Disbrow Iannuzzi has designed Briarcliff Residence, a private home situated on a 3.5-acre property in historic Franklin, Michigan. Drawing inspiration from traditional rural farmsteads, the project introduces four interconnected pavilions that organize the family’s living spaces around the site’s natural features. The architects combine familiar gabled forms with contemporary materials, creating a residence that reflects […] More
Sanctum Retreat, designed by Lithuanian architecture studio arches, introduces a nature-focused hospitality destination in Bezdonys, near Vilnius, Lithuania. Surrounded by forest, the project explores how architecture can support rest, reflection and personal wellbeing through a close relationship with the natural environment. The development consists of a main building and seven accommodation cabins, with each structure […] More
Few subjects offer a clearer route into Alvar Aalto’s architecture than nature. Published by Birkhäuser and edited by Tom Simons and Rainer Knapas, Aalto and Nature examines this relationship through landscape, gardens and the continuous exchange between interior and exterior space. The book approaches nature as an active component of Aalto’s work, extending the discussion […] More
A team comprising ESTEYCO, UNS and b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos has won the competition for the integral remodelling and urban integration of Madrid-Chamartín Clara Campoamor station. Adif AV organized the competition, and a 16-member jury selected the proposal from a shortlist that included BIG, Foster + Partners, OMA, Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw, RSHP and Souto […] More
Atelier Sérgio Rebelo designed Quinta de Adorigo Winery in Tabuaço as part of a family wine tourism development in Portugal’s Alto Douro Vinhateiro. A hotel remains under construction within the wider property. UNESCO has recognized the wine-growing area as a World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site since 2001, and the winery responds directly to its […] More
LaGuardia Design Group completes Sag Harbor Bay, a residential waterfront project that responds closely to the wooded terrain, existing vegetation and ecological conditions of its East End site. Working with a steep slope descending toward the bay, the studio organized buildings, terraces, walkways and a swimming pool around the existing topography while preserving much of […] More
GOA completes the Earth Valley Theater in Yaohu Village near Yixing, Wuxi, as a 9,200 square metre open air venue designed around interaction between people and birds. Completed in 2025, the project occupies a naturally formed T shaped valley in the Mingling Mountains and combines a 2,300 seat amphitheater with aviaries, public spaces, planted areas […] More
Architecture often arrives with certainty. It defines edges, fixes boundaries, and imposes permanence on places that rarely remain still. Studio 10 takes a different approach with the Wetland Caves Pavilion in Longyou County, Zhejiang. Instead of resisting the wetland’s annual transformation, the project accepts change as its defining condition, creating a pavilion that participates in […] More
Greek villages have never functioned as collections of isolated buildings. They evolved through time, adapting to terrain, climate, and the changing needs of the communities that inhabited them. Streets followed the contours of the land, homes gathered around shared spaces, and architecture developed through gradual additions instead of predetermined masterplans. Shared Ground – A Contemporary […] More
DEB Architecture and El Equipo Mazzanti transform Ciénaga de Mallorquín Ecopark in Barranquilla, Colombia, through an environmental regeneration and public space project at the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and the Magdalena River. The intervention reconnects the city with one of the Colombian Caribbean’s most important lagoon systems, turning the wetland into accessible ecological […] More
Marcoux Mathern & Associés reshaped La Perle d’Azur in Cannes through a full architectural transformation focused on proportion, circulation and atmosphere. The villa, already recent in construction, needed a clearer spatial order. Its facades lacked unity, its entrance felt monumental yet cold, its thresholds carried too much force, and its proportions created uncertainty across the […] More
Alexandros N. Tombazis and Associates Architects S.A. and K-Studio designed Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino as a luxury resort closely connected to its setting above Navarino Bay. The architecture responds to the region’s terrain, climate and culture while creating privacy, generous spatial proportions and a direct relationship with the land. HOTELS The masterplan responds to a […] More