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Material Mediation and Architectural Heritage

February 10

Preserving historic buildings requires simultaneously addressing technical, environmental, and regulatory demands while maintaining the material, cultural, and symbolic continuity of what already exists. As the understanding consolidates that the most sustainable building is the one that is already standing, and that preservation also involves construction knowledge, material traditions, and the social fabrics from which they emerged, these same buildings are increasingly confronted with more rigorous contemporary parameters. Energy efficiency, safety, carbon emission reduction, and regulatory compliance have become unavoidable references, placing architecture before a central tension: how to update what already exists without breaking the continuity that sustains its heritage value.

Al Ain Museum / Dabbagh Architects

February 10

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Architects: Dabbagh Architects
Area: 8000 m²
Year: 2025

Níall McLaughlin Architects Wins International Competition for Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan

February 10

Following the release of seven shortlisted proposals in 2025 through an online gallery, the Foundation for the Development of the Lands Adjacent to the Baptism Site has announced the winner of the international design competition for the Museum of Jesus' Baptism at Bethany, Jordan. Managed by Malcolm Reading Consultants, the six-month invited competition brought together architect-led multidisciplinary teams to design a museum and landscape project responding to the sacred character of Al-Maghtas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After finalist interviews conducted by an international Advisory Panel, the team led by Níall McLaughlin Architects (NMLA) was selected as the competition winner.

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BM House / ErranteArchitetture

February 10

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Architects: ErranteArchitetture
Area: 320 m²
Year: 2025
Professionals: Clen Legnami

Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Officially Open as Citywide Events Launch Across Italy

February 10

The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics officially opened on Friday, February 6, with a ceremony staged across four locations in northern Italy. The main opening event took place at San Siro Stadium, one of Milan's most significant modernist landmarks, and combined dance and performing arts, referencing Italian culture with performances by international artists, including pop star Mariah Carey. Although several competitions had already begun on February 4, the opening ceremony marked the start of a broader programme of sporting, social, and cultural events distributed across Milan and the three Alpine host areas: Cortina d'Ampezzo, Valtellina, and Val di Fiemme. The Games are scheduled to run until February 22, concluding with a closing ceremony at the Verona Arena, ahead of the Paralympic Games, which will take place from March 6 to 15. As a large-scale international event, the Olympics place significant demands on sports infrastructure, transportation networks, accommodation, and tourism capacity, offering early indications of the longer-term urban, architectural, and territorial impacts the Games may leave behind.

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Beyond the Classroom: Six Unbuilt Projects Rethinking Educational Architecture

Subscriber Access | February 10

Educational architecture remains an exploratory ground for unbuilt exploration, offering insight into how learning environments can evolve alongside changing social, ecological, and pedagogical values. In this Unbuilt edition, submitted by the ArchDaily community, the selected projects bring together a range of proposals that examine schools, libraries, nurseries, and academic centers as spatial frameworks for care, knowledge, and collective growth. Rather than treating education as a fixed program housed within singular buildings, these projects approach learning spaces as adaptive environments shaped by landscape, climate, and human interaction.

Across varied geographies, from Mediterranean hillsides and Central European courtyards to tropical cities and distributed campus models, the proposals explore diverse architectural responses to contemporary education. They range from child-scaled kindergartens organized around trees and cloisters to libraries conceived as civic landscapes, biodiversity-centered academic buildings, and schools imagined as walkable urban systems.

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Ben Tre Bungalow / VTN Architects (Vo Trong Nghia Architects)

February 10

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Architects: VTN Architects (Vo Trong Nghia Architects)
Area: 430 m²
Year: 2021

Potter Museum of Art / Wood Marsh

February 10

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Architects: Wood Marsh
Year: 2025

Fujian Wuyi Mountain National Park Moon Bay Observation Deck / CLAB Architects

February 10

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Architects: CLAB Architects
Area: 970 m²
Year: 2024
Professionals: Muke Structure (Chengdu) Construction Engineering Consulting Co., LTD, Wuyi Yungu Construction and Development Co., LTD. L

JT Residence / Wahana Architects

February 10

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Architects: Wahana Architects
Area: 800 m²
Year: 2024

A Forest in the House / Equipo de Arquitectura

February 09

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Architects: Equipo de Arquitectura
Area: 260 m²
Year: 2025

Connecting Gallery for the Les Verdaines Retirement Home / Agence Vulcano-Gibello

February 09

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Architects: Agence Vulcano-Gibello
Area: 80 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Interpon

Common Woods / Space&Matter

February 09

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Architects: Space&Matter
Area: 10850 m²
Year: 2026

The Kitchen as a Social Space: Everyday Rituals and the Making of Place

February 09

Can architecture be built from food? Between the fire that warms, the smells that spread, and the bodies that gather around the table, the apparent banality of cooking and eating reveals itself as a choreographed dance of spatial appropriation and belonging. These gestures organize routines, produce bonds, and transform the built environment into lived place. The kitchen—domestic, communal, or urban—thus ceases to be merely a functional space and affirms itself as a territory of encounter.

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Van der Vlugt Residence / [STRANG]

February 09

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Architects: [STRANG]
Year: 2026

Buildner Announces Winners of Architect’s Chair #4 Competition and Launches #5 Edition

February 09 | Sponsored Content

Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its Architect's Chair Competition Edition 4, an annual international competition that invites architects and designers worldwide to submit designs for a signature chair. Following in the footsteps of iconic figures like Charles and Ray Eames, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Arne Jacobsen, participants are tasked with creating custom chairs that reflect their unique design philosophies and visions.

WEISS/MANFREDI Reveals Updated Designs for La Brea Tar Pits Transformation in Los Angeles

February 09

New renderings released by WEISS/MANFREDI reveal updated plans for the ongoing transformation of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a comprehensive redesign that integrates the museum, landscape, and active excavation areas into a continuous public and research-oriented campus. Alongside the design update, the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHM) has announced the creation of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, a new initiative supported by the Samuel Oschin Family Foundation, which advances the site's long-term redevelopment. The transformation project is led by WEISS/MANFREDI as design lead for the museum and park, with Gruen Associates serving as executive architect and landscape architect, and Kossmanndejong (KDJ) responsible for exhibition design. Fundraising efforts are ongoing, with the project positioned for completion ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.