Featured Clay House / Norenaarquitectos
Editor's Choice Furniture as Architecture: Micro-Modernisms Inside the Home
O-day'min Park Pavilion / gh3*
https://www.archdaily.com/1041971/o-daymin-park-pavilion-gh3-starSusanna Moreira
Yard House / Exbrayat Enrico architectes
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Architects: Exbrayat Enrico architectes
- Area: 1600 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1041780/yard-house-exbrayat-enrico-architectesHadir Al Koshta
Designed to Repeat, Forced to Adapt: The Parallel Architecture of Socialist Housing
A housing block in New Belgrade appears orderly from a distance. Concrete slabs repeat with disciplined consistency, windows align into measured grids, and balconies stack with the confidence of a system certain of itself. However, proximity changes the reading. One balcony is enclosed in aluminum glazing, another softened with improvised shading. Insulation thickens part of a façade while laundry frames another edge like an accidental elevation study. The district still reads as planned, though occupation has made its order less uniform. Within that order, repetition has gradually been rewritten through occupation.
https://www.archdaily.com/1041867/designed-to-repeat-forced-to-adapt-the-parallel-architecture-of-socialist-housingAnanya Nayak
Prairie Ark and Nomads' Beacon Tower / BUZZ/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang
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Architects: BUZZ/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang
- Area: 1360 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1041939/prairie-ark-and-nomads-beacon-tower-buzz-buro-ziyu-zhuang韩爽 - HAN Shuang
Is Concrete Ruining the Promise of Mass Timber?
| In Collaboration
Mass timber has shifted from an experimental niche to a central part of the contemporary debate surrounding sustainable construction. The combination of lower embodied carbon, prefabricated systems, and faster construction timelines has helped position solutions such as CLT (cross-laminated timber) and DLT (dowel-laminated timber) as viable alternatives to concrete and steel in residential buildings, offices, schools, and public facilities around the world. Added to this are the predictability of construction processes and the environmental qualities associated with wood, often linked to user comfort and spatial experience.
https://www.archdaily.com/1041741/is-concrete-ruining-the-promise-of-mass-timberEduardo Souza
Safdie Architects Completes Expansion of Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will open a major 114,000-square-foot expansion to the public on June 6–7, 2026. Designed by Safdie Architects, the project extends the museum's original architecture while introducing new galleries, educational facilities, public gathering spaces, and landscape connections across the institution's 134-acre campus. The addition represents the completion of a long-term development strategy for the museum, enhancing both its exhibition capacity and its engagement with the surrounding Ozark landscape.
https://www.archdaily.com/1042050/safdie-architects-completes-expansion-of-crystal-bridges-museum-in-arkansasReyyan Dogan
Nanterre Housing / AQMA
https://www.archdaily.com/1042027/nanterre-housing-aqmaPilar Caballero
Studio NEiDA Designs The Falcon Cinema in Ghana, a Community Art Centre Dedicated to African Film
Designed by Studio NEiDA, The Falcon Cinema is a community and art centre located in Berekuso, Ghana, commissioned by film curator and Founding Director Jacqueline Nsiah. The cinema's mission is to create a home for cineastes to preserve Africa's cinematic legacy while hosting critical and creative thinking about contemporary filmmaking on the continent, designed and curated with a pan-African approach. The programme includes a 250-seat and a 150-seat screening room, a restaurant, an archive, communal spaces, an education hub, and an outdoor cinema. A second compound is planned for a future phase, to house living quarters for filmmakers in residence. Still in the design phase, the project started in 2024 and is expected to be completed in 2027.
https://www.archdaily.com/1042031/studio-neida-designs-the-falcon-cinema-in-ghana-a-community-art-centre-dedicated-to-african-filmAntonia Piñeiro
Thick Walls and Deep Openings: When Architecture Rediscovers Mass
For much of the twentieth century, architectural culture was shaped by the pursuit of lightness. Steel structures and curtain walls reduced the building envelope to a thin layer separating interior from exterior, while façades became smooth, continuous surfaces where windows were cut as precise openings within an abstract plane. But for centuries, buildings were conceived as bodies of mass; walls possessed depth, windows were recessed within thick masonry, and space was often experienced as something carved from the solidity of construction. In recent years, several contemporary projects appear to revisit this older spatial logic, reintroducing thickness as an architectural condition through deep openings, monolithic volumes, and heavy envelopes.
This shift does not imply a rejection of modern construction technologies, nor does it represent a nostalgic return to historical forms. Instead, it reflects a renewed interest in the fundamental relationship between material, mass, and void. By reintroducing thickness into the architectural vocabulary, these buildings reconnect contemporary practice with long-standing traditions in which space was inseparable from the weight and depth of construction.
https://www.archdaily.com/1041295/thick-walls-and-deep-openings-when-architecture-rediscovers-massDiogo Borges Ferreira
Mosso / Nomos
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Architects: Nomos
- Area: 4100 m²
- Year: 2024
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Manufacturers: Swisspearl, Balzan & Immer SA, Entreprise Moutinho, Flumroc, Forster + Hormann, +8
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Professionals: Ingeni, Ecobuilding, Cometel, Architecture et Acoustique, De Cérenville Géotechnique, +1
https://www.archdaily.com/1041982/mosso-nomosPilar Caballero
The House Veiled In Brick / LIJO.RENY.architects
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Architects: LIJO.RENY.architects
- Area: 383 m²
- Year: 2023
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Professionals: Keystone Engineers
https://www.archdaily.com/1042007/the-house-veiled-in-brick-lijenrchitectsPilar Caballero
Zhuhai Chillong Dreamland Barn Restaurant / SHUISHI
https://www.archdaily.com/1041793/zhuhai-chillong-dreamland-barn-restaurant-shuishiAndreas Luco
Eternity House / APOLLO Architects & Associates
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Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
- Area: 392 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1041999/eternity-house-apollo-architects-and-associatesMiwa Negoro
Dazhou Atelier and Its Surrounding Area Renovation / SpActrum
https://www.archdaily.com/1019633/dazhou-atelier-and-its-surrounding-area-renovation-spactrumValeria Silva
AAM Residence / Ximenes Leite Arquitetura
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Architects: Ximenes Leite Arquitetura
- Area: 724 m²
- Year: 2020
https://www.archdaily.com/1041688/aam-residence-ximenes-leite-arquiteturaSusanna Moreira
SMK Thy and The Nature Village / Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
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Architects: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter
- Area: 3300 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1041961/smk-thy-and-the-nature-village-reiulf-ramstad-arkitekterHadir Al Koshta
Knowlton Prairie / L. McComber
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Architects: L. McComber
- Area: 1600 ft²
- Year: 2023
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Manufacturers: AM / PM, DP Marchand, Exosystème, Luminaire authentik , Stone Tile, +1
https://www.archdaily.com/1041925/knowlton-prairie-l-mccomberSusanna Moreira
Anatomy of a Maya City: The Urban Structure of Copán in Honduras
Deep in western Honduras, within a valley near the Guatemalan border, lies the ancient Maya city of Copán. Flourishing during the Classic period between the fifth and ninth centuries CE, the city developed as a regional epicenter through trade networks, dynastic politics, and monumental architecture. Today, the site is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its extensive architectural remains, including stepped pyramids, sculpted stelae, and ceremonial core. Over a century of systematic archaeological research has documented its urban morphology, revealing distinct residential districts, civic spaces, and systems of movement and visibility.
This analysis examines the spatial organization of Copán through the framework of urban theorist Kevin Lynch and "The Image of the City". By applying Lynch's five structural elements — edges, districts, paths, nodes, and landmarks — it is possible to analyze how Copán functioned not only as a ritual center but as a legible urban landscape designed to reinforce political hierarchy and regulate collective movement. Historical data for this analysis was taken from books and articles linked throughout the text, and was possible thanks to the collaboration of historian Arnulfo Ramirez de la Costa, professor and coordinator of the History program in the Department of History at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in Tegucigalpa.
https://www.archdaily.com/1041806/anatomy-of-a-maya-city-the-urban-structure-of-copan-in-hondurasMoises Carrasco