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Z8 Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects is set to move toward construction in the centre of Beijing’s Central Business District, where the project occupies a prominent site at the intersection of Jianguo Road and Jinhe East Road. COMMERCIAL Facing the district’s central park, the 140-metre tower responds to the alignment and urban structure of Chang’an […] More
Villa Argentina has reopened in Dubrovnik following a multi-year reconstruction and interior redesign by Croatian architectural studio 3LHD for Adriatic Luxury Hotels. Located in Ploče, the complex occupies a prominent site overlooking Dubrovnik’s Old Town and the island of Lokrum, bringing together early 20th-century architecture, later hotel additions, gardens and direct access to the Adriatic. […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed the Baku Expo City masterplan, a new 198-hectare urban district planned beside the existing Baku Expo Centre in Azerbaijan. Developed in response to the city’s population growth, the project combines housing, civic infrastructure, public space and expanded exhibition facilities within a network of preserved pine forests. URBAN PLANNING The masterplan […] More
CISARSTUDIO completes Blueriot, a full renovation of the Deveron offices inside a postmodern building from the 1990s. The project responds to a brief that called for a functional workplace with a distinct architectural identity. The studio drew inspiration from the client’s interests in aviation and diving, translating references to the ocean and open sky through […] More
The Production and Office Building by MVA (Mikelić Vreš Arhitekti) begins with an act of regeneration. Before architecture entered the site, the plot in Dubrovčan, northwest of Zagreb, served as a construction-waste landfill. Rather than treating this history as something to erase, the architects transformed it into the project’s defining condition. The remediation of the […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects introduces the Songshan Lake Exhibition and Performance Center in Dongguan, within the Greater Bay Area of southern China’s Pearl River estuary. The building forms a civic and cultural anchor within a mixed-use masterplan that aims to renew the Yuehe Lake waterfront. Its program supports national and international events, exhibitions and performances for […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects has announced the Nest and Cascades, two developments planned for Kodra e Diellit in Tirana. Designed for local developer Agikons, the projects respond to growing demand for housing and hospitality spaces in one of the Albanian capital’s fastest-developing districts. RESIDENTIAL Kodra e Diellit occupies a hillside south of central Tirana and offers […] More
Dubai’s skyline continues to expand, yet few projects attempt to recalibrate how a high-rise operates within climate, infrastructure, and daily life. Wasl Tower, designed by UNStudio in collaboration with Werner Sobek, positions itself within that conversation. Completed in 2025, the 302-metre structure sits along Sheikh Zayed Road, directly engaging the density and speed of its […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects continues its collaboration with Neutra through the Erosion Collection, presented during Salone del Mobile 2026. The project builds on a clear premise established in earlier iterations, where geological processes informed both form and structure. The latest presentation does not shift direction. It sharpens and extends the same line of inquiry, moving from […] More
In Milan, the most convincing rooms are the ones that feel like they have a pulse, as if you have arrived mid-story, not at a staged reveal. For the fourth edition of Artemest’s L’Appartamento, David Rockwell brings that exact instinct to Palazzo Donizetti’s oval dining room with Bacchanalia: A Ritual in Pleasure, a theatrical installation […] More
UNS approaches Turin’s Metro Line 2 as a civic project that extends beyond transport. The proposal, selected by an international jury chaired by Dominique Perrault, positions infrastructure as an active part of the city rather than a hidden network beneath it. Developed with Settanta7, Mijksenaar, Frigorosso, 3BA, and WSP, the design translates Turin’s spatial logic […] More
In conversation with ArchiScene Editor-in-Chief Zarko Davinic, Piero Lissoni reflects on Arc at South Bank, a six-story residential project set along the shoreline of Providenciales. Developed by Windward, the project arrives as part of a larger waterfront community that has already surpassed $300 million in sales, signaling strong demand for design-driven residential environments in the […] More