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Japanese architecture studio Ushijima Architects was commissioned to design a small timber house located near Biwa-ko, in Shiga Prefecture, the largest freshwater…
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U-House In Irie by Ushijima Architects. Photograph by Shinya Tsujita

Thinking about floods and climate change. U-House In Irie by Ushijima Architects

A semi-sphere that through a pool of water and introduces the light into a ceremonial hall, a semicircular window that simulates "a moon that never sets" on the roof of a ceremonial hall designed by…
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Tai’an’s Ceremony Hall: The Hometown Moon by Syn Architects. Photograph by Zheng Yan

The Ultimate Nostalgia. Tai’an’s Ceremony Hall: The Hometown Moon by Syn Architects

Italian Architecture firm Noa* network of architecture was commissioned to renovate the…
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Goldene Rose Hotel renovation and expansion by noa*. Photograph by Alex Filz

A hotel fit for a queen. Renovation of Goldene Rose Hotel by noa*

KPMB Architects’ latest 836-square-meter Harrison McCain Pavilion, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery…
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Harrison McCain Pavilion at Beaverbrook Art Gallery by KPMB. Photograph by Doublespace

Reinterpretation of a classic colonnade to enter. Beaverbrook Art Gallery Phase 3 Expansion by KPMB

Xavier Rubert de Ventós has passed away at the age of 83 in a Barcelona hospital, a key philosopher, thinker and…
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Presentation of the AnyWay Congress in Barcelona 1993. Shot from the AnyWay video, image courtesy of CCCB

Xavier Rubert de Ventos. Two notes for a clever way to think about ourselves

Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2023 and Canadian architect and patron…
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Kazuyo Sejima, photograph by Kohei Omachi. Phyllis Lambert, photograph by Alicia Lorente

Kazuyo Sejima named Jane Drew Prize and Phyllis Lambert named Ada Louise Huxtable Prize

The German Katharina Blanken presents, in a musical short of almost nine minutes, a portrait of the incredible environments that are created every day in the facilities of the Robert Schumann…
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Kammermusik by Katharina Blanken

Music through the eyes. Kammermusik by Katharina Blanken

As part of the Tokyo Toilet project industrial designer Marc Newson has completed a public toilet located under a raised highway to the north of Yoyogi Park, in the Shibuya…
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Toilet by Marc Newson. Photograph by Satoshi Nagare, courtesy of the Nippon Foundation

References to vernacular Japanese architecture. Toilet by Marc Newson

Bangkok-based architecture practice,  HAS design and research, led by Jenchieh Hung and Kulthida Songkittipakdee, Coinciding with the Chinese New Year…
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Freeing FrameYard by HAS design and research. Photograph by Yu Bai

Blurring limits and creating spaces of centrality. Freeing FrameYard by HAS design and research

Norwegian architecture studio R21 Arkitekter was commissioned to create a group of single-family homes in the northwestern…
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Courtyard Houses in Ullerntoppen by R21 Arkitekter. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio

Courtyard Houses for the "Best West", in Ullerntoppen by R21 Arkitekter