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päivä architekti has completed an extension to a family house overlooking the Sázava River, designed to add a light-filled studio space and an independent sleeping area with a bathroom. The original house, built in the early 20th century on a rocky slope, had already undergone a renovation and partial garden-facing addition in 2010, but no […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects has announced the structural topping out of the Yidan Center in Shenzhen, a new cultural and educational hub that will serve as the international headquarters of the Yidan Prize and home to the Chen Yidan Foundation. Designed as a site for research, exhibitions, and public programming, the building anchors a new cultural […] More
GOe, Gastronomy Open Ecosystem, has opened in San Sebastián as a 9,000 m² hybrid building where architecture, research, and culinary innovation operate within a single framework. Conceived by BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group, as design architects and developed with BAT Architecture as executive architects, the project was commissioned by the Basque Culinary Center following an international […] More
Ghoche architecte has completed a new residence on the shore of Lake Archambault in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, offering a controlled and contemporary response to living within a natural landscape. The project is composed of simple cubic volumes topped with flat roofs, a strategy that reduces visual impact from the water while framing uninterrupted views toward the lake. […] More
LN Studio has completed Project 21, a new-build residence in Ancaster, Ontario, designed in collaboration with SMPL Design Studio for a young family seeking a long-term home defined by clarity and restraint. The project is guided by three principles, Elegant, Fresh, Tranquil, which shaped both the architectural direction and interior detailing. HOUSING Located in a […] More
StudioAC has completed the design of Misc Coffee, a small café located just north of Toronto’s Ossington strip, built around a single material gesture: translucent green FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic) panels. Typically used in industrial and infrastructural applications, the FRP is reintroduced here as a defining interior surface, bringing color, filtered light, and texture into […] More
In Prague, Martin Cenek Architecture transforms a 1930s functionalist apartment into a deeply personal reflection on authorship, memory, and restraint. The project, the architect’s own home, unfolds as both a renovation and an introspective study of what it means to inhabit one’s own design. Located in a tenement building by Ladislav and Jaroslav Šimek, the […] More
The Dream Theater project at Shanghai Pinghe School’s Jinding Campus positions education inside the logic of the city rather than apart from it. Designed by c+d studio, the campus rejects the closed, self-contained academic model and instead treats its high-density site as an opportunity to turn the school into an active fragment of the new […] More
Punangairi on New Zealand’s West Coast is framed as a calibrated threshold between land, culture and climate. Designed by Sheppard & Rout Architects with Ngāti Waewae, the building functions as a visitor centre in program only; in intent, it becomes a spatial instrument for cultural authorship and ecological repair. The project replaces the typical model […] More
Located in Georgeville, a rural enclave in Quebec’s Magog region, Rural Hamlet by MUUK Architecture reinterprets traditional farm architecture through a contemporary lens. The 4,000-square-foot residence is composed of three primary volumes connected by curved passageways, forming a composition that feels both timeless and site-specific. The home integrates seamlessly into the sloping terrain, evoking the […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects have completed the Grand Canal Gateway Bridge in Hangzhou, China, a 390-metre-long structure that serves as the centrepiece of the city’s new 14.7-hectare River Middle public park. When it opens later this year, the bridge will link the east and west banks of the 800,000-square-metre Seamless City masterplan, reconnecting Hangzhou’s urban development with […] More
In the Lin-gang Special Area of Shanghai, c+d studio has completed Island City Life, a new campus for the Shanghai High School Senior Division that redefines the relationship between education, landscape, and urban life. Surrounded on three sides by greenery and water, the 48-class residential high school responds to the challenge of density, integration, and […] More