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Svatman Farmhouse / HabitArt Architecture Studio

May 18

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Architects: HabitArt Architecture Studio
Area: 2750 ft²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Baliapatnam Earth Hollow Block, Fenesta - Windows, Jaquar India, Vidhyasagar Stonex

Office above the Pool / Modulito Estudio + atelier industrial

May 18

+ 22

Architects: Modulito Estudio, atelier industrial
Area: 36 m²
Year: 2025

Modular Pavilion / Dietsch Vilaça + Lukas Beer

May 18

+ 15

Architects: Dietsch Vilaça, Lukas Beer
Year: 2025

Between the Rock and the River / Mimosa architects

May 18

+ 24

Architects: Mimosa architects
Area: 78 m²
Year: 2025

The Soft Control of Space: Design for Decision-Making

Subscriber Access | May 18

"There is no space without event, no architecture without action." When Bernard Tschumi wrote these words, he was articulating a fundamental principle of the architect's practice. Architecture is about behavior. Every stroke of a pen on a floor plan is a proposition about how occupants will move or what actions become possible.

To draw is to architect a reality. Though with this power, architecture does not command. It does not issue instructions or enforce compliance, but it operates through a soft control — a mode of influence that shapes behavior by structuring perception and guiding attention.

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Yaw House / Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes

May 18

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Architects: KWK Promes, Robert Konieczny
Year: 2025
Professionals: Kornel Szyndler Proeco, WIDAWSCY studio architektury, KELLER system glazing, KER+3MR

LANZA atelier Reveals New Details for the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion

May 18

Mexican architecture practice LANZA atelier has unveiled new details for the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion, titled "a serpentine," which will open to the public on 6 June 2026 at Serpentine South. Designed by studio founders Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, the project reinterprets the historic serpentine or crinkle-crankle wall through a lightweight brick structure integrated into the landscape of Hyde Park. Marking the 25th edition of the annual commission, the pavilion will remain on view through October 2026 and serve as a venue for Serpentine's public programme of performances, talks, screenings, and community events.

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Wood-Stack Sauna Zaježová / Guča arch.

May 18

+ 13

Architects: Guča arch.
Area: 25 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Harvia, Jeremias, Knauf, Maslen, Steico

Historic Entertainment Venues in Oxford, Valparaíso, and Osaka Reflect Growing Pressures on Cultural Infrastructure

May 18

Between 2005 and 2021, French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre developed a long-term project titled Theaters. Recently exhibited at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026, the work documents a phenomenon that continues to unfold gradually around the world: the decline of infrastructure originally designed for public entertainment in the early twentieth century. Theaters, cinemas, and performance venues that once accompanied the modernization of cities are increasingly being abandoned, repurposed, or "left suspended as hybrid ruins." This process is often associated with the growing individualization of cultural consumption, from the widespread adoption of television to the rise of the streaming industry, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural institutions. Below are three cases located in England, Chile, and Japan that illustrate different stages in this transformation, while also highlighting community-led efforts to preserve modern cultural heritage.

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Oil, Glass, and Identity: Gulf Modernism Between Global Image and Local Climate

May 18

Step from the heat of Dubai into the lobby of a glass tower, and the desert seems to disappear. Outside, temperatures climb past 45 degrees Celsius; inside, the air is cold, sealed, and perfectly controlled. For decades, this contrast became the defining image of Gulf modernity. Architecture became less a negotiation with climate, and more a demonstration that climate could be overcome. Towers of reflective glass rose from the desert as symbols of arrival, projecting financial power, technological confidence, and global ambition. Beneath this urban image sat an infrastructure built on oil, cheap energy, and the continuous mechanical suppression of heat.

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Unileão Sports Center / Lins Arquitetos Associados

May 18

+ 21

Architects: Lins Arquitetos Associados
Area: 25 m²
Year: 2024

Hainan Science Museum / MAD Architects

May 18

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Architects: MAD Architects
Area: 46528 m²
Year: 2026
Professionals: RFR Shanghai, EADG, MAD, CCDI Group, Ning Field Lighting Design Corp., Ltd., CCDI, +2

See and Foresee: Architectural Research Across Four Southeastern European Cities

May 18 | Sponsored Content

Cities in Southeastern Europe do not wait to be read. They accumulate, layer upon layer of socialist planning, post-socialist disruption, and the quieter, less legible work of citizens remaking space from the ground up. Here, space and legacy insist on their own terms. What happens to architectural research when the cities that we observe already seem to know something our discipline has not yet learned to see?