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One Milestone Life Science Campus / Studio Gang + Henning Larsen

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Featuring distinct designs from each firm, One Milestone completes the first phase of Tishman Speyer and the Harvard Allston Land Company's Enterprise Research Campus (ERC), a new mixed-use development in Allston.

Philo Science Center at Institut Le Rosey / Bernard Tschumi Architects

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Bernard Tschumi Architects is pleased to announce the completion of Philo, a new building for student innovation at Institut Le Rosey, an international boarding school near Geneva, Switzerland. A key feature of the new building is its dynamic circulation concept. Vertical and horizontal pathways generate movement and intersect the central atrium, which acts like a covered public square. The atrium is surrounded by three concentric walkways. The first walkway runs directly along the four levels of the atrium; the middle one distributes the various classrooms, while the outer walkway acts as a continuous balcony, providing an extension to the classrooms in good weather.

New Museum of Contemporary Art / OMA

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Our first cultural institution in New York is a new addition to the New Museum next door to its iconic SANAA-designed building at 235 Bowery. The New Museum has been growing in visitors, exhibitions, and activities. Its diverse engagements, including its expansive education programs, its cultural incubator NEW INC, and, of course, its globally recognized exhibition program have been transforming the institution into a cultural laboratory. We were asked to add a new building that provides much-needed space for its expanded activities and simultaneously reflects increasingly public ambitions—duplicating the program and square footage on a site immediately adjacent to the existing SANAA-designed building—part and counterpart, side-by-side.

Engineering Collaborative Research & Education Building at Penn State University / Payette

Hana Abdel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The ECoRE Building is a 280,000 SF engineering research and teaching engine at the heart of a new engineering precinct, across the Atherton Street divide, and located at the west terminus of the main campus axis. Funneling activity and flow, the building's formal gesture invites pedestrian connections and pedagogical collaborations between the main campus and the new precinct.

George Street Plaza & Community Building / Adjaye Associates

Andreas Luco — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000

"My hope is that this new community building and George Street public plaza will become a cherished destination in Sydney's city center, a generative place for people to connect, recharge, reflect, and take a pause from the rhythm of a fast-transforming city." David Adjaye

The Butterfly and First Baptist Church Complex / Revery Architecture

Andreas Luco — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The Butterfly + First Baptist Church Complex — As cities densify and land grows scarcer, sacred sites – long seen as untouchable – are emerging as unexpected catalysts for urban transformation. In Vancouver, where rising housing demand and social isolation intersect, The Butterfly introduces a new urban typology: design-forward vertical living anchored in community and culture. This landmark project represents a unique partnership between architects, a religious institution, and developers to reimagine church-owned land as an eclectic mixed-use village.

The Grand Egyptian Museum / Heneghan Peng Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Internationally renowned architecture firm heneghan peng architects celebrates the official completion of its design for the Grand Egyptian Museum. Located just over one mile away from the Pyramids of Giza, the Museum is a testament to the longevity and scale of ancient Egyptian civilization and its enduring influences. Designed to house 100,000 artifacts, the Museum is the largest in the world dedicated to a single civilization. The full completion is marked by the opening of the Tutankhamen gallery, which will display the entire collection of over 5,000 artifacts to the public for the first time. heneghan peng designed the Museum in direct relation to the positioning of the pyramids, thoughtfully bridging the gap between history and modernity.

NAB 3 Parramatta Square & NAB 2 Carrington St. Offices / Woods Bagot

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

A Tale of Two NABs. In Sydney, there's a red staircase that connects two workplaces located 24 kilometers apart. NAB 3 Parramatta Square (3PS) and NAB 2 Carrington St (2CS) are Woods Bagot's fraternal twin workplace tenancies. Known by NAB as their "Sydney campus", together these buildings accommodate over 6,000 desks, providing a rare opportunity to boldly transform the bank's workplace experience in locations highly connected to both its established and emerging customer base.

Alba Thermal Springs and Spa / Hayball

Hana Abdel — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Alba Thermal Springs & Spa is an enduring 15-hectare tourism venture with rejuvenation at its heart.

The Hopkins Center for the Arts / Snøhetta

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The Hopkins Center Expansion renews a commitment to the arts at Dartmouth - Envisioned by Snøhetta, the rejuvenated center will continue a historic legacy of interdisciplinary creativity

Grand Canal Gateway Bridge - Hangzhou / Zaha Hadid Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Construction of the Grand Canal Gateway Bridge in Hangzhou is now complete. When opened for public use later this year, the footbridge will unite the 800,000 square metre Seamless City masterplan under construction on the east and west banks of the Grand Canal. The centre piece of the city's new 14.7-hectare River Middle public park and river promenade, the bridge and surrounding master plan by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) reconnects the city with its historic Grand Canal and Qiantang River by integrating homes, workplaces and amenities for its community with vital civic spaces for recreation, leisure and tourism.

David Rubenstein Treehouse - Harvard University / Studio Gang

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Studio Gang, the international architecture and urban design firm led by Jeanne Gang, announced the completion of the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University. Establishing Harvard's first university-wide hub for convening, the building anchors the new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, which is dedicated to fostering innovation and collaboration. The Rubenstein Treehouse is also the first mass timber building on Harvard's campus, setting a model for holistically sustainable buildings in Boston and institutions worldwide.

Rahmah Library / The MAAK

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Rahmah Library at Rahmaniyeh Primary School in Cape Town's District Six is a vibrant new facility that celebrates how architects and school learners can work together to build user-oriented educational spaces.

Walker Hall Graduate Student Center / LMS Architects

Andreas Luco — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Walker Hall is an adaptive reuse of a 1927 building at the core of the University of California, Davis campus. The project transformed a vacant, seismically unsafe building into a graduate and professional student center with meeting rooms, a lecture hall, and sophisticated active-learning classrooms that serve the entire campus. It coalesces history, community, and advanced educational environments at a hub of university life.

Urban Living Lab / Su Chang Design Research Office

Andreas Luco — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The design of Re:Tai Kok Tsui Pavilion combines local galvanized steel crafts and laminated bamboo materials to create a communal space for the transforming Tai Kok Tsui neighbourhood. The fluid form of the vessels creates an image of the moving waves and reactivates the public's collective memory of Tai Kok Tsui's unique spatial quality between sea and land, provoking a new imagination of Tai Kok Tsui's urban future.

GATE M West Bund Dream Center / MVRDV

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:00:00 +0000

MVRDV has completed the GATE M West Bund Dream Center, transforming a former cement factory into a culture and leisure district that adds to Shanghai's expanding string of West Bund cultural projects. The design makes a cohesive urban space out of a collection of buildings from different time periods, reusing the existing structures to minimize carbon emissions, and introducing an unmistakable identity with its bright orange circulation elements. Offering possibilities for shopping, eating, drinking, skateboarding, rock climbing, and visiting exhibitions and events, or simply relaxing by the riverside, the area has already become an award-winning and popular destination for Shanghai residents and visitors alike.

Populus / Studio Gang

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Studio Gang, the international architecture and urban design firm led by Jeanne Gang, has completed Populus, a 265-room hotel poised to become a new social center for downtown Denver. Marking Studio Gang's first completed project in Colorado and the American Southwest region, Populus's design draws from the growth processes of the state's native Aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) to establish a new architectural icon for Denver. "Denver strikes a unique balance between being a vibrant city and a gateway to some of the country's most awe-inspiring natural landscapes. Our goal was to draw from this distinct urban character and rich ecology to create a building that would help define the skyline of this thriving city," says Jeanne Gang, Founding Partner of Studio Gang.

SOMBRA Pavilion / MVRDV

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Ode to the sun: SOMBRA Pavilion's kinetic shading system in Venice does not need electronics or motors. For the Time Space Existence exhibition in Venice, MVRDV has collaborated with Metadecor, Airshade, and Alumet, among others, to create the SOMBRA pavilion. With its shape inspired by heliodon devices, for the next six months this "ode to the sun" will provide a dynamic shading structure in the European Cultural Centre's Giardini Marinaressa. The SOMBRA pavilion – its name a portmanteau of the Latin words for sun (sol) and shade (umbra) – serves as a demonstration vehicle for an innovative technology: kinetic building elements that work based exclusively on passive physical principles, without using electronics or motors.