Limit Architecture has designed a portable greenhouse
Called the “Sementeira Ambulante”, it toured the streets of Braga during the Forma da Vizinhança Festival, raising public awareness of environmental issues with its bright yellow colour.
15 Milanese homes tell the story of a century of living
From Muzio to Boeri, via Gardella, Magistretti and Rossi: fifteen buildings reveal how Milan has turned housing into a singular architectural tradition between hidden courtyards, terraces, and new urban landscapes.
In Belgium, MAKER Architecten is redeveloping a brick residential block
Through a series of scattered 'interventions' that reinterpret the area's historical legacy, the firm is reusing and preparing the site's original materials for future recycling.
A floating stage for living on water in the Amazon
In the Peruvian Amazon, Espacio Común built a floating stage during the flooding of the Itaya River for a festival of young filmmakers. It has now become a permanent infrastructure.
The renovation of a socialist icon in Berlin: from Stalinallee to a showroom
On the Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, a former children's department store designed by Hermann Henselmann is reborn with a new function thanks to the design by Gonzalez Haase AAS.
Qb Atelier has designed a house in a former industrial workshop
QB Atelier has designed a home in Veneto that occupies the spaces of a 20th-century factory and opens onto a secret garden.
The architecture of a break: Faci Leboreiro’s café designed around trees
In Troncones, an open-plan café makes use of natural materials, passive ventilation and open spaces to transform the coffee-drinking experience into a leisurely one.
The material palette is the key to understanding this residential building in Lisbon
In the Lapa district, ALA.rquitectos transforms an existing building into ten small apartments, allowing materials to define the project: original elements are restored and new surfaces engage in a dialogue with Portuguese tradition.
All of modern California design in a Los Angeles home, now on the market
With the Stromberger Residence in Pasadena, Henry Eggers introduced modernist touches into the ranch-style language, complemented by the landscaping of master Garrett Eckbo, blending polygonal pools with sweeping views of the Pacific Mountains.
The Bunker House by Abez studio in Spain
The name itself denounces the concept of the house: introverted and almost completely closed to the outside world. In reality, there is much more to this ethereal space sculpted by white masonry.
Building on memory: Studio MAAC’s arena in Ouidah
Located on the Atlantic coast of Benin in West Africa, the new cultural venue aims to engage with the landscape, which has been shaped by significant historical events.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
Reclaiming a Salento masseria through contemporary design
Near Lecce, the Margine studio has transformed the historic Masseria Caronte into a restaurant, carrying out a “subtractive” restoration that strips away later additions and restores the building’s original spatial and material clarity.
A house in Portugal built by subtraction
Filipe Saraiva has reinterpreted the footprint of an existing building to create a compact house which establishes a dialogue with the landscape and its history through precise volumetric cut-outs.