BIG raises cloud-like building above public park in albania Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wins the Fountain Plaza Tirana international design competition with a proposal that raises the building above a park-like public realm in Tirana, Albania . The project combines elevated building volumes, a translucent facade , and a network of slender columns to create an architecture that remains open to the la

OMA reimagines a Houston coffee plant as a school OMA transforms Houston’s historic 1930s J.A. Folger & Co. coffee plant into the Frank Liu Jr. Academy for Music and Arts (FLAMA), a tuition-free public charter school designed around music, creative learning, and community. Led by OMA partner Jason Long and project architect Salome Nikuradze, the 6,050-square-meter project sits along Houston’s Buff

projects in From Inside Out – The Architecture of Peter Zumthor Wim Wenders, the four-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker known for films like Paris, Texas (1984) and Buena Vista Social Club (1999), has been working on From Inside Out – The Architecture of Peter Zumthor for about fourteen years. It was actually back in 2012 that he created his first documentary on the Swiss architect, Notes fro

Burgundy wood, white marble, and blue define Chiquita’s interior Chiquita by SahuquillodeArriba is a 59-sqm café , bookshop , and wine bar in Valencia’s El Botànic neighborhood, designed for product designer Gloria Izquierdo. The project combines coffee, books, and wine in a continuous interior that uses color, material contrasts, and custom furniture to connect the different functions. A full-len

Building the idea of a night out A club facade is an image before it is a place. It was probably this idea that led me, more than a decade ago, to start photographing nightclubs . It began in 2011, during a bike ride along a canal in Burgundy . On a small road cutting through the fields, I came across an old farmhouse that had been transformed into a nightclub. A lightbox sign had been screwed abo

AMDL CIRCLE and Michele De Lucchi transform Pedrali Pavilion Pedrali has transformed the Pedrali Pavilion, adapting it for permanent use and turning the structure from a one-off architectural wonder into a permanent gathering place for the community. Looking back, few architecture lovers have not heard of the Crystal Palace. Built in London’s Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the vast ir

Eight horse doubles bring monumental forms into everyday use The Flatland Horse by Studio Deng reinterprets the equestrian monument as a set of eight functional horse ‘doubles’ that visitors can climb, touch, sit on, and pass through. The project disassembles the equestrian statue into eight parts. The monumental horse itself is shaped through countless design revisions, with individual body parts

ZAHA HADID FOUNDATION OPENS ITS LONDON STUDIO TO THE PUBLIC Ten years after Zaha Hadid’s passing, the Zaha Hadid Foundation is opening the doors of the architect’s former London headquarters to the public. Located at 10 Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell, the Victorian schoolhouse that housed her practice for more than three decades has been transformed into a cultural space dedicated to architectu

178 3D printed earth bricks form porous habitat around olive tree BUSTAN, meaning ‘orchard,’ is a full-scale earthen pavilion developed by the Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Weizmann Tree Lab for The Circle exhibition at Design Museum Holon. Built from 178 robotically 3D printed earth bricks, the structure is organized around a living oli

Salagón stone shapes two-level rock-cut complex in La Rioja Located in Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja, Spain , the Peña de las Bodegas rock -cut complex forms part of a historic group of excavated spaces between Peña Salagona and Peña de las Bodegas. Architect Sergio Rojo takes over the rehabilitation of the space. Over time, the spaces have been used as columbaria, livestock shelters, and eremitic a