Why Travel (still) Shapes the Way Architects Think

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Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, traveling through Rome, Paris, Venice, Florence, and other European cities was considered an essential part of a newly graduated architect's education. At a time when access to photographs and publications was extremely limited, these trips were the primary way to experience architecture up close. In the early twentieth century, Le Corbusier reinterpreted this tradition in his own way: at 23, he embarked on the Voyage d'Orient, passing through the Balkans, Istanbul, and Athens, producing travel notebooks he would return to throughout his life.

Casa Ínsula / TANAT + PEMO + Carlos García Noriega

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Mérida, Mexico

Fradique Building / GRUPOSP

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  • Architects: GRUPOSP
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1195
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2025
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    Manufacturers:  Atlas Schindler, Abbawood, Braston, Concresteel, REKA, +1

Trilogy House / Waechter Architecture

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  4450 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024

Underground Spa / KIP arhitekti

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  • Architects: KIP arhitekti
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  110
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023

The Public Kitchen: How Asian Markets Turn Eating Into Civic Life

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In many Asian cities, eating has never belonged entirely to the private home. It spills into markets, hawker centers, street stalls, and wholesale districts embedded within larger buildings or areas. These are places where the city exchanges information and watches other people pass through. They are not restaurants in the conventional sense, nor are they simply markets. In some way, their vibrancy and usage reflect the society's conditions at that moment. They are public kitchens: shared infrastructures where domestic routines are partially transferred into collective space.

Hong Kong's Municipal Services Buildings and curbside dining are where food is understood not only as culture, but as urban organization. The cooked-food center in the city folds eating into a larger civic machine of wet markets, libraries, and sports halls. The dai pai dong and street-side table, meanwhile, transform the curb into a temporary dining room. Looking beyond Hong Kong, similar questions emerge across the region. How do cities make room for social eating? Where does cooking happen when domestic space is limited? What kind of architecture supports the mess and heat of everyday food?

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Chenhu Migratory Bird Observation Tower / Xiang Architects

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Wuhan, China
  • Architects: Xiang Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  303
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026

Lina Bo Bardi's First Exhibition in China and GXN's Reclaimed-Material Community Space: This Week's Review

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This week's stories explore how architecture engages with questions of culture, access, and collective life, from new cultural institutions and exhibitions to public spaces and housing. This week, the 2026 NCARB by the Numbers report provided a broader perspective on the profession itself, showing that people of color accounted for 49% of licensure candidates in 2025 and women for 47%, compared with 21% and 28% among the overall architect population. The report offers one perspective on access within the profession, while projects and cultural initiatives further examine how architecture responds to different forms of public and collective life.

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Centro Piacentiniano / CN10 architetti

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  15000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023

ZHA Designs 198-Hectare Urban District Around Baku Expo Center in Azerbaijan

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ZHA has been selected to design a new 198-hectare urban district in Baku, Azerbaijan. The project surrounds the existing Baku Expo Center events venue in a pine forest area that is planned to be preserved. The plan responds to the city's population growth over the past decade with a masterplan to organize the provision of a wide variety of residences. This is the firm's second project in Baku, after the Heydar Aliyev Center cultural venue, completed in 2013. On a different scale, the buildings in the new district appear to follow the geometric style inherited from Zaha Hadid, in a series of white buildings with rounded edges that convey an idea of fluid architecture.

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Building a National Image: Architecture, Capital, and Political Power

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The Pyramid of Tirana opened as a museum to Enver Hoxha in October 1988, three years after his death and three years before the regime collapsed. In the decades that followed, it served as a radio station, a conference venue, a nightclub, and a base for NATO during the Kosovo war. In 2023, MVRDV reopened it as a park and technology school, adding steps to the façades so that the building could be walked over. The inauguration was timed to the Western Balkans Summit on 16 October, a date that some critics pointed out was Hoxha's birthday. Two projects of national self-definition, thirty-five years apart and built on opposite political premises, have used the same structure.

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Casa PR21 / Alventosa Morell Arquitectes

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  253
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  MINIM

Strathmore Courtyard House / Studio Ceravolo

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Strathmore, Australia

Canopy Design at Starfire Discovery Camp / CM Design

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  • Architects: CM Design
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  495
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026

Topographies of Encounter - Concordia Square / AR-AR Martínez Arquitectura y Paisaje + María Paula González Bozzi

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House in São Paulo / André Vainer Arquitetos

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Alto de Pinheiros, Brazil
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  5920 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Coral, Deca, FÓRMICA BRASIL, REKA

Chocó Pambil Refuge / Minqa Atelier

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Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Ecuador
  • Architects: Minqa Atelier
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  53
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2026

Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music / COOKFOX

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Woonhuis Heenvliet / Studio Brandvries

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  • Architects: Studio Brandvries
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  280
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024

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