Inspiring architecture from around the globe.
ATELIER BRÜCKNER creates a sustainable ‘Garden of Knowledge’ to narrate Uzbekistan’s transition to a Green Economy through a wooden forest and mesmerising projections.
Salone del Mobile presents Mother, a poetic installation by acclaimed light artist Robert Wilson in dialogue with Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini at Castello Sforzesco.
Renaissance gardens, traditional fishing boats and desert villages inspire the architecture of these striking pavilions at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Inspired by ancient temple building techniques, the ‘Ring’ at Expo 2025 Osaka will be the world’s largest timber structure, “connecting with the world through the sea and sky,” explains Sou Fujimoto.
“First you need to be a person, then an architect,” believes Liu Jiakun. We round up eight seminal projects, highlighting the Pritzker Prize winner’s approach to architecture. From a mixed-use community building focused on dignified living in crowded cities to a campus merging ancient Chinese architecture with contemporary lifestyle.
The projects of the 2025 Pritzker Prize laureate forge community, inspire compassion and elevate the human spirit, celebrating the lives of ordinary citizens.
Titled Intelligens, Carlo Ratti’s Biennale focuses on architecture that tackles climate change and today’s global issues with a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Kengo Kuma presents a high-tech installation upcycling fallen trees, Ukrainian architects harness AI to rebuild their country, and astronauts invite us to focus on our planet first.
A Bauhaus resort in the French Alps, extreme architecture on the Mont Blanc, and cabins perched on vertiginous drop-offs.
The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale highlights a new collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to tackling climate change.
METRO Arquitetos Associados completed a dark, monolithic 14-storey building that dialogues with and complements Lina Bo Bardi’s architecture in São Paulo.
The Shanghai Grand Opera House “will become a destination for all.” Its striking helical roof surface creates a spiral staircase that will double as a stage and meeting space.
An eye-catching whirlpool of panoramic stairs winds through and tops the Fenix Museum of Migration, the first cultural project by MAD Architects in Europe, set to be inaugurated on 16 May 2025.
The OMA expansion of the New Museum seamlessly blends with the existing SANAA-designed building in Manhattan, New York City.
Set to open this spring, the Naoshima New Museum of Art blends seamlessly with its environment through a spacious sloped roof, sunlit galleries, and a café contemplating the sea.
From Sou Fujimoto’s masterplan for Expo 2025 Osaka to Frank O. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi. These stunning cultural venues will also celebrate Harlem’s black heritage, Chinese Opera and David Bowie.
Best Pavilions of 2024: from a vibrant textile cloud in a Milanese palazzo to a star-shaped installation poised to revitalise Miami Beach marine life, floating cauldrons, verdant pavilions, colourful pipes and brutalist toilets.
2024 most popular architecture stories: from a Norwegian silo turned into an art museum to a garden-like airport terminal in Bangalore, and even architecture for dogs.
Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Giulio Iacchetti designed concept kennels for the ‘Architecture for Dogs’ exhibition in Milan.
RAIM, Robot & AI Museum, was built by robots to tell the unfolding narrative of Fourth Revolution technology.
ZHA’s Uzbek Cultural Centre features a weaving brick facade and uses passive design strategies to optimise cooling and minimise consumption.
Conceived as an architectural nest, the Hoshino Architects’ skyscraper features a striking ‘woven’ facade and curvaceous interiors.
Shigeru Ban’s Toyota City Museum is made from locally sourced cedar wood. The new cultural venue is Japan’s first architecture to achieve the Net Zero Energy Building Ready certification.
The new Darlington Public School in Sydney “has a strong connection with Aboriginal culture,” which is embodied in the redesign.
The 2024 ABWAB installations reinterpret vernacular architecture from Iraq to Ethiopia and propose ecological building techniques using palm waste and mycelium.
Venture into the stunning architecture and interior design of some of the most infamous haunted houses in horror movies and TV series by Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, and more.
“Museum building is community building.” This is the concept behind the new Museum Reinhard Ernst, the last masterpiece by the late Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.
How to maintain the patrimonial value of a functionalist grain silo and, at the same time, develop it into a powerhouse for arts and culture? Visit the new Kunstsilo Museum in southern Norway.
On Whistling Wind Island, Akb Architects’ cosy cottage comprises four connected buildings perched on rocks tossed around by robust winds.
Bjarke Ingels Group is set to transform a former supermarket building into the new Museum for Paper Art in North Jutland, Denmark.
Within a courtyard at Chelsea College of Arts in London, the Vert pavilion is a cutting-edge, sustainable, modular urban-cooling timber structure designed to tune with cities’ infrastructure.
