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Architects: Perkins&Will
- Area: 18000 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: Arkos
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HVM Maya / Perkins&Will
https://www.archdaily.com/1039398/hvm-maya-perkins-and-willSusanna Moreira
Borny Socio-Educational Center / ABC Studio
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Architects: ABC Studio
- Area: 2000 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1039363/borny-socio-educational-center-abc-studioPilar Caballero
The Embellished, the Transient, and the Critical Installation / Alsar Atelier
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Architects: Alsar Atelier
- Area: 55 m²
- Year: 2026
https://www.archdaily.com/1039222/the-embellished-the-transient-and-the-critical-installation-alsar-atelierValentina Díaz
Setbacks as Courtyards: How Civil Architecture Reimagines the Gulf House in Bahrain
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For centuries, domestic architecture throughout the Gulf has been organized around the courtyard. Houses presented thick exterior walls and limited openings to the street, turning inward toward a shaded garden that structured everyday life. This spatial arrangement responded to both climate and culture. The courtyard brought daylight into deep plans, enabled cross-ventilation, and provided a protected outdoor environment within dense urban fabrics. In the House with Seven Gardens, in Diyar Al Muharraq, Bahrain, the Bahrain-based practice Civil Architecture, one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, revisits this spatial tradition through the conditions of contemporary suburban housing. Rather than reproducing the courtyard house as a historical model, the project reinterprets its environmental logic within the regulatory frameworks and spatial conditions that shape much of today's urban development in the Gulf.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039457/setbacks-as-courtyards-how-civil-architecture-reimagines-the-gulf-house-in-bahrainDiogo Borges Ferreira
Rural Housing and Lodging – Dormis Donata / Taller MACAA (Misión de Arquitectura, Construcción y Arte en los Andes)
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Architects: Taller MACAA
- Area: 135 m²
- Year: 2025
https://www.archdaily.com/1039278/rural-housing-and-lodging-dormis-donata-taller-macaa-mision-de-arquitectura-construccion-y-arte-en-los-andesValentina Díaz
Snøhetta, BIG, and MVRDV Collaborate on New Coastal Neighborhood in Istanbul, Türkiye
Located in Istanbul, Türkiye, an 84-hectare neighborhood is currently under development in the Riva area of Beykoz along the city's Black Sea coast. The master plan has been developed by an international design team including Snøhetta, Bjarke Ingels Group, and MVRDV, alongside local practices KEYM, DB Architects, Rasa, and Bilgin Architects. Known as Ion Riva, the project is conceived as a landscape-led residential community that integrates housing, cultural facilities, and public programs within an ecological framework shaped by the meeting of forest, river, and sea. The first phase of the development, which has received planning permission and is currently under construction, will deliver 969 homes designed for approximately 3,000 residents, with the first completed residences expected to be occupied in 2027.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039525/snohetta-big-and-mvrdv-collaborate-on-new-coastal-neighborhood-in-istanbul-turkiyeReyyan Dogan
The Aubusson Tapestry Museum Extension / Projectiles
https://www.archdaily.com/1039092/the-aubusson-tapestry-museum-extension-projectilesHadir Al Koshta
SOM Designs Landmark Mixed-Use Tower Complex for the New City of Alatau in Kazakhstan
On March 5, 2026, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) revealed images of a new landmark project in Kazakhstan, in Central Asia. The project consists of two towers, the "Iconic Complex," and a master plan for the area, the "Gateway District." The complex is located in Alatau, a new city along the Almaty–Qonaev highway planned to become an international investment hub. A strategic project for the country, the city's master plan extends through 2050, with the first phase of major infrastructure projects scheduled for completion by 2030. Within this context, SOM's design is expected to serve as the city's economic and administrative nucleus, establishing the central business district of Alatau City and setting a benchmark for future investment projects in the area.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039500/som-designs-landmark-mixed-use-tower-complex-for-the-new-city-of-alatau-in-kazakhstanAntonia Piñeiro
Gateway in Lunar Orbit: Extending Architecture Beyond Earth
The concept of the technosphere provides a framework for understanding the scale of human impact on Earth. The term was coined by Peter K. Haff, and it is defined as the global network of human-made artifacts: a physical layer of infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, and machinery that functions alongside the biosphere and atmosphere. Currently estimated at 30 trillion tons, this human-constructed mass is dominated by the built environment. In this context, architecture serves as the primary interface, shaping how technology interacts with local ecologies. However, it seems that soon, the Technosphere will no longer be confined to the terrestrial surface. Through NASA's Artemis program, this network of human-made mass is expanding beyond Earth's atmosphere and is looking to establish new orbital infrastructure that represents the first permanent off-world extension of this man-made system.
https://www.archdaily.com/1039446/gateway-in-lunar-orbit-extending-architecture-beyond-earthMoises Carrasco
Sports Campus in Ben Guerir / OUALALOU+CHOI
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Architects: OUALALOU+CHOI
- Area: 350 m²
- Year: 2023
https://www.archdaily.com/1039366/sports-campus-in-ben-guerir-oualalou-plus-choiPilar Caballero
Patio House / DADA Partners
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Architects: DADA Partners
- Area: 12000 ft²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: Amit marbles, FCML, Jindal Steel, Modifloat Glass, Regatta exports, +1
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Professionals: MASH Designs, LOCI Landscape, Premier landscape and Pools
https://www.archdaily.com/1039418/patio-house-dada-partnersPilar Caballero
How Architecture Is Learning to Generate Its Own Energy
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Beyond being a source of life, the power of the sun in architecture has long been tied to humanity's need to harness and control it as a vital resource. Since ancient times, solar energy has been used to measure time, support planting and harvesting, and provide protection from heat and cold. Today, solar radiation plays a significant role in global energy consumption. Architectural solutions based on materials, technologies, and environmental analysis are developed with an understanding of solar energy's capacity to transform the interior environment of buildings. But how can buildings be transformed into sources of clean energy?
https://www.archdaily.com/1038623/how-architecture-is-learning-to-generate-its-own-energyAgustina Iñiguez
Guangdong Brick House / WUWU Atelier, ADINJU
https://www.archdaily.com/1039479/guangdong-brick-house-wuwu-atelier-adinju韩爽 - HAN Shuang
MRIYA - the Red House / i2a Architects Studio
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Architects: i2a Architects Studio
- Area: 3525 ft²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: ADITHYA LAMPS , CRETON, DSQUAREZ, HEKUR INDIA, Jaguar
https://www.archdaily.com/1039435/mriya-the-red-house-i2a-architects-studioMiwa Negoro
Tam House / Ivan Bravo Architects
https://www.archdaily.com/1039221/tam-house-ivan-bravo-architectsValentina Díaz
Educational Ensemble Jean Mentelin / feld72 + Agence MW
https://www.archdaily.com/1039109/educational-ensemble-jean-mentelin-feld72-plus-agence-mwHadir Al Koshta
Hotel Palácio de Tavira / Fragmentos
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Architects: Fragmentos
- Area: 2350 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: Louis Poulsen, Ferm Living, João Mendes, Santa&Cole, Almeco, +15
https://www.archdaily.com/1039392/hotel-palacio-de-tavira-fragmentosSusanna Moreira
Facing the Age of Robots? Material Innovation in Architectural Structures
By exploring the art of robotics in construction, advances in architectural technologies are increasingly shaping multiple aspects of human life. From robotic arms and drones to robots that move across large surfaces and even 3D printing robots, their use in construction is accelerating research and the development of new working methods, as well as structural and material experimentation. In collaboration with multiple disciplines and spanning various facets of architecture, the role of robots in the contemporary landscape demonstrates a potential that extends beyond merely automating processes or reducing construction times and costs. This raises the question: Are we building architecture to serve technology, or technology to serve architecture?
https://www.archdaily.com/1039340/facing-the-age-of-robots-material-innovation-in-architectural-structuresAgustina Iñiguez