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Studio KO Rebuilds Paris’s Bus Palladium Nightclub as a Five Star Hotel
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2025 LA Architectural Awards Celebrate Community, Recovery, and Design Excellence
The 55th LA Architectural Awards spotlight projects that support wildfire recovery and showcase Los Angeles’ leadership in culture, mobility, sustainability, and community-focused design....
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Buildner Unbuilt Award 2025: Showcasing Visionary Architectural Concepts
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Architectural Presentation Sheets: Storytelling Guide
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A New Book Records the 1970s Interiors of Ebony and Jet’s Chicago Headquarters
820 Ebony/Jet collects Barbara Karant's photographs of the empty Johnson Publishing Company building in Chicago, where each of the 11 floors had its own colours and patterns.
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104 Abu Dhabi Neighbourhood Parks by SLA
Discover how SLA transformed 740,000 m² of underused land into 104 climate-resilient parks in Abu Dhabi, redefining green space as public health infrastructure through nature-based design, community integration, and ecological...
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Rain Rhizome by TANAT and Rizoma del Agua
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Yarumos Apartment by Trópico Arquitectura
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Akina House by Di Frenna Arquitectos
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Ofício: Tasco Atípico Restaurant by Spacegram
Ofício: Tasco Atípico by Spacegram reinterprets Lisbon’s classic tasca with vaulted ceilings,...
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Tree House
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The Wonder Building: Redefining Parisian Workspaces with Sustainability
The Wonder Building in Bagnolet redefines office architecture in Paris by integrating...
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Anima Pavilion by Atelier Pensee
A timber pavilion shared with animals at a Suzhou middle school, where...
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Gersthof Model School Renovation and Conversion by Franz&Sue
Franz&Sue transform Vienna’s historic Gersthof Orthopaedic Hospital into a light-filled, sustainable model...
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Neo Nostalgia
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Savan House by Nobico Studio
Savan House is Nobico Studio's unbuilt concept for a forested hillside in...
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Floathub! A Mobile Resilient Community
FloatHub! presents a floating mobile community in Sweden that addresses housing inequality...
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IMPERIAL HERITAGE in Hangzhou by GFD Studio
Inspired by the harmony between nature and humanity, this Hangzhou residence redefines...
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Polyfunction Building
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AR Future Projects Awards 2027
The Architectural Review's annual awards for architecture in progress: 14 categories open to projects under construction, in planning or unbuilt. Entries close 4 December 2026; early-bird fee £549 +VAT until...
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Foster + Partners to Test Robot Swarms Building Timber from the Top Down
Foster + Partners wins €4m EU grant to build robot and drone swarms that assemble timber structures top-down.
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Famous Sustainable Buildings: 6 Green Skyscrapers Leading the Future
From Milan's Bosco Verticale to Sydney's record hybrid timber tower, six green skyscrapers show what sustainable high-rise design has achieved since 2010, including...
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Section Perspective Drawings: 12 Examples from Students and Studios
Twelve real section perspectives, from an 1868 dimensioned lithograph in Haguenau to Paul Rudolph's Chorley school, RSHP in Shenzhen and student boards from...
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Studio KO Rebuilds Paris’s Bus Palladium Nightclub as a Five Star Hotel
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Rain Rhizome by TANAT and Rizoma del Agua
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Tactical Urbanism: Examples, Methods and Impact
How cheap, reversible street projects become permanent change: the main tactical urbanism methods, eight documented examples from Bogotá to Barcelona with their numbers...
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What Is Bauhaus Architecture: Origins, Principles, and Legacy
Bauhaus architecture began in 1919 at Walter Gropius's school in Weimar. Its origins, principles, key figures and the buildings that carried the ideas...
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WORKac Hangs a Lecture Hall Inside Cornell’s Restored Sibley Dome
At Cornell, WORKac has restored the 1902 Sibley Dome and suspended a 114 seat lecture hall from it, with fritted glass piers that...
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