ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Tue, 6 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1035638/the-architecture-of-restraint-when-choosing-not-to-build-becomes-design Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:30:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1035638/the-architecture-of-restraint-when-choosing-not-to-build-becomes-design In a world facing ecological exhaustion and spatial saturation, the act of building has come to represent both creation and consumption. For decades, architectural progress was measured by the new: new materials, new technologies, new monuments of ambition. Yet today, the discipline is increasingly shaped by another form of intelligence, one that values what already exists. Architects are learning that doing less can mean designing more, and this shift marks the emergence of what might be called an architecture of restraint: a practice defined by care, maintenance, and the deliberate choice not to build.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/898619/an-architectural-guide-to-the-nantes-the-french-city-of-weird-and-wonderful-art Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:30:00 +0000 Niall Patrick Walsh https://www.archdaily.com/898619/an-architectural-guide-to-the-nantes-the-french-city-of-weird-and-wonderful-art Situated in the Loire region of France, Nantes could be regarded as a “tale of two cities” from many angles. Once a bustling node for European shipping, former vast, industrial warehouses have become a hotbed of cultural and artistic expression. Meanwhile, divided by the Loire river flowing towards the Atlantic, a maze of Haussmann-style terraces, ornate cathedrals, and monumental museums sit in contrast to an island of outlandish mechanical contraptions, and young, modern, free-spirited innovation.

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