Archinect

JUNE 12, 2025

Herzog & de Meuron have unveiled their transformation of Les Trois Rois, one of Europe’s oldest urban hotels, located in Basel , Switzerland. The project reimagines a former bank building, integrated into the hotel complex during a previous renovation, infusing it with a series of distinctive, newly designed space. Image courtesy: Herzog & de Meuron Image courtesy: Herzog & de Meuron The most striking intervention is ‘The Council,’ a smoking lounge carved from two f

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JUNE 12, 2025

Seville, Spain: Metropol parasol building at Seville on Andalusia in Spain. Image © Stefano Ember via Shutterstock Located in southern Spain , Seville unfolds as a layered city shaped by centuries of cultural intersections. As the former capital of Al-Andalus and a central port during the Spanish Empire's expansion, its built environment reflects a deep historical complexity.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 10, 2025

Courtesy of AIA Conference on Architecture & Design The future of architecture isn't just being drawn—it's being coded. Since mathematician John W. Tukey coined the term " software " in 1958 in The American Mathematical Monthly, its influence has steadily expanded, from revolutionizing science and engineering to quietly transforming architecture.

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JUNE 15, 2025

VA Roseburg Protective Care Unit In my last post , I wrote about the perspective that comes with stepping away from daily practice and how retirement offers me a new vantage from which to view the profession. Freed from the urgency of deadlines and client meetings, I can return to some elemental questions—questions that reach beyond architecture’s role and into the speculative realm of what confers meaning at all.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2025

Alebel Desta Consulting Architects and Engineers has completed the ET-302 Memorial Monument and Park in Ethiopia , a radial arrangement of paths and gardens dedicated to the 157 victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash. Located on the flight's crash site near Addis Ababa, the park is the result of an international competition funded by stakeholders including Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines, and was developed in collaboration with members of the victims' families.

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Archinect

JUNE 11, 2025

The Fukutake Foundation has opened the Tadao Ando -designed Naoshima New Museum of Art in Japan. The museum is the latest addition to the Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a decades-long cultural initiative integrating art, architecture, and nature across the islands of Naoshima , Teshima, and Inujima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Image credit: GION Image credit: GION The new institution is Ando’s tenth project on the Benesse Art Site Naoshima across thirty years, his first being the Benesse

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Avontuura

JUNE 11, 2025

Little House on the Ferry is a guest residence on an island in rural Maine that has a long history of fishing, farming, and granite quarrying. The post OPAL complete seasonal residence on a former granite quarry in Maine appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2025

The AIA has named 10 winners of its 2025 Architecture Awards program, which includes a campus in Rwanda by MASS Design Group , an astronomy museum in Shanghai by Ennead Architects and a renovated steel mill in Pittsburgh. The 2025 awards ceremony hosted in Boston included an assortment of categories, including the main Architecture Awards for "best contemporary architecture", the COTE awards for excellence in sustainable design and others such as the Education Facility Design Awards , Justice F

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designboom

JUNE 11, 2025

sp(r)int studio designs shelter for stöng ruins Set within a volcanic expanse in southern Iceland , a recent project by Sp(r)int Studio brings a nuanced response to the Stöng ruins, one of the country’s most significant archaeological sites. Excavated in 1939 and protected since 1957 by a modest shelter, the Viking-era longhouse in scenic Þjórsárdalur stands as a rare and remarkably complete remnant of early Icelandic domestic architecture.

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Speaker: Dylan Secrest

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ArchDaily

JUNE 15, 2025

Otaku Cafe / shell+core. Image © Bianca Studio When designing a space—whether at the scale of interiors , architecture, or infrastructure— materiality is a central concern. Beyond aesthetics, materials determine how a project functions, ages, and endures. Some architects—such as Wang Shu and Kengo Kuma —have built their practices on a deep sensitivity to the potential and limits of materials.

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Archinect

JUNE 12, 2025

When it comes to architecture-focused creators on YouTube, Stewart Hicks' channel is definitely one worth liking and subscribing to. By day, an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Architecture , as well as Founding Partner of the practice Design With Company , Hicks has mastered the art of presenting complex topics in long-form videos that are both entertaining and educational (and addictive, we might add).

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Architectural Record

JUNE 10, 2025

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Deezen

JUNE 11, 2025

Local architecture studio Puerto & Sánchez Arquitectos has completed Farrapona Geological Viewpoint, a looping lookout jutting over a mountain pass in Someido, northern Spain. The weathered-steel viewpoint was built at Alto de la Farrapona, the summit of Saliencia Valley in the Cantabrian Mountains, which is the highest mountain pass accessible by road in the province of Asturias.

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JUNE 12, 2025

henning larsen opens first church in skanderborg in 500 years At a time when more churches in Denmark are closing their doors than opening them, Henning Larsen’s Højvangen Church, set on the edge of Skanderborg, is the first to rise in the parish in over 500 years. The 1,500-square-meter structure sidesteps the conventional idea of a church as a singular, front-facing monument, unfolding like an open-ended, approachable pavilion in the landscape.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 12, 2025

Shah Alam Sports Complex Render. Image Courtesy of Populous Populous , in collaboration with Malaysian practice HIJJAS Architects + Planners , has released the design for the new Shah Alam Sports Complex in Selangor, Malaysia. Anchoring the Kompleks Sukan Shah Alam (KSSA) masterplan , the stadium sits at the heart of a 188-acre redevelopment led by Populous that aims to transform the site into a major public and civic destination.

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Archinect

JUNE 11, 2025

The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of its 2025 COTE Top Ten Award. Ten schemes were honored in this year's edition of the award, which “highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value.” The awards come days after the AIA also honored the best in contemporary architecture at the 2025 AIA Architecture Awards, the best in small-scale architecture at the AIA Small Project Award,

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Avontuura

JUNE 13, 2025

In an era marked by church closures and increasing secularization, the opening of a new church is a striking exception. The post Henning Larsen’s contemporary take on the Danish church opens – the first in Skanderborg in half a millennium appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2025

Pink stucco covers the walls of Casa Tobi, a house designed by Mexican studio Espacio 18 Arquitectura to resemble a "crab emerging from the rocks" above the Oaxacan coast. Created as a refuge from the city for a family of photographers, the home is located near the beach resort of Puerto Escondido with views west towards the crashing waves of the Pacific.

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designboom

JUNE 14, 2025

compact Living Above a Carport in toronto This Pocket Laneway House by Weiss A+U has been completed on a rear lot in Toronto , where its elevated form is carefully designed around the root system of a decades-old maple. Positioned above a carport and anchored by minimal structural supports, the compact dwelling introduces a distinct architectural presence while safeguarding the site’s existing ecology.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 10, 2025

Courtesy of A'Design Award and Competition Innovation is thriving around the world—and the latest results from the A' Design Award & Competition make that clear. The 2024–2025 edition has recognized 1,823 remarkable designs from 115 countries across 157 creative fields. From architecture and product design to fashion and communication, these entries highlight what happens when imagination meets craftsmanship.

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Archinect

JUNE 10, 2025

The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of its 2025 AIA Housing Award. Eight projects were honored in this year's edition, whose mission is to “emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource.” The awards come days after the AIA also honored the best in contemporary architecture at the 2025 AIA Architecture Awards and the best in small-scale architecture at the AIA Small Project

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Avontuura

JUNE 10, 2025

The former Church (1770) of Kiihtelysvaara village burnt down in an arson in 2018. LUO Architects designed a new multifunctional space. The post LUO Architects complete new multipurpose church in Finland that blends tradition with contemporary design appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

JUNE 11, 2025

British architect Peter Cook has collaborated with the Danish toymaker Lego to create the domed Play Pavilion for children at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Play Pavilion is clad with colourful protrusions formed of Lego bricks and opened today in London's Kensington Gardens to mark Lego 's World Play Day. It was designed by Cook as a space for families, children and teenagers alongside this year's Serpentine Pavilion by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum , which opened last week.

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JUNE 13, 2025

Elmaghraby Design House revives Ain Shams University’s hall Elmaghraby Design House, in collaboration with Professor Dr. Gamal El-Kholy, takes over the rehabilitation of a disused lecture hall at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. The project has resulted in a significant addition to the campus , a multi-functional theater that introduces a new architectural identity through adaptive reuse.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 11, 2025

© Simone Bossi architects: Order Matter Location: San11-1, Godeok-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea Project Year: 2025 Photographs: Simone Bossi Area: 800.

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