Inspiring architecture from around the globe.
The World Architecture Festival announced the winners of the WAFX 2024 Prize. We selected seven human-based projects, including a gasometer turned into a green residential tower and a stacked vertical neighbourhood.
The Grand Palais Éphémère: Wilmotte & Associés built an ephemeral timber-made urban ecology project in the heart of Paris during the Olympics.
Paris Olympic architecture: from the Eiffel Tower to Versailles, the French capital gears up for the Games with brilliant renovation projects, temporary venues and a sustainable attitude.
Chatillon Architectes ushered the Grand Palais into a new era, safeguarding its timeless relevance and ensuring it continues to be a nexus for creativity, innovation, and grandeur.
The World Architecture Festival WAF 2024 shortlist features a vertical garden hotel, a university building wrapped in robotically woven fibres, and more.
Nestled in a breathtaking fjord, sheltered from Arctic winds and offering panoramic views of the surrounding islands, the Klaksvík Row Club by Henning Larsen Architects is a testament to the Faroe Islands’ rich sporting heritage.
At Bruges Triennial 2024, international artists and architects created site-specific installations throughout the UNESCO city’s canals, gardens, and cobbled alleys.
SOM—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill envisioned a “terminal in a garden” for Bangalore Airport’s new extension.
In the ‘Brutalist Italy’ book and photo essay, Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego captured monumental concrete buildings to give voice to their country’s most overlooked and neglected architectural style.
SunRICE shows how processing rice waste can become a raw material for new and sustainable architecture. After Milan Design Week, the installation will become nourishment to be reintroduced into the garden’s soil.
NKey Design Studio has harnessed Artificial Intelligence to create otherworldly architecture and interiors for imaginary palaces on the fictional planet of Arrakis.
Have you ever slept with squirrels and woodpeckers? Spend a night at Buitenverblijf Nest, a birdhouse-shaped cabin high up in the trees, tuning into the forest’s heartbeat.
Curvy layers of concrete wrap Ribbon House, creating gaps that allow natural ventilation and light to enter and flow throughout the building.
Peter Pichler Architecture has completed a geometric office block dressed in pleated mesh for industrial manufacturer Bonfiglioli.
What if a musical instrument’s design characteristics influenced a building’s architecture? For the House Sound project, Marcus Byrne harnessed Artificial Intelligence to create imaginary architectures in the shape of Ringo Star’s percussions, John Coltrane’s saxophone, and more.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos and Academy Award-winning production designers James Price and Shona Heath explain the in-wonderland scenography of Poor Things.
A terraced university campus for interdisciplinary exchange, homes open to neighbours, a museum open to both visitors and locals and a see-through fire station strengthening the bond between firefighters and residents… Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto won the 2024 Pritzker Prize for his bold, community-driven approach.
Architecture as a tool to foster a sense of community, collective life and mutual aid. This is what the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient, Riken Yamamoto, has been doing for the last five decades.
With the Farming Architects pavilion at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Jordens Architects looks into the future of construction.
An art space carved in a grain silo in Norway, the new Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and the Shakespeare Museum in London feature in the 12 museums opening in 2024.
‘Of Palm’ Pavillion at Dubai Design Week 2023 explores the creative and multitasking potential of palm trees in UAE culture, architecture and design.
In the wake of the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on October 7, Israel declared war on the Gaza-based terroristic organisation. The country immediately sieged Gaza City, cutting out water, fuel and electricity – and then bombed so-called strategic targets where Hamas militants could have hidden, but also entire residential neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools, markets, and religious buildings. So far, 9.500 Palestinians have been killed.
To be happy, how much do we need? How can we reduce our footprint and still live large? CÂPSULA is a new typology of high-end cabins that inspire new ways to live well.
Post-industrial graphics and arcade-style neons define the youth-focused, Instagram-friendly GRiD mall in Singapore’s Arts District.
“Hamas has to be eliminated. But…” says Moshe Safdie in the wake of the Israel-Gaza War.
Designer, artist, architect, and academic, Andrea Branzi was a pioneer of a radical design ideology. He passed away on October 9, 2023.
A sound-responsive blade of light in Saint Paul Cathedral and a suspended glowing halo at St. Stephen Walbrook Church celebrate Sir Christopher Wren’s legacy on his 300th death anniversary at the London Design Festival 2023.
Best of Burning Man 2023: A 1,000 drone show dedicated to endangered animals, an (anti-tank) hedgehog shrine to honour Ukrainian heroes, and a feminine temple blooming with flowers…
Ukrainian collective Kurenivka honours and supports patriots at war with the Hedgehog Temple and Memorial site at Burning Man 2023.
Orthodox churches, Art Nouveau palazzos, and Communist megalomania. Welcome to Bucharest. The Romanian capital’s architecture reflects a history of contrasts: from the Reign of Vlad III Dracul the Impaler to the Belle Époque, from Nicolae Ceausescu’s traumatic years to globalisation.
