• architects: Lopez Gonzalez Studio
• Location: Xalapa, Mexico
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Cesar Bejar Studio
• Photographs: Zaicks Moz
• Area: 316.0 m2

• architects: Actual Office
• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Building Narratives
• Area: 600.0 m2

Architects are accustomed to being credited for buildings long after construction ends. Names remain attached to projects through photographs, publications, and histories, often decades after the original drawings were produced. Buildings, on the other hand, rarely remain faithful to that narrative for long. Families grow, technologies change, businesses emerge, and daily life introduces demands that no plan can fully anticipate. Over time, architecture accumulates modifications, repairs, additions, and improvisations that gradually distance it from its original form.

Few projects confront this question as directly as PREVI Lima. Conceived in the late 1960s as Peru's Experimental Housing Project, PREVI invited an international group of architects to develop housing prototypes capable of accommodating growth over time. The project is often remembered for its ambitious roster of designers, which included figures such as James Stirling, Aldo van Eyck, and Christopher Alexander. More than fifty years later, the neighborhood has become a record of resident decisions, revealing a form of architecture designed to remain unfinished.

• architects: Weber Arquitectos
• Ubicación: Valle de Bravo, México
• Año Proyecto: 2025
• Fotografías: Ariadna Polo

Architectural schools usually leave lasting marks on their students, shaping their style and critical inquiry long after formal education has ended. For example, SCI-Arc, founded in 1972 and based in downtown Los Angeles, is an institution recognized for its culture of experimentation, critical investigation, and creative independence, building a reputation based on the idea that architecture should be understood as a field open to dialogue with art, technology, design, and contemporary culture. The diversity of trajectories of its alumni demonstrates how this environment can generate distinct professional approaches, but united by the same willingness to explore new possibilities.

OMA has completed the Hangzhou Prism, a large-scale mixed-use development in Hangzhou's Future Tech City district, China, following a design and development process that began in 2016. Commissioned by Xinhu Real Estate Group and led by OMA Partner Chris van Duijn, with Michael Hadjistyllis serving as project architect, the project combines residential units, a hotel, offices, commercial spaces, and public amenities within a single building volume. Marking OMA's first completed project in Hangzhou, the development occupies a central site within one of the city's emerging innovation and business districts.

From June 12 to December 20, 2026, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will be hosting a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the career of Frank Gehry (1929-2025). Titled The Century of Gehry, the exhibition presents to the public original large-scale models, sculptures, drawings, furniture, and other works documenting the architect's notable, and at times controversial, postmodern architecture. The exhibit covers from early experiments to iconic buildings such as the architect's house in Santa Mónica, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The Serralves Museum occupies a building designed by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira in 1991. The exhibition is housed in the new wing that bears his name.

It is afternoon in the summer, and the nave of the Sagrada Família is saturated with warm colors. Shafts of amber and crimson sweep across the stone floor, shift as a cloud passes over Barcelona, then deepen again. Around you, visitors slow without quite realizing it. Some raise their phones — not to capture the architecture, but to step into the light itself, positioning themselves in a pool of orange or gold as if the colours were something you could wear.

They are, without knowing it, doing exactly what Gaudí intended: surrendering, however briefly, to the sensation of being bathed in something larger than themselves.

• architects: Reincarnation
• Location: Baroicha, Bangladesh
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Prantography
• Area: 6800.0 ft2

• architects: TOUCH Architect
• Location: Khet Bang Khae, Bangkok, Thailand
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Jinnawat Borihankijanan
• Area: 340.0 m2

• architects: VCD Lab
• Location: Zhaoqing, China
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Courtesy of VCD Lab
• Area: 71200.0 m2

• architects: N. B. Architects
• Location: Bordi, India
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: pranitborastudio
• Area: 5000.0 ft2

• architects: BLOCO Arquitetos
• Location: Brasília, Brazil
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Maurício Araújo
• Photographs: Paula Caruso
• Area: 180.0 m2

• architects: Gris | Estudio de Diseño + Arquitectura
• Location: El Paredon, Guatemala
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Denise Lipman
• Area: 1750.0 m2

• architects: Ivy Studio
• Location: Montreal, Canada
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Alex Lesage
• Area: 20000.0 ft2

Ola Hassanain is a Sudanese architect and artist operating in the Netherlands, and will be exhibiting at the Pan-African Architecture Biennale in Nairobi, Kenya, later in 2026. All three locations tell stories of the built environment's relationship with water. These illustrate the continuous battles between the amorphous forces of nature that are the rivers and seas, and human attempts to shape and control them. In most cases, they are attempts at extraction. Catastrophes happen as a result of the overreach of these attempts or of their mismanagement, or both.

• architects: tHE gRID Architects Research and Design Studio
• Location: Ahmedabad, India
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Vinay Panjwani
• Area: 8762.0 ft2

As the technical requirements of building envelopes have evolved, fire performance has become a key criterion in the design of ventilated facades. Given this situation, analyses no longer focus solely on the individual reaction of materials, but also on the joint response of the entire building envelope under possible scenarios of external fire propagation.