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House in the Air in Luque, a concrete volume raised on pillars beside a brick tower and the garden

9 February 2026

House on the Air: when suspending the house redefines the floor

Casa en el Aire reinvents housing in Luque with an elevated volume on pillars, optimizing ventilation, light and spatial efficiency.

Morrison building by BBOA seen from the street in Rosario, with white volumes behind a metal fence

Architecture

9 February 2026

Morrison Building: collective housing that respects the suburbs

BBOA's Morrison Building redefines suburban density in Rosario while maintaining visual identity, green spaces and human scale.

Black and white portrait of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe behind a model of one of his buildings

Interior design

12 November 2025

Mies van der Rohe: history and works

Discover the history, style and main works of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the master of modern architecture.

Charred timber facade of Dzen House with a round window under a deep-eaved roof, among tall grasses

Architecture

12 November 2025

Dzen House: Japanese calm, Ukrainian memory

On the outskirts of Kyiv, Shovk Studio transforms a house into a serene refuge where technology is at the service of peace and quiet.

Grey brick facade of Naples Street House by Edition Office, with the living room open to the garden through glass

Architecture

12 November 2025

Naples Street House: a house to inhabit movement

Naples Street House: one of the owners is a dancer; the house is conceived as a device for the body in movement.

Casa Plaj, a reddish house with a gabled roof and a slatted door above the meadow

Architecture

12 November 2025

Casa Plaj: a red house that understands the wind

On the Portuguese Atlantic coast, extrastudio erects Casa Plaj as a primary geometry that seems to perch rather than settle.

Pale plywood room with open shelving and a kitchen beyond in Omoya and Hanare by YSLA Architects, Osaka

Architecture

12 November 2025

Omoya and Hanare: a redistribution of social and private habitation

The Omoya and Hanare proposal, by YSLA Architects, emerges as a domestic experiment within the existing residential fabric of Osaka.

Reddish brick volume emerging from eucalyptus and dense vegetation at Maitland Bay House

Architecture

12 November 2025

Maitland Bay House: a refuge between forest and sea

Maitland Bay House must not only solve internal programs, but respond to the environment, climate and topography with precision.

Weston Visitor Centre by Feilden Fowles, in rammed earth with a glass roof, set into a Yorkshire hillside

Architecture

12 November 2025

Weston Visitor Centre, integrated architecture in Yorkshire

The Weston Visitor Centre, designed by Feilden Fowles, blends into the Yorkshire landscape with sensitive and sustainable architecture.

Bright hall at NICETO with white roof trusses and rooflights, a glazed mezzanine and work tables

Architecture

12 November 2025

NICETO, the light between two courtyards

NICETO: a project that relies on an industrial pre-existence and a domestic typology to create a unique building.

Pale brick facade of Cape Schanck House behind a gravel drive and lawn

Architecture

14 August 2025

Cape Schanck House: light, matter and architecture that breathes

Cape Schanck House explores light and matter in an architecture that seems to breathe with its surroundings.

White kitchen with an island opening onto a timber deck among the trees, TISSARAOUATA

Architecture

31 July 2025

TISSARAOUATA: a dialogue with the forest

TISSARAOUATA establishes a direct dialogue between architecture and the surrounding forest.

Dark timber house with a folded roof and pale timber windows behind a flowering tree, Butterfly House

Architecture

24 July 2025

Butterfly House: architecture for coexistence

Butterfly House proposes an architecture designed for coexistence among its inhabitants.

Affordance House, a white gabled volume curving between the houses of a residential neighbourhood

Architecture

29 May 2025

Affordance House: adaptation to the environment

Affordance House bases its design on constant adaptation to its surrounding environment.

Pale brick façade of the Le Grand Palais cinema in Cahors, a low volume with a gabled roof

Architecture

22 May 2025

Le Grand Palais at Cahors: an extension of the existing

Le Grand Palais, in Cahors, is conceived as a natural extension of what was already there.

Brick plaza with steps in front of the Jonkershove Cultural Centre by Rapp+Rapp and its brick tower

Architecture

15 May 2025

Jonkershove Cultural Center: sober geometry and programmatic flexibility

Jonkershove Cultural Center combines sober geometry with the flexibility needed for multiple uses.

Atrium house of black charred timber with stepped volumes on the lawn, by Förstberg Ling

Architecture

8 May 2025

Introspective architecture by Förstberg Ling

Förstberg Ling signs an introspective architecture, one that looks inward before it looks out.

Floating house with dark timber walls raised on footings above a meadow, with a long continuous deck

Architecture

24 April 2025

A levitating house that draws on Japanese tradition

A Japanese house that appears to levitate, drawing on local building tradition read in a contemporary key.

Summer house with a light roof among birch trees, seen from a clearing in the forest

Architecture

27 March 2025

Tradition and modernity in a summer house

A summer house where tradition and modernity coexist without one overpowering the other.

The Wandering House raised on a concrete base, with a dark timber upper floor against the mountain backdrop

Architecture

6 March 2025

The Wandering House: new inspiration in architecture

The Wandering House offers a new way of understanding architecture, as inspiration in constant motion.

Symbiotic House with sloping roof planes, large windows and a stone bench on the lawn in the Japanese mountains

Architecture

20 February 2025

Symbiotic House: A Contemporary Refuge in the Japanese Mountains

Symbiotic House is conceived as a contemporary refuge integrated into the Japanese mountains.

Circular exhibition room of curved glass opening onto a tree-filled garden at the Hiroshi Senju Museum

Architecture

6 February 2025

Hiroshi Senju Museum: a place for art

The Hiroshi Senju Museum was conceived as a space designed entirely around art.

Amento house living room under a timber-beam ceiling with tall windows onto the meadow

Architecture

26 December 2024

Amento: the relationship between geometry and nature.

Amento explores the relationship between geometry and nature through forms that speak to the landscape.

Dark pavilion of Peter Zumthor's Zinc Mine Museum among birches and rocks in Allmannajuvet, Norway

Architecture

8 October 2024

Peter Zumthor rescues Norwegian mining at Mine Zinc Museum Allmannajuvet

Peter Zumthor recovers the memory of Norwegian mining at the Mine Zinc Museum in Allmannajuvet.

Contemporary architecture, as we understand it, engages with place, asks the questions of its time and is built from matter. A selection of international projects that rethink how we inhabit and relate to our surroundings.The same attitude that guides our practice in its architecture projects and across our architecture journal.