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Rivera Paradise / AtelierM

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Rivera Paradise emerges from an extreme urban condition: a small lot between party walls, located in Coghlan, within a historic preservation zone that required conserving part of the existing structure. Instead of viewing this restriction as a limitation, the project transforms it into a starting point. The house works with its heritage—the shallow brick vaults, the exposed brick walls, and the material memory of the site—to build a contemporary architecture that does not erase the past, but rather incorporates it as an active part of new living spaces.

Oficinas Mandarina / Clusellas Ades

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:35:00 +0000

The program for this office building follows the original constructions on the site and is organized around three courtyards, exposing as much of the perimeter as possible to areas of vegetation in the summer and to leafless trees in the winter.

Quintana House / Clusellas Ades

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:35:00 +0000

The shape of the house on Quintana Street responds to the presence of two very old trees: an oak, located in the middle of the lot, and a large plane tree at the back of the site.

ARCS Nuñez Extension / Izar estudio

Andreas Luco — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0000

Located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez, the project arose from the clients' need to rethink the "backyard" of a typical single-family home in the area. The main objective was to reconfigure the house's primary social gathering point—the veranda and the courtyard—while incorporating a swimming pool and redesigning the service areas to integrate them into the daily family dynamics.

Graham Foundation Announces 54 Grants for Individuals Exploring Architecture Through Research and Creative Practice

Reyyan Dogan — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:30:00 +0000

The Graham Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2026 Grants to Individuals program, awarding a total of $506,000 to 54 projects that investigate architecture through exhibitions, films, publications, and research initiatives. Selected from more than 600 submissions to the Foundation's September 2025 application cycle, the grants support work by 86 architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, scholars, and writers, reflecting a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to the built environment and its cultural, social, and political dimensions.

House in a Former Factory, Renovation and Extension / Morsa Taller + Pablo Giterman

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000

In a three-story factory converted into apartments/offices during the 1990s in the Colegiales neighborhood, the task arose to transform a unit that used to function as an office into a home. The unit consisted of two floors without divisions and a disused terrace due to the shape of its structure, a curved concrete slab that did not allow for the use of the upper floor. Access to it was through a hatch door that separated the unit from this exterior terrace.

Public Space in Use: Región Austral and the Architecture of Everyday Life

Daniela Andino — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture is often evaluated through what gets built. But in many cases, what matters happens after: how spaces are used, adapted, and made part of everyday life. For Región Austral, winner of ArchDaily's 2025 Next Practices Awards, this is where design really begins. Working across many contexts, the practice approaches public space not as a single object, but as something that needs to be activated, negotiated, and sustained over time. Their projects focus less on defining form and more on creating the conditions for use, with design serving as the starting point.

PH Ruiz Huidobro / Estudio Yama

Andreas Luco — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000

The remodeling and expansion of this typical ground floor PH unit with its own terrace responds to the challenge of adapting the home to two possible configurations: a first version as a single-family dwelling and a possible future division into two independent units, one on the ground floor and another developed on the first and second floors.

From Housing Policy in Europe to Large-Scale Master Planning in Mongolia: This Week’s Review

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +0000

This week's review focuses on concrete responses to shared urban challenges, including housing affordability, long-term resilience, and the role of cultural and material innovation in shaping cities. The selection spans regulatory measures affecting housing markets in European cities, high-density residential and mixed-income proposals in New York, and major renewal and planning efforts in London, Barcelona, Ulaanbaatar, and Drammen. It also highlights research-driven and built projects in Chicago, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, and Riyadh that explore circular construction, adaptive reuse, and new models for cultural and public infrastructure. Together, these worldwide projects offer a snapshot of how architecture and urban planning are addressing immediate pressures while laying the groundwork for more resilient and inclusive urban futures across diverse geographic and cultural contexts.

VILO Tower / Rafael Viñoly Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Rafael Viñoly Architects announces the completion of the VILO Tower, a 16-story Class A office building and the new headquarters for Corporación América, one of the world's largest airport operators. Located on Avenida del Libertador in Buenos Aires, the 13,875-square-foot development was conceived as both a headquarters and a framework for adaptability, transparency, and civic presence, exemplifying the late Rafael Viñoly's commitment to structural clarity and civic responsibility in what is his final contribution to the city. See here for photos of the VILO Tower (Photo credit: Daniela Mac Adden).

House in Escobar / Pedro Ignacio Yáñez + Norberto Nenninger + Paola Salaberri

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The commission arises from a client who, emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, decides to sell their central apartment and move to a gated community in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires.

Po-Yo House / MMCV

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Located in the Villa Devoto neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Po-Yo House emerges from the integral transformation of an existing house. The project proposes a contemporary interpretation of its original structure, reclaiming its spatial virtues and giving it a new identity.

Newbery Urban Homes / Dieguez Fridman

Valeria Silva — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Movement always represents a way of life and the role of life is always to introduce indeterminacy inside matter. Henri Bergson.

Clorindo Testa's Artistic and Architectural Experimentation: Colors and Asymmetrical Plays in Spaces of Worship

Agustina Iñiguez — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Amid questions, reflections, and debates, the work of Clorindo Testa embodies an innate connection between artistic and architectural experimentation, reflected in many of his built projects, sketches, models, and plans. From the Mariano Moreno National Library to the former Bank of London building in Buenos Aires, his production is of such scope, diversity, and complexity that it constitutes a major source of study, one that also includes unbuilt projects that deserve visibility and recognition on a global scale. In his final years of professional activity, two unbuilt projects of religious architecture highlight Testa’s work not only as an architect but also as a visual artist.

Olympic Neighborhood Square / Región Austral + CEEU

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

In Comuna 8 of Buenos Aires, the Olympic Neighborhood, a legacy of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, presented an urban paradox: a modern residential infrastructure that lacked active public spaces. In response to the manifest need of its residents for gathering places, the design of this community square emerges as a direct response, transforming a vacant lot into a catalyst for social activity.

Diletto Pastas - Barrio Chino / Cupla Arquitectura - Lucia Vallve & Tomas Mielnikowicz

Paula Pintos — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Diletto III is the third gastronomic venue of the brand developed by our studio. The first location opened in 2019, followed by the second in 2024, the same year this new project was completed in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The brand continuously faces the challenge of merging the tradition of fresh pasta with the dynamic experience of fast food.

Exhibition “Ideas Fijas" / MATER + Cecilia Szalkowicz

Paula Pintos — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The exhibition “Ideas Fijas” by artist Cecilia Szalkowicz, curated by Mariano Mayer, brings together photography, sculpture, and architecture in a single exhibition, working in collaboration with architects Leticia Virguez Lalli and Gabriel Huarte of Mater studio for the design and development of the piece.

What Kind of City Will Humanity Need? Exploring Amancio Williams' Proposal for a Linear City

Agustina Iñiguez — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Through his unbuilt projects, built works, and research, Amancio Williams's ideas emerge as the result of a deep understanding of the most advanced trends of his time reflecting on architectural design, urbanism and city planning. By exploring various themes, concepts, and even materials, he aims to create a personal universe that interprets the present as something future-oriented, both international and distinctly Argentine. His proposal "La ciudad que necesita la humanidad" presents linear and layered buildings raised 30 meters above ground, incorporating everything from office spaces to roads and magnetic trains on different levels of a single structure. The Amancio Williams archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal documents Williams' career as an architect and designer from the 1940s to the late 1980s. The fonds documents his work for over 80 architectural, urban planning and design projects, as well as the administration of his architecture practice and his professional activities. Including drawings and sketches, presentation models, photographic materials, such as photographs of models, finished project (when realized), reference images, photographic reproduction of plans, and site photographs, the archive is available to consult offering more details.