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How to Measure the Life Cycle of a Construction Material?
As a major driver of natural resource consumption, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions, the construction industry has a significant impact on the environment, consuming 32% of global energy and contributing to 34% of global CO₂ emissions. Building materials play a crucial role in shaping the built environment. Through principles of circular economy, renewable and self-sufficient solutions, and technological innovations, analyzing the environmental performance of each material highlights the opportunity to review and assess the different stages of its life cycle.
By establishing a common framework for measuring and managing the environmental impact of building materials, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) emerges as a key approach. This methodology provides a comprehensive evaluation of the environmental impacts associated with products, processes, or activities throughout their entire life cycle. From raw material extraction, manufacturing, and transportation to construction, use, and end-of-life treatment, the analysis considers the environmental burdens linked to each stage. In the context of building materials, LCA offers a holistic and systematic approach to assessing environmental performance and identifying opportunities for design optimization, among other improvements. In this way, it quantifies impacts such as carbon emissions, energy consumption, water use, air pollution, waste generation, and ecosystem depletion.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039767/how-to-measure-the-life-cycle-of-a-construction-materialAgustina Iñiguez
Capuchinas House / LABarq
https://www.archdaily.com/1039990/capuchinas-house-labarqValentina Díaz
What Architects Expect From AI Tools in 2026
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Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept in architectural practice. It is rapidly becoming a practical tool used by firms around the world to accelerate design workflows, generate visualizations, and explore new creative possibilities.
According to a new industry survey conducted by Chaos in collaboration with Architizer, architects are already integrating AI into their daily work. Nearly 800 architects and designers from around the globe participated in the study, sharing insights into how they use AI tools, how much time the technology saves, and how they believe artificial intelligence will shape the future of architecture.
https://www.archdaily.com/1040024/what-architects-expect-from-ai-tools-in-2026Rene Submissions
14 Major Museum Projects Currently in Progress Around the World
Throughout 2025 and early 2026, numerous museum projects were announced, advanced, or broke ground across multiple regions, with completion timelines largely extending from 2026 to 2030. Located across Asia, Europe, North America, and Central Asia, these developments reflect ongoing shifts in the role of cultural institutions within contemporary cities. Increasingly, museums are conceived not only as exhibition venues but as public-facing environments that accommodate education, research, and civic engagement. This expanded programmatic scope is often accompanied by architectural strategies that respond to urban conditions, spatial continuity, and the integration of cultural infrastructure into broader city-making processes.
https://www.archdaily.com/1040190/14-major-museum-projects-currently-in-progress-around-the-worldReyyan Dogan
Intercommunal Daycare Center / Paul Le Quernec
https://www.archdaily.com/1040069/intercommunal-daycare-center-paul-le-quernecHadir Al Koshta
Fundació Mies van der Rohe Presents “Transnational Narratives,” a Documentary on Six South Asian Women Architects
"Gender equity remains an ongoing problem in architecture. Women architects are roughly one-third of the profession or less worldwide." This is the opening statement of the documentary Transnational Narratives: A Documentary Celebrating South Asian Women in Architecture, a result of the 4th Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. The grant, an initiative by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, promotes equal access to opportunities in architectural practice and supports the study and dissemination of contributions to architecture that have been unfairly rendered invisible. Within this context, the documentary, created by Dr. Igea Troiani, Dr. Mamuna Iqbal, artist and researcher Paula Roush, and filmmaker Rime Tsujino, brings visibility to the experiences of six architects of South Asian origin: Sumita Singha, Chitra Vishwanath, Sara Khan, Fauzia Qureshi, Sajida Vandal, and Neelum Naz, whose professional careers span India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.
https://www.archdaily.com/1040163/fundacio-mies-van-der-rohe-presents-transnational-narratives-a-documentary-on-six-south-asian-women-architectsAntonia Piñeiro
Cities of the Dead: 10 Projects Exploring Burial Architecture
Death is a certainty, but its architecture has never been stable. Every period and culture has invented a different way of placing the dead in the world (close or far, visible or screened, monumental or almost anonymous), and those choices have always carried social and political weight. Cemeteries are where that weight becomes legible in space, turning belief and regulation into boundaries, paths, and names.
In that sense, a cemetery behaves like a piece of city-making. It needs access, limits, and an internal order that can grow without losing clarity. It depends on ground and water management as much as on symbolism, and on administration as much as on form. But its real architectural problem is how to make a large, evolving territory readable while preserving the intimacy of a visit. Names must be locatable; routes must remain legible; trees grow, paths shift, stones weather, records accumulate. What looks fixed is, in practice, a living system designed to be used and revisited, long after the first grief has passed.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039891/cities-of-the-dead-10-projects-exploring-burial-architectureDiogo Borges Ferreira
Willowdale Sports Precinct / Sam Crawford Architects
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Architects: Sam Crawford Architects
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1040125/willowdale-sports-precinct-sam-crawford-architectsMiwa Negoro
Scarlet Pavilion / DUHA Architects
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Architects: DUHA Architects
- Area: 245 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1040158/scarlet-pavilion-duha-architectsMiwa Negoro
Hopetoun House / FGR Architects
https://www.archdaily.com/1040093/hopetoun-house-fgr-architectsPilar Caballero
Pamba Bike Shelter / URLO Studio
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Architects: URLO Studio
- Area: 899 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: Diacomet, Er Servicios, FV, Hormipisos, Maderoble, +1
https://www.archdaily.com/1040099/pamba-bike-shelter-urlo-studioAndreas Luco
Ložionica Center for Creative Industries and Innovations and the House of e-Government / AKVS architecture
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Architects: AKVS architecture
- Area: 23200 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1040129/lozionica-center-for-creative-industries-and-innovations-and-the-house-of-e-government-akvs-architectureHadir Al Koshta
Choreographing Lagos: Dele Adeyemo on Dance, Cosmology, and Spatial Practices
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Having thrown a stone today, Eshu kills a bird of yesterday. The Yoruba proverb tells both a story of reparation and of ancestrality by joyfully bending spacetime conventions and accessing subjects from the past with present actions. The saying offers a poetic entry point to broader West African traditions and to the practice of Scottish-Nigerian artist and architect Dele Adeyemo. Named one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, Adeyemo's work brings together ecology, spirituality, dance, and territory, examining how embodied cultural practices can generate alternative spatial possibilities within and against the architecture of racial capitalism.
Born in Nigeria and raised in the United Kingdom, Adeyemo has been visiting Lagos for many years. Through this engagement, he has developed an extensive body of research on collective movement practices that predate capitalism and offer distinct, often imaginative spatial intelligences operating alongside dominant systems. ArchDaily spoke with Dele about his artistic and pedagogical practices, and how he identifies design sophistication where architects often perceive deficiency.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039851/choreographing-lagos-dele-adeyemo-on-dance-cosmology-and-spatial-practicesRomullo Baratto
Historical Oberamteistraße Museum / wulf architekten
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Architects: wulf architekten
- Area: 338 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1039966/historical-oberamteistrasse-museum-wulf-architektenHadir Al Koshta
SANAA, David Chipperfield Architects, and Snøhetta Among Five Finalists for Barcelona’s New Waterfront Cultural Venue, Liceu Mar
The city of Barcelona has announced the five finalist teams selected to advance in the international competition for Liceu Mar, a new cultural venue planned for the Port Vell waterfront. Promoted by the Gran Teatre del Liceu in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona, the project is conceived as a second venue for the historic institution, expanding its artistic and civic role while strengthening its international presence. Bringing together a group of internationally recognized and locally rooted practices, the shortlist underscores the project's global relevance, with the winning proposal expected to be announced in autumn 2026.
https://www.archdaily.com/1040132/sanaa-david-chipperfield-architects-and-snohetta-among-five-finalists-for-barcelonas-new-waterfront-cultural-venue-liceu-marReyyan Dogan