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Primary School Krampnitz / AFF architekten

March 14

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Architects: AFF architekten
Area: 15077 m²
Year: 2025

Spring Patio / amass

March 14

+ 29

Architects: amass
Area: 410 m²
Year: 2024
Manufacturers: NL 能亮现代手工砖

Soil Stories Pavilion / Magicline Studio

March 13

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Architects: Magicline Studio
Area: 321 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Essco sanitarwares, Wigwam Plywood, onduline sheet

MKN House / Triplex Arquitetura

March 13

+ 14

Architects: Triplex Arquitetura
Area: 900 m²
Year: 2023
Manufacturers: Bontempo, Di Mármore, Marcenaria Pimentel, Marupá, Ulimax

Kindergarten and Nursery Rosslauf / feld72

March 13

+ 9

Architects: feld72
Area: 1310 m²
Year: 2024

Place Tenaquip - Affordable Housing Units / L. McComber

March 13

+ 19

Architects: L. McComber
Area: 11330 ft²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Archea Architectural , Boiserie Raymond, Forbo, Le groupe SH, Lepage Millwork , +2Montréal Brique & Pierre, Stone Tile-2

Building with Earth: Traditional Knowledge in Contemporary Architecture

Subscriber Access | March 13

In recent years, earthen construction has gained renewed attention in architecture. Materials such as adobe, rammed earth, and compressed earth blocks, once mainly associated with vernacular traditions, are increasingly being explored by contemporary architects. Rather than representing a simple return to the past, this renewed interest reflects a broader reconsideration of how architecture engages with materials, local resources, and environmental conditions.

For centuries, building with earth was part of everyday construction across many regions of the world. Techniques such as adobe, rammed earth, cob, and other soil-based systems developed gradually through adaptation to climate, available resources, and local construction practices. These methods responded directly to environmental conditions while shaping cultural ways of building. This knowledge circulated through collective practices rather than formal architectural education, allowing techniques to evolve through continuous experimentation.

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Ananda House / Thought Parallels

March 13

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Architects: Thought Parallels
Area: 3000 ft²
Year: 2026
Manufacturers: Gessi, Gessi , Mercan , OED gallery

Orms Appointed to Lead Redevelopment of London’s BT Tower into Hotel

March 13

BT Tower, one of London's most recognizable postwar landmarks, is set to be converted into a hotel. London-based architecture practice Orms has been appointed to lead the redevelopment following the acquisition of the Grade II–listed tower by the American hospitality company MCR Hotels in early 2024. The project was initially expected to be led by Heatherwick Studio, though the practice is no longer involved; Orms will now advance the scheme and is expected to present its initial proposals during a first round of public consultations scheduled for May. Construction cannot begin until the decommissioning and removal of telecommunications equipment by BT Group, a process currently expected to conclude around 2030.

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Nursery School in Muro / BOS Arquitectes

March 13

+ 27

Architects: BOS Arquitectes
Area: 745 m²
Year: 2025

Modular Installation Reimagines Unfinished Structures at Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana

March 13

The recently opened Limbo Museum in Accra, Ghana, inaugurated a two-part architectural installation by TAELON7 on March 12th, led by architect Juergen Benson-Strohmayer. The installation was commissioned by the museum in partnership with Art Omi, a not-for-profit arts center in New York's Hudson Valley. The project is the first commission of a collaboration between the two institutions and will be installed in both locations, Accra and New York. Titled Limbo Engawa, the modular, lightweight structure dialogues with the formerly abandoned Brutalist building housing the museum, transforming its skeletal concrete structure and its surrounding land into spaces for use, care, and encounter. The project reflects on the boundaries between unfinished urban architecture and the landscape, foregrounding the labor and stewardship often invisible in both urban and institutional contexts, and asserting that even incomplete or overlooked sites are vessels of civic possibility.

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Designing the Sensory City: Architecture, Light Pollution, and Urban Noise

March 13

For most of human history, night arrived as a planetary certainty. Darkness spread across landscapes, and the sky revealed thousands of stars. Today, that sky is disappearing. Artificial light spills upward from cities, scattering through the atmosphere and turning night into a permanent haze. Research mapping global sky brightness shows that more than 80 percent of humanity now lives under light-polluted skies, and the Milky Way has vanished from view for over a third of the world's population. The disappearance of dark skies is usually discussed within astronomy, but the sources of that change are deeply embedded in the built environment. Buildings emit light, reflect it through glass façades, and extend illumination far beyond their walls. In the technosphere, the vast system of infrastructures and materials humans have constructed, architecture now shapes both physical space and the sensory conditions surrounding it.

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