DETAILS:
Title: London Creates 2026
Organiser: Archisource
Dates: 17th - 26th July 2026
Entry: Free
Venue: The Truman Brewery, Elys Yard, London E1 6QR

Where Calgary’s Creative Community Comes Together
Design Week Calgary is a city-wide festival celebrating the talent, creativity, and impact of Calgary’s design community. Through talks, exhibitions, workshops, installations, screenings, tours, and social events, the festival invites the public to explore how design shapes the places we live, the experiences we share, and the future of our city.
Created by designers, for designers, Design Week Calgary opens the doors to creative practice and invites everyone to participate in conversations about architecture, urbanism, fashion, interiors, technology, public art, film, sound, and the built environment.
2026 Theme: In Tune
This year’s theme, In Tune, explores the rhythms of the city around us—its sounds, spaces, people, and everyday experiences. Through diverse programming, Design Week Calgary examines how design helps us notice what is often overlooked, revealing new connections between the built world and the lives we lead.
What to Expect
* Talks and panel discussions with designers, artists, architects, and city builders
* Workshops and hands-on learning experiences
* Exhibitions, installations, and public art activations
* Film screenings and storytelling events
* Studio tours and behind-the-scenes experiences
* Networking events and community gatherings
* Opportunities to engage with Calgary’s creative industries and cultural leaders

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The Swiss Finance & Property Group (SFP Group) invites students of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, spatial planning, and related disciplines to participate in the Walzwerk Student Design Competition, an international ideas competition exploring the future of one of Switzerland's most distinctive former industrial sites.

How can the mycelial structure of fungi shape the future of architecture and design? Can mycelium-based materials replace existing materials or give rise to entirely new categories and forms of industrial material production? This book brings together leading international experts to examine the potential of mycelium for resource-efficient biomaterials. From building materials to textiles, scientific, technological, and practical approaches demonstrate the new perspectives that mycelium, a living material, can offer. Essays, case studies, and interviews report on current developments, address challenges, and explore how renewable materials can be integrated into circular and sustainable design practices.

Invitation to participate in the III International Seminar on Territory, Urbanism, and Architecture Research (SIITUA III), an international event promoted by Revista U.Llaqta. The seminar is aimed at students, faculty, and researchers in architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines who wish to present their research in an academic forum with a global reach.

International architecture competition for the design of a contemporary thermal retreat located at the Blue Lagoon (Iceland). The project will serve as a tourist attraction focused on offering an immersive experience amidst water, rock, steam, and incredible landscapes.

Videos

Artificial intelligence has evolved from an emerging technology into an everyday tool. Architects and interior designers are integrating it into their workflows, shortening the time between an initial idea and its realization. In the field of visualization, AI has naturally merged with existing tools and processes, collaborating with software such as Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Enscape, and Twinmotion.

Against this backdrop, Render AI was launched more than three years ago with a single goal: to integrate into the creative process quickly and intuitively. This AI-powered rendering tool, designed specifically for architecture and interior design firms, transforms sketches, 3D models, Revit screenshots, blueprints, and photographs into presentation-ready images for clients.

Architecture often draws on the history of a place, translating local narratives into contemporary forms, materials, and spatial experiences. Located in the spa town of Bad Orb near Frankfurt, ALEA RESORT HIDEAWAY follows this approach, taking inspiration from the site's history of salt extraction.

Designed by PLAJER + FRANZ studio, the 5,200 m² hospitality project references the geometry of salt crystals through its architectural language while using lighting solutions from OLEV to shape the atmosphere of its interior spaces. In this interview, architect Alexander Plajer discusses the project's relationship to its context, the design process, and the role of lighting.

For decades, professionals have accepted an uncomfortable reality: hours spent at a desk often result in stiff backs, constant shifting, and creeping mental fatigue. While conventional ergonomic seating has sought to improve comfort through adjustable mechanisms, it has largely continued to assume that effective sitting depends on maintaining a stable posture. Growing understanding of the relationship between movement, physical well-being, and cognitive performance suggests a different approach, one in which motion becomes an integral part of the seating experience rather than something to be minimized.

The Architects' Association of the Province of Buenos Aires – District 2 (CAPBA D2) has presented "Paisajes a la deriva / Derivas sur urbanas," an editorial project that offers a critical, sensitive, and contemporary perspective on the territory and architectural works of the Buenos Aires metropolitan south. The nearly 700-page book is the result of nearly three years of research, editorial production, and collective effort, bringing together reflections, projects, cartographies, photographs, and debates surrounding the landscapes, infrastructures, architectures, and ways of inhabiting District 2, which encompasses a vast territory of the southern AMBA (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area).

What does climate change have to do with the epidemic of loneliness?
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What are the consequences of our obsession with efficiency, control, and comfort?
Are there healthy alternatives to air conditioning and heating?
How can we create regenerative cities and buildings?

Registration is now open for the national public competition to select the architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture project for the Bixiga Municipal Park, located in the Bela Vista neighborhood in the central region of São Paulo.

This publication presents an overview of the work of Mario Roberto Álvarez (1913-2011), one of the most important Argentine architects of his generation, spanning the first five decades of his vast and prolific professional career.

The National Government of Ecuador, through the Ministry of Education, Sport, and Culture and with the technical advisory of the College of Architects of Ecuador (CAE-P), invites entries for the architectural design competition for the new National Museum of Ecuador building. The institution houses more than 1.2 million cultural and heritage assets that narrate 12,000 years of history and comprise the country's most significant collection.

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Materials 2050: Reuse and Recycle