Architecture: Research Guide

The Ascendente House was conceived from a reading of the voids between existing trees, adopting an approach of careful insertion and preservation. Its massing is organized in levels that follow the site, establishing a clear hierarchy between social, private, and service areas, while keeping the house continuously connected to the garden and vegetation.

The construction site is part of the Klafar area in the northwest of the city. The urban layout of the apartment buildings is based on the principle of a traditional city block, which defines a hierarchy and character of spaces—from public street areas, through semi-private courtyards, to private front gardens. The proposed block forms the corner of Sázavská and K Milířům streets. The spatial arrangement of the buildings creates a semi-public courtyard oriented to the south, while leisure areas with vegetation are located in the western part of the site.

Mrs. F. owned a large house in the village of Panoší Újezd. It had become too big for her, so she decided to keep only the old pigsty and a small patch of garden from the entire property, which she wanted to convert into a summer home. The building was in a disastrous state.

DETAILS:Title: London Creates 2026Organiser: Archisource Dates: 17th - 26th July 2026Entry: FreeVenue: The Truman Brewery, Elys Yard, London E1 6QR Book your tickets at creates.london London Creates 2026 - Experience Creative Intelligence 17 - 26 July 2026 · The Truman Brewery · Free EntryLondon Creates 2026, a major free-to-visit exhibition showcasing pioneering architects, engineers and designers shaping the future of design, will take place at The Truman Brewery from 16th to 26th July 2026. Hosted by Archisource in collaboration with HP, Intel®, D5 and Affinity, the exhibition explores how human creativity and technologies are transforming the creative process, from conc..

Where Calgary’s Creative Community Comes TogetherDesign Week Calgary is a city-wide festival celebrating the talent, creativity, and impact of Calgary’s design community. Through talks, exhibitions, workshops, installations, screenings, tours, and social events, the festival invites the public to explore how design shapes the places we live, the experiences we share, and the future of our city. Created by designers, for designers, Design Week Calgary opens the doors to creative practice and invites everyone to participate in conversations about architecture, urbanism, fashion, interiors, technology, public art, film, sound, and the built environment. 2026 Theme: In TuneThis year’s them..

Wood is among architecture's oldest and most familiar materials, yet its contemporary use raises complex questions about environmental impact, resource availability, material provenance, and circularity in relation to local economies. At the same time, advances in computational design, CNC machining, and robotic fabrication are also reshaping how timber is designed and assembled, opening new possibilities for structural innovation and formal expression while redefining the balance between automation, labor, and efficiency.

Following the completion of the new Swiss Embassy in Ivory Coast in 2016, LOCALARCHITECTURE continues its work in Abidjan with the Swiss Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Residence. The project responds to a dual role as it is conceived both as a family house and a reception area to serve the diplomatic objectives of the Swiss delegation.

Architecture project information does not live only in CAD or BIM software. Design briefs, drawing PDFs, contracts, quotations, site reports, approval files, and project specifications are often the documents that teams open, revise, send, and confirm every day.

Design Hotels spent thirty years at one address before moving into the top floor of AXIS, a newly built volume rising from a former industrial site near Berlin's Ostkreuz. The site looks two ways at once, toward the water of the Rummelsburger Bucht and into the density of the city. Five meter ceilings and glazing on every side turn the floor into something closer to a loft than an office, a volume defined less by walls than by light.

Some of the world's most innovative regional architecture never makes the headlines simply because no one is telling its story. For the sixth episode of the Room For Dreams podcast, recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in cooperation with INDX|GLOBAL, host Claire Brodka of designboom dissects this exact bottleneck with architects Niroop Reddy, Sujit Nair, and Aman Aggarwal, tracing how a historic lack of architectural storytelling has obscured a massive design revolution taking place across the Indian subcontinent.

House Awasi is located on the picturesque island of Lombok, Indonesia, where the island's rich cultural heritage adds depth to its natural beauty. As the home of the Sasak people, Lombok showcases a unique blend of traditions, customs, and arts. From intricate weaving and woodcarving to traditional dances and music, the island's cultural tapestry is as vibrant as its breathtaking landscapes.

Every year on July 11, World Population Day draws attention to the demographic trends reshaping societies around the globe. In 2026, the United Nations marks the occasion under the theme, "Realizing the Hopes and Aspirations of Young People – Today and for the Future," highlighting how young people's decisions about education, employment, housing, relationships, and family life are increasingly influenced by the cities they inhabit. Drawing on Lives, Choices and Futures, a global survey of more than 108,000 young adults across 73 countries, this year's campaign underscores the close relationship between demographic change and the social, economic, and spatial conditions of cities.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York inaugurated the exhibition Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa on July 5, 2026, on view through January 2, 2027. The exhibition examines African modern architecture from the late 1950s through the early 1980s in the context of political independence in the region. Works span seven countries: Benin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo. The display is organised around anchor projects selected as "entry points" into categories such as cityscapes, education, and housing. It is curated by Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Ikem Stanley Okoye, guest curator and associate pr..

The concept of the museum has historically prompted reflections on identity, representation, and institutional frameworks. At present, museums are conceived as increasingly complex spaces, combining exhibition areas with other cultural and educational functions, prompting civic engagement, artistic experimentation, and archival responsibility. Throughout this year, numerous museum projects have been announced and advanced across multiple regions, with completion timelines largely extending from 2026 to 2030. Added to this variety is the wide range of concepts developed within the realm of ideas, proposals, and speculations. It is within this realm that this selection of projects submitted by..

The Art House in New Delhi is conceived as a response to a rare brief that called for complete originality. The client, a prominent entrepreneur with a strong inclination toward individuality, sought a home that would not resemble anything he had encountered before: "I want something that no one has ever seen before." This became the starting point for a design approach that rejects familiar typologies and instead builds a highly curated living environment, with art pieces, sculptures, architecture, furniture, furnishings, and lighting all developed exclusively for this space.

It begins with a quiet misdirection. From the outside, this Brunswick home reads as a dark, composed silhouette, black timber cladding and crisp geometry holding their ground against the suburb's easy grit and creative pulse. But step through the front door and the house shifts register entirely: a warm timber "box" gathers you in, the air softens, and a long, gentle reveal begins, light, water, greenery, then brick, timber and stone unfolding like a sequence of rooms in a Kyoto ryokan. "The idea was always to create a Japanese-inspired jewel," says Patricia Davila, lead interior designer at The Stylesmiths. "Not in a literal way, no clichés, but in the sense of calm, proportion and materia..

Anduhyaun, owner and operator of Toronto's only Indigenous Violence Against Women shelter, partnered with LGA to design a new 18-room shelter that supports women and their children on their healing journeys. Our collaboration has created a one-of-a-kind space that honors Indigenous traditions, with a focus on themes of revitalization and transformation. These themes are brought to life through formal and material choices that reference elements strongly associated with healing and nourishment: water, earth, and sky. The result is a set of flowing spaces that feel organic and stand in contrast to the rectilinear shapes and spatial hierarchies of conventional buildings.

KOSMALT is originally the largest workers' dormitory of the Košice steelworks VSŽ, built in the 1960s according to the design of architects Ladislav Greč and Róbert Kandrík. The name of the building refers to a type of enameled steel, the production of which was specific to the local steelworks. The building is located in the Terasa housing estate in Košice and, thanks to its distinctive silhouette and characteristic façade, forms a dominant feature of the urban structure.

Design for human habitation and practices of the vernacular have evolved together over time. Field Architects focuses on these built-forms and their informative layers, such as local climate, food-habits, culture and tradition, community and family structure, interdependency of human and environment, politics of material and economy, occupation, craft and trade, societal and individual aspirations, standard of comfort, ideation of a shelter and transformation of the layout; and study its observable patterns and adaptive geometry within the context. Ladakh is a high-altitude cold desert in the Trans-Himalayan region. With its rich history in anthropology and trade, the vernacular of Ladakh ha..

Photographer Paul Clemence has documented West Bund Orbit, Heatherwick Studio's public exhibition hall on Shanghai's West Bund waterfront, in a photo series exploring the project's evolving architectural identity. Located in Xuhui District along the Huangpu River, the building was conceived as a cultural destination within the area's emerging Financial Hub while extending the network of public spaces that define the redeveloped riverfront. Rather than focusing solely on the building as an object, Clemence's photographs examine the relationship between architecture, circulation, and landscape, revealing how the project's interconnected pathways and layered form engage both the waterfront and ..

This week belonged to the arts, with cultural architecture dominating headlines across the globe. Landmark buildings for major institutions advanced through important construction and design milestones, from the Shanghai Opera House to Abu Dhabi's new performing arts center, while two new museum commissions were announced following international competitions. Architecture also took centre stage as a subject of exhibition itself, with the Sharjah Architecture Triennial revealing its participant list and Austria unveiling its proposal for the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale. Beyond these developments, this week's news compilation includes three upcoming urban design projects: in Seoul, South..

When Buda and Pest joined in 1873, the two parts formed a capital whose identity has since been tied to this balance between geography and urban order. From the riverbanks and thermal baths to imperial monuments and infrastructural works, Budapest's architecture carries the traces of these overlapping histories.

A house that does not interrupt the landscape, but inhabits it: a succession of low volumes that unfold along the terrain, fostering an atmosphere that inspires stillness and connection with nature.The fan-shaped lot is located in Estancias del Pilar, in the middle of a mature, sprawling field with open views toward the golf course on its long side, the lagoon at the back, and a public park at the front. A horizontal, rolling terrain, generous and alive. A landscape that already had its own essence, its own rhythm.

Campus Art settlements: Art Museum of AHUA — Nestled beside the central lake on the campus, the Art Museum of AHUA boasts superior natural scenery and serves as a key venue for exhibiting visual artworks and conducting external artistic exchanges. Its design inherits the master planning philosophy of the campus, embodying and promoting Huizhou artistic traditions and spatial characteristics.

A mixed-use building integrating commercial facilities and residences, planned adjacent to Naka-Ikebukuro Park and located a two-minute walk from Ikebukuro Station East Exit. This project aimed to harmonise with the mixed-use cultural and commercial facility 'Hareza Ikebukuro,' which opened in 2019, and the renovated Naka-Ikebukuro Park, seeking to create new appeal for the area. Naka-Ikebukuro Park underwent a transformation during its renewal, shifting from a sandy surface to a stone-paved plaza. Re-established as a space evoking the character of a European square, it now functions as a venue supporting cultural events and vibrant activity. Creating a sense of unity with this plaza became ..

Thirty years later, the UIA World Congress of Architects returns to Barcelona. Coinciding with the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s passing, history and the present converge in this city, lending this year’s congress a unique depth of meaning.

Located on the coastal edge of Punta Hueso in Chile's Coquimbo Region, Casa TG was designed with a premise of minimal intervention on the territory. Set on a plot featuring native vegetation and strong exposure to the elements, the house proposes an occupancy that preserves the existing flora, actively incorporating it into the domestic experience and transforming it into an integral part of the architectural program.

Alva House was conceived based on a careful reading of the natural characteristics of the site, located on the shores of the Marimbondo Reservoir in Minas Gerais, Brazil. From the very first design decisions, the landscape became the primary guiding element of the architecture. Situated along a frontage of approximately 75 meters (246 feet), the residence organizes its spaces to prioritize views of the water, establishing a constant relationship between interior and exterior.

When Hubert Klumpner and Diego Ceresuela Wiesmann from ETH Zurich and Urbanthinktank_next, along with Alejandro Restrepo from UPB Medellín, became involved in the design of the Villas de San Pablo Cultural Center, the challenge was not simply to construct an urban facility in a new social housing neighborhood, but to formulate an infrastructure capable of supporting an urban process marked by displacement, migration, and the need to rebuild community.

Located in a mountainous region with a highland tropical climate, this house sits at an elevation of 900 meters in the so-called "upper city" of Juiz de Fora.