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Herzog & de Meuron's Triangle Tower in Paris Nears Completion, Captured by Stefano Candito
Twenty years after its ideation, Herzog & de Meuron's controversial Tour Triangle in Paris is reaching completion. The triangular, all-glass tower located in the city's 15th arrondissement topped out at 42 stories on April 24, 2026. The project's progress was marked by opposition, financial roadblocks, and legal disputes before construction began in 2022. The 180-meter tower is now the third-tallest building within Paris city limits, behind the 330-meter-tall Eiffel Tower, the 231-meter-tall The Link in La Défense, and the 210-meter-tall Tour Montparnasse. The building will retain this title indefinitely due to a skyscraper ban reinstated in 2023 by Mayor Anne Hidalgo, following persistent opposition to tall buildings in the city. The recent progress was documented by photographer Stefano Candito, ranging from an urban view of the building to a close-up look at its nearly completed structure.
Tirana Architecture City Guide: Negotiating Identity Between Socialism and Urban Reinvention
Located at the intersection of Adriatic landscapes and Balkan geopolitics, Tirana has undergone one of the most accelerated urban transformations in Europe over the last three decades. Once defined by rigid socialist planning and political isolation, the city has progressively reoriented itself through a combination of informal growth, international investment, and strategic urban interventions that seek to redefine its public image and spatial structure.
Since the early 2000s, a series of urban policies, most notably those initiated during the mayoral tenure of Edi Rama (now Albania prime minister), have promoted the use of color, public space, and architectural experimentation as tools for civic reactivation. Rather than relying solely on masterplans, Tirana's development has operated through interventions, where individual buildings and public spaces act as catalysts within a fragmented urban fabric.
Marina in Tychy / RS + Robert Skitek
- architects: RS+ Robert Skitek
- Location: Tychy, Poland
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Tomasz Zakrzewski
- Area: 957.0 m2
24 m’ House / dua studio
- architects: dua studio
- Location: Pesanggrahan, Indonesia
- Project Year: 2026
- Photographs: Tristan Salim
- Area: 136.0 m2
MIZU NO IE - Izu Diving Retreat / NASCA
- architects: NASCA
- Location: Ito, Shizuoka, Japan
- Project Year: 2024
- Photographs: Satoshi Asakawa
- Area: 293.0 m2
Office H / Minuspluse Design
3D Building / FHHH friends
- architects: FHHH friends
- Location: Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Project Year: 2026
- Photographs: Kyoungtae Kim
- Area: 1270.0 m2
The Calm House / Carazo Arquitectura
- architects: Carazo Arquitectura
- Location: Nosara, Costa Rica
- Project Year: 2021
- Photographs: Cesar Belio
- Area: 308.0 m2
Eleventhfloor Restaurant / Noue Studio
Haus W / Studio EH
- architects: Studio EH
- Location: Gamprin-Bendern, Liechtenstein
- Project Year: 2025
- Photographs: Ralph Feiner
- Area: 500.0 m2
Coffee or Tea: Third Places, Kiosks, and the Retail Architecture of Duration
"Coffee or tea?" is one of those phrases that follows you across contexts: asked on airplanes, after a meal, in hotel lounges, and in meeting rooms. It sounds like a small question—mere preference, a quick fork in the service script. Yet it also carries a quiet cultural inheritance. Tea arrives with the long history of ritual and domestic pacing, tied to older geographies of trade and everyday etiquette. Coffee arrives with a different lineage of circulation, later industrialized into the modern café and its public-facing rituals. In both cases, the drink is never only a drink; it is a practiced relationship to time and space.
In contemporary East Asia, however, "coffee or tea" increasingly reads as something else: imperceptibly or subconsciously, it is becoming more of a choice about where you want to be. Each beverage now carries a spatial expectation. Coffee implies a room you can occupy—often a place to pause, work, meet, or cool down. Tea, despite being culturally pervasive, appears more diffusely across the city—sometimes as a dedicated destination, sometimes as a high-frequency kiosk, and very often as an embedded default within dining typologies. The result is that a question posed as taste has begun to operate as a subtle indicator of spatial preference: whether you are seeking duration or velocity, enclosure or flow, a third place or a quick node on the street.
The Labs Tower / Eraclis Papachristou Architects
- architects: Eraclis Papachristou Architects
- Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
- Project Year: 2022
- Photographs: Hufton+Crow
- Area: 13300.0 m2
Qinghe INNNG International Talent Community / Zhu Xiaodi Architects + BIAD
- architects: BIAD
- architects: Zhu Xiaodi Architects
- Location: Haidian District, Beijing, China
- Project Year: 2024
- Photographs: Zhepeng Zhang & Xiaotong Xu
- Photographs: DONG Image
- Photographs: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design Decoration
- Area: 48156.0 m2