A renewed postmodern house in Milton Keynes
In one of Britain's best-known "new towns", which were designed in the mid-20th century to make London more liveable, Pyramid House has been renovated and adapted for contemporary use.
There is much to see in Coachella beyond the festival
Every April, the well-known event brings attention back to a valley that—between cultural institutions, modernist architecture, and a desert landscape—has much to offer regardless of the concerts.
Frank Lloyd Wright built an ideal city in Florida—and it’s still intact today
Frank Lloyd Wright’s largest project is a campus: Florida Southern College. Built over more than twenty years—shaped by organic utopian ideals, construction challenges, and later transformations—it is now documented in the photographs of Roberto Conte.
A brief history of the curtain wall, from the Bauhaus to the glass city
From Mies van der Rohe’s crystal towers for Berlin to Renzo Piano’s Shard, the glass façade charts a century of architecture poised between technology and symbolism, evolving from a modernist manifesto into the shared language of a globalized world.
In Belgium, Vak architecten has designed a not-so-ordinary scientific warehouse
This laboratory-storage facility for biological research, part of the University of Antwerp, breaks away from the typical anonymity of industrial sheds to assert itself as a recognizable architectural object, defined by bold colors and the legacy of the “perfect square.”
Mexican Brutalism in Casa Selva, Tulum
For this high-density residential complex, Anonimous + G3 + Jesús Vassallo soften the dark, solemn volumes inspired by Brutalism with a lattice of sun-shading screens drawn from local tradition.
Kooo architects and the renovation of a historic japanese Sukiya house
In Narutaki, in Kyoto, the firm has undertaken a project involving a historic Japanese house. The project blends restoration with new construction, creating a space that bridges the past and the present.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.