• ‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war-torn Kharkiv
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt? When the Derzhprom building erupted on to...
  • Ep 180: Size Doesn’t Matter
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    The phrase “it’s just a small project” has probably caused more confusion, blown more budgets, and strained more relationships than we’d care to admit. It sounds harmless, maybe even charming – the architectural equivalent of a...
  • Modern Craftsmanship Meets Family Living in This Rebuilt California Home
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    What began as a small repair job turned into a complete architectural reinvention. Designed by boutique Northern California firm Medium Plenty, this three-story family home reflects a deep collaboration between the architects and a creative couple with two young kids. What began as a small repair job turned into a complete architectural reinvention. Designed by boutique Northern California firm Medium Plenty, this three-story family home reflects a deep collaboration between the architects and a...
  • Inside the Grand Egyptian Museum: A billion-dollar bridge between past and future
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Think Egypt is a place frozen in history? Think again.
  • Prefab, But Make It Joyful: Inside a Colorful Modular Escape
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Wrapped in sky-blue steel and softened with curved walls, this prefabricated home hides its modular roots. Rodrigo Ohtake’s clever use of industrial materials brings surprising warmth and elegance. In the green hills of Ibiúna, a quiet rural town about 90 minutes from São Paulo, architect Rodrigo Ohtake has built a family retreat unlike any other. Designed for weekends away with his wife Ana Carolina and their three children, the...
  • Inside a Houseboat That Feels Like a Home
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Vertical cedar siding, Richlite panels, and clear hemlock soffits give this floathome a refined, marine-ready exterior with architectural clarity. Blatto Boat is a newly constructed Floating On Water Residence (FOWR) located on the north end of Seattle’s Lake Union. Designed by Seattle studio GO’C, the houseboat is built within the exact footprint of an existing 12-by-40-foot...
  • A Look Inside A Home That Feels Like Living in a Forest Sanctuary
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A stepped, low-profile home clad in charred yakisugi siding, designed to blend into the hillside and forest. Just off the coast of Seattle, a young family found their rhythm on Orcas Island, a lush, bluffside site in Deer Harbor where the forest meets the horizon. With the help of Syndicate Smith, a Washington-based architecture firm known for...
  • Moulin Rouge windmill twirls again 14 months after accident
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Dancers performed the club's famed cancan in the street to mark the occasion.
  • Inside the Forest Home That’s All About Light, Space, and Simplicity
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
     A home designed to follow the land, not alter it. Forest Pavilion preserves the contours of the Pacific Northwest forest, with minimal site impact and a rain-friendly roof that turns weather into a design feature. Tucked into the misty woods of North Bend, Washington, Forest Pavilion blurs the boundary between shelter and site. Designed by Signal Architecture + Research for a pair of professional landscapers, this home doesn’t impose on its...
  • The world’s most luxurious ski hotels, from Switzerland to Colorado
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Ultra-luxury ski hotels around the world, from Aspen to Aros.
  • This Sculptural Home Turns Minimalism Into a Statement
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
     A light-filled four-storey Melbourne home by mckimm, inspired by LA hillside living with organic textures and seamless indoor-outdoor flow. Brighton Sands is a four-storey family home in Melbourne designed by mckimm, blending inspiration from the LA hills with a distinctly Australian sense of place. Defined by sculptural architecture, natural materials, and a seamless...
  • More than Human review – a utopia of self-weaving grass and psychedelic dolphins
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Design Museum, London From 3D-printed coral reefs to fungal facades and living fabrics grown from roots, this show embraces a future of nature-centric design ‘Even when humans get serious about wanting to talk to dolphins, will dolphins...
  • A Mid-Century Modern Home Reimagined for a Family in California
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Set back from the street and accessed via a long driveway, the residence combines privacy with striking form. Its exterior has been updated using Shou Sugi Ban Accoya barn wood siding, adding texture and durability. A central gabled roof defines the structure, flanked by two flat-roofed wings that retain the home's mid-century profile. In the hills of Palo Alto, California, an iconic Eichler home has been respectfully transformed by architect-artist Gustave Carlson. Originally built in 1971 and custom-commissioned by architect John S. Lynd, a personal friend of Joseph...
  • Could This Be the Most Instagrammable Hotel in the Paris?
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
     A striking vertical garden wraps the entire façade of Villa M in Paris, transforming the building into a living, breathing ecosystem. Designed as an exoskeleton of greenery, it blends architecture and nature in a bold vision for urban sustainability. In the heart of Paris, Villa M is a new approach to city buildings. Designed by Triptyque Architecture with spaces curated by Philippe Starck, this mixed-use complex blends hospitality, healthcare, and sustainability into a lush urban...
  • Mansons begins work at 35 Graham St; free car with Westgate home; Pompallier on Ponsonby progress; how’s Kiwi Property’s Resido going? - Property Insider
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Two basement levels, nine storeys of offices: NZ's biggest new commercial project begins.
  • A ‘floating university’ and a pink mosque: Dhaka builds for a wetter future – in pictures
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Across the Bangladeshi megacity, designers are adapting to the climate crisis Continue reading...
  • ‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    They had portholes, cutting edge mod cons – and the ultra luxurious models even came with a free calculator. As Japan’s beloved Nakagin Capsule Tower resurfaces, we celebrate an architectural marvel Looking like a teetering stack of...
  • This Artist’s Treehouse Is Changing How We See Tiny Homes
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Step inside the Black Crane Treehouse, a midcentury-inspired artist retreat above Mission Lake, Washington. Built for creativity and reflection, it blends modern design with nature and hand-crafted details. In an episode from Tiny House Giant Journey, a YouTube channel dedicated to unique home tours, host Jenna visits the Black Crane Treehouse, a striking, mid century-inspired retreat perched in the treetops above Mission Lake in Washington...
  • Vaulted Ceilings and Garden Views Make This Home a True Sanctuary
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    This tranquil alfresco area transforms a former garage wall into a cozy garden retreat. Layered planting, a timber pergola, and a built-in BBQ make it perfect for relaxing or entertaining outdoors. Tucked into a quiet corner of Elwood, Sanctuary House by Minett Studio Architecture & Design offers a seamless blend of heritage and contemporary design. With vaulted ceilings, framed garden views, and an indoor–outdoor flow that...
  • Trevor Hendy obituary
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which, among other things, he brought back to life its Arlington House property, a 900-bed hostel...
  • Charred chimneys are all that’s left of these LA midcentury homes. Inside the quest to save them
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    A piece of history burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Project Chimney is salvaging what’s left to honor the architecture – and eventually create a memorial By mid-morning last Thursday, Evan Hall was standing near the top of...
  • ‘Forgotten’ designer of art nouveau Métro entrances to get Paris museum
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Fans say opening of museum honouring Hector Guimard, whose work went out of fashion, will right a historic wrong The “forgotten” designer of Paris’s most iconic Métro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his...
  • City Rail Link: Auckland’s Karanga-a-Hape Station features giant kauri snail, sun, moon artworks
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    'Representing the history of this area. This ridgeline was a kauri forest.' - Barry Potter
  • The enchanted car park: how a ruined multi-storey became a garden paradise loved by lizards and dog-walkers
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Once a hangout for sex workers and drug addicts, a parking lot in Medellín, Colombia, has been reborn as a green haven for all. We meet the ‘social urbanists’ credited with reducing crime – and even temperatures Lilac-flowering creepers...
  • Exploring South Korea with G Adventures ‘soloish’ tour
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The destination is like no other place on Earth.
  • Ep 179: Is Half the Story Enough?
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    Architectural influencers on social media can bring real insight to the table while others blur the line between experience and performance, you should evaluate what you’re seeing, questioning why it was shared, and learn how to tell the...
  • Disputes Tribunal orders couple to pay architect $33k for holiday home sketches they didn’t like
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The pair weren't happy with the holiday home designs, so they refused to pay.
  • Victoria’s best new residential architecture – in pictures
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Well-crafted family homes, a beach house that invites the outside in, and a stunning concrete bunker in a high-risk fire zone are just some of the winners in the 2025 Victorian Architecture awards category for new residential properties,...
  • High-end Chinese restaurant Billy’s to open in restored Ayrburn farmhouse near Arrowtown
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Fine dining restaurant is a nod to gold mining history and Chinese immigrants of the area.
  • Solar power: Kangaroo Point Bridge leads winners as Queensland architecture awards put spotlight on sustainability
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Bridge that spans Brisbane River and includes solar panels and shade along its length hailed as a transformative piece of urban infrastructure Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The newest bridge spanning the...
  • Léon Krier obituary
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Visionary architect appointed master-planner by King Charles for his model new town of Poundbury in Dorset A colonnade of doric columns flanks the entrance to the neoclassical Waitrose building in Poundbury, Dorchester, in Dorset, facing...
  • Nathan Silver obituary
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    My father, Nathan Silver, who has died aged 89, was a distinguished architect, educator and author. His most enduring contribution to architectural history was Lost New York (1967), which was nominated for a US National Book award. It...
  • ‘Excessively wasteful and giving off Swarovski vibes’: our critic on the ‘tiara bridge’ for the late queen
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Norman Foster’s cast glass design to honour Queen Elizabeth II will see a perfectly decent bridge destroyed and vast sums squandered at great ecological cost. And how will it stay sparkly? • Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of...
  • From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn’t see It’s hard...
  • Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of national memorial to Elizabeth II
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Norman Foster wins contest to transform St James’s Park in tribute to late queen’s ‘unifying force’ The national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will include a new bridge in St James’s Park designed by Norman Foster. The peer, who was...
  • Wellington public toilets cost $2.3 million, transform into light show at night
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The public toilet block turns into a rainbow 'light show' at night.
  • A vertical forest growing in the Netherlands: in pictures
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    A new tower brings apartments, office space and tens of thousands of plants to the heart of Utrecht Continue reading...
  • Is this the antidote to the housing crisis? The YouTube series showcasing chic – and tiny – abodes
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    On Never Too Small, there are cabins that split in two and apartments straight out of Wes Anderson. It feels like we’re all one reclaimed wood table away from complete bliss Read more in the Internet wormhole series I’ve been invited...
  • ‘A dazzling concrete crown’: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets long overdue appreciation
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    A genius response bridging of history and modernity with daring interior and exterior, it is shocking it wasn’t already Grade I-listed Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral has listing upgraded to Grade I Liverpool’s majestic cosmic wigwam has...
  • Ep 177: Hanging Out Your Shingle
    Sunday, June 1, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    There’s a moment in almost every architect’s career where the idea first surfaces—quietly at first, then louder over time: What if I started my own firm? Maybe it’s the itch for creative freedom, maybe it’s frustration with someone...
  • A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack
    Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • The Hidden Carbon Cost of Climate Retrofits
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Building Energy Saving Retrofit in Liu Lian Primary School / FORWARD STUDIO. Image © Tianpei Zeng Evolving urban conditions call for an evolving builtscape, and retrofits have been a key mechanism to allow buildings to adapt and respond to new needs. Amidst global environmental concerns, climate retrofits have become a popular...
  • House Within a Few Lines / fala
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Francisco Ascensão The geometry of a narrow house is settled within a few lines. The intervention happens both in plan projection and in section. Curved walls are intersected with sinuous ceiling resulting in a space that is not static. In the evening,...
  • "Architecture is That Fixed Element Within Nature": David Montalba in My Point of View
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Courtesy of Sky-Frame Architect David Montalba was born in Switzerland but grew up in California. He became a passionate surfer, bobbing in the waves of the Pacific, staring at the land, yet always feeling and hearing the ocean around him; profoundly...
  • Sordo Madaleno Reveals Proposal for the Refurbishment and Remodeling of the El Molinón Stadium in Spain
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    El Molinón Stadium. Image © Plomp In preparation for the city of Asturias , Spain , to become one of the hosts of the FIFA World Cup in 2030 , the El Molinón stadium is proposed to undergo a major remodeling process. Home Real Sporting de Gijón , the stadium is...
  • Kornmarktplatz Townhouse / Herzog & de Meuron
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Christian Schramm The new townhouse on the centrally located Kornmarktplatz in Bregenz is intended to make an independent contribution to the cultural and public life of the city on Lake Constance.
  • Designed by OMA, Simone-Veil Bridge Opens to the Public in Bordeaux, France
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © JB Menges, courtesy of Bordeaux Metropole The Simone Veil Bridge , designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and Chris van Duijn, has officially opened in Bordeaux , France . Serving as the sixth crossing over the River Garonne , the platform stretches 548 meters from either side, with a...
  • Roam Ranch House / Baldridge Architects
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Casey Dunn Roam Ranch is a 4,362-square-foot single-family home on a working ranch outside of Fredericksburg , Texas. It is a testament to the rigorous modern design presented in a central Texas vernacular in its form, finishes, and spirit—a unique...
  • Parametric Architecture August Workshops
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Image: Carlos Bausa Martinez We are thrilled to announce our upcoming August workshops in collaboration with our ArchDaily Plus partner, Parametric Architecture . These workshops have been thoughtfully curated to empower architects, designers, and enthusiasts by...
  • Aesop Thonglor Store / Sher Maker
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Courtesy of Aesop by Studioperiphery Aesop Thonglor is a project that focuses on using micro domestic materials, specifically wood, in its design. The use of wood here is not just about showcasing local architectural skills and ideas but also about reusing existing wood...
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