ArchDaily

JUNE 19, 2025

Criaturas Silvestres / Nami Nami Studio. Image © Josema Cutillas, Courtesy of Concéntrico 2025 The 11th edition of Concéntrico , the International Festival of Architecture and Design, is currently taking place in Logroño , Spain , from June 19 to 24, 2025. This year's edition broadens the scope of the festival with a multifaceted programme that includes not only temporary installations but also permanent projects , exhibitions , educational initiatives, and traveling events.

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JUNE 19, 2025

an Urban Insertion in são paulo Salma Tower rises along Avenida Faria Lima in São Paulo , introducing a new corporate development by Brazilian studio aflalo/gasperini arquitetos. The project occupies a half-block site that links Rua Professor Atílio Inocenti and Avenida Horácio Lafer, allowing access from three distinct streets and creating permeability across the plot.

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Archinect

JUNE 19, 2025

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the participants of its 2025 edition. Titled SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change , the event will be held from September 19, 2025, through February 28, 2026. The sixth edition of the Biennial, SHIFT also marks ten years of what organizers call “North America’s leading international platform for contemporary architecture.

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designboom

JUNE 19, 2025

revitalizing one of atoni’s Gaudí’s most emblematic works Casa Batlló , one of Antoni Gaudí’s most emblematic residential works, has been undergoing an ambitious process of restoration over the past year, led by architect Xavier Villanueva. The project, now set to open to the public on June 19th, focuses on returning the vivid intricacy of the building’s rear facade , private courtyard, and garden to their original condition as first designed in 1906.

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JUNE 19, 2025

Local studio Sanders Pace Architecture has completed a steel pavilion with an "innovative structural cantilever system" in a 100-acre park in Knoxville, Tennessee. Sanders Pace Architecture designed the 2,475-square foot (230-square metre) Baker Creek Pavilion as the kick off to the City of Knoxville's urban wilderness planning initiative , which aims to reconnect the city through a 60-mile network of greenways and trail systems that connect a nature preserve, lakes, historic sites, quarries, pl

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Dwell

JUNE 19, 2025

The secret to keeping the home comfortable lies largely in the design of its corrugated zinc roofs. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia Architect: Pop Architecture / @ poparchitecture Footprint: 1,885 square feet Builder: MRU Construction Structural Engineer: E2E Design Group Landscape Design: Sarah Perry

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designboom

JUNE 19, 2025

zaha hadid architects unveils plans for khalid bin sultan city Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled the masterplan for Khalid Bin Sultan City, a new chapter in Sharjah’s urban evolution and the latest in a long-standing collaboration with BEEAH Group. This follows an announcement from 2013 when the studio was first commissioned to design BEEAH’s headquarters , envisioning a fluid, dune-like structure shaped by the UAE’s desert context and engineered for net-zero emissions.

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Architectural Record

JUNE 19, 2025

Led by artistic director Florencia Rodriguez, ‘SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change’ will feature more than 100 architects and designers engaging at sites around the city.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 19, 2025

Khalid Bin Sultan City Render. Image © Tegmark Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled images of a master plan for Khalid Bin Sultan City in Sharjah , United Arab Emirates. Located adjacent to its BEEAH Headquarters , the development draws inspiration from that building's design, incorporating fluid architectural forms reminiscent of wind-swept desert dunes.

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JUNE 19, 2025

paris’s grand palais fully opens to the public after renovation After four years of renovation , the Grand Palais in Paris fully reopens following a major transformation led by Chatillon Architectes (find designboom’s previous coverage here ). The project, which began with the unveiling of the restored Nave for the 2024 Olympics , is the most extensive restoration in the building’s 120-year history.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2025

Architecture studio Henning Larsen has unveiled Højvangen Church in Skanderborg, Denmark , which aims to balance the community and spiritual needs of a contemporary church. Set within woodland on the outskirts of Skanderborg, it is the first church built in the town for 500 years. Henning Larsen aimed to design a church that would act as a community centre, while also being a contemporary spiritual space.

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designboom

JUNE 19, 2025

a holiday home embedded in the Slope A new holiday home designed by Office Inainn occupies a steep fjord landscape of Valldal, Norway. The 127-square-meter house is situated high above the waterline and built without leveling the terrain, allowing its form to emerge through close observation of the site. The project’s approach is defined by its refusal to flatten or clear the land.

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Archinect

JUNE 19, 2025

A new 12-part documentary series is set to premiere on July 1st, spotlighting a formative era in Los Angeles architecture. Produced by nonprofit FORT: LA and hosted by architectural journalist Frances Anderton , Rebel Architects: From Venice to the World Stage revisits the creative context of 1980s Venice Beach and the architects who helped shape its now-iconic West Coast design identity.

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JUNE 19, 2025

Urban transformation in Bremen’s harbor district In Bremen, Germany , a cluster of 1970s grain silos once used by Kellogg’s has been transformed into the John & Will Silo Hotel by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA). The site, located on the Überseeinsel peninsula within the larger redevelopment of Überseestadt, forms part of one of Europe’s most ambitious urban renewal projects.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 19, 2025

© Building Narratives architects: Architecture for London Location: Parkholme Road, Hackney E8, United Kingdom Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Building Narratives Area: 182.

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designboom

JUNE 19, 2025

Sir John Soane’s Museum in london honors Richard Rogers Running until September 21st, 2025, Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings opens at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. The exhibition looks back at the 50-year career of Richard Rogers (1933-2021), a British architect known for designing some of the world’s most recognizable buildings and for using architecture to express his political and social beliefs.

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JUNE 19, 2025

Between June 16–18, I had the pleasure of participating in the “Young Planners Workshop,” organized by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Gebze Technical University, with the support of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality and the Marmara Municipalities Union (MMU), under the framework of PLANED (Planning Education and Accreditation Association).

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2025

French studio Chatillon Architectes has completed the final phase of its transformation of the historic Grand Palais on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, now set to become the temporary home of Centre Pompidou. The renovation follows the studio's restoration of the landmark building's iconic glass-roofed atrium , or nave, which was completed in 2024 in time to host the city's Olympic Games.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 19, 2025

Tirana Crevices. Image © VAYA Studio OOD Collective living continues to be a central theme in contemporary housing discourse, one that extends beyond questions of density or typology to engage broader concerns of land use, social cohesion, and spatial identity. This selection of conceptual unbuilt projects, submitted by the ArchDaily community , explores the potentials of shared living environments, not only as functional housing solutions but as frameworks for interaction, environmental integra

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JUNE 19, 2025

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe, jointly alongside Creative Europe, has announced three Young Talent winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards category as part of the EUmies Awards Day 2025 in Venice. The awards are organized to recognize “exceptional student projects that respond to today’s social, urban, and environmental challenges.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 19, 2025

Still from the documentary With an Acre, CCA, 2025. Image © Joshua Frank The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) launched a documentary and exhibition, "With an Acre", the third and final chapter of the series Groundwork, which explores how contemporary architects cultivate alternative modes of practice to address the ecological crisis. The documentary follows the work of architect Carla Juaçaba in Minas Gerais , Brazil , where she is developing pavilions in a coffee field where collectives r

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Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

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Hotel Designs

JUNE 19, 2025

Hotel Designs In conversation with: Tolù Adẹ̀kọ́ In conversation with: Tolù Adẹ̀kọ́ Hotel Designs catches up with Tolù Adẹ̀kọ́ to ask him his thoughts on accessible design ahead of MEET UP North next month, where he’ll be speaking on our second Accessible Design Talks panel: Accessibility Through the Lens of Neurodivergence… Keen to spread the discussion far and wide, Hotel Designs will be bringing its newly launched series, Accessible Design Talks , to Liverpool this summer at the a

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2025

Architecture studio MAD has created a canopy that reinterprets traditional Chinese oil-paper umbrellas at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Appropriately named Chinese Paper Umbrella, the installation is defined by a draping form that serves as a sheltered outdoor space beside the China Pavilion, also designed by the studio. MAD created the installation using Xuan paper coated with layers of tung oil to create a "breathable" envelope that is also weather-resistant.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 19, 2025

Completed in 2024 in Chetumal, Mexico. Images by Andrés Cedillo. A government-funded initiative was established to address the demand for a new venue to accommodate the annual fair in Chetumal that has evolved into.

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Dwell

JUNE 19, 2025

Small Lots, Big Impacts asked firms to propose dynamic infill projects to address housing scarcity and affordability. Here are some of our favorite ideas. In March, the City of Los Angeles, CityLab-UCLA, and nonprofit LA4LA launched Small Lots, Big Impacts , a new competition aimed to address housing scarcity and affordability. The contest asked firms to suggest dynamic uses for infill units across the city’s thousands of unused small lots—and, potentially, will help them get built.

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A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?

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