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Architects: Colucci&Partners
- Area: 803 m²
- Year: 2024
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Manufacturers: Alfa Servizi, Celenit, FAMM, SANDRINI METALLI
Featured Riverhouse / WORKac
Featured New Museum of Contemporary Art / OMA
Featured Monologue Café / SOSOKKI ANAC
Valbona Early Childhood Education Center / Colucci&Partners
https://www.archdaily.com/1039921/valbona-preschool-complex-colucci-and-partnersHadir Al Koshta
Swiss Alpine Cabin Reconstruction / Guča arch.
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Architects: Guča arch.
- Area: 71 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: Santa & Cole, 4B, Davide Groppi, HAY, Hirnholz, +4
https://www.archdaily.com/1039912/swiss-alpine-cabin-reconstruction-guca-archHadir Al Koshta
Designing for Obsolescence in an Age of Perpetual Upgrades
In the nineteenth century, entire railway networks became obsolete almost overnight, not due to physical deterioration, but because of changes in the technical standards that supported them. The expansion of railroads across Europe and North America adopted different track gauges (the transverse distance between rails), and as a dominant standard gradually emerged, these infrastructures became incompatible with one another. This required large-scale adaptations, conversions, or even complete reconstruction, in what became known as the "Gauge War."
With the mass adoption of telecommunications networks in the twentieth century, cities around the world built large telephone exchange buildings filled with electromechanical equipment responsible for routing calls between regions. These structures were highly specialized pieces of infrastructure, often occupying entire city blocks and organized around large-scale technical machinery. With the transition to digital switching technologies and, later, the widespread adoption of mobile telephony, much of this equipment became obsolete within a few decades. The buildings themselves often remained structurally sound, but the systems they were designed to support had already evolved beyond them.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039883/designing-for-obsolescence-in-an-age-of-perpetual-upgradesEduardo Souza
Lane Cove House / Lachlan Seegers Architect
https://www.archdaily.com/1039748/lane-cove-house-lachlan-seegers-architectPilar Caballero
Christian Kerez’s Pearling Path Car Parks Being Demolished in Muharraq, Bahrain
Parking structures designed by Christian Kerez along the Pearling Path in Bahrain are being demolished as part of an ongoing redevelopment initiative in Muharraq. Local reports state that the removal of the car parks is tied to a broader plan to reorganize the historic area and improve access to key heritage sites, including the Sheikh Isa bin Ali House. While the full extent of the intervention has not been officially detailed, available information indicates that multiple structures within the four-part project are affected and that work is already underway.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039913/christian-kerezs-pearling-path-car-parks-being-demolished-in-muharraq-bahrainReyyan Dogan
Agrosemillas Offices / Impepinable Studio
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Architects: Impepinable Studio
- Area: 280 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: Artemide, Bene USM, Lebrel, Muuto, Notson, +1
https://www.archdaily.com/1039652/agrosemillas-offices-impepinable-studioValentina Díaz
OMA’s Metropolitan Village Advances Toward Completion in Taipei’s Xinyi District
OMA's Metropolitan Village, also known as Taipei Xinyi–Wenchang Residence, is a new high-rise residential tower located in Taipei's Xinyi Central Business District. The project, led by David Gianotten and Chiaju Lin, with HCCH & Associates Architects Planners & Engineers as local collaborator, provides 11,961 m² of residential floor area on a 736 m² site. The 95 m, 23-storey building follows the concept of a "vertical village," reflecting the increasingly fluid boundary between living and working identified by the architects in post-pandemic Taipei. Commissioned by Continental Development Corporation, the project broke ground in 2024 and is scheduled for completion in 2027. Recent images show construction progress, with the highest structural element now being installed.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039898/omas-metropolitan-village-advances-toward-completion-in-taipeis-xinyi-districtAntonia Piñeiro
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Unearthing the Ground: Architecture and the Politics of Oil
Beneath the ground lies a material that has quietly shaped the architecture of the modern world. Petroleum is rarely discussed within architectural discourse, yet the extraction, circulation, and consumption of oil have profoundly reorganized the spatial logic of territories. Pipelines, refineries, drilling platforms, ports, highways, and petrochemical complexes form a vast infrastructural landscape that sustains contemporary life, composing a dispersed architecture of energy.
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, oil became the material foundation of industrial society. It fueled transportation, powered factories, and supported the growth of cities whose spatial organisation depended on continuous energy flows. Yet the infrastructures that enable these flows rarely become objects of architectural inquiry. Attention remains largely directed toward form, typology, or urban density, while the material systems that sustain these environments tend to remain displaced within the discipline.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039737/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-oilDiogo Borges Ferreira
Today Design Workspace / studio edwards
https://www.archdaily.com/1039846/today-design-workspace-studio-edwardsPilar Caballero
Overlap no Ma House / IGArchitects
https://www.archdaily.com/1039869/overlap-no-ma-house-igarchitectsMiwa Negoro
Block Kindergarten / SoBA
https://www.archdaily.com/1039864/block-kindergarten-soba韩爽 - HAN Shuang
Home Pavilion / MRTN Architects
https://www.archdaily.com/1039882/home-pavilion-mrtn-architectsMiwa Negoro
MS House Museum / UNO MÁS UNO Arquitectos
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Architects: UNO MÁS UNO Arquitectos
- Area: 750 m²
- Year: 2023
https://www.archdaily.com/1039765/ms-house-museum-uno-mas-uno-arquitectosValentina Díaz
Thionville Multipurpose Sports Complex / Dominique Coulon & associés
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Architects: Dominique Coulon & associés
- Area: 4554 m²
- Year: 2024
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Professionals: Batiserf Ingénierie, E3 Économie, DB Silence, QUALICONSULT, Ingénierie Coordination de Lorraine, +13
https://www.archdaily.com/1039805/thionville-multipurpose-sports-complex-dominique-coulon-and-associesPilar Caballero
Staggered Cabin / Mork-Ulnes Architects
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Architects: Mork-Ulnes Architects
- Area: 110 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: Caesarstone, Quantum Windows & Doors, Sierra Pacific Windows
https://www.archdaily.com/1039752/staggered-cabin-mork-ulnes-architectsHadir Al Koshta
First Aid for Endangered Heritage: An Interview with Ambulance for Monuments
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Ambulance for Monuments is a first-aid initiative dedicated to safeguarding Romania's endangered built heritage, operating in a race against time to prevent collapse and irreversible loss. The project responds to the growing vulnerability of historic structures, from Saxon fortified churches and manor houses to wooden churches and rural landmarks, many of which no longer benefit from the community networks that once sustained them. In a country deeply affected by emigration since 1990, where nearly half the population still lives in rural areas, entire villages have lost the people, skills, and everyday care that once kept these monuments standing.
Built around a mobile intervention unit, an "Ambulance" equipped with tools, scaffolding, and on-site equipment, the initiative delivers urgent stabilization works that buy time for endangered buildings. Rather than replacing full restoration, these strategic interventions preserve historic fabric, ensure structural safety, and keep long-term conservation and adaptive reuse possible.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039254/first-aid-for-endangered-heritage-an-interview-with-ambulance-for-monumentsCamilla Ghisleni
Sonomoro Preschool / Semillas
https://www.archdaily.com/1039547/sonomoro-preschool-semillasValentina Díaz
La Biennale di Venezia Unveils Renovated Central Pavilion at the Giardini
La Biennale di Venezia has unveiled the renovated Central Pavilion at the Giardini, completing a comprehensive intervention delivered between December 2024 and March 2026 as part of a broader national program to enhance cultural infrastructure. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and its complementary investment program (PNC), the project contributes to the development of a permanent hub for cultural production and exchange in Venice. The works form part of a wider initiative involving multiple sites associated with the Biennale, including the Giardini, the Arsenale, and other locations across the city, developed in coordination with local authorities and heritage institutions.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039873/la-biennale-di-venezia-unveils-renovated-central-pavilion-at-the-giardiniReyyan Dogan