Architecture
Architecture shapes the buildings, spaces and urban environments we inhabit. Explore residential, commercial and public projects, adaptive reuse and urban regeneration, alongside the architects and practices behind them. From construction methods and material choices to spatial strategies and experimental approaches, these articles examine how architecture responds to changing communities and influences everyday life.
Sauna Zaježová: from timber drying to a place to rest, in harmony with nature
In central Slovakia, Guča arch. has built a 25-square-metre sauna that borrows the humble logic of a village woodpile, integrated into the landscape.
Palaces for the people: on the importance of designing social infrastructure
Aire Commune’s latest project combines shade, seating, planting, and power in a repeatable module and shows how modest infrastructure can matter to a city as much as the…
The first Quiet Room in a public space in Milan defines spaces for different ways of being and living
Studiolatte and Slalom join forces with BASE Milano to give back to the city a space that speaks a plurality of languages, where softness, sounds and inclusivity are…
Svara Boutique Residences by Mazari: the design of a private retreat
Arched terraces, sunken lounges and locally crafted furnishings give Svara’s 29 private residences in Bali a domestic character, with kitchens and living rooms opening directly onto planted pool…
Building a home with 2,500€ in a rural Bangladeshi village
Architect Xinyun Li’s unbuilt concept for a bamboo-weaving village in rural Bangladesh proposes a different kind of home, built with found materials and inherited skills.
Earth Valley Theater: when architecture is not just for humans
In the mountains of Wuxi, China, GOA transforms an open-air theater into a shared habitat: spectators, birds, nature, and architecture become part of the same performance in a…
A workplace on a tree: the Baumhaus Office of Benedikt Hartl
What happens when the cost of space becomes more important than the space itself? In Weimar, Opposite Office answers with a one-square-metre treehouse, the Baumhaus Office, turning the…
Ibira Work, opening the office to nature and its urban surroundings
The São Paulo studio creates an office building where nature and the landscape become part of the working environment – for informal meetings or moments of exchange between…
LTR1 brings housing, public space and nature into a vertical neighborhood
Designed by Carazo Arquitectura, LTR1 transforms a mixed-use development in Nuevo Cuscatlán, El Salvador, into a vertical neighborhood built around an existing forest, combining residences, public spaces, and…
A building that never ends: the role of affordances in architectural longevity
A student at Politecnico di Milano is proposing a different way of designing buildings for architectural reuse, centred on doing less instead of more.
How Aristides Dallas Architects made the ancient Greek village contemporary
An award-winning hospitality proposal treats the traditional Greek village not as an image to imitate, but as a set of principles to extract, test, and rebuild for contemporary…
Itaca: inside WASP’s first certified 3D-printed house
In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, Italian additive-manufacturing company WASP has cleared the road for 3D-printed housing worldwide, creating a seismic-code-compliant and off-grid building.