• 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.
  • These Apartments Are Like Sculptures You Can Live In
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
     Sculptural apartment forms at Esplanade Brighton step down toward the coast, blending into the urban grain while standing out through bold material choices and curved, contemporary design. Photography by Derek Swalwell In the heart of Brighton, Melbourne, Wood Marsh has delivered a fresh take on coastal living with Esplanade Brighton, a medium-density housing project that’s bold in form but deeply respectful of its...
  • 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...
  • Exploring A House and Barn Where Raw Materials Meet Scenic Views
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Inside, the main living space brings together the kitchen, dining area, and living room into one open-plan volume. The gabled ceiling soars to 20 feet at its peak, creating a sense of openness and calm. Worrell Yeung has designed a two-part retreat in the wooded hills of Columbia County, New York, for a young family looking to connect with the landscape. Set on an 88-acre ridgeline, the project includes Ridge House and Ridge Barn, two...
  • 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.
  • Inside a Japanese-Inspired Vineyard Home in Turkey
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Step inside a serene Japanese-inspired vineyard house in Sapanca, Turkey. Surrounded by nature and designed for relaxation, this unique retreat features a heated pool, marble jacuzzi, sauna, and minimalist interiors, all set on a private one-acre plot. A hidden gem blending modern design with tranquil outdoor living. In an episode of Özlem Discovery, a YouTube channel known for unique home tours, viewers are introduced to a secluded vineyard house tucked away on a one-acre plot in the tranquil hills of Sapanca, Turkey. Designed with strong influences...
  • 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...
  • The Beauty of Rammed Earth Walls in a Modern Mountain House
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Rammed earth walls, clean lines, cantilevered roofs, and durable Shou Sugi Ban siding define the exterior of this modern mountain house built for extreme conditions. Designed by Ward + Blake Architects, the Freedom House is a remote retreat shaped by its rugged surroundings. Set on a windswept mesa between western Wyoming and eastern Idaho, the home embraces the vastness of the high desert with a...
  • A Modern Farmhouse Full Of Southern Warmth and Mountain Stillness
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    This modern barn-inspired mountain home features timeless materials like Montana sandstone and white oak, combining clean Scandinavian lines with subtle Southern detailing. In the scenic heart of Sun Valley, Idaho, the Valley Club residence stands as a modern farmhouse that brings together the charm of the South with the serenity of the mountains. Designed by Farmer Payne Architects as a year-round retreat,...
  • 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...
  • This Music Pavilion Redefines the Art of Listening
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    This modern music pavilion blends charred timber, Corten steel, and a living roof to create a sculptural retreat in the landscape. Tucked within the manicured grounds of a private estate in Surrey, England, a newly completed Music Pavilion by SHH Architecture & Interiors redefines what it means to design for sound. This purpose-built structure blends refined...
  • 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...
  • Prefab Meets Luxury in This Modular Forest Cottage
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Step inside a modern prefab cottage where minimalist design and natural materials create a serene forest escape. In the serene landscape of Germany’s Parc Bispinger Heide, a new kind of retreat quietly reshapes the Center Parcs experience. Designed by Dutch architecture studio Concrete, the Center Parcs Cottage prototype represents a bold step...
  • Small but Spacious: The Perfect Grandparents’ Retreat
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A modern and compact home with black waxed-wood cladding and extended rooflines. In the Dutch countryside, i29 architects have designed a serene and contemporary home that brings generations together without compromising independence. Built for the grandparents of a growing family, the new single-story residence sits...
  • ‘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 Seaside Home Where Limestone, Wood, and Glass Unite
    Saturday, June 21, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    This modern home has limestone walls and large glass panels that form a rhythm of solid and void, while slatted wood ceilings, inside and out, accentuate the directional flow toward the sea. Perched along the rugged Cantabrian coastline, Casa Loredo reinterprets local building traditions through a contemporary lens. Designed by ZOOCO ESTUDIO, the home embraces its dramatic setting with expansive sea views and a layout that...
  • ‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them
    Wednesday, June 11, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    It is a ‘queer Xanadu’, a sliver of sand where weekend-long revelling takes place in fabulous modernist beach-houses. As Fire Island gets its mojo back, we celebrate the Speedos-wearing architect who defined its look Posters advertising...
  • Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia
    Sunday, June 8, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkhazia found refuge here. While efforts...
  • ‘Like an expanding crepe-paper ornament’: Serpentine unveils its first movable pavilion
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Marina Tabassum has built emergency homes for the delta-dwellers of the Ganges using grass and bamboo. Her Serpentine pavilion – part tropical glasshouse, part 70s office block – is a chic, meditative place for an overpriced coffee Past...
  • Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Using passive design and local materials such as ice cream buckets, these modern community spaces offer a respite from urban heat and hustle Continue reading...
  • 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...
  • New eco-hotel at Everglades national park built for age of super hurricanes
    Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Flamingo Lodge – constructed from repurposed shipping containers on stilts – replaces Florida facility battered by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma A collection of repurposed shipping containers, welded together and fitted out to create an...
  • Ep 176: Little White Lies
    Sunday, May 18, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    We’ve all stared at the calendar, convinced there’s a hidden twenty-fifth hour—plenty of room to redline that section, nudge the model, and squeeze in just one more detail. “We’ll sort it during bidding,” we promise ourselves, and the...
  • 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...
  • Mango Malanshan Cultural Plaza / Regional Studio
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Haohao Xu Mango Malanshan Cultural Plaza explores the fluid and indistinct figure-ground relationship between the city and architecture. It aims to dissolve the closed boundaries of conventional architectural forms and revitalize daily urban life.
  • A Pavillion Of Rain / Sthapotik
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Asif Salman Background - The project is an endearing tale of a mother and her son, reminiscing about an old (1980s) building with its surroundings in Dhaka city & the transformation of the once green city into a concrete jungle. The architect...
  • House With Eight Light Courtyards / ha
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    ``8 light gardens,'' ``3 top lights,'' and ``4 high side lights'' create a rich interior space. The facade has a simple and bold design that expresses the uniqueness of the architecture. Manipulating the purity of flowing air with...
  • T House / FATHOM
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Tatsuya Tabii When we were commissioned to renovate a newly built condominium for sale, our challenge was to create a space that would make the most of the new and beautiful living environment that was currently fully habitable. During our visits to...
  • De Watergroep Office Building / evr-Architecten
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Stijn Bollaert The new office building for 'De Watergroep' in the Koning Boudewijnstraat, near St. Peter's Station, consists of a four-story main building and a meeting hub at the back of the site. The complex stands on an underground parking area....
  • Public Facilities Building / Lacroix Chessex
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Olivier di Giambattista The project forms part of the eco-district at Jonction. This public facilities building complements the three existing residential units. Its program includes a crèche, a sports hall, premises for extracurricular activities and a...
  • Faith-Based Nursing Foundation Community Center / Ford 3 Architects
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © OM Media With a growing constituent staff, students, and residents, the Foundation sought a new space to commune its population for varied affairs-chief among them worship. Ford 3 developed a simple design with a flexible interior that puts focus...
  • Neuroscience and Architecture: Designing for the Human Experience
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Lomardini22 designs neuroarchitecture-driven layout. Image © Diego Ravier | Salone del Mobile.Milano Designing for the human experience has been at the forefront of architect's intentions and motivations behind their work. While traditional processes prove beneficial, the industry is peering over boundaries to find opportunities for...
  • L2A House / Davide Beretta Studio
    Sunday, July 14, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Minimal, white finishes emphasize the geometric form of this house in Crema . Named L2A house, the two-story, three-bedroom house aims to create a contemporary interpretation of a villa, essential in its sculptural forms but comfortable...
  • Archidose, 1999–2024
    Monday, January 15, 2024 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
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