Escapism from the Streets: How Air-Conditioning Reshaped the Asian City
In many Asian cities, the summer climate can increasingly be experienced from a distance. In Hong Kong, it is possible to move from an apartment tower through a podium mall, enter the...
View ArticlePavilia Farm Clubhouses / Snøhetta
With the completion of Sky House, the final clubhouse at Pavilia Farm, Snøhetta's vision for a unique urban community centered around nature, wellbeing, and collective ownership is now realized in...
View ArticleSharjah Architecture Triennial Presents "A Journey into Architecture...
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has released the full documentary films from A Journey into Architecture Archives: Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis online. Curated by George Arbid, the project is part...
View ArticleCommunity Center Gamlitz / Gangoly & Kristiner Architects
There is no better symbol of community than a large roof that brings us all together.
View ArticleCitizen-Led Campaign Seeks UNESCO Status for Select Pre-Colonial Sites in...
A campaign led by Red Lima Milenaria is seeking UNESCO recognition for pre-colonial sites in the Peruvian capital. Today, more than 600 archaeological sites remain in Lima, a metropolis of 11 million...
View ArticleStories as a Resource: How Narrative Design Builds Resilience
This article is part of "Thresholds", a special edition printed newspaper by Cobe Notes x ArchDaily.There are two unique things about being human that made us survive the early years and spread over...
View ArticleAmman Architecture City Guide: 11 Projects in a Capital Shaped by Migration...
Built across several hills, Amman has grown at a pace few Middle Eastern capitals have matched. The city has received successive waves of migration — Circassians in the late 19th century, Palestinian...
View ArticleHome for Dependent People / SV60 Arquitectos
Young and old have one thing in common: they are defined by their relationship with time. People's relationship with time is ephemeral and fleeting. The architecture we propose seeks to improve...
View ArticleAz-Boroun Villa / CROSSARCHITECTURE
Az-Boroun — Persian for "from outside" — turns the edge between house and garden into a deep spatial threshold: three overlapping volumes form a deep frame, while two voids bring landscape, daylight,...
View ArticleYuelang Road Block Comprehensive Quality Enhancement / TJAD Original Design...
Yuelang Road is located in the core area of Qianjiang Century City, Hangzhou, surrounded by six high-density commercial and office towers. Before renewal, this approximately 330-meter internal street...
View ArticleAshjar Cafe / Studio Ahmed Aldossary
As Saudi Arabia's coffee culture continues to grow, cafés have become an important third place for many Saudis. Ashjar, meaning "trees" in Arabic, was conceived as a small urban escape within Riyadh,...
View ArticleJordnära Cafe & PHOMI Showroom / Ady Putra Architect Design Firm
Located in the heart of Pantai Indah Kapuk, Jordnära Cafe is designed as a calm and welcoming space where people can pause, connect, and unwind. Created by Ady Putra Architect, the project transforms...
View ArticleOffice 101 Casa Andina / Caliza Arquitectura
The intervention is located in the Laureles neighborhood of Medellín, inside a structure representative of the area's traditional residential architecture. In response to new urban dynamics, the...
View ArticleHouse of People / DinellJohansson
Folkets Hus has been refurbished and restored with the care and attention it deserves. The original building architect was the excellent Kockum Luttinger Söderström. DinellJohansson won the competition...
View ArticleFrom Seasonal Escape to Permanent Elsewhere: Movement and Architecture in the...
For many communities across the Gulf, leaving home once formed part of inhabiting it. Families moved between desert pastures, coastal settlements, wells, fishing grounds, and pearling ports according...
View ArticleauruBOROS - Urban Memory and Collective Dream / Plastique Fantastique
auruBOROS transforms the ancient image of the Ouroboros into a temporary urban organism that moves through New York City, connecting architecture, public space, and collective experience.
View ArticleOsmanthus Moon / HCCH Studio
Osmanthus Moon is a short-term public art installation created to celebrate the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a projection, specially as well as metaphorically, of the widely beloved...
View ArticleHouse in Kagurazaka / Takumi Wakui + Riho Wakui Architects
Located in Kagurazaka, a historical neighborhood in Tokyo where traditional Japanese alleyways meet modern urban density, House in Kagurazaka is a single-family residence that reinterprets the...
View ArticlePatina House / 182 DESIGN
Set within a quiet residential context, Patina House is conceived as an exploration of time through material. Rather than foregrounding form, the design allows materials, craft, and use to shape the...
View ArticlePabellón El Eco 2020: Cronoboros / TANAT
Through the Manifesto of Emotional Architecture (published in 1953), Mathias Goeritz expressed a new form of architecture that goes beyond a logical and rational understanding of space, opening up the...
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