade and Space
The Intersecting House stands in a pine-filled residential area outside Warsaw, near Kampinos National Park. Exterio Architektura organized it as…
Chalet Moraine: A Familiar Gable Reworked Through Deep Dormers
Chalet Moraine, designed by Appareil Architecture on a lake in Quebec’s Laurentians, replaces an aging chalet that began life as…
Villa HDV: A Protective Concrete Shell Around a Garden Core
Villa HDV in Höllviken, at Sweden’s southern tip, treats privacy and openness as two parts of the same domestic problem….
Cerritos Circle: How a 1963 Duplex Still Reads as Two Homes
Clifton Jones Jr.’s 1963 Long Beach duplex uses mirrored plans, separate courtyards and timed daylight to give two households distinct homes.
Casa M38: What 38 Square Metres Can Learn from Prefabrication
Casa M38 turns transport constraints into a clear 38-square-metre home with a linear plan, integrated furniture and circular windows.
