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How Circulation Becomes Architecture in Heatherwick's West Bund Orbit

How Circulation Becomes Architecture in Heatherwick's West Bund Orbit

Paul Clemence's photographs reveal a Shanghai exhibition hall where staircases, bridges, and terraces dissolve the boundary between building and public realm.

10 Jul · 7 min read

When Regional Identity Becomes Architecture

When Regional Identity Becomes Architecture

A new university art museum in Hefei translates Huizhou spatial traditions into a contemporary gallery beside a campus lake.

10 Jul · 7 min read

When Housing Meets Community: Designing Infrastructure for Displacement in Barranquilla

When Housing Meets Community: Designing Infrastructure for Displacement in Barranquilla

A new cultural center in Colombia's social housing landscape explores how civic architecture can stitch together the fragmented threads of migration and belonging.

9 Jul · 8 min read

Creating Luxury At Sea: Interior Design For Vietnam's Modern Cruise Industry

Creating Luxury At Sea: Interior Design For Vietnam's Modern Cruise Industry

Landco Corporation

9 Jul · 3 min read

The Visible and Invisible: A New Performance Building for Yale

The Visible and Invisible: A New Performance Building for Yale

KPMB's design for the David Geffen School of Drama uses transparency and opacity to articulate the creative process itself

9 Jul · 7 min read

When Precision Meets Restraint: A Science Center Reimagines Technology as Architecture

When Precision Meets Restraint: A Science Center Reimagines Technology as Architecture

Atelier Ma's Midea Science Exhibition Center in Foshan transforms the language of innovation into a dialogue between minimalism and Chinese spatial tradition

9 Jul · 8 min read

When Architecture Wears the Dress: Inside Alaïa's Sculptural Miami Boutique

When Architecture Wears the Dress: Inside Alaïa's Sculptural Miami Boutique

Swedish studio Halleroed translates couture sensibility into built form, where mosaic facades and botanical walls blur the line between structure and ornament

9 Jul · 8 min read

Industrial Materials Meet Unstructured Play in Washington's Great Hall

Industrial Materials Meet Unstructured Play in Washington's Great Hall

Snarkitecture transforms the National Building Museum's monumental Renaissance Revival interior into a landscape of birch, cork, and steel that rethinks how children engage with construction materials.

9 Jul · 5 min read

Designing the Judd Legacy: Why the Foundation Finally Appointed a Design Director

Designing the Judd Legacy: Why the Foundation Finally Appointed a Design Director

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron steps into a newly created role as Judd Foundation expands its focus on furniture, architecture, and environmental design ahead of the artist's 2028 centennial.

9 Jul · 8 min read

When Tech Meets Craft: A Timber Workplace in the Heart of Shibuya

When Tech Meets Craft: A Timber Workplace in the Heart of Shibuya

Koichi Takada Architects reimagines the creative studio as a five-storey wooden retreat, less than a kilometre from Tokyo's most frenetic intersection.

9 Jul · 7 min read

RCR Arquitectes Brings Stratified Massing to Paris's Île Seguin Redevelopment

RCR Arquitectes Brings Stratified Massing to Paris's Île Seguin Redevelopment

The Pritzker laureates' first Parisian project anchors a cultural quarter rising from Renault's former industrial riverbank

9 Jul · 6 min read

Why One Designer is Betting on High-Street Retail to Democratize Design

Why One Designer is Betting on High-Street Retail to Democratize Design

Yinka Ilori's 40-piece homeware debut reframes the conversation around accessibility, price, and the communal memory embedded in domestic objects.

9 Jul · 6 min read

A Bank Becomes a Museum: Rethinking Institutional Architecture in Santander

A Bank Becomes a Museum: Rethinking Institutional Architecture in Santander

David Chipperfield's adaptive reuse of the Pereda Building demonstrates how financial institutions can reshape their civic legacy through cultural infrastructure.

9 Jul · 6 min read

When a River Town in Japan Looks to Bali for Its Sports Architecture

When a River Town in Japan Looks to Bali for Its Sports Architecture

STUDIO YY merges Indonesian vernacular with Japanese riverside infrastructure for a canoe facility that rewrites the regional playbook

9 Jul · 6 min read

How a Corsican School Playground Reimagines the Island's Rampart Legacy

How a Corsican School Playground Reimagines the Island's Rampart Legacy

CGZ Architecture turns a functional covered play space into a dialogue between fortification and topography in Porto-Vecchio.

8 Jul · 6 min read

BIG Completes Circular Mass-Timber Office Around a Danish Courtyard

BIG Completes Circular Mass-Timber Office Around a Danish Courtyard

The Dymak headquarters in Odense pairs structural timber with a continuous loop plan inspired by topological forms

8 Jul · 7 min read

Ten Architectural Moments Shaping Public Life This Summer

Ten Architectural Moments Shaping Public Life This Summer

From Turrell's largest Skyspace to climate-conscious landscapes and queer heritage tours, July's calendar reveals architecture as a living medium for cultural transformation.

8 Jul · 10 min read

Material Restraint and Campus Continuity in Belgium

Material Restraint and Campus Continuity in Belgium

How a new pavilion at Collège Cardinal Mercier extends site identity without resorting to imitation

8 Jul · 5 min read