Why our fascination with the new?
At ArchDaily, we're more than just architects. We're a dynamic team with varied backgrounds, spanning from software and finance to design, journalism, art, accounting, and even insurance! Yet, there's something that connects us all: creativity. And creativity is what we also have in common with you.
That is why by analyzing how to improve the content we generate for you, we often find ourselves asking the question of what we can do to feed your (and our) mind to foster creativity.
Highly creative people usually have profound specialized knowledge and have the capability of divergent thinking. That’s why our stream is a set of periodic new, fresh, and diverse projects and content, where you don’t know what comes next.
That’s why we are always fascinated with the new.
Editor's Spotlight
by David Basulto, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
I want to share with you a story that started in an instinctive way, and that in perspective nurtured something very special.
As I mentioned before, as architects and creative people, we understand that our journey is one of endless influences and constant learning, with everything that we see and experience feeding our creative mind: from a trip to the countryside to a stroll in the city, a conversation with an artist, or an exhibit about indigenous pottery. And by seeing fresh and new creations by others, it fuels our creativity and capacity of divergent thinking. That’s why besides the news and projects we bring you every day, we are always searching for what are architects doing that is new, specially in the early stage, before that newness turns into buildings.
Back in 2009 we started AD Futures, to highlight practices whose early work showed tremendous potential and that we thought should be in our watchlist. Practices with a compelling story, with a drive and energy that inspire others. On AD Futures we spotted firms in the early stage of their career before becoming globally recognized, such as Barozzi Veiga (Spain), LEFT (Lebanon/US), or Luis Callejas (Colombia, Norway).
We knew that this could help you with valuable insights on what is yet to come, so we eventually created the ArchDaily New Practices program (2020, 2021, 2023), a framework to detect and highlight those with great potential. Headed for its fourth edition to be announced in November, the program has been in constant evolution. While it started focusing on “young practices” we understood that it doesn’t have to do with age, and neither with the amount of built work. That’s why we strive to find diversity in how to make architecture, from activists, advocates, community builders, writers, academics, thinkers or tech startups.
We are proud that many of these practices continued on a path of success, resulting in impactful stories:
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Paulo Tavares (New Practices ‘23): Together with Gabriela Matos, Paulo won the Gold Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (As seen on the images above).
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ENTER (formerly baupal, New Practices ‘21): In their quest to make architecture more accessible, ENTER focused on helping homeowners to lower their emissions. After a successful rebranding and venture capital funding, ENTER has been highlighted as one of the Top 100 Impact Startups.
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ICON (New Practices 21’): The 3D printing construction company has been on a successful path, unveiling a hotel collaboration with BIG, along with several housing projects across the US, affordable housing in Mexico, and on the moon.
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KOSMOS Architects (New Practices ‘23): KOSMOS has been selected to build a pavilion at the Model Festival in Barcelona.
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Studio Ben-Avid (New Practices ‘21): Ben-Avid was part of the team that delivered the astonishing Brazil pavilion at the Dubai World Expo.
For this year’s award, our team is already scouting the world, and we will soon open it for nominations from our community. Is there any practice that you think represents a forward-thinking spirit for architecture? You can join our team in this process.
Recommended by Our Team
The Story Behind…
by Clara Ott, Head of Projects
It is amazing to see new generations of architects embracing their heritage. The Pavilion of Floating Lights , located in Jinju, South Korea, is a project by Jae K. Kim - JK-AR, one of the selected architects of the 2023 New Practices.
Our curatorial team was blown away by how JK-AR manages to integrate traditional wooden structural systems and forgotten techniques with cutting-edge technology.
We really enjoyed the Joint Assembly Diagrams that allowed us to understand the reinvented wooden bracket system and how the assembly is done without adhesives or pins in order to preserve the essence of the original carpentry.
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