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Municipal Environmental School 15 October Mayor Firmino Filho / Rômulo Marques-Carvalho + Ana Lucia Ribeiro Camillo da Silveira
Mitte Café 2.0 / LIS design studio
- architects: LIS design studio
- Location: Lviv, Ukraine
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Misha Lukashuk
- Area: 68.0 m2
Tower House / kit
- architects: kit
- Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Till Forrer
- Area: 348.0 m2
Material Culture and Heritage in Contemporary Cinema Architecture
Over the years, cinema architecture has continually reinvented itself. From cinematic experiences that engage multiple senses to material technologies that reinterpret the aesthetics of past eras, the concept of the movie theater has enabled the recovery, revitalization, and renewal of numerous obsolete, ruined, or even historically protected spaces. Just as the Majestic Cinema reflects an important community function in Zanzibar, Tanzania, many twentieth-century buildings have found in adaptive reuse an opportunity to restore and preserve cultures, memories, and traditions that remain meaningful to their communities.
Dongguan MIXC VILLAGE IP Installation / PILLS
- architects: Pills Architects
- Location: Dongguan, China
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Siming Wu
- Photographs: Bo Zhang
- Photographs: Courtesy of PILLS
Stefano Boeri Architetti Converts Former Rome Transit Depot Into Multifunctional Civic Space
The Rome City Council has approved a Memorandum for the urban regeneration of the Depositi delle Vittorie in Piazza Bainsizza, a former ATAC depot in Rome dating back to the early 1900s. Abandoned for nearly two decades and now privately owned, the site is set to be transformed into a multifunctional complex designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti. The project envisions the adaptive reuse of the former transportation infrastructure through the introduction of cultural, educational, commercial, co-working, and leisure functions, alongside new public spaces and extensive landscaped areas.
Tribeca Residence / Muqaddas Akkari Studio
- architects: Muqaddas Akkari Studio
- Location: New York, United States
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Joe Kramm
- Area: 4200.0 ft2
MAC Panamá Selects Palma + Taller TO to Design Its New Museum Building
Following an international design competition launched in January 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC Panamá) announced the selection of Mexican architects Palma + Taller TO to design its new building. The museum is described as "a new cultural infrastructure open to the city, conceived from the identity, climate, and landscape of Panama." The future museum headquarters will be located in the corregimiento of San Francisco, to consolidate the area as a hub of cultural activity. The selection criteria involved the relationship between the museum and the city, prioritizing proposals with integrated elements for community engagement and framing the building as a cultural infrastructure, enriching the contemporary urban environment of Panama City.
When Modernism Meets Local Resistance: Housing and Urban Friction in Latin America
Modern housing was one of the places where modernism made its boldest promise: that architecture could reshape not only the city, but the way people lived within it. As Argentine architectural historian Ramón Gutiérrez has argued, popular housing is "the great unresolved subject, one that usually does not appear in histories of architecture." In Latin America, this absence is significant. Across the 20th century, expanding cities turned housing into one of the clearest ways to imagine urban change, and modernism entered not only plans and drawings, but apartments, neighborhoods, streets, and domestic routines.
Yet once built, these projects entered cities shaped by politics, memory, inequality, and changing ways of occupation. Their meanings no longer belonged only to the original plan, but to the ways they were inhabited, altered, and transformed over time. What this history reveals is not adaptation, but friction: the moment when architecture stops being an ideal model and meets the city it cannot fully control.
El Mayab Sports and Cultural Center / Taller de Arquitectura Miguel Montor
- architects: Taller de Arquitectura Miguel Montor
- Location: Ciudad de México, México
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Bryan Arellano
- Area: 12500.0 m2
The Wood Cabin / S.O.S Architects
- architects: S.O.S Architects
- Location: Baan Doi lan, Unnamed Road, Wa Wi, Mae Suai District, Chiang Rai, Thailand
- Project Year: 2026
- Photographs: Rungkit Charoenwat
- Area: 705.0 m2
Node House / Ming Architects
- architects: Ming Architects
- Location: Serangoon Gardens, Singapore
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Studio Periphery
- Area: 4000.0 m2
Arth Home / Wright Inspires
- architects: Wright Inspires
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Studio Envy – Mr. Raaj
- Area: 1950.0 ft2
Clay House / Norenaarquitectos
- architects: Norenaarquitectos
- Location: Colombia
- Project Year: 2026
- Photographs: Yeferson Bernal
- Area: 230.0 m2
Mabelle Park / LGA Architectural Partners
- architects: LGA Architectural Partners
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: doublespace photography
- Photographs:
- Photographs: Katrin Faridani
- Area: 23475.0 ft2
Captain's House / Miguel Marcelino
- architects: Miguel Marcelino
- Location: Lisboa, Portugal
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu)
- Area: 1156.0 m2
Climate, Culture, and Modernism: The Postcolonial Campus as Architectural Laboratory
In the decades following independence, some of the most ambitious architectural experiments in the world did not emerge through museums, monuments, or government palaces. They emerged through universities. Across South Asia and Africa, newly formed nations turned campuses into testing grounds for entirely new ways of imagining collective life. These campuses functioned as more than educational institutions. They became territories where states tested how modernity might be organized, for citizens to gather, institutions to function, climate to shape architecture, and imported ideas to transform local realities.
Ute-Strittmatter-Strasse — Collective Living in Freiham / 03 Arch. + ENEFF Architekten + Illiz Architektur + Westner Schührer Zöhrer
- architects: 03 Arch.
- architects: ENEFF Architekten
- architects: Illiz Architektur
- architects: Westner Schührer Zöhrer
- Location: München, Germany
- Project Year: 2023
- Photographs: Pk.Odessa, Sebastian Schels, Markus Lanz
- Photographs: Lennard Zimmermann
- Area: 11604.0 m2
On Africa Day 2026: Revisiting Architecture’s Role in Identity and Collective Memory
Observed annually on May 25, Africa Day commemorates the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963, now the African Union. Established during a period marked by independence movements across the continent, the day recognizes not only political solidarity but also the cultural, social, and intellectual histories that continue to shape African societies today. Within architecture and urbanism, these histories are reflected in evolving conversations around nation-building, heritage preservation, climate-responsive design, material innovation, and community-centered practice.
St Raphael's Health and Wellbeing Center / Adam Richards Architects
- architects: Adam Richards Architects
- Location: Mayfield School, The Old Palace, Mayfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Project Year: 2024
- Photographs: Brotherton Lock
- Photographs: Lorenzo Zandri
- Area: 277.0 m2