Personalization of architectural and design elements has become an important global trend in the creation of exceptional and individualized spaces. These days, anything that can be personalized is fair game, with both clients and architects eager to stand out and create designs that are a true reflection of their personal tastes and lifestyles. In the realm of porcelain tiles, personalization is a key way to infuse design with personality, which the brand Kaolin has been focusing on through its Customization Program.

Lee Kun-hee Museum (tentative name) International Design Competition

Join us for a summer workshop on earth building! We will construct a rammed earth pavilion and explore ways to use natural materials in architecture. Special attention will be given to hemp as a building material. No prior knowledge is required! The workshop will take place at the Center for Earth Building in Dobrava pri Škocjanu 23.

Bamboo U is an education enterprise that has grown out of the center of the world’s bamboo-building movement in Bali, Indonesia. Together with the renowned design firm IBUKU and just two minutes from the all-bamboo campus at Green School Bali, we have been pioneering bamboo architecture for over 10 years. We share our extensive knowledge on bamboo design and sustainable architecture through immersive courses.

Our upcoming in-person course will give participants the unique opportunity to work on the construction of a playground, the winning project from our recent design competition. Join us to meet the pioneers, visionaries, designers, and builders who have transformed bamboo into the most desired natural material.

“Manos a la Obra – Escuela de Construcción Sostenible” is a training program by the CCCS Academy, developed within the framework of the CEELA Project, aimed at construction forepersons, site officers, construction workers, and master builders in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

‘Invisible’ introduces the works of Axi:Ome—a design practice led by Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim formerly in St. Louis and now in Cleveland—through a collection of essays and projects that map the firm's trajectory across seven years, from 2015 to 2023. The book covers 24 built, unbuilt, and conceptual projects located in different cultures and landscapes around the world that engage with multiple programs and scales. Essays by Nader Tehrani, Eric Mumford, Alan Balfour, Jennifer Yoos, Jessie Reiser and Nanako Umemoto with Julian Harake, and Michelle L. Hauk each contribute insight into Axi:Ome’s critical frameworks and help define a discourse of complexities in contemporary practice arising from academia. The book documents the invisible ethos that underlies the construction of architectural projects in an intricate world, challenging practitioners to rethink and reexamine how they position their own work in the architectural spectrum. ‘Invisible’ maps and chronicles an architectural practice as it engages with the pedagogical visions of the profession.

We're launching a student floorplan competition in rayon.design!

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As Barcelona gears up to be the World Capital of Architecture in 2026, it is calling on young architects under 35 to reimagine 10 permanent blind walls, one in each district, and transform them into new facades that will leave a legacy in the city. This International Ideas Competition for Young Architects aims to improve the quality of public space through transformation and revitalization. Organized by the Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, made jointly with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects (UIA), it seeks architectural proposals that give meaning to walls that are currently anonymous and without any prominence, exposed in public space in a permanent provisional state.

Theme: Heatwave

In the past ten years across the globe, temperatures have broken records of heat consecutively bringing one heat wave after the other. The effects of these heatwaves have been felt particularly strongly in the Gulf region which was already known to hold extremely high temperatures in the summer months.

On the heels of gmp’s successful exhibition of adaptive-reuse works that ran parallel to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in Italy last May, the firm debuts its first ever U.S. show in early October at the German cultural center Goethe-Institut USA in New York City. Called UMBAU.Nonstop Transformation — the word umbau translates variously as rebuilding, renovation and conversion — the exhibit will present eight to 10 very different works that all significantly transform their existing buildings and urban settings:

Discover Trailblazing Thinkers at the Forecast Forum

Margolese National Design for Living award winner Jane Wolff is delivering a special public lecture at Melbourne School of Design on her work framing public conversations about how to manage complex and contested landscapes that are subject to change.

"Creating Inclusive Playgrounds for Every Child": Design a universally accessible playground that caters to children with all types of disabilities. The challenge is to create not just a play area but a vibrant space that ensures safety, inclusivity, and endless fun for children with diverse needs.

Capital city Podgorica announces Competition for the Conceptual Architectural Design of the Adaptive Reuse of the 'NA-MA' Department Store in Podgorica.

“ALTAR”
A solo exhibition by Fabi Cunha presents a selection of new works, curated by Jozias Benedicto at the Galeria de Arte Ibeu

The Growarq Week is an event dedicated to architects, engineers, designers, and students looking to revolutionize their design process through a methodology that combines two software programs: Revit and Lumion. The event will take place from July 29 to August 1, starting at 7:00 PM each day, and is entirely online.

The exhibition "Tempo, tempo, tempo..." opens at Galeria Pop Up on Wednesday, July 17, at 7:00 PM. Curated by Mario Camargo, the show features works by 11 artists with established visual research and careers in contemporary art.

The Sun, ‘mother’ star of the solar system around which various bodies, including the Earth, revolve, whose fusion core produces energy and releases electromagnetic radiation, a flow of particles and neutrinos. In 2024, a surge of this radiation caused a storm capable of disrupting electrical grid transmissions on Earth.