"The Round Room, College Park, Toronto." Image by Rebecca Bruzzese
This book takes readers on a journey of the best surviving Art Deco architecture in Toronto and beyond, from the stunning 7th floor of Eaton’s former College St. Store to the breath-taking civic marvel of R.C. Harris’ ‘Palace of Purification’ on the city’s waterfront. Featuring brief introductions to 43 buildings and beautifully illustrated with over 200 original colour photographs, Art Deco Toronto and Beyond brings to life the beauty and elegance of Toronto’s Deco moment--and that of its closest neighbours--from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Media coverage of Japanese architecture the past twenty years has largely been dominated by the works of SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Jun’ya Ishigami and their contemporaries. Their skillfully designed, ethereal white spaces and structures, have proved well suited to being exported in an increasingly visual culture.
Open House Thessaloniki 2025, courtesy of Open House Greece.
Open House Thessaloniki returns on 22–23 November, once again inviting the public to experience the city through its architecture. During the festival weekend, over 70 buildings, ranging from historic landmarks and adaptive reuse projects to innovative new constructions, will open their doors for free guided tours led by volunteers, offering a unique opportunity to explore Thessaloniki’s diverse architectural identity.
Concéntrico launches its 2025/2026 season by reinforcing its role as an Urban Innovation Laboratory — a collective space for creation that explores how architecture, design, and art can transform life in the city.
Following the success of previous editions in Venice, Chicago and New Orleans, Shaping the City is returning to the floating city for two days of conversations focusing on housing and community. The sixth edition of the conference, curated by ECC Italy in the context of its biennial architecture exhibition Time Space Existence, will take place at Palazzo Michiel on 21 and 22 November 2025, and streamed online on the YouTube channel of ECC Italy.
For over 125 years, Tarkett has been manufacturing linoleum flooring based on its original 1898 formulation. Trusted by architects worldwide, this natural floor covering is a benchmark in sustainability, durability, and timeless design. Today, Tarkett Linoleum is not only known for its heritage but also for its innovative application in modern architecture — particularly in the education sector. Learn more about the impact of Lino Materiale by Tarkett on today's spaces.
Collage of digitally manipulate images. Full credits available at UIA2026BCN website.
The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) launches the UIA International Emerging Workshop, the Congress's special format designed for students and young practitioners to engage in a real-time laboratory led by twelve recognised emerging architectural practices.
The exhibition “OBRA OBERTA, dedicated to the work of architect Josep Lluís Mateo, opens at the Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. Curated by María Figueras and Cristina Marcos, the show invites us to rethink the architectural act as a practice in constant transition, where the physical and the conceptual intertwine through processes, representations, and contexts.
A Global architectural platform INSPIRELI is organizing an unusal competition – this time for graduate architects instead of students! INSPIRELI in cooperation with Penta Real Estate, one of the major Czech developers (who build Zaha Hadid „Masaryčka" in Prague), has launched an international architecture competition to design a temporary bus terminal at Prague's iconic Florenc station — a project at the heart of the city's evolving transport network.
FIU Department of Architecture Exhibition: - When: December 2nd to December 12th 2025 - Opening: Tuesday December 2nd 2025. - Where: Washington Gallery Miami Beach Urban Studios 420 Lincoln Road. Miami Beach, FL 33139
The Municipality of Elin Pelin has launched this competition with the goal of creating an accessible, safe, and functional city center that encourages an active lifestyle, social interaction, and economic growth.
Architecture is being reshaped by artificial intelligence, climate change, and shifting social structures. At SCI-Arc, students learn to face these challenges head-on, using design to shape a rapidly changing world.
This fall, SCI-Arc's upper-level Vertical Studios bring the world into the studio. Each is led by a practicing architect working at the forefront of the field—from experimental fabrication to urban and environmental design. Drawing on real projects and professional experience, faculty challenge students to engage with the realities of the present and to design with precision, empathy, and imagination.
This international competition invited architects to design a boutique wellness retreat along the serene banks of the Vez River in northern Portugal. The project challenged participants to propose a space of tranquility and renewal that would harmonize with its extraordinary natural setting and complement a restored historic watermill already on site. The project partner, the site landowner, plans to construct one of the winning entries.
Calling all architects, urbanists, engineers, artists, and makers to design dignified, affordable, and aspirational inclusionary housing in Cape Town. This competition invites you to reimagine four underutilized public sites, currently government parking lots, as vibrant places to live. You will be challenged to integrate affordability and location, respond to spatial inequality, and develop real-world solutions that could shape Cape Town’s housing future. This is your opportunity to shape the city, reclaim public land, and design homes that bring people closer to opportunity, dignity, and belonging.
Weaving the Narrative: a Conversation between Thomas Coldefy and Adrien Gardere
The Paul L. Cejas Lecture Series. Fall 2025 Weaving the Narrative A Conversation Between Thomas Coldefy & Adrien Gardère Thursday, November 13, 2025 · 2:00 PM · PCA 135
What is risk worth? Architecture is inseparable from uncertainty—sometimes embraced, sometimes resisted, but always present. We invent bold forms that may fail. We propose brighter futures that may falter. To practice architecture is to take on risk—with capital, with reputation, with the city, with the lives shaped inside it. For the innovator, risk is agency, progress, recognition, and the chance to improve lives. For those who mitigate risk, it’s value is inseparable from the scaffold that protects progress from catastrophe. For those outside the conventional practice, such as architect-developers, design-builders, and others, risk is currency, the price of control. Each stance reveals a different measure of what risk means and what makes it worth taking. These tensions will enliven the conversations at the heart of this event.
