The 19-acre museum campus, conceptualised by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien for Barack and Michelle Obama, provides a series of inspiring spaces that foster enlightenment, engagement and play on Chicago’s South Side
The Austrian architect’s work in the regions melds local traditions with a modern approach. Architect and photojournalist Nipun Prabhakar pays homage with a tour
A small condominium project in Denver’s West Colfax neighborhood may be the best evidence yet that Colorado’s housing reforms are producing real results. The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority this month closed a $5.7 million low-interest construction loan for Wolff Street Flats, a 23-unit affordable for-sale development by Osina Development and Modus Real Estate. It […]
Some houses announce themselves. Villa VICUS does the opposite—and that’s precisely what makes it worth talking about. Completed in 2024 by Bratislava-based practice sebastian nagy | architects, this single-storey family residence in Nitra, Slovakia sits quietly on a sloping site below Zobor Hill, opens generously toward the south, and simply refuses to compete with its […]
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An existing agricultural structure has been given new life as a seasonal retreat within a family homestead. Dubbed The Box in the Barn by Facha architekti, the project introduces a clearly legible timber volume that remains structurally independent from the historic barn, creating a tension between old and new. Slightly elevated above the original barn…
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A former 1960s family house in upscale Ikoyi, Lagos, becomes Mbari Kola, a cultural club inviting Pan-African creatives to gather around art, partake in talks and workshops, and celebrate community
Concéntrico, the annual, city-wide architecture festival in Logroño, Spain, transforms the urban experience through immersive temporary interventions; here is our guide to this year’s event
The winners of this year’s Brick Awards – from a cliffside home in Mallorca to a community temple in Vietnam – prove that one of humanity’s oldest building materials still has plenty to say
Explore these exquisite homes in the pink city that have captured our hearts.
… und in welcher die Neuzeit? Ist es also eine Drehtür, in der ich mitgedreht werde, also nicht selbstbestimmt, in einer Wolke von Überzeugungen, deren Drehpunkt mir gar nicht bewusst ist? Helmut Müller lädt ein, darüber nachzudenken, was es heißt, sich in der Türangel des Denkens der Neuzeit zu drehen und nennt einen Ausweg.
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Également désigné comme arabo-andaloux, ce style éloquent, né au VIIIe siècle entre l'Espagne et le Maghreb, a donné naissance à d'extraordinaires monuments.
‘Wood for the Trees’ by AHEC, design studio Mitre & Mondays, and furniture maker Benchmark celebrates timber and the ecosystems that provide it – step inside at 3 Days of Design
“This green plot shall be our stage,” the mechanical Peter Quince declares at the very top of Act 3 in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In Garrison, New York, architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang take that idea almost literally, designing a new permanent home for Hudson Valley Shakespeare that keeps the company’s long-standing…
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SCALE 50‘s 11M2 House does not attempt to solve the problem of its context — it records it.…
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As operators scale into a 5G-first world, the complexity of interoperability grows just as quickly. New network architectures, sunsetting of legacy technologies and the rapid rise in standalone (SA) deployments mean operators need reliable, standardised ways to ensure their services…
As operators scale into a 5G-first world, the complexity of interoperability grows just as quickly. New network architectures, sunsetting of legacy technologies and the rapid rise in standalone (SA) deployments mean operators need reliable, standardised ways to ensure their services…
The world's largest earthworks, millions of work hours, and huge sums of money have all gone into pursuing the dream of a supertall mirrored desert city in Saudi Arabia. However, a recent report suggests it might all turn out to be a mirage.
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Ask around for what everyone knows about Istanbul (other than that it used to be called Constantinople), and you’ll find that the presence of Hagia Sophia there comes right to many a mind. Less likely to be mentioned is its proneness to earthquakes, though it tends to rank just below Tokyo on lists of cities […]
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In QYO Design Studio‘s Prism 0000, the apartment’s rooms are not divided by walls — they are divided…
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From a carbon-neutral factory in Norway to a performing arts centre in a refugee settlement, RIBA's 34 International Award winners for 2026 show architecture at its most ambitious – and humane
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The Box in the Barn by Facha architekti does not disguise itself inside the old agricultural structure —…
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The Cotswolds are being ruined, house building targets are only helping the 'middling rich', and why NIMBYs should be celebrated, not vilified: Simon Jenkins lit up the Future Countryside conference with a scathing speech about house building and planning policy. Julie Harding was there to witness the fireworks.
Just north of Montreal sits the stately Aubé House, a Maison des Patriotes dating back to 1811. It exists within a vast garden along the banks of the Rivière des Mille Îles, once part of extensive agricultural lands. This heritage home has been inhabited by the same family for decades, and as the family grew…
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YSG Studio‘s Plantasia holiday home on the New South Wales Coast treats wallpaper as the most load-bearing material…
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Masquespacio has designed the Maora ceramic showroom in Valencia around a single premise: that handmade tiles deserve to…
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Posée sur une falaise face à la mer et accessible uniquement à pied, cette icône de l’architecture fascine depuis des décennies l’art, la mode et le cinéma.
Dramatically cantilevered on a hilltop in Minas Gerais, Tetro Arquitetura's Xingu House elevates Brazilian modernism with sensuous and sculptural statements
Concrete doesn’t apologize. Neither does this book. The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors arrived in 2020 as a 568-page, 5.6-pound argument that Brutalism was never a mistake—it was a mission. Pick it up and you feel the weight immediately, both physically and intellectually. This isn’t a coffee table decoration. It’s a reckoning with […]
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The Prefab Pavilion Facing a Centuries-Old Cedar by Jordi Hidalgo Tané in Olot, Girona, was not designed from…
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For this year's 3 Days Of Design, Fritz Hansen is turning its attention from objects to the atmosphere, asking what a design exhibition could sound like. Created with Japanese audio brand Technics, Sound Club examines how music, light and furniture combine to shape the character of a space, inviting …
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