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Shand Road / Ys Housing

April 17

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Architects: Ys Housing
Area: 562 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Architectural Window Systems, Bluescope Steel, Havwoods
Professionals: Fornido, nohLa

Center for Biomedical Research at the Faculty of Medical and Dental Sciences (FMRP) – University of São Paulo (USP) / Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos

April 17

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Architects: Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos
Area: 24492 m²
Year: 2025

Cycle&Cycle Stone-oven Bakery Restaurant / Tens Atelier + FANAF

April 17

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Architects: FANAF, Tens Atelier
Area: 420 m²
Year: 2025

CS Residence / Fpoles Arquitetos

April 16

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Architects: Fpoles Arquitetos
Area: 413 m²
Year: 2024
Manufacturers: Alus Esquadrias, M2 Marmoraria, kitchens

House on the Cautín River / Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos

April 16

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Architects: Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos
Area: 143 m²
Year: 2020

Stjärnorp Castle Ruin / Tengbom

April 16

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Architects: Tengbom
Area: 1000 m²
Year: 2022
Manufacturers: Unknown (Removed)

EU Mies Awards 2026 Announces Winners in Both Architecture and Emerging Architecture Categories

April 16

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission have announced the winners of the 2026 edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards, selected from a total of 410 nominated works. The 2026 Architecture Prize goes to the renovation of the Charleroi Palais des Expositions in Belgium by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck, while the Emerging Architecture Prize is awarded to Temporary Spaces for the Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana by Vidic Grohar Arhitekti. The announcement was made in Oulu, European Capital of Culture 2026, at the Aalto Siilo, a landmark of industrial architecture designed by Alvar Aalto in 1931.

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PCG House / Visioarq Arquitectos

April 16

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Architects: Visioarq Arquitectos
Area: 418 m²
Year: 2024

El Pueblo de Los Angeles: The Spanish Origins of LA’s Urban Grid

Subscriber Access | April 16

Today, the urban form of Los Angeles is characterized by 20th-century sprawl and extensive automotive infrastructure. However, the physical reality of the city's original core reveals a more complex history that is deeply rooted in Hispanic heritage. In fact, Los Angeles did not originate from the standardized American land system that defines most of the United States' territory. Instead, it is a product of the Spanish urban tradition in the Americas, which followed a structure repeated across major cities on the continent. The intersection of these systems created a layered urban geometry and history that remains visible in the city's contemporary street patterns.

When Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as a pueblo by Felipe de Neve, it was an outpost of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Viceroyalties were political divisions of the Spanish territories in America, and by the late 18th century, New Spain was vast. It stretched from southern Costa Rica, all the way north to Alta California, bordering the east at the Mississippi River and the newly independent United States of America. At this time, Mexico City functioned as the primary administrative and economic hub, leaving frontier regions like Alta California to rely on a specific triad of settlements: missions (religious), presidios (military), and pueblos (civilian).

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Wildcoast House / Pandolfini Architects

April 16

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Architects: Pandolfini Architects
Year: 2025
Professionals: Turn Group, Meyer Consulting

Milan Design Week 2026 and Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Cathedral Precinct in Sydney: This Week’s Review

April 16

As major cultural events, institutional transformations, and new architectural commissions unfold across different geographies, this week's discourse highlights how architecture operates at the intersection of public life, creativity, and long-term adaptation. With Milan Design Week 2026 foregrounding process, experimentation, and citywide participation, the projects and initiatives emerging this week point to a broader shift toward openness, accessibility, and experiential engagement across disciplines and urban contexts. Ongoing investments in cultural infrastructure, from new museums to large-scale renovations and competition-winning proposals, further underscore how institutions continue to recalibrate their spatial and social roles in response to evolving environmental, technological, and cultural demands.

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Platte-Lostraat Collective Housing / KPW architecten

April 16

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Architects: KPW architecten
Area: 3300 m²
Year: 2025

Kéré Architecture’s Goethe-Institut in Senegal Opens as a Landmark for Cultural Exchange in West Africa

April 16

In February 2022, construction began on the Goethe-Institut in Dakar, designed by Kéré Architecture. Present in Senegal since 1978, the Goethe-Institut is reaching a milestone in strengthening cultural ties between Germany, Senegal, and West Africa with this new building. As the first purpose-built Goethe-Institut on the African continent, it embodies a long-term commitment to supporting the creative industries and fostering intellectual exchange. From April 16 to 18, 2026, the Goethe-Institut will host a series of events to mark the inauguration of its new headquarters.

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What Textiles and Translucency Bring to Public Space: 5 Lightweight Interventions

April 16

What do lightweight materials bring to public space with an ethical, ecological, and non-extractive design principle? Various textile textures offer a point of entry, being closer to the body than heavy conventional structural materials. Through its flexibility and responsiveness, it enables a form of soft enclosure rather than a fixed boundary in architectural space. Responding to minimal environmental stimuli, the fabric brings continuous movements into space. When layered or assembled, it produces gradations of density, depth, and enclosure, while recent innovative fabrication technologies extend the possibilities of its form and structural durability.

Semi-transparent materials further mediate the conditions of visual permeability and bodily experience of the space. By transmitting and filtering light, they blur clear separations between interior and exterior, solid and void, creating thresholds that are neither fully open nor fully enclosed, but constantly in negotiation. Reinterpreting structure in urban space through lightweight, translucency, and softness opens up alternative modes of spatial perception and bodily engagement.

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