Belonging is not accidental - it is designed. This panel explores how architecture shapes belonging, not just by providing shelter, but by structuring everyday life.

The NYCxDESIGN Festival returns May 14-20, 2026, bringing together more than 163,000 designers, innovators, industry leaders, and enthusiasts for a week-long celebration of creativity, collaboration, and cultural exchange.

Bi-folding doors flood a room with light, offering the spatial flexibility to establish a dialogue with the surroundings. The Woodline series by Solarlux integrates manufacturing quality and technical expertise with architectural freedom, providing transparent facade solutions for versatile, sustainable architecture. The natural surfaces further enhance the building envelope with a distinct tactile quality.

Buildner has announced the results of its competition, the Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial No.6. This competition is held each year to support the universal ban on nuclear weapons. In 2017, on the 75th anniversary of the 1945 bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, which claimed the lives of over 100,000 people, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The Steel Architectural Awards ASEAN 2026 is a regional architectural awards program presented by NS BlueScope to recognize built projects that demonstrate architectural excellence through the use of coated steel solutions. Under the theme Shaping Resilient Futures: Timeless Design with Coated Steel, the program highlights projects across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, progressing from the Country Awards to ASEAN-level recognition. This article explains how the two-stage pathway works, what categories are included, and how projects are assessed through Design Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability.

Architectural visualization has long played a key role in communicating and shaping design ideas. Today, that role is expanding. With the rise of artificial intelligence, visualization is becoming more deeply embedded throughout the entire design workflow, supporting faster iteration and more informed decision making.

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Sand, stone, and earth are among the most extracted materials on the planet—yet their removal is rarely pictured, let alone understood as foundational to the built environment. In the exhibition DOMINIO: An Unfinished Visual Archive of Architectural Extractivism, on view in the Newmark Gallery at Art Omi from March 21–May 31, 2026, architectural photographer Onnis Luque traces these often-invisible origins of construction back to the raw landscapes from which they are born.

New Book Illuminates the Birth of Modern Architecture in San Diego

Beyond the Mall: Rethinking Retail Landscapes as Urban Public Space

Today, interdisciplinary learning and exchange are more important than ever in addressing increasingly complex environmental, social, and urban challenges.

Each summer, the University of California, Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) becomes an intensive laboratory for architectural, landscape, and urban exploration. Through two complementary programs—Design + Innovation for Sustainable Cities (DISC) and the Summer Institutes—Berkeley offers an immersive curriculum grounded in disciplinary rigor, intentional exchange, and a shared institutional culture. Together, these programs reflect CED's long-standing multidisciplinary structure, with architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, and urban design thriving and collaborating under one roof.

A stylish exploration of one of the greatest cities for Modernist architecture in the world.

Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, November 3-5) is the world's biggest and most influential event for cities and urban innovation. The event is a premier venue where a diverse community of industry executives, government leaders, researchers, urban pioneers and entrepreneurs gather annually to address complex issues to move cities toward a brighter future. This year's event will welcome over 27,000 professional visitors from more than 130 countries around the globe, 1,190+ exhibitors, 600+ speakers, and representatives from nearly 1,000 cities.

Modernist Villages explores a distinctive trajectory within Swiss modernism: low-rise, high-density housing developments created between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Through the analysis of eleven case studies, supported by archival research, interviews, and on-site investigation, this monograph reveals how pioneering architects reimagined urban form, domestic space, and modes of communal life. These projects synthesise the qualities of single-family dwellings within collective housing environments, where architecture, landscape, and social interaction are carefully interwoven.
The book's threefold structure – comprising the main chapters Memory, Archive, and Theory – offers a layered approach through which these works are examined. Combining historical narrative, primary sources, and conceptual reflection, it explores how themes such as modularity, spatial depth, and the delicate equilibrium between built form and nature continue to be relevant for a critical dialogue with contemporary architectural discourse.
Far from representing static artefacts of modernism, these projects resonate today as models for sustainable urban density and community-making opportunities.
Modernist Villages will be of interest to architects, urbanists, historians, and all those interested in the future of housing and the evolving potential of low-rise, high-density living.
The book combines a research synthesis and a travel journal focused on eleven case-study buildings of low-rise, high-density housing from the 1950s to the 1980s, designed by Atelier 5, H. U. Scherer / Metron, Itten + Brechbühl, and Spirig + Fehr.

The original impetus behind this project was the desire to document the extraordinary richness, variety, and quality of Havana's Art Deco architecture. Looking back at these photographs, he is still glad he made the decision to undertake that adventure, despite the fact that the result of that effort, due to a series of circumstances, lay dormant for decades in a drawer in his studio. There is no doubt that, the documentary value of the photographs remains intact or perhaps increased, since it is possible that over these thirty years some of the works portrayed have succumbed to successive cyclones and lack of maintenance. The valuable aesthetic and compositional charge of the images does not seem to have been compromised by the passage of time. Today, however, alongside with the worn beauty of the buildings portrayed, what captures the viewer is the life that has been encapsulated in these photographs. A life frozen in most cases accidentally.

Introducing the Kinderspace: Architecture for Children's Development competition / Edition #4, an architectural challenge dedicated to crafting innovative educational spaces that enhance early childhood learning. As young children navigate their formative years, the environment in which they learn plays a pivotal role in their cognitive, emotional, and social development. Traditional educational settings often do not fully cater to the dynamism of early childhood, potentially stifling creativity and exploration.

Over the past two decades, Mark Cavagnero Associates has been quietly making an Imprint on San Francisco's urban fabric. Born of the Modernist tradition of clean lines, abundant natural light, and functional, flowing open space plans, the firm's work expands on these values, encompassing a deep understanding of the city and Bay Area. Mark Cavagnero Architect surveys fifteen of the firm's foundational projects, ranging from cultural and civic buildings to recreational and educational facilities.

This book is a photographic journey on the origin and life of "Africa Hall" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-a building declared in 2015 "Monument to African History" and recently renovated-which was donated in 1961 by Emperor Haile Selassie to the United Nations. Africa Hall was designed by Arturo Mezzedimi, a young self-taught architect, to serve as the UN's continental headquarters and was the birthplace, In 1963, of the Organization of African Unity, now African Union.