Category: Architecture

lima house: A Horizontal dwelling in a Chilean Valley   Pezo von Ellrichshausen‘s newly built LIMA House stands in a rural valley of central Chile among an expanse of open farmland edged by vineyards and rocky hills. Its presence is defined by a single horizontal piece raised above the ground, a minimalist line set against…

besley & spresser rethink Asbestos and the damage it left behind   At the Lisbon Triennale 2025, Besley & Spresser present a material provocation disguised as an architectural installation that begins with a disarming question from Peter Besley. ‘What if one of the building industry’s most hazardous materials could become one of its most promising?’…

Floating Pavilion Reconfigures Rijeka’s Waterfront Public Space   PlivaTri is a floating triangular pavilion installed off the coast of Rijeka, Croatia, as part of the MEDS Design Workshop 2025. Conceived as a public structure addressing the limited availability of comfortable beachfront space, the pavilion forms a geometric intervention within the Adriatic landscape. Its triangular plan…

MA.DE BISTRO reInterprets Traditional Vietnamese Architecture   MA.DE Bistro is a contemporary complex by AN NAM Design and Build located within the pine forest of Mang Den in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. The restaurant design incorporates regional cultural references, drawing from the traditional Rông house to establish its architectural identity. A roof composed of three interlinked…

legendary architect FRANK GEHRY passeD AWAY AT 96   Frank Gehry died on Friday, December 5th at his home in Santa Monica, California, at 96 years old. One of the most legendary architects of his generation, his sculptural buildings transformed skylines and reshaped the public’s imagination about what architecture could be. His chief of staff, Meaghan…

‘mountain chamber’ carves into a swedish cave   The Mountain Chamber by Erdegard Arkitekter rises at the threshold of an existing rock cavern in Sweden, introducing a precisely engineered volume at the edge of raw geological mass. The project serves as a transitional structure that guides visitors from open terrain into a sheltered interior carved…

RCR sculpts a dubai residence as a topographic network   RCR Arquitectes shapes Alwah House, a 900-square-meter dwelling, as a cluster of curved, shaded volumes partially embedded into the desert on the outskirts of Dubai. The home turns to the natural logics of a flower and an oasis as its two main references. The architects…

XXXI.studio Develops an Adaptable Interior for Lupita restaurant   Architectural practice XXXI.studio introduces Lupita’s latest Lisbon location, a pizza restaurant situated in Alvalade, Portugal. The new location introduces an architectural approach centered on production, visibility, and operational clarity. The project expands on the brand’s earlier Cais do Sodré space by positioning pizza-making as the primary…

modern design by link-arc rises within china’s yunlu wetland   Beside a natural habitat for thousands of herons, Shunde Yunlu Wetland Museum by Link-Arc rises within the dense vegetation of a wetland park in China.   The museum sits just beyond a line of sequoia trees, set back from nearby paths and waterways to maintain…

frida escobedo’s New complex for Qatar   The newly presented design for the headquarters of the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Frida Escobedo establishes a prominent presence along Doha’s Corniche. Sited along Doha Bay, the 70,000-square-meter complex combines new construction with the adaptive reuse of the 1985 General Post Office, a familiar modernist landmark…