Architecture News
Architecture news moves fast, and this category keeps you on top of it. illustrarch reports on new projects, competition results, industry shifts, and notable openings from around the world. Check back regularly for clear, concise updates on the buildings and ideas everyone in the field is talking about.
Office for Future’s Dvir Turns a Former School in Stavyshche Into 42 Homes for Displaced Ukrainian Families
The 1,900 square metre school keeps its place in town life with shared rooms open to locals, a timber walkway and roof with...
illustrarch Editorial Team1 Mins read
2026 Architecture MasterPrize Winners: Snøhetta Takes Design of the Year
The 2026 Architecture MasterPrize named Snøhetta's Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library its Architectural Design of the Year, with OAKV, Benjakitti Forest Park and the...
Elif Ayse Sen6 Mins read
Marlon Blackwell Architects’ Porch From the 2025 US Pavilion in Venice Will Be Rebuilt at Crystal Bridges
Dismantled after the Biennale and stored in Arkansas, the timber canopy designed for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity will stand again in the...
illustrarch Editorial Team2 Mins read
John McAslan + Partners Turns Oxford’s 1892 Osney Power Station Into a Global Leadership Centre
Oxford's first power plant, in use from 1892 to 1968, now houses the Saïd Business School's Global Leadership Centre, with a triple height...
illustrarch Editorial Team2 Mins read
Bronze Seal Ring From the Sunken Palace of Antirhodos Shows the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Divers working with Franck Goddio's IEASM found the ring on Antirhodos in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour. Egyptian officials call it the first lighthouse image...
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Tishman Speyer Signs 150 Year Ground Lease on the Chrysler Building and Plans a $235 Million Restoration
Cooper Union keeps the land under William Van Alen's tower, while Tishman Speyer restores the facade and crown, replaces building systems and prebuilds...
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Clearing Beneath Hagia Sophia Reveals a Maze of Byzantine and Ottoman Tunnels
Cleaning under Hagia Sophia's vanished atrium removed about 300 tons of debris and exposed six connected structures, seven water lines in one vault...
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Three-Room Thracian Temple at Balak Dere May Be One of the Last Pagan Sanctuaries in Western Thrace
Excavations at Balak Dere near Ivaylovgrad have exposed a 15-metre trapezoidal temple whose three rooms, for altar, sacrifice and offerings, run in a...
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