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Century Square Brings Ecology to the Heart of Shanghai's Neon Corridor
EMBT and TJAD transform one of East Nanjing Road's most commercial intersections into an interactive public realm that balances spectacle with environmental performance.
14 Jul · 7 min read
When a 1950s Building Becomes a Social Hub Without Losing Its Memory
LAOS transforms a seven-decade-old Barcelona structure into a flexible, contemporary community center that respects its past while embracing the future
14 Jul · 5 min read
How a Fragrance Flagship Became a Gallery for Amazonian Craft
Costa Brazil's Hudson Yards store layers retail with ritual, blending personal collection objects and Indigenous design into an intimate spatial experience.
14 Jul · 6 min read
When Buildings Have No Site: Architecture Freed From Gravity
Real-time rendering dissolves the boundary between representation and experience, letting a Swiss window maker and a studio ask what a house becomes when unmoored from place.
14 Jul · 9 min read
How a Fire-Ravaged Chilean Cinema Found New Life as a Flexible Concert Hall
The Teatro Mauri's seven-year restoration bridges Alfredo Vargas Stoller's 1951 modernist vision with contemporary acoustics and a mission to amplify Chilean music.
14 Jul · 8 min read
Landco Corporation's Furniture Manufacturing Facility Named At 2026 Asia Architecture Design Awards
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13 Jul · 5 min read
Light as Structure: Alberto Campo Baeza's Altarpiece for La Milagrosa
In a historic Madrid basilica, the Spanish architect transforms sacred space through an intervention that treats illumination not as ornament but as tectonic material.
13 Jul · 7 min read
Inside Saint: A Bento-Box Approach to Urban Wellness Architecture
BoND's windowless Chelsea retreat redefines compact spatial planning with material shifts and controlled darkness
13 Jul · 7 min read
When Craft Becomes Code: The Making of a Seven-Hour Pendant
Inside Carl Hansen & Søn's latest lighting project, the tension between artisanship and industrial logic finds resolution in aluminium, synthetic fiber, and the deliberate misspelling of a flower.
13 Jul · 8 min read
A Maze for a Blind Writer: Venice's Borges Labyrinth Returns After Four Decades
The restored garden on San Giorgio Maggiore weaves together literary memory, living architecture, and the paradox of designing vision for the sightless.
13 Jul · 7 min read
When Precision Meets Tradition: A Science Center That Speaks in Geometry
Atelier Ma_BIAD's Midea Science Exhibition Center in Foshan negotiates minimalist restraint with contextual dialogue, answering Ando's circle with a square.
10 Jul · 8 min read
When Public Space Learns to Care
A compact urban intervention in Latin America reframes design around the needs of aging bodies, asking whether our cities can become places of gentleness.
10 Jul · 7 min read
When a Market Becomes a Park: Rethinking Civic Infrastructure in Hangzhou
Office Canopy of Architecture dissolves the boundary between commerce and landscape, turning a utilitarian food hall into shared civic ground.
10 Jul · 6 min read
Earthen Blocks and Woven Canopies Offer a Different Path to Comfort
Liz Gálvez's Los Angeles pavilion questions the reflex toward mechanical systems, centering shade and mass as civic infrastructure for a warming world.
10 Jul · 7 min read
The Ribbon, the Pavilion, and the River: What Recent Cultural Projects Reveal About Urbanism Today
From Shanghai's spiralling opera house to a pedestrian bridge curving over Cardiff's waterfront, new cultural infrastructure is redefining how cities connect art, landscape, and civic life.
10 Jul · 7 min read
When Architecture Cycles Back: Building with Elephant Waste in Thailand
Boonserm Premthada's Goya tower transforms dung into a statement on material innovation and interspecies coexistence.
10 Jul · 6 min read
Reading Budapest Through Its Layers
How the Hungarian capital's architecture reflects a continuous negotiation between inherited structures and contemporary ambition.
10 Jul · 7 min read
Building Community in the Wake of Displacement: Barranquilla's New Cultural Infrastructure
A cultural center in Villas de San Pablo reimagines what civic architecture can do when social housing meets the realities of migration and fractured urban fabric.
10 Jul · 6 min read