ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/en/1038674/introducing-the-75-finalists-of-the-archdaily-2026-building-of-the-year-awards Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Daniela Porto https://www.archdaily.com/en/1038674/introducing-the-75-finalists-of-the-archdaily-2026-building-of-the-year-awards Two weeks and over 85,000 nominations later, the finalists of this year's Building of the Year Awards are in. The selection is much like the ArchDaily audience that chose it: diverse in geography, generous in ideas, and precise in intent. With projects from 46 countries, in a variety of typologies and scales, they present a beautiful snapshot of the current architectural moment.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/en/1037417/how-asia-built-schools-in-2025-5-site-sourced-rural-projects Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Moises Carrasco https://www.archdaily.com/en/1037417/how-asia-built-schools-in-2025-5-site-sourced-rural-projects In the mountainous regions of Vietnam, the borderlands of Thailand, and the rugged Western Ghats of India, building school projects remains a challenge defined by logistics. In areas where infrastructure and industrial supply chains are limited or distant, transporting each kilogram of material can significantly increase costs and logistical complexity. During 2025, several school projects in rural contexts in Asia showed how the architect's role often shifted from a designer of form to a strategist of procurement. The primary challenge was not merely aesthetic but a matter of durability: using locally available materials and protecting them from monsoon rains, high-velocity winds, and sometimes seismic instability.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/en/1037387/architecture-that-shapes-health-lessons-of-design-and-well-being-in-2025 Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Olivia Poston https://www.archdaily.com/en/1037387/architecture-that-shapes-health-lessons-of-design-and-well-being-in-2025 Health has become a central concern in architecture, planning, and design, driven by a growing awareness of how the built environment influences physical, mental, social, and environmental well-being. In 2025, this awareness moved beyond specialized building types or performance metrics and became central to architectural decision-making, informing how spaces are conceived, built, and inhabited across diverse contexts. Architects are no longer treating health as an external requirement but as an integral condition of everyday life.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/en/1036760/rural-futures-the-projects-and-installations-that-reimagined-the-countryside-in-2025 Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000 Camilla Ghisleni https://www.archdaily.com/en/1036760/rural-futures-the-projects-and-installations-that-reimagined-the-countryside-in-2025 For several years now, the countryside has ceased to function merely as a picturesque counterpoint to the city and has instead become an active laboratory for new relationships between territory, landscape, and people. Here, environmental urgency meets collective memory; ancestral techniques converse with architectural experimentation; and local communities act as curators of their own territory. Contemporary rurality emerges less as a geography and more as a culture—inscribed in ways of life that care for the environment.

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