Located in a residential neighborhood in Nova Lima , Minas Gerais, the Linho House is more than just a residence—it is a narrative crafted in architecture. Directly inspired by its inhabitant, a fashion designer who works with fabrics and sewing, the house translates the essence of her creative daily life into forms and materials.

Set between the wooded slopes of the Venosta Valley and Oris – a hamlet in Lasa - the new Civil Protection Centre makes a confident architectural statement. Constructed from green-pigmented insulating concrete, the building seamlessly blends the functional requirements of the volunteer fire department with a distinctive architectural expression. Its monolithic appearance lends the structure a powe

A color has a biography. A color can have an origin, but it can also transform. It can move between materials and disciplines, from a local practice into architecture, from something ordinary into something symbolic. It can lose one association and acquire another, or persist without anyone consciously thinking of it as cultural. Its life unfolds through the conditions in which it is produced, use

Toyota City Museum is planned to be located on the east side of the site, just like the adjacent Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, to allow for integrated site utilization. The western side of the site is designed as a continuous landscape with the art museum, serving the role of integrating the two sites.

Tsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect born in 1979 in Tokyo and based in Paris , where he founded ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in 2006. Working across cultural, institutional, and landscape-related projects, Tane has developed an architectural approach that positions memory as a fundamental design driver. In his interview with Louisiana Channel , filmed in his Paris studio, Tane reflect

The small ceramics workshop is located on the corner of a site in Valby, Copenhagen. Upon arrival, the workshop's south façade comes into view, nestled among the greenery beneath an apple tree. During the day, the surrounding greenery is reflected in the façade's windows, while in the evening, the workshop illuminates its surroundings.

The second part of the Utopian Hours 2026 international city-making festival will be held in Turin on October 16 and 17. After a first chapter in Rotterdam , the festival is marking its tenth anniversary edition by returning to its hometown in Italy . The event's lineup and cultural program are designed to explore how cities can respond creatively to the social, environmental, and political challe

Outdoor kitchens have evolved from exclusive luxury additions into natural extensions of the home. Gardens, terraces, and porches are being transformed into spaces for cooking and, above all, entertaining without having to step inside. This solution not only adds convenience but also increases property value, responding to a lifestyle that is increasingly connected to the outdoors.

Inverting the conventional narrative, this story begins at the end. The day after the world's collapse. While almost the entire population struggles to survive flames and solar storms, a tiny fraction is greeted by a heavily armed guard at the entrance to the Survival Condo Project , a former missile silo in Kansas converted a few years ago into luxury apartments .

Port Melbourne Secondary College (PMSC) is the first vertical school as part of Australia's biggest urban rejuvenation project, Fishermans Bend. Designed by Billard Leece Partnership (BLP), the school is within a designated precinct for advanced technology, innovation and education where, over the next 30 years, 80,000 people will live, work and study. The development gives Port Melbourne a new, f

In the historic core of Yazd , a UNESCO World Heritage city on the edge of Iran's central desert, Harandi & Harandi Architects have carefully revived a 400-year-old dwelling and transformed it into Minoudar House, a three-room boutique hotel where heritage conservation itself becomes the driving design idea.

Heat waves are becoming more and more frequent worldwide, prompting architects to reconsider how building envelopes are conceived and designed. The focus is no longer solely on limiting heat loss during the colder months, but also on controlling how much heat enters buildings during periods of intense solar radiation. By understanding solar shading as a design decision rather than a decorative or

Yanqing Li is located in Hankou's historic district, at the intersection of Shengli Street and Eryao Xiaolu. It consists of seven buildings blending Eastern and Western styles, arranged around four intertwined alleyways. Originally built in 1933 by Zhong Yansheng, this traditional lifen was named after him. Having suffered wartime damage and later population shifts, it is now being revitalized thr

Within the complex of the Italian Embassy in Dakar , Senegal, the new headquarters of ITA, the Italian Trade Agency, responsible for promoting Italian businesses abroad and supporting their internationalization, was created through the rehabilitation of an abandoned building. More than a simple functional conversion, the project embraces reuse as an architectural and cultural choice, proposing an

It is said that trees sway in order not to be shaken. Because they move with flexibility, they are able to remain rooted in their place and continue to grow over time. Marriage, too, is a journey that can be calm at times and shift in unexpected directions, and therefore requires a flexible attitude. In the first WISE space, this perspective on marriage and the idea of flexibility were translated

Set in a small village on Spain's northern Mediterranean coast, Pinewood Houses comprises two single-family homes embedded within a pine forest near the beach on the Costa Brava. The project is guided by a clear premise: to place the two dwellings in an intercalated arrangement that avoids mutual obstruction, allowing each house to breathe and maintaining long visual depth across the site.

The landscape designer Rodrigo Oliveira was enchanted by a plot of just over five thousand square meters in southern Bahia. With a topography reminiscent of a natural amphitheater, facing the landscape and offering a privileged view of the sunset, Casa ĪBA nestles among natural and designed gardens, always respecting the original topography of the site.

"L'Aiguilleuse" is a project that transforms a former 1960s railway signal box into a small kiosk-bar located at the heart of the Jardins de l'Estuaire, a new public park on the Île de Nantes , France. Originally part of the Nantes-État railway infrastructure, the building once controlled train movements entering the station. As the surrounding railway landscape gradually disappeared, the signal b

Chaume Sublimé is an ephemeral installation for Montpellier's Festival des Architectures Vives 2025 that elevates humble reed grass into a sensory and atmospheric experience, celebrating both sustainability and craftsmanship.

In Europe , cities are confronting the challenge of adapting existing urban conditions to a changing climate and warming summers while improving access to nature, quality public spaces, and the resources of everyday routines. ReGreeneration , a Horizon Europe initiative working across nine European cities, approaches this challenge through urban renaturing at the neighborhood scale . Combining str