World-renowned Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78
Gravity-defying skyscrapers, ship-inspired glass halls, and lagoon circular bridges. Seven stunning and controversial projects by the late Rafael Viñoly.
SOM’s Kansas City International Airport new terminal opens
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has inaugurated the new terminal of Kansas City International Airport, reimagining inclusivity and accessibility for all air travelers.
ADAT Studio’s Opera169 residential building blends sustainability with integration
ADAT Studio is completing the Opera169 residential building in Manhattan, NYC. Geometrical lines and brick facades integrate with its surrounding green and inclusive neighbourhood.
How many Holocaust memorials and museums does the world need?
As much as possible! These Holocaust memorials and museums from Berlin to Jerusalem, from Milan to Dallas, are proof that architecture can play a fundamental role in helping us to remember what happened, learn from history, and build a better future.
Powerhouse Company adds a ‘friendly giant’ tower to an iconic Brutalist building
Rather than building around monuments, Powerhouse Company completed a ‘friendly giant’ skyscraper tuning with the Brutalist architecture of a 1970’s bunker building in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Indian architecture maestro Balkrishna Doshi dies aged 95
Balkrishna Doshi, the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Prize, is known for pioneering work in low-cost housing. During his 70-year-long career, he contributed to bringing modernism to his country.
ZIKZAK designs the REVIVAL modular system to rebuild schools and homes in Ukraine
REVIVAL can be swiftly mounted and scaled up. “The war is causing irreparable destruction very quickly. Our task is to rebuild Ukraine faster; because people want to return home now!” The Ukrainian studio told Archipanic.
Best of 2022: six mesmerising pavilions and installations
From Milan Design Week to Burning Man and the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. We rounded up this year’s best pavilions and installations.
Best of 2022: discover the ten most popular architecture stories
2022 most popular architecture stories: a 175 km long metropolis in Saudi Arabia, the demolition of Tokyo’s iconic capsule tower, a kinetic glass house in the English countryside, and more.
10 museums and cultural architecture projects to look forward to in 2023
A cavernous museum in New York City, a terraced campus in the heart of Jerusalem, and a culture park with giant pebble-shaped buildings in Shenzen are among the best museums and cultural venues opening in 2023.
Best of 2022: six architecture and design stories for a better future
We selected six popular architecture and design stories published earlier this year with a powerful message on human rights and sustainability for a better future.
Pritzker Prize winning architect Arata Isozaki dies aged 91
Arata Isozaki, one of the most influential post-war architects, is renowned for connecting East and West, global and local, raising questions that transcend eras and borders.
The Pingtan Book House is a new village library paradigm in rural China
At the Pingtan Book House by Condition_Lab, kids can read and play at the same time. The project draws on a typology of traditional Dong Houses and is primarily composed of two interwoven spiral staircases.
3XN stacks shifted volumes to compose the Quay Quarter Tower in Sidney
Conceived as a vertical village, the Quay Quarter Tower won the World Building of the Year Award 2022 at the 15th World Architecture Festival.
Marcus Byrne creates graffiti architectures with Artificial Intelligence
Marcus Byrne’s graffiti architectures capture the beauty in the decay with the art project When life imitates art. Through AI, the Australia-based Irish graphic designer, digital artist, and visual storyteller celebrates the spray can as a democratic tool for freedom of expression.
Welcome to Doha: 8 contemporary architectures in Qatar’s capital city
From futuristic skyscrapers to stunning libraries and magnificent museums. Architecturally speaking, Doha is future-driven. Discover the Gulf metropolis’ best contemporary buildings by Jean Nouvel, OMA, I.M. Pei, and more.
The Qatar World Cup Memorial tower reflects the migrants workers’ humanitarian disaster
Over 6,700 migrant workers died in the construction sites of the stadiums and infrastructures built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Such a gigantic figure inspired 1week1project to propose the conceptual evolving “Qatar World Cup Memorial” tower.
Sportwashing? The architectural dark side of 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar
Sportwashing describes the practice of individuals, groups, corporations, or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing.
2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar: 8 archi-stadiums hosting the matches
Nomadic tents, desert dunes, shipping containers, and traditional Arab caps inspired the architecture of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar stadiums.
Jean Verville’s MEV cabin borrows geometries and colours from the Memphis Group
Curving geometries and kaleidoscopic interiors define MEV Cabine, the eclectic refuge in the woods that Studio Jean Verville has created for ‘two admirable eccentrics’.
A lattice facade wraps Peris+Toral Arquitectes’ residential building
Behind the lattice facade, the five-storey building located in the Bon Pastor neighbourhood in Barcelona houses 54 social light-filled and naturally ventilated apartments.
The Victorian haunted house from Psycho to Stranger Things
Archipanic explores the history of the Victorian haunted house, an iconic architecture celebrated in comics, movies, and tv series.
The Solar Pavilion features a curved roof cladded with solar panels
380 colourful tiles compose the canopy of The Solar Pavilion, a gathering space harvesting the sun’s power to offer a new perspective on solar energy.
Ten new Italian wineries with a striking architectural imprint
Wine-making culture, landscape, and contemporary architecture are the inebriating ingredients of ten new Italian wineries on show in Merano.
The Chamber Church is made up of sixty spaced-out white aluminium fins
Büro Ziyu Zhuang’s Chamber Church in China blends archetypical church architecture with contemporary design, divinity, and ritual.
Murrillo 1665: residential architecture embraces nature in Uruguay
Pitched roofs, wood, and corrugated steel facades, and great views of the surrounding vegetation. Life is sweet at the Murrillo 1665 housing project in Montevideo.
MAD Architects nests Quzhou Stadium under a gentle green slope
Architecture should merge with the natural landscape instead of standing out against it, believe at MAD Architects. Their Quzhou Stadium submerges itself into nature to welcome everyone to gather and share the sports spirit.
Architecture meets electronic music: architectural soundscapes for electronic volumes
Kraftwerk meet Frank Gehry, Daft Punk perform in space age interiors while Le Corbusier and Xenakis composed a pavilion inspired by the very first electronic music track. We selected 10 projects merging sound and space.
SEE MONSTER: from former North Sea gas platform to major public art installation
SEE MONSTER by NEWSUBSTANCE studio in Weston-super-Mare, UK, opens to the public, triggering conversations about reuse, renewables, and the great British weather.
HENGE: a contemporary urban circle made of Jurassic stone brings people together in London
Inspired by Neolithic stone circles, the HENGE installation and gathering space “creates a space separate from the outside world.”