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Rouxinol House / Sergio Sampaio Archi + Tectônica

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Concept
The 2,000-square-meter site of Rouxinol House, located in the Paraíba Valley in São Paulo, presented significant challenges in defining the architectural design. While it offered magnificent views of the Jaguari River reservoir, the design also had to address a 50-meter slope and the presence of over 300 surveyed trees. Minimizing environmental impact was non-negotiable—a combination of factors that determined the design decisions from the initial concept to the specification of materials.

Akina House / Di Frenna Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Casa Akina announces itself without fully revealing its form. Its presence is restrained, almost silent. Before showing its true shape, it lets the light filter through, allows the vegetation to peek out, and hints at the central void that organizes it. From the very first encounter, the architecture proposes a deliberate pace of living, where the journey matters as much as the destination and time becomes perceptible.

Elia Zenghelis, Co-Founder of OMA and Architectural Educator, Passes Away at 89

Romullo Baratto — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Elia Zenghelis, Greek architect, co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and one of the most influential architectural educators of the late twentieth century, died on August 30, 2026, at the age of 89. His death marks the passing of a figure whose influence on architectural thought extended far beyond the buildings he designed, shaping the intellectual formation of several generations of architects through decades of teaching across Europe and the United States.

Pedra Azul House / Escala Arquitetura

Nana Dokua — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

The Pedra Azul House establishes a direct and continuous relationship with nature. Set on a narrow, sloping lot, the topography was a determining factor in organizing the architectural program. The project consists of independent modules connected by wide circulation areas, fostering horizontality and a fragmentation of volumes that gently adapts to the terrain.

House of Monitors / Williamson Williamson

Nana Dokua — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The House of Monitors is a home that captures and choreographs light while highlighting the materials of production. Developed in close collaboration with the owners, the Resident Scenic Artist for the National Ballet of Canada and a shoring engineer with expertise in complex ground conditions, the project designed opportunities to engage materials through framed views, sectional cuts and layered spatial connections that support understanding of the building's construction. Carving light through the structure is not only a daylighting strategy but a way to intertwine interior and exterior, revealing the house as a calibrated sequence of volumes, textures and luminous atmospheres.

Upon Harbor / tip architects

Nana Dokua — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The approach to the program began by understanding the existing complex (Mundet factory), its memory and relationship with the surroundings.

3rd DOCOMOMO-PR Seminar

Rene Submissions — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:05:00 +0000

Before establishing itself as a recognized language, modern architecture took shape through progressive shifts in ideas, experimentations, and critical revisions that traversed different cultural and geographical contexts. More than a linear process of diffusion, it is a field in transformation, in which references are appropriated, reinterpreted, and modified according to the specific conditions of each context.

In Brazil, the historiography of modern architecture has frequently highlighted the centrality of certain centers of production, from which the main interpretations of the movement were structured. However, as critical readings of Latin American historiography indicate, especially in the reflections of Marina Waisman, this

The City as a System of Health: Breaking Feedback Loops in Planning

Olivia Poston — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000

The spatial consequences of urban form are revealed when health outcomes are mapped over neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that support walking, daily errands, social interaction, and access to essential services create opportunities to incorporate physical activity into routine tasks. Places that are organized around long distances and automobile travel suppress this opportunity. Physical activity and the motivation to incorporate it into daily life are shaped by the distance to a grocery store, the safety of a pedestrian crossing, the frequency of public transportation, the width of a sidewalk, and the quantity of services within walking distance.

Weekend Villa / R+R Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Set against the tranquil outskirts of Ahmedabad, the Weekend Villa is envisioned as a contemporary weekend retreat that blurs the boundaries between resort living and residential comfort. Conceived as an immersive sanctuary, the villa draws deeply from Balinese tropical architecture while remaining rooted in a distinctly modern Indian context. The result is a home that celebrates leisure, craftsmanship, and an evocative material palette through a carefully choreographed spatial experience.

Wildfires in Algeria Highlight the Scale of the Global Fire Landscape

Reyyan Dogan — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Severe late-August wildfires across northern Algeria have brought residential areas, agricultural lands, and critical transport corridors directly into the path of rapidly spreading flames. The destruction across Jijel, Béjaïa, and Tizi Ouzou claimed at least 12 lives and forced the emergency closure of major national highways. The latest outbreak follows a summer of repeated fires across the country, with authorities recorded nearly 2,000 fires nationwide in July, while fires in the northeastern province of Annaba at the end of the month forced more than 100 people to leave their homes and damaged nearly 150 houses. The current fires have again brought residential areas, roads and other infrastructure into the path of rapidly spreading flames. Forest fires occur regularly in northern Algeria during the summer, with increasingly frequent drought and periods of intense heat contributing to more severe fire conditions.

Maison Bellon Camprubi / R2A Architectes

Valeria Silva — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

In a small hillside village, a narrow plot on a slope. An old vineyard facing the Anniviers Valley, facing due south. A flexible family home, capable of transforming into a multigenerational dwelling to eventually accommodate a family and a retired couple. The use of wood as a sustainable building material. These are the project's basic parameters.

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Romullo Baratto — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

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M+ Hong Kong Exhibition Traces Herzog & de Meuron's Design Process Across China

Antonia Piñeiro — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0000

An exhibition tracing the vision behind Herzog & de Meuron's ten selected projects in China will open on September 12, 2026, at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. The exhibition marks the museum's fifth anniversary; since opening, M+ has built its collection around visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The museum building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron between 2012 and 2021, is located in the city's West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK), a cultural hub spanning forty hectares alongside Victoria Harbour. "Herzog & de Meuron: In Focus" is curated by Ikko Yokoyama and Iris Ng and reviews projects dating from 2002 to 2021, including Tai Kwun in Hong Kong (2006–2018) and the National Stadium in Beijing (2002–2008).

Between Memory and Matter: Inside the Work of Uzbekistan's ARC Architects

Camilla Ghisleni — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Amid the transformation of Uzbekistan's cities, ARC Architects develops an architecture that seeks to connect past and present. Founded in 2017 by Bobir Klichev, the studio emerged from Bukhara's architectural community and remains closely connected to the country's cultural and climatic particularities. With offices in Tashkent and Bukhara, ARC combines minimalism and ethnic references to develop a contemporary language rooted in its context.

Otway Beach House / Kerstin Thompson Architects

Pratik Mour — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0000

At the edge of a national park, on a site designated 'flame zone,' Otway Beach House takes the regulatory challenge of fire resistance as a generative architectural opportunity. A grounded and monolithic building placed within a clearing offers the dual prospect of sea and forest.

House in Hino / Shigeo Takizawa Architects

Pratik Mour — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:00:00 +0000

This house for a couple and their child stands in a quiet residential neighborhood developed on the Tama Hills during the 1960s. Formed by cutting into a north-facing slope, the surrounding landscape is marked by retaining walls and boundary fences—traces of the long struggle to create level ground for habitation. Benefiting from generous plots compared with those in central Tokyo and a building coverage ratio of 40%, the neighboring houses share a common disposition: large south-facing gardens and aligned facades.

Moganshan Liaoyuan Theater / INCLS (One Design)

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Moganshan is one of China's oldest and most renowned summer retreats. Since its emergence as a resort destination, its close cultural and economic ties with Shanghai have shaped a distinctive condition: traditional or modern, urban or rural, local or foreign, these familiar binaries have long been challenged in this remote valley of western Zhejiang. In recent years, with the completion of a series of new projects along Yu Street in Liaoyuan Village by Deqing Culture and Tourism, a local state-owned developer, such challenges have become increasingly intense and consequential.

The Plinth House 2 / Luke Stanley Architects

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

The Plinth House 2 is the final in a triptych of projects in the bucolic setting of Langdons Hill, just south of Daylesford. The first, completed in 2014, was a compact, yet considered, renovation of the main house that delivered an award-winning view. Three years later came the Guest Pod; a combined studio and sleeping space for friends and family to work or relax on the property.

House in Shichiku

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

House in Shichiku is a small Kyoto dwelling that turns away from its neighbors on all four sides, converting the leftover wedges of a cramped flag-shaped lot into gardens and gathering their light in a low silver ceiling.

Boroló / AR-AR Martínez Arquitectura y Paisaje + María Paula González Bozzi

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Located in the Teusaquillo neighborhood—a central area of the city characterized by its historic brick architecture and vibrant cultural dynamics—Boroló offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional neighborhood architecture that once defined Bogotá's identity.

Etchegoyen House / wasingerbarletti arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000

A weekend house among the trees, conceiving the existing landscape as an essential part of the architecture.

Scarlet House / Frederico Zanelato | Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

After several years of designing spaces along the beaches of southern Bahia, and moreover, experiencing them firsthand, we reached several conclusions that are materialized in this project. Constant sun, minimal rain, intense heat softened by the sea breeze... gatherings, friends, family. The perfect ingredients for a weekend, a vacation, a summer getaway... everything in its own time. The invitation to design this house came from a friend and partner—a client on previous projects—and arrived with a specific request: a classic Bahia house.

Garden Laneway House / Williamson Williamson

Nana Dokua — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The Garden Laneway House, nestled between garages facing a service lane, is a lyrical collection of modern lines, authentic materials and deliberate views. Clad in a distinct rotated brick facade, it brings beauty to the laneway and reimagines the potential for small-scale urban densification.

Alcatraz on the Hill: The Rise and Afterlife of Trieste's Rozzol Melara

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000

The courtyard at Rozzol Melara measures two hundred meters on each side, which makes it larger than any square in Trieste. Two L-shaped blocks of exposed concrete enclose it, one of them twice the height of the other, climbing from seven to fifteen stories as the ridge falls away toward the gulf four kilometers below. Concrete pylons spaced every fifteen meters carry the blocks down to a slope they never quite touch, opening porticoes deep enough to walk through, and above them the facades resolve into loggias at the scale of a single room. Seen from the coastal road, none of that is legible; one can only see a gray line drawn across the hills.