Studio KO Opens Uzbekistan’s First Contemporary Art Centre
Industrial architecture, punchy new insertions, a diesel depot reborn: heritage meets cultural ambition in Uzbekistan’s first institution for contemporary art.
Mad Architects’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts opens in Los Angeles
The spaceship-like Lucas Museum celebrates illustrated storytelling from Renoir and Degas’ paintings to Darth Vader’s masks, comics and movies.
Parisian Courtyards Reimagined By Contemporary Design
Historic architecture meets contemporary design in Parisian courtyards, gardens and palaces, with highlights ranging from a perfume-and-design encounter to art cars and voluptuous benches.
Studio Saar’s Pangolin Shield Pavilion Reflects On Britain And India’s Colonial Legacies
In London, the Pangolin Shield Pavilion features a bamboo grid covered with shields used both for protection and aggression.
Burning Man 2026 explored the connection between different realms
From a broken Eiffel Tower balanced between collapse and hope, to a sinking Titanic staging nightly fire spectacles, and a gothic folly built with no doctrine at all — Burning Man 2026 proved that the desert can still summon architecture with a pulse.
Burning Man’s Temple of the Moon bloomed and burned in the Nevada Desert
The Temple of the Moon turns a single desert bloom into a meditation on time, impermanence, and the spaces we gather to feel human.
Stacked Architecture: Five Vertical Projects Piling Up Homes
Five architects, one shared idea: the stacked house, reinvented as hotel, gallery, tower and neighbourhood in miniature.
Lilypad: A Solar-Powered Villa Afloat on Sydney Harbour
Moored off exclusive Palm Beach, Lilypad blends solar engineering with resort-level comfort for a quietly luxurious escape on water.
Magdalen House by Atelier L’Abri: Cedar, Stone and Salt Air
Magdalen House settles into the dunes of Quebec, in quiet dialogue with land and light, local architecture and craft.
Rotterdam Rocks: MVRDV Unveils A Sensational Biophilic Landmark
A cluster of seven boulders, Rotterdam Rocks fuses sustainability storytelling, hospitality and public terraces on the Dutch city’s south bank.
Midnight Modern: Tom Blachford captures the nocturnal and mysterious soul of Palm Springs
Depwell Dodge, MIdnight Modern – photo essay by Tom Blachford.
The Dip Pavilion: A Sculptural Roof, A Garden Dialogue
The Dip Pavilion by andblack design studio folds pool, garden and interior into one continuous architectural gesture.
In Puglia, Massimo Iosa Ghini reimagines the contemporary masseria
Among ancient olive trees, pergolas and patios frame a set of bespoke interiors. In Southern Italy, this “contemporary masseria” reinterprets vernacular architecture against the backdrop of the Mediterranean countryside.
Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi set to open on December 11
An “intentionally messy” ensemble of sculptural cones on the United Arab Emirates’ Gulf is set to guide visitors through themed galleries at the largest of the four Guggenheim outposts worldwide.
Ten Modernist Buildings in Tashkent Recognised On UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Tashkent modernist architecture reflects a synthesis of Soviet-era planning and construction, Central Asian spatial traditions, climate-responsive design, monumental art, and craftsmanship.
House Eleven by DAAA Haus: Precision, Concrete and Light
In Malta, House Eleven pairs raw materiality with restraint across its connected levels — an architecture and design project shaped for a new, “more aware” generation of clients.
Fran Silvestre’s ‘House on the Cliff’ embraces the Mediterranean with formal purity
In Spain, House On the Cliff combines white minimalism with a single-level volume perched on a slope and a pool that visually draws the sea closer.
FIFA World Cup 2026: Ten Fields of Dreams Where Football Meets Architecture
Retractable roofs, giant screens and fluid forms in dialogue with the landscape — we round up the most striking stadiums of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
Walls, Shadows, Lies: Andreas Angelidakis’ Escape Room Brings the Platonic Cave to Venice
At the Greek Pavilion of the Venice Art Biennale, Escape Room stages a labyrinth of soft ruins, self-filming surveillance, and queer spatial logic — Andreas Angelidakis’s sharply timed response to an age of disinformation, rewritten history, and far-right populism.
LANZA Atelier reveals visuals of Serpentine Pavilion 2026
In London, the Serpentine Pavilion 2026 takes shape around one of the most charming features of the English garden: a gently curving brick wall that forms one defining side of the structure.
Open House Milano 2026: Where Creatives Thrive
Open House Milano 2026: Explore where Milan’s ideas take shape, from architecture offices, co-working spaces and designers’ homes.
Five Pavilions ‘In Minor Keys’ Where Art Meets Craft at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia
No protest, no political noise. These pavilions at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia show how, through crafts, art can hold a mirror to our most pressing concerns.
Five National Pavilions Weaving Art and Architecture at Venice Biennale 2026
Platonic Caves, probes and soviet barracks. At Venice Biennale 2026, some of the most radical art isn’t on the walls — it’s in the walls.
Six surreal architectures at La Biennale di Venezia 2026
From a tilted brick chapel to a home on a wheelbarrow and a floating synagogue, these surreal architectures at the Venice Art Biennale reframe space, identity, and belonging.
Hybrids: Where Scarpa’s Architecture dialogues with Leandro Erlich
At Venice’s Negozio Olivetti, houses grow roots, corals mimic cities, and marble melts — in Erlich’s Hybrids, the impossible feels wonderfully real.
Nabatele: Anna Kamyshan creates a floating Synagogue in Venice
There is something quietly arresting about a sixteenth-century Venetian synagogue, perched atop a floating rock, drifting above the waters of the lagoon. This is Nabatele, a mesmerising installation by Anna Kamyshan, and an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Methamorphosis in Motion: getting lost in Lina Ghotmeh’s pink maze
The Metamorphosis in Motion installation takes over a stunning Milanese courtyard with vibrant colour, bringing people together.
The New Museum expansion by OMA opened in New York
Complementing SANAA’s original building, the New Museum expansion doubles exhibition space through a striking angular volume in Manhattan.
Inverse Ruin: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s Impossible Temple Is Suspended in Time
The ‘Inverse Ruin’ installation reimagines an ancient temple from the top down as a floating structure — and reframes the way we look at ruins altogether.
Burning Man’s Temple of the Moon is inspired by a rare nocturnal flower
The Temple of the Moon turns a single desert bloom into a meditation on time, impermanence, and the spaces we gather to feel human.