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IE Immersive Design Competition: Rethinking the Elevator Experience
Dezeen Competitions: The IE Immersive Design Competition tasks designers with redesigning elevators into immersive spaces. The competition aims to reflect the values of the Master in Design for Immersive Experiences and XR – a course that explores the relationship between spatial design, immersive interaction, storytel…
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Buildner Announces Museum of Emotions Edition 7 Winners as Edition 8 Registration Deadline Approaches
Buildner has announced the results of its Museum of Emotions Competition Edition 7 . The Museum of Emotions is an annual international design competition that tasks participants to explore the extent to which architecture can be used as a tool to evoke emotion.…
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Icelandic Pavilion Explores Bathing Culture as Civic Infrastructure at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale
The Icelandic Pavilion at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will present SOAK: Rituals of Collective Belonging, an exhibition examining Iceland 's bathing culture through the lens of architecture, public space, and social interaction. Commissioned by Halla Helgadóttir, Iceland Desi…
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Chicago Architectural Club 2026 Burnham Prize: The Future of State
Dezeen Competitions: The Chicago Architectural Club's Future of State competition tasks architects, designers, planners, artists, and students to envision the future of Chicago's State Street as a vibrant mixed-use civic corridor. Participants are asked to develop bold proposals that address various challenges, such as…
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Coffee or Tea: Third Places, Kiosks, and the Retail Architecture of Duration
"Coffee or tea?" is one of those phrases that follows you across contexts: asked on airplanes, after a meal, in hotel lounges , and in meeting rooms . It sounds like a small question—mere preference, a quick fork in the service script. Yet it also carries a quiet cultural inheritance. Tea arrives with the long history…
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Jia Art Gallery / Foster + Partners
Jia Art, a new gallery designed by Foster + Partners, has opened its doors. The building is an integral part of the practice's concept masterplan for the Changfeng mixed-use development in Shanghai's Putuo District. Located on the recently completed southern plot of the development, the gallery sits at the intersection…
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Making a Characterful Entrance: The Architectural Impact of Wooden Bi-Folding Doors
Bi-folding doors flood a room with light, offering the spatial flexibility to establish a dialogue with the surroundings. The Woodline series by Solarlux integrates manufacturing quality and technical expertise with architectural freedom, providing transparent facade solutions for versatile, sustainable architecture. T…
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KAAP - Residential District and Circular Pavilion / Powerhouse Company + Orange Architects + NEXT architects
Where Grasweg meets the Amsterdam-Noord waterfront, KAAP occupies a prominent position on the IJ. Once an industrial harbor area, this part of the city is being reworked into a new district as part of Cityplot Buiksloterham, the urban plan by Studioninedots and DELVA Landscape Architects & Urbanism. Commissioned by AMV…
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Casa Chamego / Pablo Patriota Arquitetos Associados
First and foremost, this project embodies Contemporary Brazilian and Northeastern Architecture. Armando de Holanda’s Guide to Building in the Northeast serves as a living manual to guide our practice—an invitation to “build doors that open” and to make architecture a pleasant place in the sunny…
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SCV Complex Cabins / ONA - Oficina Nómada de Arquitectura
SCV Complex is set on a highly distinctive site measuring 16 meters in width by 260 meters in depth Las Compuertas , Luján de Cuyo. The area marks a transition between the urban edge of Greater Mendoza and the tourist corridor leading toward Potrerillos Dam. Its immediate surroundings are defined by native vegetation,…
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Vila do Bispo Museum / spaceworkers
Preserving the identity of the place and the characteristics of the building in question gave us the motto for the intervention. Therefore, we proposed the addition of a new volume to the existing construction, as if replicating the shape of the contiguous ships, appealing to an idea of urban and formal continuity, but…
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Kailua House / Mork-Ulnes Architects
Located down a short path from the Kailua beach on the Windward shore of Oahu, this house has peekaboo views of the Pacific Ocean and the Mokulua Islands off Lanikai. Despite its proximity to the beach, the surrounding neighborhood is fairly dense, which created a desire to focus the house inward to the lush jungle lan…
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The Technical Reality of Mass Timber Housing: Five European Case Studies
Recent years have seen a shifting paradigm in multi-family residential architecture, as more and more new projects are being built with engineered wood , specifically Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and glued-laminated timber (glulam). Because timber is lightweight, these systems can reduce dead load and ease foundation d…
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Carpenter's Home / Primary Architects
Origins - Hao Tang Village revives traditional craftsmanship through the "Eight Artisans" initiative. By renovating old residences and creating new spaces, it incubates a series of distinctive workshops, bringing rural handicrafts back into daily life. As the core project, the Carpenter's House serves not only as a ven…
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Temporary Theater Drama and L56 Multipurpose Hall / Vidic Grohar
Text description provided by Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The 2026 Emerging Architecture Winner is the Temporary Spaces for Slovenian National Theatre Drama by architects Vidic Grohar Arhitekti (Ljubljana). The client is L56 d.o.o.…
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Atelier Bow-Wow and Climate Scientists Honored with 2026 Daylight Award on UNESCO International Day of Light
On UNESCO's International Day of Light , celebrated annually on May 16, the Daylight Award announced its 2026 laureates. Established to support research into the scientific understanding of daylight and its significance for health, well-being, ecosystems, and architectural design, the award recognizes achievements in t…
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Reconsidering the Shotgun House: Between Preservation, Experimentation, and Displacement
Emerging in port cities and working-class neighborhoods throughout the nineteenth century, the shotgun house became a durable response to density, climate, and constrained urban parcels, becoming one of the defining domestic forms of the Southern United States . Its narrow footprint, sequential plan, and deeply shaded…
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Alain Bertrand School Complex / GGR architectes
The project initiates the neighborhood's renewal by establishing a common good. As a public institution, the school fundamentally assumes this role, along with the public space and landscape it generates. The school is set back as far as possible from Rue du Midi. With no perimeter fence, it opens onto the neighborhood…
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unravel Hair Salon / Atelier Write
Renovation of a timber warehouse in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo , into a hair salon. The client, Hiroyuki Nagae, approached us with the idea of creating a place that could offer a unique experience beyond the conventional format of a hair salon. In addition to everyday salon work, the space was intended to accommodate se…
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