The first Quiet Room in a public space of Milan defines spaces for different ways of being and living
What does it mean to make a cultural space genuinely accessible? Accessibility often brings to mind ramps, lifts or signs, […]
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Architecture explores the buildings, spaces and urban interventions that shape the built environment. This section gathers articles on residential, commercial and office projects, public architecture, adaptive reuse, urban regeneration and experimental approaches, alongside the people and practices behind them. At DesignWanted, architecture is covered as a discipline that reflects the way cities, communities and environments continue to evolve. The editorial selection looks at construction methods, spatial strategies, material choices and the broader impact of architecture on everyday life.
Svara Boutique Residences by Mazari: the design of a private retreat
The distance between a kitchen, a sofa and a pool can say a great deal about how a holiday residence […]
Building a home with 2,500€ in a rural Bangladeshi village
In Para Dash, a bamboo-weaving village in Modonpur, Bangladesh, houses are built the way they have always been built: with […]
Earth Valley Theater: when architecture is not just for humans
Traditionally, architecture is designed around human needs and choices, but not in this case. The Earth Valley Theater – a […]
A workplace on a tree: the Baumhaus Office of Benedikt Hartl
Is micro-living a new way of approaching architecture, or are we simply living in a moment – and a world […]
Ibira Work, opening the office to nature and its urban surroundings
Generally, when we talk about offices, the spaces we consider are indoor environments where greenery has the function of improving […]
LTR1 brings housing, public space and nature into a vertical neighborhood
What if a residential tower behaved less like a building and more like a neighborhood, a vertical neighborhood? This is […]
A building that never ends: the role of affordances in architectural longevity
Why do some buildings survive for five hundred years while others are torn down within a few decades of being […]
How Aristides Dallas Architects made the ancient Greek village contemporary
Athens-based Aristides Dallas Architects have recently won a 2026 Architizer A+ Award in the Unbuilt Hospitality category for Shared Ground, […]
Itaca: inside WASP’s first certified 3D-printed house
On a stretch of farmland near Imola, an Italian company called WASP has finished building a house through additive manufacturing. […]
Phyta Biodesign brings living systems into the built environment
As cities continue to expand, architecture is increasingly being asked to respond to environmental challenges that go beyond reducing carbon […]
Designing the hospitals of tomorrow with PARK and Carlo Ratti Associati
Brescia is not an obvious place to look for a rethink of what public architecture should be like. It is […]
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